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Things I'm Annoyed At Being Made To Pay Attention To Lately

Tracy Morgan Didn't have a clue who he was two days ago and didn't feel I was missing a thing. (I live in a cave where broadcast television does not penetrate.) But after my FB feed started bubbling with outrage, I began checking to see what kind of non-apology apology would be forthcoming.
That article in the Grid As someone summed it up in ontd_political: "White cis men discover that they don't have to give a fuck, news at eleven." Whatever it takes to sell ad space, right brunorepublic?
Weiner's wiener Some kid was ranting about this into his cellphone on the shuttle this morning. Day Two of this scandal and I was already thinking, "I'm so glad we don't have anything important to worry about, like civil wars in the Arab World, killer bacteria, or an economy still in free fall."

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come to France! I hadn't heard about any of these - except Weiner, via lj. OTOH, Sarkozy.

1) Morgan's Character of late on 30 Rock has been a recurring joke about the narcissism and self-importance of the entertainment industry, go figure. How the hell out of touch with media does one have to be not have encountered either the Trevor Project or the "It Gets Better..." campaign to think this acceptable in conversation much less on a stage? Nashville is hot bed of entrenched intolerance on a number of fronts, I have to wonder how the story broke and what kind of reaction the audience had.

Sadly, in light of all this, the show has its moments, its like 30 minutes of non-mechanical comedy that I am not expecting on network television. The show is likely in its last season (Fey and Baldwin have spoken of moving on in the last few monts). Fey while not throwing him to the people she acknowledged as justifiably enraged (herself included), Fey's condemnation of Morgan's remarks are such that she's trying to leave some kind of redemptive possibility alive. This is the same woman who with Lorne Michaels staged an intervention for a Hollywood starlet that's been in and out of rehab ever since.

Thing is I am okay with having him written off, most of the last season his absence was a running gag. And various boards have lit up screaming for a boycott until he does, better him than entire cast and crew unemployed.

2) Cannot find the reference to the article.

3) While, I'd love a two-for where we get rid of David Vitter as well; I'd settle for attention to the prospect of meaningful coverage of the Debt Ceiling Battle plunging us into the Great Depression where Big Business can finally terrorize the labor pool into submission, starvation and silence. I'd also love to know where the lethal contamination in the food supply chain is and what the hell is going on all over the middle east. I may abandon nearly all platforms except the BBC and my return to a select few magazine sites.

And I'd like to add 4) the Sarah Palin Email glut. Really, of the investigative journalism that is in desperate need of being done, this what you people are fixating on?

How the hell out of touch with media does one have to be not have encountered either the Trevor Project or the "It Gets Better..." campaign to think this acceptable in conversation much less on a stage?

He had encountered the "It Gets Better" campaign: he specifically mocked it.

Thank you, for taking the time to respond to my post, and provide the link. This doesn't have the circulation it ought to, I haven't seen it in any of the coverage - Jarrett Barrios doesn't mention it in his Op-Ed on cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/11/barrios.morgan.glaad/index.html.

This makes it clear this wasn't a one off its a deep, abiding pattern. I am joining the spontaneous boycott of 30 Rock, and NBC now that I think about it, clearly how could they not know? I haven't seen an internet petition, I suspect that is only a matter of time.

For whatever it's worth, he's apologized in a statement to GLAAD.

If he takes GLAAD up on their offer to actually face the reality of the violence and parental abuse connected with homophobia, I might relent - not so much as a re-run until this is substantially better.

Again, for whatever it's worth (I don't have any particular brief for Morgan), he made a pretty comprehensively contrite statement, and "he's also extended an offer to attend any gay marriage rallies in New York this week, and next week he’ll travel back to Tennessee (where this all blew up in the first place) to attend a GLAAD-sponsored press conference protesting the passage of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that outlaws the discussion of homosexuality before the ninth grade in public schools. He’ll also tape a PSA soon and, according to E!, this week Morgan has agreed to meet with gay teenagers who have been bullied, as well as family members of those who have been killed as a result of anti-gay violence."

Your assessment of pretty comprehensively contrite...is I think sound. Fine, I'll watch re-runs.... Some good coming out of this would be nice,

I oddly don't find Fey (or Morgan) very funny. I know I'm supposed to - she being the comedy darling and all - but my response to her always feels forced. Sandra Bernhardt & Molly Shannon, just to name a couple, seem like more natural comediennes.

With regard to the women, I think its just a differences in senses of humor, I never really followed up on Sandra Bernhardt after my first few exposures and I was very hit or miss with Molly Shannon when she was on SNL, that said I am always happy to see women working in comedy. Sarah Silverman utterly baffles me, and other people I know and get on with, love her. I think Tina is a good writer, and what I have seen of her on screens of various sizes is funny enough. I think a huge chunk of her humor is that she sets her characters to slip up on various banana peels, she's her own "straight man" (in the comedic sense), and that only goes so far. By design I think it can be uncomfortable to watch, and I get the idea of it feeling forced.

I find Morgan completely one-note on 30 Rock, any time he's on screen its the same basic gag over and over again - and I think the show should wind down, they've played it out. I've never felt any compulsion to check out Morgan's stand up or his other projects on the basis of his time on SNL.

I don't find Morgan all that funny per se, but I think his character may be necessary for the show's chemistry as someone for the others to react off-- the episodes without him didn't work as well as I might have thought. Though the show may also just be reaching its limits overall.

Interesting points. I enjoy women in comedy as much or more than men. Lily Tomlin was also one I really loved - but that probably dates me :-)

"Though the show may also just be reaching its limits overall."

I agree, Morgan is definitely being played off, its a decent ensemble, the article I read indicated that Fey and Baldwin felt like they've really done most of what can be done with the premise and their characters.

mir, then lets be dated together, I love Lily Tomlin and I don't recall a time before Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner and Larraine Newman, and there is the goddess of curtain rods, Carol Burnett....

The curtain rod gag still makes me laugh.

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