Ralph Jones
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@OhHiRalphJones
Comedy, journalism and books - sometimes all at once. Book about the microphone out in April. Also @The_Awkward_S and @criminalimprov.
Saturday Night Live UK | Review of the much-anticipated first episode ift.tt/YuGlrQ1
@5tevieM It's quite clearly TERRIBLE. They could have hired Mitchell and Webb, Armstrong and Miller, Graham Linehan and other brilliant writers and made something memorable. Puzzling stuff.
The British edition of Saturday Night Live begins this weekend, and we need to give it a chance to get good gq-magazine.co.uk/article/snl-uk…
Delivery for @KathViner
This weekend sees the biggest British sketch show launch in years. If you love comedy, I urge you get behind SNL UK from the very start. In the last decade, with so little sketch comedy on TV, a generation of performers and writers have been denied their TV break.
Some may be surprised by how all the men in @louistheroux 's Manosphere doc turn out to be antisemites, but it follows from their logic. First, obviously, Jew hatred is clickbait, but more importantly, these men promote versions of themselves as brave mavericks unafraid to stick it to the feminised liberal Establishment - and as such, they need an embodiment of power to kick against - one that they, in their I-don’t-give-a-fuck performance, are smashing through. They need the myth of the Matrix. They begin with women as the control but soon they move on to Jews, who provide a darker mythology of control for them to perform being not-controlled by.
It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
17 March 1999. Rod Hull died (aged 63). He always appeared with Emu, a mute and highly aggressive arm-length puppet. Hull died in a tragic accident while trying to adjust the TV aerial on the roof of his bungalow, then slipping and falling to his death.
People are turning to A.I. companions to address loneliness. “It started being a friend, and time went by, and time went by, and I started feeling more comfortable, and we ended up marrying,” a Replika user said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DPYLWb
