I don’t often do links/reposts of other writers’ works, but I had to emphatically agree when I saw this YouTube update from Maddox. You don’t need to search for it on YouTube, because his video is embedded in his article.
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In defense of Bill Maher and Seth Meyers (both of whom I also respect), I will say this:
This is clearly an example of “The exception proves the rule.”
You (Maddox) found one instance of Bill Maher using the insufferable “technique”, and brought up the obviously appealing-to-the-lowest-IQ-denominator “Really?!?” sketches that Seth Meyers wrote for SNL (Granted, they’re most often delivered side-by-side with Amy Poehler, one of the most annoying bitches ever to be on SNL, but still…).
You have to do some pretty serious head-in-the-sand ignoring/dismissing of Bill Maher’s sold-out stand-up specials (How many of those have you done, Maddox?) and TV work (Real Time, Politically Incorrect) to imagine that that one comment is indicative of the rest of his thought-provoking and intuitive work.
And Seth Meyers has been the head writer on SNL since 2005. You’ve seen the show, obviously. Not every sketch is a nugget of gold, but overall, it’s pretty funny. You’ve got to expect that under the writing schedule they have (less than a week from idea table to live fucking TV) that they will occasionally allow themselves to be lazy (e.g. – the “Really?!?” sketches). If you wrote every week (summers excluded) since you started your site back in 1998, you’d probably have a lot more “I’m Better Than Your Kids”-type laziness going on, too. (You’re better than someone’s kids? What normal adult ISN’T better than a kid?? We all are.)
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At any rate, this wasn’t meant to be a mini-rant against Maddox, but I got a little distracted. Whatever. Just go enjoy his article/video, because the point was valid. Hipsters are awful. >_<
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