Unsurprisingly, leftists are outraged over the release of The Daily Wire’s first-ever feature-length comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers">Lady Ballers</a>.” The film openly mocks trans-identifying men competing in women’s sports.
“Lady Ballers” is directed by the company’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing. Daily Wire sports show “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts also have roles, while there are cameos by other Daily Wire personalities and celebrities including Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Ted Cruz, and others to be revealed.
The comedy tells the tale of a former high school basketball coach, Rob (Boreing), who will do anything to win. Rob turns his bad luck around by teaching a group of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to victory by encouraging them to pose as trans and compete against women.
The Young Turks news and commentary program hosts weren’t pleased about the comedy being released. “It’s about dunking on the trans community. It’s about triggering the libs,” host Ana Kasparian said. She went on to argue that we should be having “honest conversation” about men competing in women&#8217;s sports.
TYT’s John Iadarola accused The Daily Wire of working for “billionaires” and making this content “at the behest of the elites of society” with the express goal of convincing all conservatives to vote for politicians who will “demonize trans people.”
The political talk show “The Majority Report” also called the movie “anti-trans.” Podcast host Sam Seder kept <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlDODcrpoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> “why” this is a film, then answering his own question, saying, “I mean I get it, we could dominate women’s sports … but why?”
The host said the joke is that nobody cares about women’s basketball, but that’s why it makes no sense to make fun of men competing against women. “I gotta say, I’m so triggered by this,” Seder added.
Streamer Hasan Piker, who runs the channel HasanAbi, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohvj304YMoQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> that this type of comedy already exists because “Juwanna Man” was made in 2002, completely missing the point that this form of comedy has been lacking in politically correct Hollywood for decades. He also mentions “White Chicks,” a comedy from 2004.
He claims the “origins” of those types of films were not meant to be “s***ing on trans people,” but were rather anti-woman. “It was more sexist, I think, than transphobic,” Piker said.
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“It’s like ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ but evil,” Piker said of “Lady Ballers.”
“It’s just like, trans people are secretly faking it, or something,” he adds. At a later point, Piker accused the film of going beyond transphobia and actually just mocking “cis women” like a “late 90s bro film.”
He also insinuated that the &#8220;Lady Ballers&#8221; players would get “f***ing destroyed” if they were competing against actual WNBA players.
“Lady Ballers” premieres at 8 p.m. ET Friday exclusively on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire+</a>.

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The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with comedian Matt Rife. In this segment, they discuss the criticism over Matt’s Netflix special, how he responded, and the lack of consequences for leveling an accusation. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/rife-for-cancellation-matt-rife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rife-for-cancellation-matt-rife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watch</a> the full podcast episode on DailyWire+.
Start time: 1:01:29 
Jordan: One of the things that I have noticed repeatedly, because I have gone through repeated attempts of people trying to cancel me, is that it can be quite an intense experience when in the immediate aftermath of its occurrence and that is somewhat off-putting and destabilizing because you do not exactly know how far out it is going to spread or what the consequences could be. But if you did not do anything wrong and you do not apologize, or maybe you make light of it in some creative way, then the probability that it will turn around and flip in your direction, if you can tolerate the weight, is extremely high. Part of the reason I am bringing this up is because I do not think the people who are in the throes of being canceled understand this.
You can imagine historically, if an angry mob of 40 of your neighbors showed up on your doorstep with pitchforks and flames, it would probably be a good time to think, “These people would not have gone to all that time and effort, in all likelihood, had I not done something wrong.” But now you can whip up a Twitter mob in no time whatsoever, with no effort at no cost to yourself and probably some benefit. So your instinctual responses to being mobbed are wrong.
Matt: Yeah, it doesn’t translate to the real world. I just walked through two very packed airports and did nothing but take like 45 pictures. Nothing but a positive response. 
Jordan: Have you had any negative responses? You said you had no negative responses to anything you have ever said so far at a live show and when you were actually on stage. What about out in the actual world?
Matt: Not once. Never once has somebody come up to me and said, “Hey, I didn’t like the thing you said.” That kind of — I don’t know if you want to call it — a mixture of social awareness and accountability doesn’t translate to the real world.
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Jordan: It also takes a lot of gall to do that — to come up to someone and say, “You know that thing you said?” even though you don’t know who they are.
Matt: Imagine you see a street performer; they’re playing violin on a street corner, they’ve got their case out with cash. Say you f***ing hate violins. Violin drives you nuts. Maybe he’s not even good at playing violin. What do you do? You keep walking, right? No sane, decent human being stops and goes, “You’re f***ing awful dude. Kill yourself. What are you doing out here? You’re making my life miserable until I just look a different direction.” That’s an insane thing to do, and most people know not to do that. But obviously the internet creates this. This is what I would believe to be false confidence and believing that they’re safe behind this imaginary source of social media — that they don’t face any repercussions because their profile picture is an anime character and everything’s a private profile. There’s no consequence for saying what they say.
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Jordan: There is no consequence for leveling an accusation. Yes, it is really bad.
Matt: Versus the real world. You come up to me; I can have an intellectual conversation with you as to why I disagree with you.
Jordan: Or make a joke.
Matt: Yes. Or I could smack the s*** out of you. That is also a consequence that is viable. And that doesn’t weigh on anybody on the internet, so it’s easier for people to talk s*** on there versus the real world where people actually aren’t even bothered. And also, I had to figure, most people who talk s*** on the internet and actively try to cancel people and have no life, they’re not out in the real world. They’re in their house doing absolutely nothing, so you don’t have to worry about that.
Jordan: Yes, and they definitely have the mentality of mean girl high school bullies: We are going to shame, we are going to reputation savage, we are going to exclude.
Matt: Go ahead. Put so much energy in your life into thinking about me and how much you don’t like me. What a waste of your life.
Jordan: Now, you said too that when you posted your response to the criticisms, you posted something — I think that is wildly funny, by the way — so maybe you could explain that to this particular crowd. But you also told me in the intervening time between the two podcasts that that was not a calculated response — that you relied on your instinct for what was funny. So explain what you did.
Matt: So funny, you sound like a principal, who my parents came here — “Tell them what you did.”
Jordan: Right? That’s right. Exactly. Lay it out, man.
Matt: Basically, this thing happened. There was outrage over a joke that was wildly misperceived, and that’s fine. You’re allowed to like or not like a joke. Totally ok. And in response to that, I posted. When you get canceled or somebody is upset about a joke, you’re supposed to apologize. People want you to back down and shame you and recognize what you’ve done wrong. And I don’t believe I did anything wrong whatsoever. So it made me really feel like the people who were offended by this were, for lack of better words and to be quite frank, weak-minded. So I posted a photo of me on stage — I thought it was a good photo — with a link at the bottom of it, and the caption was saying if I’ve ever offended you with a joke, I’ve told, here’s a link to my official apology. And the link description should have been a dead giveaway. It said to click to solve your issue, and when you click on the link, it redirected you to an online store front.
Jordan: That is funny. “Click to solve your issue.” That’s funny. Because it is a little ambiguous.
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Matt: Of course. And then you click on the link and it redirects you to an online storefront for special needs helmets. I thought this was very funny and again, instinctually, people get triggered by a subject matter rather than what the joke actually is. Everybody took that as I was making fun of special needs people. No, I don’t have anything to say about special needs people.
Jordan: Well, you are making fun of people claiming special needs for their emotional fragility inappropriately.
Matt: Exactly. 
Jordan: And quite nicely.
Matt: I’m saying, you need this way more than they do. And the best part is that you clicked on it. 
Jordan: That is right. They could have special needs earplugs that they could wear to comedy shows where you actually could not hear the comedian.
Matt: They filter out all the words. It AI-generates what they want to hear. Oh, that’s so genius. 
Jordan: That will happen soon enough. That is right. You will be able to get an AI sensor. 
Matt: But that’s technically what your algorithm is. It shows you what you want to see. It tells you what you want to hear. The night that I was like the number one trending thing on Twitter, I texted my friend and I was like, “Yeesh.” And he sent me a screenshot of his; I wasn’t even top 25. He goes, “Nobody cares, dude. It’s in your circle because it’s your profile. You’re going to hear about it, obviously, but it’s not to the extent people think.”
So, yes, I posted this misdirect of an apology, and it couldn’t have went better. I was literally just sitting passenger seat in a car ride with my friend, and I just thought it would be a funny thing to do. It took me no more than 45 seconds to think of doing that. I go, “Hey, is this funny?” And he cracked up laughing, and I went, huh, f*** it. I also thought that most of the outrage was happening just on Twitter and TikTok. Like, Instagram’s a far more personal app I think. And so the fact that people even saw that and took it to other platforms I thought was insane, but also proved my point even more that people who don’t even like my comedy or have never even heard of me, saw the outrage and my response to it and went, oh, that’s actually funny. It actually gained me a lot of fans because most of the world, I would feel confident in saying, the majority of people are sick of this s***. 
Jordan: Well, most people are actually hoping that a comedian will be funny rather than politically correct. Right. Well, this is the problem. I think this is the misapprehension of people who apologize when they are accused because your case is, well, perhaps you irritated some people by not apologizing. But, first of all, there are people that you really don’t mind irritating, and they weren’t really irritated to begin with. So it is all a lie anyway.
Matt: Nor were they fans in the first place.
Jordan: Right. Exactly. So when you apologize, in principle, you signal to those people that you have kowtowed and bowed down. But you forgo the opportunity to appeal to a much broader realm of people, which you think would be more sensible if you were trying to protect or develop your career — the people who look at what you’ve done and think, oh, well, that is funny enough, so maybe I will go check out this guy who I have never heard of. I am sure you attracted like 10,000 fans for every person you turned off.
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Matt: Oh, yeah. Analytically, I have gained more fans than I have lost across all platforms. The extremities of everybody involved in this “outrage” has been nothing but beneficial because, even if you didn’t like that — the domestic violence joke that I got in trouble for — which is fair, even I think it’s not the best joke I’ve ever written at all. It’s not. It’s probably the worst joke in the special, and that’s fine. I do other things. I have plenty other jokes that are for other people — the response being a perfect example of that. Even if people go, well, that’s not funny but that joke of his is, the extremities are so loud, so against each other, that once one group of people, whatever you want to call them — people love to make it about the Left or the Right; I’m a very unpolitical person; I don’t really use those terms, so they might not be correctly used here — but say the Left is so outraged about something, the Right instinctually goes, “You’re being so ridiculous about this. If you hate this, I’m going to support this because I see nothing wrong with it.” So in doing that, they’ve completely balanced each other out.
Jordan: Well, right. And you probably brought work to the attention of a whole demographic that would not have necessarily known who you were.
Matt: So many people commenting, “I didn’t know who this kid was. I actually didn’t like him before. But I like this joke that he told,” or “I dislike you so much that the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.” So it’s just an ever evolving process. People going back and forth: I love you, I hate you. And it’s going to be this way for the rest of my career and the rest of my life and I’m totally fine with that.
Jordan: Probably, if you are lucky.
Matt: I hope so.
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<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast"> listen to</a> or<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson"> watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.

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Just days after dropping a viral trailer for its first feature-length comedy, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers">Lady Ballers</a>,” the Daily Wire announced its first animated scripted series, “Mr. Birchum,” created by comedian Adam Carolla.
The teaser trailer, which was first screened at the “Lady Ballers” red carpet premiere, will be released before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers">premiere of “Lady Ballers”</a> on Friday, December 1, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET exclusively on DailyWire+. “Mr. Birchum” features an all-star voice cast: Adam Carolla (Mr. Birchum), Megyn Kelly (Wendi), Tyler Fischer (Karponzi), Alonzo Bodden (Gage), Brett Cooper (Jeanie), Candace Owens (Deena), Kyle Dunnigan (Eddie), Danny Trejo (Switchblade), Patrick Warburton (Burly Man), Jay Mohr (Coach Murphy), Rob Riggle (Gunderson), and Roseanne Barr (Principal Bortles).
“I am super excited to be working with my friends Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, and our terrific cast of talent to bring ‘Mr Birchum’ to life on the Daily Wire!” said Carolla.
“Adam Carolla created Birchum back before Barack Obama killed comedy,” said Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of The Daily Wire. “Of course Hollywood wouldn’t make Birchum today because they’ve stopped making comedies altogether for fear of offending the ‘wrong’ people – so we realized we had to do it.  We teamed up with Adam and some of the funniest people we know – Roseanne, Rob Riggle, Patrick Warburton, Tyler Fischer and so many more – to bring back the irreverent patriarch in a truly hilarious comedy that doesn’t care who it offends.”
WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER FOR ‘MR. BIRCHUM’ BEFORE THE PREMIERE OF ‘LADY BALLERS’ TONIGHT AT 8 PM ET.  
The series follows Carolla’s classic character, a no-nonsense junior high woodshop teacher. Popularized on KROQ radio and brought to life in puppet form on Comedy Central’s ‘Crank Yankers,’ Mr. Birchum has entertained audiences for decades. In 2024, the animated version of Mr. Birchum attempts to navigate a world he doesn’t understand or approve of. He’s befuddled by his gaming streamer son, Eddie (Dunnigan), annoyed at his selfie-taking, snowflake students and is constantly at war with the school district’s appointed “J.E.D.I.” (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion officer) Mr. Karponzi (Fischer), whose feelings-over-facts style of administration is everything that’s wrong with education today. 
This is DailyWire+’s first animated comedy, produced by David Coleman for Daily Wire and Dallas Sonnier for Bonfire Legend, with Daily Wire’s co-founders Jeremy Boreing and Ben Shapiro and CEO Caleb Robinson executive producing. Chassy Media is the physical production Company for the show. Executive Producers for Chassy Media are Adam Carolla and Mike August along with Showrunner/Executive Producer Nate Adams and Supervising Producer Curtis Koller. Mike Lynch is the head writer for the show with additional episodes written by Byron Kavanagh and Mark Hoffmeier.

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lady Ballers</a>,” a movie that mocks the recent and controversial phenomenon of men competing in women’s sports, will be released by The Daily Wire at 8:00 p.m. ET Friday. 
The DailyWire+ original and the company’s first-ever feature-length comedy has already received praise following its red-carpet premiere. “Lady Ballers” tells the story of one down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach, Rob, who will do anything to win — which in this case means teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports. 
“Lady Ballers” is directed by the company’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who also stars in the film alongside Daily Wire sports show “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts.
“The only thing happening in our culture more absurd and hilarious than men calling themselves women and then dominating women’s sports is that the ‘speak truth to power’ set on the left not only won’t make fun of it, they won’t even acknowledge it’s a joke,” Boreing said. “This movie is for the women who have trained their entire lives only to be beaten at their sport by a man who couldn’t win at his, the majority of Americans who find the whole idea of men in women’s sports to be objectively wrong, and anyone who misses comedy &#8211; which the woke left destroyed on their ascent to cultural primacy.”
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Hollywood won&#39;t make a movie about how laughably absurd it is that we now allow grown men to call themselves women and then dominate women&#39;s sports. 
So we did.
Introducing our first feature-length comedy, &#39;LADY BALLERS.&#39;
Available December 1st, only on <a href="https://t.co/p0JKWmMBKq">https://t.co/p0JKWmMBKq</a> <a href="https://t.co/zkukluQfT2">pic.twitter.com/zkukluQfT2</a>
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Boreing plays the lead character, Coach Rob, while “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone join comedian Tyler Fischer and newcomer Daniel Considine as Lady Ballers players. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh stars as woke beatnik, Kris; Instagram influencer Billie Rae Brandt debuts as the villainous journalist, Gwen Wilde; Lexie Contursi (La La Land) stars as Coach Rob’s ex-wife, Dharby; and Rosie Seraphine Harper debuts as Rob’s eight-year-old daughter, Winnie.
The trailer reveals a who’s who of conservative personalities — including Daily Wire stars Ben Shapiro, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan, plus college women’s swim champ Riley Gaines, Senator Ted Cruz, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, with even more to be revealed in the film.
Sen. Cruz said the movie is “funny as hell,” adding that he was “proud to appear in the Daily Wire’s new comedy that will call out the leftists destroying women’s sports and taking opportunities away from female athletes.”
Though largely kept under wraps until now, the movie already had its fair share of controversy during filming in Nashville, with protestors rallying on location, bullying and harrassing cast and crew as they arrived on set, and successfully pressuring one contracted filming location to cancel.
“Lady Ballers” premieres tonight exclusively on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire+</a> at 8:00 p.m. ET.

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‘Lady Ballers,’ ‘The Most Triggering Comedy Of The Year,’ Premieres On DailyWire+ Tonight

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The following is a compilation of short excerpts from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with Matt Rife. In them, they discuss the intention behind Matt’s comedy, the critical aspect of timing, deflection as a defense mechanism, healing by exposure, cancel culture’s goal to garner attention, and laughter as evidence of help. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/rife-for-cancellation-matt-rife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rife-for-cancellation-matt-rife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watch</a> the full podcast episode on DailyWire+.
Start time: 2:33 [et al.]
<h2>The Intention Of Making People Laugh</h2>
Time: 2:59
Jordan: One of the things I have noticed is that people who are harassed by sensorial-minded nell wits almost always back down and apologize. My sense of that is that a mob comes after them first, for whatever hypothetical sin they have committed, and then they apologize, and the second mob comes after them for that. Then they lessen their own character by the false apology, and they embolden these idiot accusers. So when this blew up around you, why did you decide to take the strategy that you took? Why were you not wracked with guilt and apologetic?
Matt: Because it’s just comedy. I’m just doing what’s funny to me. It’s never any deeper than that, nor should it be for anybody. I’m saying things that my imagination drums up that makes me happy, releases endorphins in my head, and makes my life happier. And all I do is share those thoughts with other people in hopes that it makes their life easier.
Jordan: Well, I have been watching what you do on your specials, and you are continually interacting with the audience, which, correct me if I have this wrong, but a lot of the comedians that I have spoken to spend a lot of time preparing their sets and practicing. But what you are doing seems to be something that is much more akin to spontaneous wit. That is a dangerous thing to do because you could easily be not funny.
Matt: Oh, high risk, high reward.
Jordan: Well, and it is also that because you are doing that, you do not have a lot of time to exactly think through what you are going to say. If something strikes you as amusing, you pretty much have to go for it. And if your head is full of censorship-related thoughts, you are going to be not funny in about 15 seconds.
Matt: You have to let the intrusive thoughts win in comedy. You have to. If you’re a naturally funny person, the first thing that comes to your mind should be the funniest thing to you most of the time in a comedic situation. 
Jordan: It has to be the first thing. You know, if you are taking a multiple choice test, if you second guess your intuition about the right answer, you are more likely to be wrong with the second guess. 
Matt: Is that true? That makes complete sense. 
Jordan: Yes, that immediate response tends to be better. It is a weird thing because that thing that is comical inside you, that is providing you with the intuition for the jokes, it has to be in quick relationship with the audience.
Matt: Timing is everything.
Jordan: Yes, timing is absolutely everything. You want to say the most pointed thing at exactly the right time. So, first of all, how broad-scale do you think this rebellion against what you said actually is? How many people do you think are behind it? And why do you think it has become such a big deal?
Matt: It’s probably a few dozen thousand, which sounds like a lot until you remember there’s 8 billion people in the world. And I would say 90% of the small majority that is upset with me doesn’t go to comedy shows anyway or wouldn’t vibe with me as a person anyway, which is fine. … Whether you enjoy what I do or not, you don’t even have to know it exists. If I’m your problem — if you and I are face to face and you have a problem with my comedy that I tell that I admit to the world, right — if you just remove yourself from me, if you do something as simple as just turn around, there is an entire planet behind you for you to go explore and live the rest of your life. You don’t ever have to think about me. You don’t have to talk about me. I don’t like screamo heavy metal music. Guess how often I think about it and talk about it? Zero percent of the time. You just remove yourself from the situation. I see no harm in trying to make people laugh as a general intention.
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<h2>Comedy As A Sophisticated Defense </h2>
Time: 27:22
Jordan: How do you keep yourself from focusing on whether or not you are being funny, for example, when you are interacting with the audience?
Matt: It’s purely confidence, whether it’s real or fake confidence. I think when I was younger, I did develop a fake confidence. I was bullied a lot in high school, not like getting shoved into lockers, but to the point where I wasn’t anybody in anybody’s group. You know, I was class clown. I was the butt of a lot of people’s jokes, which didn’t hurt, at least I tell myself. But I think that’s where you learn. You learn to deflect. Right? You have two options in a moment when somebody makes a joke at your expense. You can either laugh along and play into it and go with it, or you can be embarrassed and everybody sees you’re embarrassed, which is even more embarrassing.
Jordan: Yes, you are right. That just invites abuse. Yes.
Matt: So I think growing up I developed this sense of false confidence where I went, hey, if I also make fun of myself and I get in on your guys’ joke, it won’t hurt. Or people can’t tell that I’m upset. People think it doesn’t bother me.
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Jordan: I am going to challenge your supposition that that was false — because the thing about being funny is that if you are false, you are not funny. And if you are not funny and you are being bullied, you are just going to get bullied worse. So it seems like you were able to generate responses that were witty and that were funny.
Matt: But purely a defense mechanism I think. It wasn’t for the point of like, oh, I hope I get a good joke off here. I think it was, I have to deflect them saying a mean thing with me saying a funny thing. 
Jordan: I would say that is a very sophisticated defense.
<h2>Playing With Disaster — And Not Apologizing For It </h2>
Time 32:17
Matt: I think comedy is purely down to intent. When people are bullying you, when high schoolers are making fun of something about you, that’s a totally different intent. Even though they are making a joke, their intention is that you’re going to feel a certain kind of way. That is what differentiates it from standup comedy. Every single thing I say on stage is said with nothing but the intention to make people laugh. And I understand it’s not going to make everybody laugh. Some people heal totally differently when it comes to certain topics. I get that and I accept that. I’m not for you.
Jordan: But getting touchy about that, even if you have been hurt, first of all, that is a sign that you still have some real work to do. And second, getting touchy about that and then shielding yourself from any exposure to that is not the way to being cured. Quite the contrary. You know, it is better if you have had a traumatic experience in your life not to protect yourself unduly from situations that might bring that back up, but to voluntarily expose yourself to situations where that is likely to be the case. So it might be understandable in that people have been hurt, but it is counterproductive even with regard to their own recovery. 
Matt: Oh, absolutely. 
Jordan: Comedy has this psychological function; it is sort of like a horror movie in some ways. It is a weird thing that people will voluntarily watch a horror movie because you might ask, why would you pay to be scared? But you are not. You are paying for the experience of the mastery of your fear. And then in comedy, you see the same sort of thing happening; the comedians are always toying with the forbidden. And in part, the reason the audience participates is because we often have to deal with the forbidden, and often some of the things we forbid are not things that we should be avoiding or forbidding. … The comedians have that function of putting forward unpalatable truths in a place where everyone is there to do that voluntarily. That is part of the game. How far can we push things? Then to get all bitchy about that and to try to cancel someone in consequence?
I saw this one guy on YouTube who was complaining about you. He said that you built your career as an ally of women. That was basically his point. Now you have betrayed them with your jokes about domestic abuse. So he was playing this, “I’m the friend of women” sort of game. But he is violating that contract, too, which is that everybody is there in a comedy club to play with disaster. And you know, you are essentially supposed to go along with that.
Matt: I just don’t understand how the environment isn’t taken into consideration. The environment is the context. Think of comedy like a restaurant. You go in there, the food’s not for you, you can leave. You didn’t have to stop in here. Comedy is such a niche field. I wouldn’t consider standup comedy a mainstream art form. It’s not film, it’s not television, it’s not music. It’s not as globally celebrated in every household, you know. It just blows my mind that people can’t just let it be. If it’s not for you, it’s not for you. 
Jordan: See, what is happening I think, even this guy that criticized you in the manner that I just described, I found what he had to say, and him for that matter, contemptible. I thought it was pathetic. But this is something social media does, is that his video, even though I do not think it redounds to his credit, has given him likely more exposure than anything he will ever do in his life. So one of the huge problems on the social media side is that we have put undue access to status in the hands of people who will misuse accusations to garner attention. … One of the massive problems with social media is that it provides people who are willing to do something like savage your reputation with way more attention than they could ever accrue, given their own status and abilities. What to do about that, I have no idea — although apologizing is a bad idea.
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<h2>Helping By Making People Laugh</h2>
Time: 45:15
Jordan: What you are doing, if you are a comic, is actually helping people, not hurting them. And you can tell you are helping them because they laugh. 
Matt: Oh, of course. And it doesn’t need to be for the masses. If you reach even just a few people, you’re doing the right thing. Like I said at the beginning of the podcast, everything I do is just to make people laugh.
Jordan: I am curious about that because the people who apologize for offending someone with their art or their comedy must have doubts about their own intent, right? So if someone comes along and jabs them and says, “Maybe you’re just a mean son of a bitch,” and they say, “Well, you know, maybe I should be more careful.” Maybe they’re feeling a bit depressed, but they do step back and doubt themselves. 
You could say that there are two reasons that someone called for their misbehavior might doubt themselves. One would be that they are narcissistic, and the other would be that they are actually confident in their intent. Now, you have indicated a number of times while we have talked that you are confident in your intent. 
Matt: Yeah.
Jordan: So if I was a persistent skeptic, I would say that you clearly offended 12,000 people — that was the number you came up with. Why are you so confident in your intent that your belief in your own goodness in relationship to comedy trumps the fact that 12,000 people are telling you that you said something offensive?
Matt: Because if 12,000 people are saying that, I would say 100,000 people are saying they loved it — and they’ve been through domestic violence situations and they found the joke very funny. But they are actually able to deal with that situation in a comedic light.
Jordan: Right. Right.
Matt: And I commend that bravery. I can only imagine what it takes to get through something like that. But if I can help in any way, even if it was on accident, I feel great about that. 
<h2>Keep The Funny Jokes</h2>
Time 51:15
Jordan: How do you determine which jokes you keep? What kind of response are you looking for?
Matt: The most amount of laughter is the best outcome.
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Making People Laugh: A Conversation With Matt Rife

Psychology

Social Media

Taylor Swift owned pop music in 2023, but an unknown crooner named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oliver-anthony-says-hes-turned-down-offers-worth-millions-after-going-viral-doesnt-want-spotlight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oliver Anthony</a> stole her thunder for a few magical weeks.
“Barbie” rocked the box office while an indie film that sat on a shelf for five years, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sound-of-freedom-dominates-in-18-latin-american-countries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound of Freedom</a>,” out-grossed some of Hollywood’s biggest film franchises.
See a pattern? There’s more, too. And what began in 2023 might get even hotter in 2024.
This was the year of the pop culture disruptors.
Anthony’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oliver-anthony-makes-billboard-history-with-rich-men-north-of-richmond">Rich Men North of Richmond</a>” broke through the media clutter without the benefit of a record label, name recognition, or even a band. Social media paved part of the way, along with Right-leaning influencers who promoted Anthony’s battle cry against the elites.
It was the closest thing to an overnight sensation we’ve seen in music circles, and Anthony responded by eschewing politics and refusing to sign with the first — or second — label that approached him.
They needed him more than he needed them.
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He wasn’t the only singer to rock the music industry on his own terms. Rapper Tom MacDonald continued to rack up music sales by eschewing labels and mainstream radio airplay. Songs like “Your America” and “American Flags” skewered the anti-patriotic Left as well as anyone who’d rather burn down their town than help build it back up.
The media all but ignored his successes, but that didn’t matter. His songs rocketed up the iTunes charts and drew millions of views on YouTube without digital press clippings.
The story behind “Sound of Freedom” could make a heckuva movie. The Disney project sat unclaimed for several years before Angel Studios bought the rights from the Mouse House. The company behind “Dry Bar Comedy” and “The Chosen” decided to expand from TV to theatrical titles, and it felt “Freedom’s” heroic saga would be a snug fit with its adherents.
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The studio’s second official film release earned $184 million stateside ($247 million worldwide), surpassing “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Fast X,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1” and “The Flash.”
How? Angel Studios embraced a “<a href="https://www.angel.com/pay-it-forward/sound-of-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pay if forward</a>&#8221; ticket-buying model, along with a keen sense of what its fan base craves in a story.
Total disruption from a studio with just two film titles to its credit.
Even more impressive? Major media outlets savaged “Sound of Freedom” in <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/media-sound-of-freedom-investor-fabian-marta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cartoonish fashion</a>, but the sour press only made the project feel more rebellious and necessary. Old-school word of mouth did the rest.
And let’s not forget the ultimate disruptor.
The Daily Wire’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is a Woman?</a>” did a birthday victory lap on Elon Musk’s X platform, formerly known as Twitter. Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-parent-should-watch-this-elon-musk-retweets-what-is-a-woman-to-his-140m-followers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personally retweeted</a> the documentary link to his 140 million followers. The result? Millions of social media users sampled the groundbreaking documentary one year after its DailyWire+ debut.
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X also allowed former Fox News superstar Tucker Carlson and sitcom queen Roseanne Barr a chance to be heard following their shocking dismissals from Hollywood, Inc.
A host of other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-documentaries-that-shocked-the-mainstream-in-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebellious documentaries</a> also shook up the system in more ways than one.
“The Fall of Minneapolis” told a shocking story few journalists would ever share. The documentary from Minnesota-based Alpha News shredded key narratives following the death of George Floyd in 2020 in calm, reasonable tones. 
The film would be the toughest pitch possible on Netflix, Hulu, or other streaming giants. So Alpha News dropped it, free of charge, on Rumble. The film racked up north of 2 million views in under two weeks.
Dinesh D’Souza is one of the most successful documentary filmmakers of the modern era. Yet he embraced a hybrid approach to sharing “Police State” with the public. The film earned a brief theatrical release, shifted swiftly to a virtual/online premiere and then transitioned once more to Rumble and Locals.com, two free speech platforms.
Comedians also leaned into the year’s disruptive spirit. More comedians skipped the mainstream entirely, preferring to release comedy specials on YouTube, Rumble, and even OnlyFansTV. The latter let veteran comic Whitney Cummings weigh in on trans issues without fear of being censored.
Comic Shane Gillis enjoyed his biggest year to date, long after NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” hired, and swiftly canned him for a strained comedy routine aimed at Asian-Americans.
Even mainstream media outlets admitted Gillis <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/arts/television/shane-gillis-beautiful-dogs-netflix-comedy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emerged bigger than ever</a> following the “SNL” debacle, proving comedians no longer need the sketch comedy showcase to break out in a big way.
<blockquote>Since <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/arts/television/shane-gillis-snl.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">getting fired from “Saturday Night Live”</a> in 2019 after videos surfaced of him using Asian and gay slurs on a podcast, Gillis has built perhaps one of the fastest growing comedy careers in America …He regularly sells out theaters. Don’t be surprised if he becomes an arena act.</blockquote>
No one on the current “SNL” roster comes close.
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Celebrated comic Louis CK lost his Hollywood career after he admitted in 2017 to exposing himself to multiple women. Unbowed, CK took a professional break and came back without any of the industry’s support systems to prop him up.
In January, he played to a sold-out Madison Square Garden, all based on working outside the usual gatekeepers and speaking directly to fans willing to look past his deplorable behavior.
We might look back at 2023 and see more than some isolated cases of pop culture rebellion. It might be the dawn of a content revolution.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Renegades: The Pop Culture Disruptors Of 2023

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Oliver Anthony

Sound of freedom

What Is A Woman

“South Park” doesn’t believe in half measures.
The Comedy Central series has been delivering brutal takedowns since its very first season.
The pandemic. Trans athletes. The King of Pop. Paris Hilton. Jesse Jackson. PC gone wild. Name the subject, and chances are Stan, Kenny, Kyle, and Cartman have tackled it, sans apology.
The following eight episodes offer “South Park” unleashed. Pity the targets of the show’s satirical cudgel. They may never recover from the animated tongue lashing.
<h2>1. “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” &#8211; Season 11, episode 1</h2>
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Stan Marsh&#8217;s father, Randy, accidentally says the &#8220;n-word&#8221; as a contestant on &#8220;Wheel of Fortune.&#8221; He&#8217;s quickly branded a racist, and the reverberations fall on both his son and the boys&#8217; elementary school.
The episode mocks Jackson for pretending to be the embodiment of black America while initiating a tough conversation about race and the word in question.
It&#8217;s blunt satire, full stop, and an example of how &#8220;South Park&#8221; is willing to explore complicated issues from various angles. It&#8217;s not a lecture, and the laughs are both consistent and, often, uncomfortable.
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<h2>2. &#8220;Board Girls&#8221; Season 23, Episode 7</h2>
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It’s the episode even “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone may not be able to get away with today given the trans community’s rage against criticism.
The episode aired in 2019 before the trans issue flared up across the country. Vice Principal Strong Woman announces she’s entering a Strong Woman competition, in part, to inspire female students to be empowered. She’s upstaged by a biological man who transitioned to womanhood mere weeks ago.
And the trans athlete happens to look and sound like Randy “Macho Man” Savage, the wrestling icon from the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Chaos ensues, naturally, with the storyline echoing future conversations about trans athletes and biological differences. Clips from the episode went viral earlier this year, connecting the 2019 satire with modern conversations on the topic.
<h2>3. &#8220;The Worldwide Privacy Tour&#8221; Season 26, Episode 2</h2>
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The couple known by their first names, Harry and Meghan, enjoy a rarefied space in pop culture. Mock the duo relentlessly and suffer the consequences. Just ask Piers Morgan, who did just that and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61105178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost a high-profile gig with “Good Morning Britain.”</a>
“South Park” turned that cultural protection racket on its head.
The episode features a Canadian royal couple who wish to be left alone. And they’ll shout their wishes from the rooftops until every living soul hears them. It’s obviously Harry and Meghan, and the secondary plot involving a quest for victimhood makes the comedy bite even harder.
After the episode aired we learned about Meghan Markle’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/meghan-markle-faked-podcast-interviews-her-voice-added-later-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubious podcasting tics</a>, a story that may not have been told if “South Park” hadn’t made it culturally acceptable to do so. Her feminist podcast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spotify-cancels-second-season-of-meghan-markles-feminist-archetypes-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ended after just one season.</a> 
<h2>4. “The Jeffersons” Season 8, Episode 6</h2>
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What if the biggest pop star on the planet moved to South Park? Even more improbable? An animated series skewers him in ways many were thinking but couldn’t discuss in polite society.
Yes, the Mr. Jefferson in question is a Michael Jackson stand-in, complete with a child named Blanket. The new neighbor can’t connect with adults and dresses like Peter Pan for his young South Park friends.
When the adults accuse him of oddball behavior he cries, “that’s ignorant” in a high-pitched whine. Later, Mr. Jefferson’s face begins to crumble after one too many plastic surgeries.
We all knew about Jackson’s eccentricities, but “South Park” lined them all up for our inspection in one withering, 30-minute broadside. 
A subplot, riffing on the O.J. Simpson case, finds local police trying to frame Mr. Jefferson because he’s wealthy and black. Satire atop satire, and all of it stings. 
<h2>5. “ManBearPig” Season 10, Episode 6</h2>
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Former Vice President Al Gore’s climate change mantras are rarely, if ever, questioned in the media. He’s considered an oracle on the subject, even though he’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/al-gores-eco-friendly-investment-firm-owns-shares-in-polluting-companies-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profited off his declarations</a> and some of his predictions have been less than accurate.
“South Park” mocked him all the same.
The episode finds an animated Al Gore tracking down the evil ManBearPig, a creature which feasts on innocent humans. It’s clearly a metaphor for Climate Change, and the episode depicts Gore as an attention seeker first and foremost.
Few, if any, satirists approached Gore in such a fashion before or after the episode.
<h2>6. “Joining the Panderverse” 326th stand-alone episode </h2>
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Parker and Stone pay homage to countless YouTubers who have been calling out Kathleen Kennedy’s disastrous Disney tenure. She’s been behind the wheel as “Star Wars,” the MCU, and “Indiana Jones” took sizable stumbles.
The episode finds Cartman dreaming of an alternate universe where he and his buddies are swapped out for diverse versions of themselves.
It gets meaner.
Cartman boils down the Kennedy ethos into a phrase sure to become as ubiquitous as “yada yada yada” and “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” from “Seinfeld.”
“Put a chick in it and make her gay!”
<h2>7 &amp; 8. “Cartoon Wars Parts I &amp; II” Season 10, episodes 3 and 4 </h2>
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The show featured a bizarre cross-promotion with FOX’s “Family Guy” sitcom. The latter plans to show a character based on Islamic Prophet Muhammad, sending the town of South Park into a frenzy.
Could the series spark violence in the Colorado town or elsewhere?
The two-part episode matters for several reasons. Parker and Stone took the free speech fight into the public arena, coming after the attacks against a Danish newspaper for publishing a cartoon image of the Prophet.
Plus, it’s rare to see Parker and Stone lose a public fight with Comedy Central. The channel opted not to show the Muhammad character illustrated for the series, showing a black screen when the image was supposed to appear. Later, these episodes and several more with <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/06/south-park-episodes-missing-hbo-max-prophet-muhammad-1202969280/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar themes have been yanked from various streaming platforms.</a>
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Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy">Marlon Wayans</a> said his child now identifies as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgender</a>, a change which he plans to incorporate into his comedy routine.
The 51-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">performer</a> made the comments during an <a href="https://youtu.be/EfyXK1Qz-BE">appearance</a> on “The Breakfast Club” on Friday. &#8220;I have a daughter that transitioned into a son,&#8221; Wayans said. &#8220;My daughter Amai is now Kai.&#8221;
He said a future comedy special on the topic could be called “Rainbow Child.”
&#8220;My transition as a parent, going from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance,&#8221; the “White Chicks” actor added.
&#8220;I think there’s a lot of parents out there who need to have that message, and I know I’m dealing with it,&#8221; Wayans said, noting how creating the special has been &#8220;a very painful situation for me, but it’s one of the best, funniest hours [of comedy] I could ever imagine.&#8221; 
Wayans went on to describe Kai as &#8220;brilliant&#8221; and &#8220;the most well-read, the smartest Wayans.&#8221; The actor also has a son Shawn, 21, with ex-wife Angelica Zachary.
&#8220;They know I love them,&#8221; the comedian said of his child, who is 23. &#8220;They see me trying, and I’m happy, but I have to respect their wishes.”
&#8220;I want them to be free in spirit, free in thought, free to be themselves. The more you know yourself, the more you can govern yourself; the more you live your truth, the happier your existence,&#8221; Wayans said. &#8220;If they can’t get that in the household with their father and their mother, how the f*** do I send them out into the world with that kind of confidence? I’m just so proud of them being them.&#8221;
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Despite a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-growing-number-of-celebrities-with-trans-children">Gallup poll</a> which found that only 0.6% of the 5.6% of Americans who identify as LGBTQ are trans, the number of trans-identified individuals in Hollywood is significant. Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Cher, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, plus Warren Beatty and Annette Bening all have children who identify as trans.
There are also several celebrities who identify as transgender. Elliot Page is one famous person who publicly “transitioned,” as is reality star Jazz Jennings.

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Action star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Jean-Claude Van Damme</a> said his one-episode cameo on the hit NBC comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/friends">Friends</a>” was “strange” and that he was “ashamed” of himself for it.
The 63-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">actor</a> played himself in the 1996 episode “The One After the Super Bowl: Part 2.” In the storyline, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Monica (Courteney Cox) both showed interest in the star and fought over who would get the chance to date him. 
Van Damme, a renowned martial artist, said he wasn’t thrilled with his acting prowess in that episode, which aired during season 2, as &#8220;Friends&#8221; was starting to get popular.
“My acting is so bad. I look so like a ham. Like, ‘Hey, girls.’ … It’s like, I’m ashamed of myself,” Van Damme told <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/entertainment/jean-claude-van-damme-ashamed-of-friends-episode-with-jen-aniston-courteney-cox/">The New York Post</a> of the experience. “So then I was on the set, and those girls [Aniston and Cox], they go and they kiss me and they kiss me on the lips. I didn’t know what to do, how to do. … It was strange. They were very nice.”
“I didn’t know much about the show,” Van Damme added. “So when I go to the show I see those two beautiful girls and they say this is the hottest show right now in the world. So I was very glad. And my agent said, ‘You have to do an episode with them. So you’re going to play this guy.&#8217;”
He did a reenactment of how he had to stand while playing the part, the Post noted. “Oh, but this was [how I looked] against the wall,” the actor explained. “So I was like this on ‘Friends’: ‘Hey, girls. What’s up?&#8217;”
Despite the awkwardness, Van Damme said the whole experience overall was “a good memory.”
“They were very open because they did the show every day. So for them, I enter into a place where everything is working like a very well trained mechanic engine,” Van Damme said. “It was amazing.”
The Belgian star also joked that “Friends” is more popular than his own Hollywood contributions. “Everybody talk about that show more than all of my movies together,” Van Damme said.

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Legendary comedian and actor Chevy Chase recently got into a public back-and-forth with his “Community” co-star, Joel McHale. At one point, McHale said “That’s just Chevy being Chevy,” implying that his abrasive personality is well known in the Hollywood community.
And it’s true. For years, rumors have circulated that the 80-year-old actor is difficult to work with and, on top of that, kind of a jerk. Fans may find that surprising because it doesn’t match up with his funnyman persona in the least. But is there any truth to these rumors? 
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Chase’s feud with McHale stems from an interview the “National Lampoon&#8221; actor did for Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast in September. When asked about his decision to leave the comedy series “Community,” Chase gave a blunt response.
“I honestly felt the show wasn’t funny enough for me, ultimately. I felt a little bit constrained,” the actor told Maron. Chase’s character was eventually written off the show during season 4. “Everybody had their bits, and I thought they were all good. It just wasn’t hard-hitting enough for me.”
“I didn’t mind the character,” Chase said of playing millionaire community college student Pierce Hawthorne. “I just felt that it was … I felt happier being alone. I just didn’t want to be surrounded by that table, every day, with those people. It was too much.”
McHale told <a href="https://people.com/joel-mchale-dismisses-chevy-chase-community-digs-exclusive-8350925" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> of his former co-star’s comments, “I was like, ‘Hey, no one was keeping you there.’ I mean, we weren’t sentenced to that show. It was like, ‘All right, you could have left if you really wanted that.’ But yeah, you know Chevy. That’s Chevy being Chevy.”
“[Chase] stopped hurting my feelings in 2009,” McHale quipped, referring to the year the show started.
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McHale isn’t the only one who supposedly felt the sting of Chase’s behavior. There’s the legendary tale of Chase punching fellow comedian Bill Murray backstage on “SNL” in 1978 after saying Murray’s “face was so filled with pockmarks that it looked like the ideal landing spot for Neil Armstrong.” It should be noted that Murray had allegedly made derogatory remarks about Chase’s estranged wife first, which is what led to the physical altercation.
When asked about the fight during a 2010 <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a8537/chevy-chase-interview-1010/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Esquire, Chase didn’t deny the comments but did explain that no punches were really thrown.
“Billy Murray and I came to fisticuffs, but we never really ended up hitting each other. We tried, but Belushi got in the middle and we both ended up hitting John,” he told the outlet at the time. “And if anybody deserved to be slapped in the forehead it was John, for instigating it all.”
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A lot of the comedic actor’s bad reputation stems from his time on “SNL.” There was the incident when he allegedly told Robert Downey, Jr. that his father was probably burning in hell. Legend also holds that Chase suggested doing AIDS skits about Terry Sweeney, one of his gay castmates on the show. 
Many fans find it hard to reconcile all this negative press with the affable, lovable character Chase plays on TV and in movies. Born Cornelius Crane Chase in 1943, the actor hailed from lower Manhattan and Woodstock, New York. He became a breakout star as one of the original cast members on“Saturday Night Live” beginning in 1975 with the recurring Weekend Update skit that’s since become an integral part of the show. 
Chase received four Emmy nominations and won twice for his writing and acting contributions on “SNL.” He was known for the catchphrase, &#8220;I&#8217;m Chevy Chase… and you&#8217;re not&#8221; plus his Weekend Update closing line, &#8220;Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.&#8221;
But he didn’t have very nice things to say about the modern version of “SNL.” Chase said during a 2018 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/chevy-chase-cant-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Washington Post that the show’s current sketches aren’t up to his standards.
“I had to watch a little of it, and I just couldn’t f***ing believe it. That means a whole generation of sh**heads laughs at the worst f***ing humor in the world. You know what I mean? How could you dare give that generation worse sh** than they already have in their lives? It just drives me nuts,” Chase told the outlet.
Speaking of “SNL,” cast member Pete Davidson has no love for one of the show’s original members. &#8220;He&#8217;s a f***ing douchebag. F*** Chevy Chase. I hate that dude,&#8221; Davidson told Stern during an interview. &#8220;He&#8217;s just a genuinely bad, racist person, and I don&#8217;t like him,” the comedian added.
Chase was accused of being racist before. Donald Glover said the actor used racial slurs on the set of “Community,” including making “racial cracks” during filming. Glover claims Chase told him, “People think you’re funnier because you’re black” and said he used the n-word.
Following his success on “SNL,” the actor went on to star in the comedy “Foul Play” (1978) opposite Goldie Hawn. But he’s best known and loved for his portrayal of golfer Ty Webb in “Caddyshack” (1980) and Clark W. Griswold in five National Lampoon&#8217;s Vacation films. He also appeared in “Fletch” (1985), “Seems Like Old Times” (1980), “Spies Like Us” (1985), “Three Amigos!” (1986) and “Funny Farm” (1988).
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The actor had a bit of a downfall following his rise to superstardom. Subsequent movies didn’t perform as well as expected and his late night talk show, “The Chevy Chase Show,” was canceled after just five weeks. 
But is Chase a man who’s unfairly judged, or is he really a terrible person beneath all the jokes? Fans may never know for sure, but to hear him tell it, he’s not too concerned about his reputation anyway. When asked about people calling him a “jerk” following his stint on “Community,” Chase told <a href="https://ew.com/tv/chevy-chase-responds-snl-community-costars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entertainment Weekly</a> that his haters can shove it.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t give a crap! I am who I am. And I like&#8230; who I am. I don&#8217;t care. And it&#8217;s part of me that I don&#8217;t care. And I&#8217;ve thought about that a lot. And I don&#8217;t know what to tell you, man. I just don&#8217;t care,&#8221; the actor said.
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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/animation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rick and Morty</a>” fans are not thrilled with the new iteration of the show now that series co-creator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justin Roiland</a> has been fired.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adult Swim</a> severed ties with Roiland after he was charged with felony domestic violence in January. The charges were later dropped in March due to lack of evidence, but he was never invited to rejoin the cast. After the initial charges were filed, others came forward with allegations of sexual harassment and toxic workplace behavior, per <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/dan-harmon-justin-roiland-rick-and-morty-controversy-1234909799/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieWire</a>. “Rick and Morty” co-creator Dan Harmon said the “easiest thing” was to say “nothing” about the drama.
“Trust has now been violated between countless people and a show designed to please them. I’m frustrated, ashamed and heartbroken that a lot of hard work, joy and passion can be leveraged to exploit and harm strangers,” Harmon told the outlet in September.
This forced “Rick and Morty” showrunners to go on an extensive hunt for two new voice actors to replace Roiland, who had initially given life to both the main characters.
Season 7 – the first one without Roiland behind the scenes – premiered on Sunday and so far has gotten mostly terrible reviews. Some fans hate the new voices, while others aren’t happy with the storyline, which they’re saying is not as good as previous seasons. 
Season 7, which only had one episode released so far, currently has a 43% audience rating and 50% critic rating on <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/rick_and_morty/s07" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rotten Tomatoes</a>. This stands in contrast to the 86% critic and 82% audience rating that the overall series has on the review platform.
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Fans had a lot of negative comments about the first episode, which is called “How Poopy Got His Poop Back.”
“Couldn&#8217;t even get past the first 10 minutes of episode 1 without dying of cringe. The show has seriously lost its touch and the ratings speak for itself. Such as disappointment,” one reviewer shared.
“Wow… episode 1 was horrible. Someone sucked the life right out of that show,” another agreed. 
“From the very start of the episode you feel like something is off, then becomes worse as it goes on, the new voice actors sound lifeless and bring no energy to the characters, it doesn&#8217;t sound like the voice actors are clicking, which is made worse as there are the original voice actors for the other characters which sound normal but when mixed in with the stale delivery of the new actors makes for awkward viewing. The story on the first episode was horrible and I could barely get through it,” a third person echoed.
“Rick and Morty” airs new episodes on Sundays on Adult Swim.

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Fans Slam New 'Rick And Morty' Voices, Storylines After Justin Roiland Axed From Show

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The director of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/movies">Cool Runnings</a>” said he received specific instructions for how the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">actors</a> should sound in the Disney film, including guidance around not making the accents too authentic.
Director Jon Turteltaub and the cast of the 1993 sports <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy">comedy</a> reunited to discuss the film in honor of its 30th anniversary this year. 
“Cool Runnings” is the story of four Jamaican bobsledders who dream of competing in the Olympics despite never having experienced snow. They team up with a disgraced former bobsled champion (John Candy) to achieve those goals.
“Cool Runnings” is loosely based on the true story of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team that competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Actor Rawle D. Lewis told <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/cool-runnings-movie-making-of-b2420306.html">The Independent</a> that the original script had “drugs, racism and the characters were getting laid a lot.”
“I saw it morph into the movie that it is now,” Lewis continued. “It was something that had never been told before – Jamaicans in tights? People were like, ‘How’s this going to go under the Disney umbrella?’”
Once it became a Disney production, the executives had strong opinions about the cast’s Jamaican accents. 
“They wanted me to sound like a black Aladdin,” actor Just Leon (Derice Bannock) said. “They wanted a Disney version. It was tough because if anybody wants to be authentic, it’s me — but I’m a professional and I had to do the job.”
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“They’d say, ‘People in Middle America won’t be able to understand you.’ At that time, people had less access to cultural differences and didn’t know how Jamaican really sounded,” Malik Yoba (Yul Brenner) said. 
Turteltaub recounted the experience of getting a late-night phone call from then-Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. “He said, ‘If you can’t get these accents to where I can understand them clearly, I’ll find a director who can.&#8217;”
“The next day, I told the cast, ‘I’m going to get fired if you don’t sound like Sebastian the Crab. Please don’t get me fired,’” the director continued. “We joked about it but they got it. They understood. ‘We’re not going to do Sebastian the Crab but we’re going to make an Americanized version of the movie that people around the world can understand.'&#8221;
Turteltaub also reflected on the idea of making a comedy like “Cool Runnings” in 2023. “Times have changed a lot in 30 years,” he said. “There’s zero chance I’d get this job – and I probably shouldn’t get it. I’m on the side of the people who say I shouldn’t have directed this and yet we ended up with a pretty great movie. It’s tricky.”
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