Oscar nominated writer
The meme where the dude is biting the medal and popping champagne in third place
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If you wanna dunk on Boots Riley bring up that he wrote the songs for that Simpsons episode where Bart raps
I was going to post that “Do the Bartman” is a banger actually but no it’s much more cringe.
Do the Bartman is like 10 years earlier than this. This was a mid 2000s episode where Bart is suddenly into rap and 50 Cent guest stars
A real artistic genius lmao
YouTuber shit
high concept prank show. lmfao. what an auteur
He thinks he’s Nathan Fielder
I can hear the pitch now: “Imagine Viva La Bam for people who listen to NPR”
high concept prank show
Sounds like something Idiot Doom Spiral would invent.
I will say Who Is America is actually a good show.
It’s greatness came not from writers, but Sacha’s performance and the target’s credulity.
The actual pranks were kinda dumb and without those two factors propping them up it wouldn’t have worked.
first Tweet was written one-handed
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>improv, hidden camera movie
>a writer
>nine writers.
You know this hidden camera improv movie that got really popular in the post 9/11 Islamophobic landscape? Let’s make another one in 2020 where we try to get Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani involved lol.
What was the thought process here?
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That shit was crazy I remember it came out right before the election and Hasan Piker watched it and loved it, libs ate that shit up lol
I don’t understand how anybody could sit through those movies. It’s literally just a guy doing a funny voice - even if you’re a racist doesn’t that get old fast?
Liberals love using big words that make them sound incomprehensible.
bovine aspirations
Cows just want to relax, eat vegan food, and have a good mating season. Bovine aspirations sound alright.
Bulls occasionally get in the mood to utterly fuck things up for no reason
Who among us etc
Declaring yourself as an “Oscar nominated writer” to win an internet argument is like declaring yourself as second place finalist in the shit eating olympics
Not even. It’s more like bragging about participating in a tournament that determined your eligibility for the Olympics lol
The balder you are, the more erudite you become.
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Well except joe rogan, hes the exception to the rule
I am become chrome dome, user of big words
meant 2 post this in dunk tank but whatever
holy fuck look at the rest of his twitter though
he’s absolutely lost his mind at this palestine stuff
i assume you mean leekern? i’m not gonna do that, i figured as much
yea
idk how the guy hasn’t been blacklisted by the industry yet tbh he’s doing like 2000’s style unstoppable tide of Islam rhetoric
idk how the guy hasn’t been blacklisted by the industry yet
you know how
Boots Riley’s aspirations are clearly Equestrian, not Bovine.
true that
Big deal, who doesn’t have Oscar nominations nowadays. I’ve got two of them, and you don’t see me going around social media and demanding people to address me as “Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie”.
Wait.
Imagine expecting other people to be impressed by the writing of Borat 2 lmao
That’s what he got nominated for?
Holy shit no wonder he kept it vague. Also explains why he writes like a character from Borat.
Wait so not even the first movie? How pathetic. The second one sucked so much ass
Anyone who uses two &'s around a single word shouldn’t call themselves a writer
In seriousness, is there a rule against doing that? Is it considered poor form?
there are no rules with english but it is poor form to repeat words too close to one another like that without an artistic or rhetorical purpose
So idk what the exact prescriptive rules are, but the way I’ve always used the ampersand (and have seen it used) is to make it easier to parse a sentence that’s like
I need to talk about spelunking and skydiving and scuba diving is scheduled for next week.
While this would probably be clear in speech from prosodic cues (e.g. pauses and emphasis), in writing it’s not obvious where “things to talk about” end and “activities scheduled for next week” begin. This ambiguity can be cleared up by an ampersand, which is used to group two items together but is not used as a conjunction for introducing a new cause. So if I replace the first “and” with an ampersand like this:
I need to talk about spelunking & skydiving and scuba diving is scheduled for next week.
it becomes clear that “spelunking & skydiving” are the things I want to talk about and “scuba diving” is the scheduled activity. Since I know that & only serves the function of grouping two bits together (nouns in this case), as soon as I hit the “and” I know that it’s the beginning of a second clause. Ampersands can be useful even in a case which isn’t ambiguous, like
I need to talk about spelunking and skydiving and I would also like a taco.
“Skydiving and I would and also like a taco” is obviously not a plausible interpretation for the second clause of the sentence, but even so, there’s still a tiny bit of extra work your brain has to do to parse the first “and” as an item-grouper and the second “and” as a clause introducer. Using an ampersand in place of the first “and” makes things a little easier for the reader.
I’d guess that in a professional writing scenario it’s probably better to rewrite the sentence to avoid ambiguity rather than leaning on the ampersand, but if you’re just writing a comment on the internet who’s got time for that? Oh, and obviously in less formal situations people might just use & just for the hell of it, but that feels kinda boomer-coded to me. For what it’s worth, the tweet in question is exactly 280 characters so it’s probably just a Twitter word limit thing.
Wow, now I know about proper(ish) ampersand usage! I had inuited some of this, that ampersands can be used to group words togrther, but this makes it clearer. This is rad, ty.
