Is this what happens when you choose from "entertainers" list by sorting by "price - low to high"? Is this really a surprise when you shop from the clearance rack?
Were these organizers looking at the list and saying "Hmm, Carrot Top is a bit too 'high brow' for our engagement. Who else do we have?"
I wonder if this was a case of someone seeing a "big name" but being clueless about his history and thinking, "I recognize his name, must mean he's popular." Then they hired him without vetting because he had a recognizable name and they believed he was therefore popular and "cool". I mean, I know who Rob Schneider is because I've heard his name get thrown around a lot, but I had no idea he was a bigoted piece of shit because I've never (knowingly) watched any of his movies, nor do I keep up with celebrity gossip.
That said, it's really stupid to hire people without vetting them in this day and age because people have become so insane and brainless that you have no clue what they might say when they get up on stage; but 10 years ago I could see you being able to get away with not vetting celebrities. As such, the person/people who approved him might have been +10 years out of touch and/or lazy.
Yeah to be fair I love a lot of movies he’s in and reading about this makes me so disappointed. I’m sure there’s other actors and celebrities that I would also be disappointed about too.
Noooo, I genuinely had no idea he was a pos. Man that sucks I liked his shitty movies and now I can't watch them for a nostalgic feel any more :( I am legit bummed.
Rob Schneider. The SNL guy that had one character, then moved on to being remembered as "The Stapler" on South Park.
What an inspiration.
Edit. Now that I think about it, Schneider is actually being a true comedian through and through here. The golden rule is to always punch up, and Schneider is attempting to do just that.
I thought you were referring to how much he has to punch up, cuz he's such a a scumbag(expanding on my joke). But looking at your account history... Wtf why are you even bothering?
I wouldn't want his list of accomplishments. And I say that as someone who didn't end up a major success at standup. If I had to be hateful to be successful, I wouldn't take that bargain.
I got blocked by him on Twitter (in 2012!) for mocking his whackjob antivax views. He was espousing shit headed antivax nonsense long before it was fashionable.
Antivax goes back at least a decade before your 2012 blocking. My kid was born in 2001 and the whole vaccines cause autism thing was already big. In fact, I'd suggest it was nearly mainstream at the time.
When the study that suggested the correlation with autism got thoroughly debunked, nay, proven willfully fraudulent, it fizzled out a little bit, but has still stuck around like a raging case of herpes to this day.
Yes I know. I've was there for it too mocking these dinguses. But it only became mainstream with COVID when it sort of metastasized and merged with a bunch of other deranged conspiracy nonsense via MAGA & QAnon.
I certainly am. I also got blocked by Kirstie Alley, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Avenatti for criticizing their cult, grift & grift respectively. I'm sure there are a few others I don't know about.
At first I was sad reading that an actor I liked turned out to be a bigot, but then I realized I was confusing this dipshit with Roy Scheider and felt better.
dude isn't even funny in the first place. he can't do a Dave Chappell. Pander to the bigoted masses with a modicum of talent. Now if Dave Chappell wasn't a pos he could easily be the funniest man in comedy instead of a fringe washup but here we are. Used to love them both for their niech humor but lets be honest Rob was only ever funny cause he was proped up by mid Adam Sandler scripts.
I went to see Rob Schneider perform comedy round 2015. Tickets were free for a Saturday night. It was at 80% capacity, which is unusual since it's always sold out.
He was pretty rough and attempted to be edgy. He already had gay jokes and there was polite laughter, but nothing compared to the professional comedians who opened for him.
His shows are pretty much him making fun of trans people and whining bc people call him on his shit for doing nothing but making fun of trans people.
Here's some excepts from The Closer in 2022. I watched this begrudgingly to prove to a buddy of mine that he was, in fact, being transphobic (said buddy is no longer buddy), and I haven't watched anything of his shit since but it's probably just him whining even more now:
Every time I come out onstage, I be scared. I be lookin’ around the crowd, searching. For knuckles and Adam’s apples to see where the threats might be coming from.
And then she hikes her skirt up and she pulls a real live, meaty dick out!
If I was honest, I wouldn’t have fallen for it. I’d have just looked at the picture like, “Look at that big chiseled jawline, that big thick Joe Rogan neck. Is that a dude? Is your daughter a man?” Can’t say that shit. It’s really annoying.
trans-bitch from the picture.
A couple of more drinks and these fellows are gonna start asking her for some pussy, she might not have.
I was careful to call her a bitch, ’cause I didn’t want to blow her cover.
“Well.” I am a girl now, n*gger. You must treat me as such.
Gender is a fact.
Now… I am not saying that to say, that trans women aren’t women. I’m just sayin, that those pussies that they got… You know what I mean?
I’m not saying it is not pussy, but that’s like Beyond Pussy or Impossible Pussy. You know what I mean? It tastes like pussy but that’s not quite what it is, is it? It’s not blood, that is beet juice.
He insults transgenders in routines and bitches about people calling him out for it. He also throws out stupid stereotypes about various other groups but they aren't generally direct insults like with trans people. He tops it off with complaining about cancel culture cause apparently he can insult and call other groups out for just living their life, but if somebody calls him out on that crap it's bad.
Oh, look, another old comedian jumps on the bigot bandwagon. It's an incredibly transparent trend now for when they can't write the same material that got them there in the first place, or when they are no longer working with the person that wrote their material for them.
Take a few shots at trans people, purely for publicity, then use that sudden boost from the circle jerking media to secure yourself a Netflix special, where you can talk about how you've been cancelled for an hour and a half for a big payout.
It's just a marketing ploy for using peoples own outrage against them.
He's been a conservative hack for a while (and he's been a hack for his entire career), he just hid it better than, say, Victoria Jackson or something. This is him feeling too comfortable. I'm glad this crowd didn't let him stay comfortable.
A Bigoted C list celebrity riding on the coat tails of his friends pees on the grave of a child killed by a lynch mob at midnight on a full moon while wearing black face and is stuck by lightning while making eye contact with his 15 year old mtf trans athlete niece he kidnapped to sell to child sex trafficers and they Freaky Friday switch bodies! Will The Bigot learn life's not so easy or trendy after Republican elective officals publicly attack him and he recieves dozens of credible death threats, and thousands of rape threats? Will he discover trans people just want to exist, and culture shock isn't a great reason to want to harm people you don't even know? Find out this summer, in THE BIGOT starting Rob Schneider and that guy from King of Queens, with a cameo appearance from Adam Sandler as a man in a 30min uninterrupted Pringles Comercial in the middle of the film for no reason, this summer at limited release locations in exclusively rural areas four to five hours away from you!
Not even necessarily more visibility, go back 20 years and this kind of stuff was popular. Go back another 5 years and anti-gay humour was also still popular. It wasn't even considered anti-gay because anti-gay was the default option, so it would have just been called "gay jokes".
Though it makes me wonder what is considered normal today that will be seen as problematic in a decade and popularly opposed in two.
He's been on this tip for a long while, supporting Ron Paul and being anti-vax. Last Week Tonight did an episode on Vaccines, and he shows up in a no longer valid comparison of RFK Jr on the left, Alex Jones wherever he fits in, and even this guy. I remember him also calling for Ron Paul 2012, but doesn't seem to be from this one, so hopefully I'm remembering that right.
Still, he's been libertarian and antivax for a long time, and those communities have been heavily aimed at by fascists for recruitment.
I don't really understand these dipshits. The older I get the more tolerant of others outlook on life I get. I might not agree but I don't have to trash them to make myself feel better. I certainly don't begrudge them their own preferences. Perhaps one reason for this is that I have become asexual. Or chaste to use a really old term for not interested.
I don't know that asexual is really the same as chaste, because chaste implies you're using some sort of willpower to avoid sex rather than just not wanting to have sex. Either, in my opinion, is a fine way to live your life, but they're not really the same. I wouldn't say that all nuns are asexual, but all nuns are supposed to be chaste.
In the past terms like 'chaste' 'innocent' and the like, were used to describe people who seemed to naturally not be interested in sexual things rather than someone who was restraining themselves. Sexual repression really wasn't a concept until very recently, and in the past people would day Zealous, or similar terms for someone more actively fighting against their natural desires.
Its the closest thing you can come up with from the past. I think they are the same. Especially in this world. You don't have to expend any will in this world to be chaste or asexual. Its not like anyone you would want is going to come chasing you.
You're just growing as a person, continuously. Many people stop growing, settling into rigid ideals and reacting with hostility to pressure against those ideals.
All these people seem to be in decline as well. I suspect their egos can't handle it and they resort to weird distorted conservatism so they can blame others for their fall from grace.
I refer to myself as kinda sexual, I guess the kids are calling it graysexual these days, I never thought to use "chaste", but that's a good descriptor. I used to always say that I'm just a prude, lol
Oh to be sure I find women attractive and I could see myself under certain circumstances being in a relationship again but I'm fine just like I am. I wouldn't ever consider it for the sake of just having sex. It would have to be with someone who accepts me flaws and all and I of course would have to feel the same about them. Not likely where I live in the world today.
I'll never forgive Adam Sandler for keeping Rob Schneider vaguely relevant by letting him ride his coattails for the last 30 years. "Makin' coppppieeesss" stfu you bigoted hack.
Imagine starring in a movie where your character is desperately trying to explain to loved ones that they're trapped in the wrong body and don't understand how to navigate this gender that they find themselves in and then come out in the other side being transphobic. Like, he's so media illiterate that he doesn't empathize with his own characters. So then it was just hateful jokes the whole time, I guess. Dude stopped maturing at like 15.
There are a quite a lot of nursing and medical admin staff in healthcare who are rabidly antivax. At least in America, so I assume it's at least partially true in Canada to. I wonder if that had something to do with this clearly terrible pairing of organization and washed-up clown 'comedian'.
They mentioned they were anti-trans and anti-vax. They didn't repeat them because there is no need to repeat offensive jokes. I'm sure there are Rob Schneider routines on YouTube if you're curious.
And what do you think the truth here is? Do you think that the Regina Leader-Post, the local newspaper they got the information from also wears its bias on its sleeve? How about the foundation whose public apology they printed? Is that fake news?
AP news, agrigated articles are difficult to all fudge in the same direction. Is there bias in seperate articles? To some degree it's going to happen, does every single article have heavy bias in exactly one direction? Nope.
BBC, Reuters, NPR, and a few other services generally avoid heavy bias by using similar methods of agrigated content from multiple contributers that aren't all working in a single location, for one entity, with the same editor, working for the same owners. There's much less bias found across their platforms, and what's there in terms of bias isn't all to one particular US political party.
I don't know what you are arguing. You can have a bias towards reality. Some have a bias towards centrism, even when one side has lost its mind. My original comment was to an idiot claiming that lgbtq wasn't news because it has a bias.
My point was that everything has a bias in some way, even a bias towards truth or whatever. It's still a bias. Lgbtq nation simply tells you what the bias is explicitly. Which is good. I'd rather they be upfront so I can find news not filled with right wing anti gay screed.
Or.... the crowd is soft and cant handle basic critique from a comic. Would you guys be foaming at the mouth is a comic made fun of christians at christian event, and everyone booed? The answer is no, you would be saying how weak the christian were.
Are you kidding? It's a comedian's job to read the room and tell when their set isn't landing for shit and change tactics on the fly. Maybe he's got his own shit niche but he should learn the basics of tact if he wants gigs.
It's not the audience's fault when a comedian bombs. It's his own damn fool self.
Sure, if they were done in a way that was actually funny to a reasonable person. If statements are just insults then they were never jokes, the problem is that you guys dont even allow people to make fun of particular groups, you start clutching your pearls and gasping. You guys went from the cool guy in the 90s to being super lame.