Part of becoming an adult has been realizing nearly every celebrity is a horrible person
Some of them are good. Wallace Shawn and Danny DeVito have good politics, and Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter who responded to 9/11. So the short and ugly ones maybe. Got that hobbit energy.
Tim Heidecker seems like a good egg. Mark Ruffalo seems ok as well.
Also weirdly Seth MacFarlane seems ok politically even though his shows are full of racism and transphobia and etc
Re: Seth MacFarlane. I’m sure his animated stuff fits that bill, but “The Orville” is a super progressive show. Last season featured an episode involving gender dysmorphia and essentially trans-rights (in space of course) that was wonderfully done.
Part of this realization goes in hand with the recognition that, overwhelmingly, nearly anyone who is anyone in media is related to someone rich and powerful.
I don’t even mean kids of movie stars or record producers cause that’s just the standard nepotism everyone knows about. I mean like a ton of famous people are at most one familial step removed from an influential political actor or business magnate who helped fund their career pursuit in some fashion. There’s definitely exceptions and you can find some with good politics regardless but it’s pretty wild to realize how much of our media is created by rich failsons.
Yeah this has been a realization too. Nearly everyone famous is some rich person’s nephew or daughter. It’s all a big country club.
The more famous the comedian, the more they reflect mainstream ideology. Look no further than the popular comedian of the moment to understand where the public mindset is. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get more Jeff-Dunham-racist-puppet acts soon.
I think it’s fun to contrast people like Tom Segura and Bill Burr. Tom for a long time had this outward appearance of a typical lib, riding the lines on acceptable speech. Bill for a long time had this outward appearance of an angry straight, white, male, capturing a similar audience to someone like Andrew Dice Clay. Now, Tom’s persona is full-on rich boy prick status, with direct disdain for the poor. Whereas now, Bill’s persona (especially if you listen to his podcast) is way more “woke” and left-leaning than he ever was. The SWM audience is still there and periodically writes into his podcast only to be laughed at by Bill for being misogynistic and weird. It’s clear he has some level of solidarity with working-class people.