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The content was too liberal leaning and alienated way too many of middle America.
by turtlecloud 7y ago
The content was too liberal leaning and alienated way too many of middle America.
- ladberg 7y agoWhat content was too biased for you?
- dx87 7y agoA lot of their stand up comedy specials are very political. You start to hear the crowd cheering a lot more than they're laughing. My wife and I watched the first episode of their new sitcom where Gabriel Iglesias is a teacher, and within the first couple of minutes it has a student saying that American history is just slavery and mistreating minorities, and the teacher makes a joke about our current president being covered in cheeto dust. My wife and I aren't Trump supporters, but it gets old seeing shows rely on political pandering for views instead of good writing. Here's a quote from Rob Schneider about it: "Much late night comedy is less about being funny and more about Indoctrination by comedic disposition," Schneider continued on Twitter. "People aren't really laughing at it as much as cheering on the rhetoric. It no longer resembles a comedy show, it's more like some kind of liberal Klan meeting."
- bcassedy 7y agoThe political comedy stuff is both topical and easy to write which makes it easy to see the appeal. You don't need some deep understanding or keen observation to mock cynical politicians. It's definitely lowest common denominator type stuff though. The Rob Schneider quote is a bit much. His quote is political nonsense from the right instead of the left. He should be talking about the lack of effort or insight in those types of bits instead of harping about liberal indoctrination. But he can't go that route because he's a hack whose entire claim to fame is that he's good friends with Adam Sandler.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoI don’t think Rob Schneider is a particularly useful opinion to share. But the observation isn’t wrong. I’m definitely liberal, but a lot of liberal media content is pretty bland and annoying. Not Netflix, but the Twilight Zone remake suffered terribly from this. I’ve no doubt that there’s a ton of aggressively left comedians because... most stand up is bad? That being said... I don’t really expect to watch even a majority of netflix’s catalog so idk if it matters if some low quality content exists.
- quotemstr 7y agoThat's not really a fair question in an industry in which having the wrong opinions will get you Eiched. "Please tell me," the inquisitor said in a kindly voice, "which specific forms of witchcraft you think we're unfairly suppressing. Go into detail."
- plazmatic 7y agoPoor little republican snowflake can't handle Netflix. I feel bad for you.