genuinely baffling that he did this but I guess this is good

edit: wtf why does the “this link has already been posted” menu not work on Create Post, only Edit

  • TheVelvetGentleman [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I have never enjoyed Adam Conover. He’s like Penn Jillette but even more insufferable and less funny, which is a triumph in both respects. But unlike Penn Jillette, Adam has always seemed disingenuous to me. So I’m not particularly surprised to see him shilling crypto, and not particularly surprised to see him backpedal for dear life. It is weird to hear him keep calling himself a comedian. I genuinely didn’t know that’s what he saw himself as.

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      He has done stand up for years. He’s a part of the Dropout tv universe to some degree.

      I’ve always felt the same way although I did think Adam ruins everything was somewhat good to expose normies to good new info

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        I watch a bit of Dropout and on one of their shows there was a bit where they had a celebrity judge and they were doing a survivor parody, I think. Can’t remember who the celebrity was, I guess it doesn’t matter. But Adam Conover was there, sort of randomly because he’d never been in an episode of that particular show before, and I remember thinking it was clear that he was only there because he was friends with the boss and must have wanted a chance to be around the celebrity guest. He just stuck out like a sore thumb because this was one of their improv shows which are entirely built around the actors’ rapport with one another, a sizable part of the appeal is that you can tell all the performers and crew are friends who are hanging out, and none of the other performers seemed to know what to do with or say to Adam. I didn’t necessarily feel like the other performers disliked Adam or anything, it was just very much the “friend of a friend who you don’t know or have anything in common with has come to the get-together and it’s making things slightly awkward” vibe.

        Also he just wasn’t very funny.

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          Adam’s TV show “Adam Ruins Everything” started with CollegeHumor before moving to TruTV. He goes back to long before the the Dropout days and appears on a bunch of their shows.

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          yeah he also did one of the first dropout presents specials, I think the first was hank green who honestly gives me the same feelings adam conover gives me.

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      part of the thing about conover is that today’s milieu consists largely of untrained media personalities raw in front of a camera and he used to have a tv show. his adam ruins character involves amping the smarm, and it has not aged well. i find it rather grating these days as well.

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      I don’t like Adam, and I have a soft spot for “fool us” that pen&teller do, but I find Penn at his career peak way more insufferable than Adam now.

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          Jillette always struck me as a “I don’t like taxes” libertarian and not a “I don’t like black people or age of consent laws” libertarian.

          Just checked his Wikipedia and he’s not even a libertarian any more. Voted for Hilldawg and Yang and Biden

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          If you really want to hate Penn, watch his show Bullshit. Every single season has an episode on how environmentalism is bullshit. There’s also an episode on how NASA is a tax drain and should be privatized and one episode where they say the concept of peace goes against human nature and world peace can only be achieved through free-market capitalism.

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            I remember being obsessed with the show when I was in my late teens. On one hand they convinced me in a single episode that pot should be legal and that lawns are a scourge on the world. The dolphin episode was an experience. But the anti environmental ones did put some brainworms in that took some work to get out. Doesn’t help that they were somewhat right in that recycling is sold as a cure when in reality a lot of recycling just doesn’t work as advertised.

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            I haven’t seen any of it but I’ve heard of it. I know there was also an episode about how secondhand smoke isn’t harmful.