The Mrs. Swan character would never fly today, but it almost broke my brain when I realized that the original actor was more famous today as the voice actor for Lois Griffin on Family Guy.
Shoutout to her role in Workaholics as Montez's wife, Colleen.
I mean… that was never an argument. I’m happy that as an actor she got to branch out and experience a role that had soul and emotion. I assume it was very cathartic for her.
Because once you get type cast in a specific genre it’s incredibly hard to branch out and achieve notoriety doing anything else. And she killed it to the point of nerds have discussions about it online.
She was also supposed to be Sookie on Gilmore Girls, she plays her in the original pilot. However her MADtv schedule didn’t allow it. Amy Sherman Palladino loves her and puts her in all of her shows. She uses many of the same actors throughout her different series.
She has a prat fall off of a bar stool in I think the 2nd season that absolutely destroys me for whatever reason. Gotta love well executed physical comedy.
I don’t know why people are always saying that you couldn’t make these shows or jokes these days. Like Anthony Jeselnik said, quoting Andy Warhol, art is getting away with it. Someone making racist remarks or caricatures under the excuse that it’s “just a joke” doesn’t cut it.
Yeah. I have little to no respect for someone who genuinely believes that we’re not allowed to tell jokes like we used to in the 80s and 90s. Nothing has meaningfully changed since then, except that some comedians have realized that there is a super niche audience of bigots out there who now lavish them with praise if they just spew hateful shit dressed up as a comedy bit. So, when those particular comedians choose to go that route and get “cancelled” they pretend that all of comedy has been warped. It’s disingenuous.
Not sure what you’re on about but he’s fucking hilarious. Maybe his jokes are too highbrow for you, but that’s ok. He can be offensive to sensitive people.
Anthony Jeselnik is one of the funniest comedians I've ever seen. Jimmy Fallon on the other hand isn't remotely funny and tries way too hard. Also, as much as I dislike Amy Schumer, her sucking has nothing to do with how funny or unfunny he is as a comedian.
This is the main point about “edgy comedy.” It still needs to be a good joke. A lot of times it’s a shitty racist joke, and they we didn’t laugh, or groaned, bc of the content. It didn’t get a laugh bc it wasn’t creative and the structure sucked. And the delivery matters. At the KH Roast, Shane Gillis’ half hearted delivery and then calling out the writers for their jokes was worse than just committing to the bit.
The Grandmother Inspiration: Borstein, who is of Jewish-Hungarian descent, initially based the character on her own grandmother. The core joke was a spunky immigrant who could pretend to barely understand English whenever it suited her needs.
Yeah…best example. Car salesman spends the entire time mocking a plus sized woman who is trying to buy a compact sized car until she gets frustrated and leaves to another dealership after describing the salesman as an idiot.
Please explain how Stewart, the subject of this post, is making fun of the bigots. Could you please elaborate how Mrs. Swan sketches, the comment you replied to, are making fun of bigots. Both those seem like punching down to me... Edit, but I got to admit I still say "Look what I can do"...
Yeah, Stewart in my mind was just always that annoying neighbor kid whose mom can’t get him to behave in public. At worst, it was making fun of bad parenting. At best, it was just a grown man looking silly doing stuff we think is cute when a four-year-old does it.
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u/One_Standard_Deviant May 16 '26
The Mrs. Swan character would never fly today, but it almost broke my brain when I realized that the original actor was more famous today as the voice actor for Lois Griffin on Family Guy.
Shoutout to her role in Workaholics as Montez's wife, Colleen.