Archive for the ‘ben affleck’ tag
The Same Old Joke #
Entertainment Weekly columnist Mark Harris found some valuable things to say about the “F — -ing Ben Affleck” video after fighting the urge to avoid discussing it.
Right. In the movies and on TV, straight people have sort of agreed not to murder us or beat us up or make overtly vicious sport of us anymore, and to frown sternly in the direction of any heterosexuals who have not gotten that memo — offenders who, if necessary, will get the strongest punishment straight people can give out, which is a very severe talking-to from Katherine Heigl or a comedy about the importance of tolerance from Adam Sandler. And in exchange, gay people are expected to prove that we can take a joke. The same joke. Over and over again. Here’s the joke: You know what would be completely hilarious? IF SOMEBODY WAS GAY!
(via brijit)
The Perils of Propriety #
Since all internet users have probably seen one, if not both, sides of the Matt Damon-Sarah Silverman-Jimmy Kimmel-Ben Affleck rectangle, the awkwardness necessitated by the New York Times’s status as “a family paper” reaches for the absurd:
One vulgar word describing the coital relations between, on the one bed, Ms. Silverman and Mr. Damon, and on the other, Mr. Kimmel and Mr. Affleck, was repeatedly bleeped out for the broadcast of each video.
Several scenes from the videos also required pixelation.
(via Vulture)