Top 15 Gayer Than Quot & Saygs

Contents:

• TELEVISN IS GAYER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN
• GAY
• GAYER THAN QUOT & SAYGS
• GAYER THAN A THREE-DOLLAR BILL
• GAYER THAN QUOT
• JUDD APATOW ADDRS FIRED SNL COMIC WHO CALLED HIM ‘GAYER THAN ISIS’THE GREAT DIVIDEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYFOR THE FIRST TIME, JUDD APATOW SPEAKS OUT ABOUT EDIAN SHANE GILLIS, WHO WAS FIRED BY “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” FOR, AMONG OTHER THGS, G HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AGAST HIM.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED NOV. 06, 2019 1:11PM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 06, 2019 4:39AM EST WHEN EDIAN SHANE GILLIS WAS HIRED AND THEN QUICKLY FIRED BY SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE BACK SEPTEMBER, MOST OF THE NVERSATN SURROUND THE ANTI-ASIAN SLURS HE HAD EXPRSED ON HIS PODST. BUT THERE WAS A LOT MORE WHERE THAT ME OM. AS FIRST REPORTED BY VULTURE’S MEGH WRIGHT, GILLIS AND HIS PODST PARTNER MATT MCCKER ALSO SHARED A SPECIAL DISDA FOR MORE SENSIVE OR NFSNAL EDIANS, SGLG OUT CHRIS GETHARD, WHO PUT OUT AN HBO SPECIAL LLED CAREER SUICI ABOUT SUFFERG OM PRSN, AND JUDD APATOW, WHO HAS BEEN AN OUTSPOKEN CRIC OF OTHER MALE ICS LIKE BILL COSBY AND LOUIS C.K. WHO HAVE ED THEIR STAT TO PREY ON WOMEN. ACRDG TO GILLIS, THIS MA THEM “WHE FAGGOT ICS” AND “FUCKG GAYER THAN ISIS.”DPE BEG A PROLIFIC TWTER ER, APATOW LIBERATELY STAYED OUT OF THE AY AT THE TIME, POSTG JT ONE TWEET RPONSE TO THOSE REPORTS: “I DON’T MD BUT I THK ISIS PROBABLY FEELS BAD ABOUT THIS,” HE JOKED.  ON THIS WEEK’S EPISO OF THE LAST LGH PODST, HE WEIGHS AT LENGTH FOR THE FIRST TIME.  “THERE’S SUCH A BATE HAPPENG ABOUT WHAT’S APPROPRIATE AND WHAT’S APPROPRIATE EDY,” APATOW TELLS ME. “AND I FEEL BAD FOR EVERYBODY, I REALLY DO. I FEEL LIKE EDIANS GENERALLY HAVE VERY GOOD TENTNS. AND EVEN THE ON WHO ARE DOG THGS THAT PEOPLE ARE BATG, THEY REALLY ARE TRYG TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY AND MAKE A LIVG.”  “THERE’S JT SO MUCH PA AROUND THIS ISSUE AND ’S MA ME SAD TO SEE DIVISNS BUILD UP THE EDY WORLD OVER THIS,” HE ADDS, ALLUDG TO THE SO-LLED EDY “CIVIL WAR,” A NOTN POPULARIZED BY A RECENT ARTICLE THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER THAT HAS BEEN ROUNDLY MOCKED BY EDIANS SCE S PUBLITN. “I THK THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FEEL THAT THEIR LIVELIHOODS ARE AT STAKE AND THEY FEEL DANGER WHEN THEY DO THEIR SETS,” APATOW SAYS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HE BELIEV ’S “NOT THAT HARD TO BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU’RE SAYG ON STAGE AND THE EFFECT OF ” AND THAT “SOME PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY N’T SPEAK UP WHEN THEY’RE OFFEND OR HURT OR HAVE TO SHARE STAG WH CERTA PEOPLE.” “I UNRSTAND OM BOTH SIS,” HE NTU. “SO MY HEART IS JT A LTLE BROKEN ABOUT THE FISSURE THAT’S HAPPENG. I HAVE GREAT PASSN FOR BOTH SIS. SO WHEN THIS ME UP, I JT MA A CHOICE TO MALY S OUT. IT ALSO FELT LIKE SUCH A STORM WAS HAPPENG, CERTALY DIDN’T NEED MY MENTARY ABOUT .”  ADVERTISEMENT SCE HE WASN’T PREVLY FAIAR WH GILLIS’ EDY, APATOW SAYS, “I DIDN’T KNOW HIS LEVEL OF SCERY.” AS PART OF HIS FENSE, GILLIS CLAIMED HE WAS “DOG A CHARACTER,” BUT APATOW SAID HE HAD NO WAY OF KNOWG WHETHER THAT WAS TE. “I DON’T HAVE THE RMATN, BEE HE’S NEW TO ME, TO HAVE AN OPN ABOUT WHAT HE’S GOG FOR WH ANY OF HIS WORK,” HE SAYS. “SO I FELT UNTED ABOUT .” AS FOR SNL’S CISN TO RCD GILLIS’ OFFER, APATOW SAYS, “I GENERALLY THK THAT ANY EMPLOYER HAS THE RIGHT TO CI WHO THEY WANT THEIR WORKSPACE.” “A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT JT AS ‘NCEL CULTURE,’” HE ADDS, BUT HE ACKNOWLEDG ’S A LOT MORE PLITED PRACTICE. “I’M NOT THOSE MEETGS WHERE THEY TALK TO HIM TO TRY TO GET A SENSE OF WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE’S GOG FOR,” APATOW SAYS. “SO I N’T REALLY SPEAK TO, DID THEY VE TO PRSURE OR MAKE A CHOICE ON THEIR OWN MORALS AND VALU?” “I KNOW WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE CHOIC ABOUT WHO WE WANT TO SHARE SPACE WH,” APATOW SAYS, PARG TO WHEN HE’S HAD TO ASSEMBLE A WRERS’ ROOM FOR ONE OF HIS TELEVISN SHOWS. “I’M VERY AWARE THAT I WANT EVERYONE TO GET ALONG AND LIKE EACH OTHER AND FEEL SAFE TO SPL OPEN THEIR UNNSC.” IN THOSE EDY WRERS’ ROOM, APATOW EXPLAS, “YOU ARE UALLY TOLD THAT YOU’RE ALLOWED TO JT LET SPILL. BEE WE’RE TRYG TO SEE WHAT BUBBL UP. AND PART OF THAT PROCS IS TO JT BABBLE AND LET THGS FLY.” RATHER THAN BEG A “SAFE SPACE,” APATOW LLS WRERS’ ROOMS A “ROUGH SPACE” FOR THOSE WHO ARE EASILY OFFEND BY JOK. “IT IS NOT FOR THE FAT OF HEART OR THE TH-SKNED,” HE SAYS. “AND I THK PEOPLE ARE BATG HOW FAR SHOULD THAT GO? BUT A LOT OF EDIANS WANT THE ABILY TO DO THAT ON STAGE ONT OF PAYG CTOMERS.” FOR THE MOST PART, HE THKS THEY “SHOULD BE ALLOWED” TO DO THAT, BUT THEY HAVE TO KNOW DIENC ARE ALLOWED TO CRICIZE THEM IF THEY DO. ADVERTISEMENT “I’M NOT SURE WHO’S GETTG TROUBLE,” HE SAYS OF SO-LLED NCEL CULTURE. “I’M NOT SURE WHAT THE LIST IS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTG TROUBLE THAT HAS LED TO SUCH A LEVEL OF FEAR. MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKG ABOUT THEIR FEAR ARE DOG GREAT.” COMICS LIKE DAVE CHAPPELLE AND PREV LAST LGH GUT BILL BURR LOVE TO PLA ABOUT POLIL RRECTNS ON STAGE BUT ARE AMONG THE MOST SUCCSFUL EDIANS WORKG RIGHT NOW, NO REAL DANGER OF BEG “NCELED.” APATOW ACKNOWLEDG THAT “THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOKG FOR YOU TO SLIP UP OR LOOKG TO BE OFFEND” BY WHAT A EDIAN SAYS ON STAGE. “AND THAT’S A HARD PLACE TO BE IF YOU HAVE THE TYPE OF ACT THAT WANTS TO KICK AROUND MORE DIFFICULT IAS, THAT WANTS TO FFLE FEATHERS, THAT WANTS TO EXAME THGS THAT PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE TALKG ABOUT AND GETTG ALONG.”NATURALLY, THIS BRGS TO THE TOPIC OF LOUIS C.K., WHO JT THIS PAST WEEKEND LNCHED HIS BIG “EBACK” TOUR VIRGIA. EVER SCE HE WAS EXPOSED FOR SEXUALLY HARASSG SEVERAL FEMALE EDIANS, C.K. HAS PIVOTED TOWARDS MATERIAL THAT SEEMS SIGNED TO APPEAL TO A MORE NSERVATIVE DIENCE. THAT WAS APPARENT MOST PROMENTLY HIS B ABOUT THE PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTG SURVIVORS THAT LEAKED LAST YEAR. “THEY TTIFY ONT OF CONGRS, THE KIDS? WHAT ARE THEY DOG?” C.K. SAID ON STAGE AT A LONG ISLAND EDY CLUB DECEMBER 2018. “YOU’RE YOUNG, YOU SHOULD BE CRAZY, YOU SHOULD BE UNHGED, NOT A SU… YOU’RE NOT TERTG. BEE YOU WENT TO A HIGH SCHOOL WHERE KIDS GOT SHOT? WHY DO THAT MEAN I HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU?… YOU DIDN’T GET SHOT, YOU PHED SOME FAT KID THE WAY, AND NOW I’VE GOTTA LISTEN TO YOU TALKG?”IN RPONSE, APATOW TWEETED, “THIS HACKY, UNFUNNY, SHALLOW ROUTE IS JT A SYMPTOM OF HOW PEOPLE ARE AAID TO FEEL EMPATHY. IT’S MUCH EASIER TO LGH AT OUR MOST VULNERABLE THAN TO LOOK AT THEIR PA DIRECTLY & SHOW THEM LOVE AND NCERN. LOUIS CK IS ALL FEAR AND BTERNS NOW. HE N’T LOOK WARD.”  ADVERTISEMENT AS APATOW TELLS ME, HE IS PARTICULARLY “SENSIVE” TO THE ISSUE OF MASS SHOOTGS AFTER A GUNMAN SHOT AND KILLED TWO WOMEN AT A SCREENG OF HIS MOVIE TRAWRECK 2015. “I DON’T THK PEOPLE SHOULD TALK ABOUT RECKLSLY,” HE SAYS. “THEY ARE ALLOWED TO AND I DON’T THK ANYBODY SHOULD BE BOYTTED OR NOT BE ALLOWED TO WORK AT A CLUB IF THEY MAKE A TERRIBLE JOKE ABOUT .” BUT HE DID FD C.K.’S JOK “PECIALLY OFFENSIVE, BEE THOSE WERE UNRAGE KIDS AND THEY HAVE SUFFERED A WAY THAT NO ONE N EVER UNRSTAND.” SIARLY, APATOW IS DISAPPOTED THAT C.K. HAS NOT ED HIS PLATFORM TO ADDRS HIS SEXUAL MISNDUCT TRANSGRSNS ANY MEANGFUL WAY. IN HIS THOUGHTFUL REVIEW OF C.K.’S NEW TOUR, THE NEW YORK TIM’ JASON ZOMAN WR, “THOSE LOOKG FOR ANY APOLOGETIC NOT OR RECKONG WH THE DAMAGE HE HAS DONE WILL BE DISAPPOTED. HE IS NOT AIMG FOR REMPTN ONSTAGE. IF ANYTHG, HE’S DOUBLG DOWN ON THE EDIC VALUE OF SAYG THE WRONG THG.” C.K.’S APPROACH STANDS SHARP NTRAST TO THAT OF AZIZ ANSARI, WHO OPENED HIS LATT NETFLIX SPECIAL BY SOMBERLY ADDRSG THE PA THAT HE ED A WOMAN WHO ACCED HIM OF MISNDUCT AND SAYG THAT HE HOP THE EXPERIENCE HAS MA HIM A “BETTER PERSON.” “I APPRECIATE WHAT AZIZ DID AND A LOT OF FEEL LIKE, WE WISH LOUIS SAID THAT ON DAY ONE,” APATOW SAYS. “AND WHY WOULDN’T YOU SAY ? WHY WOULDN’T YOU SAY, ‘I HOPE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER, I’M TRYG TO LEARN, I HOPE SOMETHG GOOD OM THIS, I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO BE PA.’ IT SEEMS LIKE THE NATURAL THG TO SAY.” INSTEAD, LOUIS C.K. HAS MA JOK LIKE THIS EXCG HIS BEHAVR: “I LIKE TO JERK OFF, AND I DON’T LIKE BEG ALONE.” HE WAS SLIGHTLY MORE SELF-EFFACG WHEN HE ADDRSED THE BACKLASH TO HIS PARKLAND JOK. “IF YOU EVER NEED PEOPLE TO FET THAT YOU JERKED OFF,” HE SAID, “WHAT YOU DO IS YOU MAKE A JOKE ABOUT KIDS THAT GOT SHOT.”“I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’S THKG,” APATOW SAYS. “BUT HE’S ALSO MA A POT OF NOT REALLY TELLG PEOPLE WHAT HE’S THKG. AND WHEN HE DON’T, CREAT THIS VACUUM AND EVERYONE HAS TO TRY TO BATE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE’S THKG. SO THAT’S WHY THERE’S SO MUCH BATE, BEE HE’S NOT SAYG, ‘THIS IS WHAT I TOOK OM THIS EXPERIENCE.’”  ADVERTISEMENT “AND YOU KNOW WHAT? HE WILL,” APATOW NTU. “ONE DAY, WE’LL HEAR .” NEXT WEEK ON THE LAST LGH PODST: STAND-UP EDIAN AND STAR OF CURB YOUR ENTHIASM AND THE GOLDBERGS, JEFF GARL.  MATT WILSTE
• GAYER THAN THE KIWI QUEEN OF THE FIRE ISLAND F FTIVAL

TELEVISN IS GAYER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN

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JUDD APATOW ADDRS FIRED SNL COMIC WHO CALLED HIM ‘GAYER THAN ISIS’THE GREAT DIVIDEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYFOR THE FIRST TIME, JUDD APATOW SPEAKS OUT ABOUT EDIAN SHANE GILLIS, WHO WAS FIRED BY “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” FOR, AMONG OTHER THGS, G HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AGAST HIM.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED NOV. 06, 2019 1:11PM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 06, 2019 4:39AM EST WHEN EDIAN SHANE GILLIS WAS HIRED AND THEN QUICKLY FIRED BY SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE BACK SEPTEMBER, MOST OF THE NVERSATN SURROUND THE ANTI-ASIAN SLURS HE HAD EXPRSED ON HIS PODST. BUT THERE WAS A LOT MORE WHERE THAT ME OM. AS FIRST REPORTED BY VULTURE’S MEGH WRIGHT, GILLIS AND HIS PODST PARTNER MATT MCCKER ALSO SHARED A SPECIAL DISDA FOR MORE SENSIVE OR NFSNAL EDIANS, SGLG OUT CHRIS GETHARD, WHO PUT OUT AN HBO SPECIAL LLED CAREER SUICI ABOUT SUFFERG OM PRSN, AND JUDD APATOW, WHO HAS BEEN AN OUTSPOKEN CRIC OF OTHER MALE ICS LIKE BILL COSBY AND LOUIS C.K. WHO HAVE ED THEIR STAT TO PREY ON WOMEN. ACRDG TO GILLIS, THIS MA THEM “WHE FAGGOT ICS” AND “FUCKG GAYER THAN ISIS.”DPE BEG A PROLIFIC TWTER ER, APATOW LIBERATELY STAYED OUT OF THE AY AT THE TIME, POSTG JT ONE TWEET RPONSE TO THOSE REPORTS: “I DON’T MD BUT I THK ISIS PROBABLY FEELS BAD ABOUT THIS,” HE JOKED.  ON THIS WEEK’S EPISO OF THE LAST LGH PODST, HE WEIGHS AT LENGTH FOR THE FIRST TIME.  “THERE’S SUCH A BATE HAPPENG ABOUT WHAT’S APPROPRIATE AND WHAT’S APPROPRIATE EDY,” APATOW TELLS ME. “AND I FEEL BAD FOR EVERYBODY, I REALLY DO. I FEEL LIKE EDIANS GENERALLY HAVE VERY GOOD TENTNS. AND EVEN THE ON WHO ARE DOG THGS THAT PEOPLE ARE BATG, THEY REALLY ARE TRYG TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY AND MAKE A LIVG.”  “THERE’S JT SO MUCH PA AROUND THIS ISSUE AND ’S MA ME SAD TO SEE DIVISNS BUILD UP THE EDY WORLD OVER THIS,” HE ADDS, ALLUDG TO THE SO-LLED EDY “CIVIL WAR,” A NOTN POPULARIZED BY A RECENT ARTICLE THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER THAT HAS BEEN ROUNDLY MOCKED BY EDIANS SCE S PUBLITN. “I THK THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FEEL THAT THEIR LIVELIHOODS ARE AT STAKE AND THEY FEEL DANGER WHEN THEY DO THEIR SETS,” APATOW SAYS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HE BELIEV ’S “NOT THAT HARD TO BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU’RE SAYG ON STAGE AND THE EFFECT OF ” AND THAT “SOME PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY N’T SPEAK UP WHEN THEY’RE OFFEND OR HURT OR HAVE TO SHARE STAG WH CERTA PEOPLE.” “I UNRSTAND OM BOTH SIS,” HE NTU. “SO MY HEART IS JT A LTLE BROKEN ABOUT THE FISSURE THAT’S HAPPENG. I HAVE GREAT PASSN FOR BOTH SIS. SO WHEN THIS ME UP, I JT MA A CHOICE TO MALY S OUT. IT ALSO FELT LIKE SUCH A STORM WAS HAPPENG, CERTALY DIDN’T NEED MY MENTARY ABOUT .”  ADVERTISEMENT SCE HE WASN’T PREVLY FAIAR WH GILLIS’ EDY, APATOW SAYS, “I DIDN’T KNOW HIS LEVEL OF SCERY.” AS PART OF HIS FENSE, GILLIS CLAIMED HE WAS “DOG A CHARACTER,” BUT APATOW SAID HE HAD NO WAY OF KNOWG WHETHER THAT WAS TE. “I DON’T HAVE THE RMATN, BEE HE’S NEW TO ME, TO HAVE AN OPN ABOUT WHAT HE’S GOG FOR WH ANY OF HIS WORK,” HE SAYS. “SO I FELT UNTED ABOUT .” AS FOR SNL’S CISN TO RCD GILLIS’ OFFER, APATOW SAYS, “I GENERALLY THK THAT ANY EMPLOYER HAS THE RIGHT TO CI WHO THEY WANT THEIR WORKSPACE.” “A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT JT AS ‘NCEL CULTURE,’” HE ADDS, BUT HE ACKNOWLEDG ’S A LOT MORE PLITED PRACTICE. “I’M NOT THOSE MEETGS WHERE THEY TALK TO HIM TO TRY TO GET A SENSE OF WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE’S GOG FOR,” APATOW SAYS. “SO I N’T REALLY SPEAK TO, DID THEY VE TO PRSURE OR MAKE A CHOICE ON THEIR OWN MORALS AND VALU?” “I KNOW WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE CHOIC ABOUT WHO WE WANT TO SHARE SPACE WH,” APATOW SAYS, PARG TO WHEN HE’S HAD TO ASSEMBLE A WRERS’ ROOM FOR ONE OF HIS TELEVISN SHOWS. “I’M VERY AWARE THAT I WANT EVERYONE TO GET ALONG AND LIKE EACH OTHER AND FEEL SAFE TO SPL OPEN THEIR UNNSC.” IN THOSE EDY WRERS’ ROOM, APATOW EXPLAS, “YOU ARE UALLY TOLD THAT YOU’RE ALLOWED TO JT LET SPILL. BEE WE’RE TRYG TO SEE WHAT BUBBL UP. AND PART OF THAT PROCS IS TO JT BABBLE AND LET THGS FLY.” RATHER THAN BEG A “SAFE SPACE,” APATOW LLS WRERS’ ROOMS A “ROUGH SPACE” FOR THOSE WHO ARE EASILY OFFEND BY JOK. “IT IS NOT FOR THE FAT OF HEART OR THE TH-SKNED,” HE SAYS. “AND I THK PEOPLE ARE BATG HOW FAR SHOULD THAT GO? BUT A LOT OF EDIANS WANT THE ABILY TO DO THAT ON STAGE ONT OF PAYG CTOMERS.” FOR THE MOST PART, HE THKS THEY “SHOULD BE ALLOWED” TO DO THAT, BUT THEY HAVE TO KNOW DIENC ARE ALLOWED TO CRICIZE THEM IF THEY DO. ADVERTISEMENT “I’M NOT SURE WHO’S GETTG TROUBLE,” HE SAYS OF SO-LLED NCEL CULTURE. “I’M NOT SURE WHAT THE LIST IS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTG TROUBLE THAT HAS LED TO SUCH A LEVEL OF FEAR. MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKG ABOUT THEIR FEAR ARE DOG GREAT.” COMICS LIKE DAVE CHAPPELLE AND PREV LAST LGH GUT BILL BURR LOVE TO PLA ABOUT POLIL RRECTNS ON STAGE BUT ARE AMONG THE MOST SUCCSFUL EDIANS WORKG RIGHT NOW, NO REAL DANGER OF BEG “NCELED.” APATOW ACKNOWLEDG THAT “THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOKG FOR YOU TO SLIP UP OR LOOKG TO BE OFFEND” BY WHAT A EDIAN SAYS ON STAGE. “AND THAT’S A HARD PLACE TO BE IF YOU HAVE THE TYPE OF ACT THAT WANTS TO KICK AROUND MORE DIFFICULT IAS, THAT WANTS TO FFLE FEATHERS, THAT WANTS TO EXAME THGS THAT PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE TALKG ABOUT AND GETTG ALONG.”NATURALLY, THIS BRGS TO THE TOPIC OF LOUIS C.K., WHO JT THIS PAST WEEKEND LNCHED HIS BIG “EBACK” TOUR VIRGIA. EVER SCE HE WAS EXPOSED FOR SEXUALLY HARASSG SEVERAL FEMALE EDIANS, C.K. HAS PIVOTED TOWARDS MATERIAL THAT SEEMS SIGNED TO APPEAL TO A MORE NSERVATIVE DIENCE. THAT WAS APPARENT MOST PROMENTLY HIS B ABOUT THE PARKLAND SCHOOL SHOOTG SURVIVORS THAT LEAKED LAST YEAR. “THEY TTIFY ONT OF CONGRS, THE KIDS? WHAT ARE THEY DOG?” C.K. SAID ON STAGE AT A LONG ISLAND EDY CLUB DECEMBER 2018. “YOU’RE YOUNG, YOU SHOULD BE CRAZY, YOU SHOULD BE UNHGED, NOT A SU… YOU’RE NOT TERTG. BEE YOU WENT TO A HIGH SCHOOL WHERE KIDS GOT SHOT? WHY DO THAT MEAN I HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU?… YOU DIDN’T GET SHOT, YOU PHED SOME FAT KID THE WAY, AND NOW I’VE GOTTA LISTEN TO YOU TALKG?”IN RPONSE, APATOW TWEETED, “THIS HACKY, UNFUNNY, SHALLOW ROUTE IS JT A SYMPTOM OF HOW PEOPLE ARE AAID TO FEEL EMPATHY. IT’S MUCH EASIER TO LGH AT OUR MOST VULNERABLE THAN TO LOOK AT THEIR PA DIRECTLY & SHOW THEM LOVE AND NCERN. LOUIS CK IS ALL FEAR AND BTERNS NOW. HE N’T LOOK WARD.”  ADVERTISEMENT AS APATOW TELLS ME, HE IS PARTICULARLY “SENSIVE” TO THE ISSUE OF MASS SHOOTGS AFTER A GUNMAN SHOT AND KILLED TWO WOMEN AT A SCREENG OF HIS MOVIE TRAWRECK 2015. “I DON’T THK PEOPLE SHOULD TALK ABOUT RECKLSLY,” HE SAYS. “THEY ARE ALLOWED TO AND I DON’T THK ANYBODY SHOULD BE BOYTTED OR NOT BE ALLOWED TO WORK AT A CLUB IF THEY MAKE A TERRIBLE JOKE ABOUT .” BUT HE DID FD C.K.’S JOK “PECIALLY OFFENSIVE, BEE THOSE WERE UNRAGE KIDS AND THEY HAVE SUFFERED A WAY THAT NO ONE N EVER UNRSTAND.” SIARLY, APATOW IS DISAPPOTED THAT C.K. HAS NOT ED HIS PLATFORM TO ADDRS HIS SEXUAL MISNDUCT TRANSGRSNS ANY MEANGFUL WAY. IN HIS THOUGHTFUL REVIEW OF C.K.’S NEW TOUR, THE NEW YORK TIM’ JASON ZOMAN WR, “THOSE LOOKG FOR ANY APOLOGETIC NOT OR RECKONG WH THE DAMAGE HE HAS DONE WILL BE DISAPPOTED. HE IS NOT AIMG FOR REMPTN ONSTAGE. IF ANYTHG, HE’S DOUBLG DOWN ON THE EDIC VALUE OF SAYG THE WRONG THG.” C.K.’S APPROACH STANDS SHARP NTRAST TO THAT OF AZIZ ANSARI, WHO OPENED HIS LATT NETFLIX SPECIAL BY SOMBERLY ADDRSG THE PA THAT HE ED A WOMAN WHO ACCED HIM OF MISNDUCT AND SAYG THAT HE HOP THE EXPERIENCE HAS MA HIM A “BETTER PERSON.” “I APPRECIATE WHAT AZIZ DID AND A LOT OF FEEL LIKE, WE WISH LOUIS SAID THAT ON DAY ONE,” APATOW SAYS. “AND WHY WOULDN’T YOU SAY ? WHY WOULDN’T YOU SAY, ‘I HOPE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER, I’M TRYG TO LEARN, I HOPE SOMETHG GOOD OM THIS, I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO BE PA.’ IT SEEMS LIKE THE NATURAL THG TO SAY.” INSTEAD, LOUIS C.K. HAS MA JOK LIKE THIS EXCG HIS BEHAVR: “I LIKE TO JERK OFF, AND I DON’T LIKE BEG ALONE.” HE WAS SLIGHTLY MORE SELF-EFFACG WHEN HE ADDRSED THE BACKLASH TO HIS PARKLAND JOK. “IF YOU EVER NEED PEOPLE TO FET THAT YOU JERKED OFF,” HE SAID, “WHAT YOU DO IS YOU MAKE A JOKE ABOUT KIDS THAT GOT SHOT.”“I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’S THKG,” APATOW SAYS. “BUT HE’S ALSO MA A POT OF NOT REALLY TELLG PEOPLE WHAT HE’S THKG. AND WHEN HE DON’T, CREAT THIS VACUUM AND EVERYONE HAS TO TRY TO BATE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE’S THKG. SO THAT’S WHY THERE’S SO MUCH BATE, BEE HE’S NOT SAYG, ‘THIS IS WHAT I TOOK OM THIS EXPERIENCE.’”  ADVERTISEMENT “AND YOU KNOW WHAT? HE WILL,” APATOW NTU. “ONE DAY, WE’LL HEAR .” NEXT WEEK ON THE LAST LGH PODST: STAND-UP EDIAN AND STAR OF CURB YOUR ENTHIASM AND THE GOLDBERGS, JEFF GARL.  MATT WILSTE

"That I am gayer than a rabow Christmas tree.

GAYER THAN THE KIWI QUEEN OF THE FIRE ISLAND F FTIVAL

I'm gayer than a sugarplum fairy. "Everyone thks you're gayer than I am.