And there’s a painful underlying message within — America, Russia, and Ukraine Political comedians are my favorite archetype of stand-up comics, and I love it when political comedians express awareness of world politics. As I broke down nearly every aspect of Will Smith’s violent assault on Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars event, I really want to break down Chris Rock’s long-awaited…

Because you can’t lose what you never had — “They are gonna take our jobs!” It is a common trope to call a mass of people stealing or taking your job. What I want to do here is establish how complete and utterly ridiculous this claim is. So let’s get into it. “They are taking our jobs!” This horrendous political trope usually cuts across racial…

Too many of y’all fundamentally fail at understanding this type of show business — Selective Stupidity There’s a lot of discussion and opinions on Selective Outrage, and I love it. I problem I’m identifying in a lot of people’s work is how so many people do not know how the show business of stand-up comedy works. Smart people. Just not good at getting stand-up comedy. A…

The Oscars slap wasn’t the only slap in the face he spoke of — Chris Rock on January 6 Political comedy can be very good or very bad, and the quality (and hilarity) all rests on the reference material and the execution of setup and punchline. One thing that’s certain is that the best political comedians highlight the ridiculous. There are strange, bizarre things that happen within the full…

Rihanna, who has not released a new album since 2016’s “Anti,” took the stage for Superbowl LVII (2023) during the halftime show extravaganza. In her stage presence, Rihanna presented to the Superbowl viewers pregnant with her second child. Numerous people expressed outrage, bewilderment, and disgust. Disgraced fascist ex-president Donald Trump…

Because defending racism by deflection is still racism — Roots, Questions, and its Sociological Effects The term Black-on-Black crime seems to have begun in the 1980s. In the 1970s there was this Nixon-era effort to shift the American residual image of the poor from the rural white to the urban Black. With this, it was easy to focus negative attention on the targeted group of…

Thoughts on the crux of disgraced cartoonist Scott Adams’ racist tirade. — One Racist Cartoonist “If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with White people… that’s a hate group… I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get…

Because respecting and appreciating age cannot be it — Introduction Previously on these internet streets, I found a flaw in this sexism argument pertaining to Madonna’s botched plastic surgery face. Of course, I had to state my take on the matter. Madonna’s Plastic Surgery Isn’t an Ageism (or Sexism) Argument Because plastic surgery is a plastic surgery argument (this should be obvious).johnnysilvercloud.medium.com

Because plastic surgery is a plastic surgery argument (this should be obvious). — I Don’t Watch These Events I stopped watching movie and music award shows a long time ago. Hold up — the more I think of it, I never cared for any of these. I never had a household that was wrapped around Emmys, Grammys, and Academy Awards. Not even my parents were into these things. …