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Making fun of the fact that men make fun of women and push feminine tropes? Subverting female stereotypes by actually portraying them over and over for comic effect? If she is going for irony, i think she, like Alanis Morrisette, needs to look up what that actually means. I'm sure she goes around with the attitude: 'If the simpleton masses hate me, then i must be doing something right; they just don't get it'. Oh i get it, and its still dumb, and still not funny. Women fart, we get it! Women are not perfect mothers as portrayed on screen, and may not even like their kids how shocking! We get it! Women always portrayed as craazyyy, so ill do it too! We get it! But now SHE is part of the problem, she is actually supporting, not dispelling the narrative that women can only be funny if they are drunk, crazy, certifiable, angry and vulgar. This isnt satire, this is just her doing the very thing she is supposed to be making fun of. Thats not clever, thats missing the mark, and why? Because the skits are badly set up, terribly written, utterly pointless and badly acted by Schumer and her little girl posse. And no, your celeb friend cameos do not validate your brilliance, its the emperors new clothes. You buck naked girl, go cover yourself up and settle down.

This show doesnt get the credit it deserves, and why? Because critics are leftist and therefore biased towards shows that reflect their own values. Objectively speaking, its funny, the cast have good chemistry with each other and the family dynamic is refreshingly normal and without all the dysfunction and smug self awareness of shows like Modern Family and all the other talking head shows without a studio audience and the tired format of voice narration or talking direct to camera documentary style. Critics and audiences have become so political and biased that they cant view anything objectively anymore and just take the show for what it is; a good natured family sitcom with a few nice lessons and humorous anecdotes courtesy of Mike Baxters vlog for Outdoor Man.

Oliver Stones enduring obsession with John Kennedy has resulted in this new four part documentary that features narration from Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Sutherland ( who as the mysterious character X in Oliver Stones 1991 film JFK, delivered a lengthy and explosive monologue about a massive conspiracy to a flabbergasted Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner) and interviews with Robert Kennedy Jnr and various others who weren't old enough or even alive when the assassination took place. The problem with this doc, as was definitely the problem with JFK the film, is that while well made and rather riveting, its based on a series of connect the dot coincidences mixed with facts but also a number of dubious assumptions mixed with even more dubious theories, none of which add up to one coming to any definite conclusions one way or the other. It takes every sinister turn it can take, the CIA, the tension with the Soviet Union, the conflict of interest amongst his own administration regarding going deeper into the Vietnam conflict, even the mafia get a mention. Lots of supposed reasons, lots of supposed suspects, lots of cloak and daggers and smoke and mirrors but it really cannot make any definitive statement one way or the other.

Jim Garrison, the hero of JFK 1991, was played admirably as a noble everyman by Kevin Costner. In reality, he was a dangerous fruit loop who arrested people without just cause, appeared on the Johnny Carson show, and even had witnesses hypnotized in a crazy bid to get them to say what he wanted them to say. The Warren Commission, which was portrayed as a group of conspirators, concluded that one rifle fired the two bullets. There was no magic bullet as the Secret Service man was not seated directly in front of the president; the car seats weren't situated that way. Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist sympathizer fantasist who attempted to assassinate another government figure some years before, but missed his mark when he fired. He wanted the notoriety of killing a public figure. The bullets WERE fired from overhead. People love a good conspiracy, and JKF was so loved, many people just would not and will not accept that his death could be so mundane and simple as a lone gunman just decided to kill him. But i believe that is what happened and the evidence dictates that.