In the book I used the example of an HG Wells type time traveler, if you put him on the old time travel machine in 1890 and propelled him forward to 1950, he would be astonished, and he would be in his 1890 kitchen, 60 years later everything would be different. I was at a college graduation in Vermont a few weeks ago, and the big shot speaker who had flown in from New York told these 21-year-olds, вЂњYou are living in such a fast-moving world.вЂќ I thought this was ridiculous. I think the opportunity that was lost was for the gay community to ask Tracy, вЂњwhy did you say thatвЂ™ and вЂwhat was your dad likeвЂќand вЂњwhat is being a man mean to you,вЂќ you know what I mean? It could have been a starting point of a conversation that might have actually made a difference in how people feel about homophobia.Д«ut itвЂ™s also half wrong. In this interview, Louis CK goes from offering a truly insightful explanation of the fallout from Tracy MorganвЂ™s controversial вЂњhomophobicвЂќ joke, to ending the interview with (and this is the actual transcript): The вЂњMona LisaвЂќ is supposedly the greatest painting ever, too. Louis CK has said things I admire as artistry, like вЂњtheir hands look like guns,вЂќ which has the same superconcentrated, вЂњcoal-into-diamondвЂќ-like quality as the four-line poem that launched the career of Margaret Atwood. Nasty capitalist that I am, I teared up reading about how he did it, and no, IвЂ™m not being sarcastic. I got off seeing him making $200,000 in four days $750,000 last week $1-million in about 10 days by taking a risk and trusting/rewarding his huge fan base. Look, I feel stupid even saying this: Louis CKвЂ™s effortlessly natural delivery really is a joy to behold. Maybe IвЂ™m just being a contrarian (see above) in the face of desperate non-stop hipster boosterismВ - Louis CK has quickly become the Kevin Smith of non-obese beta males - or maybe I stubbornly canвЂ™t shake that first impression. Bush for eight years, and did it so brilliantly that some readers didnвЂ™t realize Frank J voted for the guy, twice.Д«ut those drunk tweets of Louis CK were just turds. When Sarah Silverman says, вЂњWhen I say вЂgay,вЂ™ I just mean it like вЂretarded,вЂ™вЂќ I laugh (and steal the line). So my first impression of Louis CK was, unfortunately, his drunk tweets about Sarah Palin and Trig.

HereвЂ™s the problem: we donвЂ™t get FX here in Canada, and your Comedy Central is a bit different than ours. But the people IвЂ™m about to discuss rarely, if ever, made me laugh. Maybe youвЂ™ll be driven to call me lots of mostly unimaginative names in the comments below. Great: weвЂ™re now facing months of witless hagiography about these two вЂњdaring, transgressive, braveвЂќ performers, and the rest of the progressive comedy pantheon of heroic martyrs. I started thinking about overrated liberal comedians this week, when news broke that a fawning, big budget Smothers Brothers biopic is in development. (Hell, I prefer The Monkees to The BeatlesвЂ¦)Д«ut hereвЂ™s the first вЂњpop cultureвЂќ contrarianism IвЂ™m a teensy bit afraid to confess in public:

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