Peter Bart: Netflix’s Numbers Keep Expanding, But So Does The Criticism

Some colleagues wondered what words of humanity would have appeased activists like Australian comic Hannah Gadsby, who declared: “You don’t pay me enough to deal with the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge.” Whatever Netflix paid Gadsby, it forked over $24.1 million for the Chappelle special versus $21.

Some point to the headlines accorded to the 10 University of Michigan music students who last week demanded their professor’s expulsion after he showed them a 1965 version of Laurence Olivier’s. The intent of their Chinese-born professor was to demonstrate how Shakespeare’s works could be adopted to opera, as Verdi had done. The problem: Olivier was in blackface.

The professor was forced to step down amid a flurry of apologies. In departing, he observed that surviving the Chinese cultural revolution as a young men was relatively easy compared to its U.S. counterpart. While professors are not accustomed to showbusiness firestorms, stand-up comics have courted them for generations. Mae West was grateful for her 10-day sentence to a prison workhouse in 1927 for “suggestive” dialogue . Richard Pryor was arrested in Richmond, VA, at the same moment his co-writing credit appeared on Mel Brooks’in a sense replicated the moods of his stand-up predecessors, critiquing gender issues propounded by the LGBTQ+ movement — “the Alphabet people,” he called them.

Do they seriously believe anyone outside LA, SFO, and NYC give a dump about this?

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