I have a feeling that 2020 is going to suck.

Large1/03/2020 12:30 PM

Does anyone remember Jon Lovitz?

For those who have no idea, Jon is a 62-year-old comedian/actor who is most famous for being an SNL cast member from 1985-1990... His biggest characters on that show were Hannukah Harry, Pathological Liar ("Yeah, that's the ticket!"), Annoying Man, Master Thespian, and US Presidential hopeful Michal Dukakis during the Bush Sr/Michael Dukakis debates in (I think) 1988.

He also had supporting roles in Big, A League of Their Own, City Slickers 2, Grown Ups 2, Three Amigos, and The Wedding Singer.

He was the voice of the main character in the animated TV show The Critic and has done other voice-over work, including multiple roles in both The Simpsons and the first 2 movies in the Hotel Transylvania franchise.

He had guest-starring roles in dozens of TV series, including The Larry Sanders Show, Two And A Half Men, Seinfeld, Married With Children, and Friends.

And apparently, he met the recently deceased former NBA commissioner David Stern once. That chance meeting between Jon and David was so memorable Jon decided to say a couple of nice words about Stern on Twitter upon hearing news of his death.

I follow Jon on Twitter because I happen to find him funny. I can totally understand if he isn't your cup of tea, but his brand of snarky and self-deprecating humor is right in my wheelhouse.

So when I read his little ode to David Stern, I made the mistake of clicking on the comments below it, just to see how other fans of both Lovitz and the former commish reacted to Jon's little story.

And one of the first comments I read was this…

"A privileged white man extended privilege to a privileged white man. How interesting."

On top of being a big fan of Lovitz, I am also a big fan of sarcasm, so I did a small dive into Savage Mom’s timeline to see if it was riddled with other little sarcastic chestnuts like this reply. But after just a basic scan of her online persona, it became apparent she wasn’t trying to be funny.

Somehow Savage Mom came across a benign memorial from one celeb to another and decided to turn it into an example of white male privilege.

I won't get too deep into this matter because I have the feeling that it might get me in trouble ("Thanks, Francis!"), but I will say that I was stupidly hoping that shit like this would've been left in 2019. And to my chagrin, I was fucking dead wrong because the more I see on social media since that ball dropped, the less I like.

Unfortunately, Twitter, Instagram, and the like are all necessary evils for people in my position. Even though I have only a fraction of the followers that most of my coworkers have, I still feel obligated to use those platforms to push our content, interact with the thousands of people that I truly enjoy, and hit the MUTE button on everyone else.

--- By the way- I MUTE trolls instead of blocking them because I feel like it turns them into pathetic trees falling in empty woods with no one there to hear them… If there's a better argument for BLOCKING, I would love to hear it. ---

But back to my point on social media… With only 3 days into it, I can tell that 2020 is going to be the year I might finally snap on SJWs who are riding that blue wave avatar of ignorance over even the most innocent of gestures.

Whether a white woman trashing a Jewish man's recollection of a simpler time with a dead white Jewish man is either racist or anti-semitic, I just don't know. But I'm no gynecologist, and yet I can spot an unhealthy cunt when I see one… And unhealthy cunt'ish shit like this has got to be mentioned, and then ridiculed, and then stopped before we all fall into the fucking abyss.

I'm not saying it's time to sharpen the pitchforks, but I am saying that ideas like this should be reduced to punchlines, and the people that utter them with straight faces should be given scarlet "P"s… Because these assholes are a BIG part of the problem and nowhere near being part of the solution.

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

Take a report.

-Large

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But the Best of 2019 is still available for free…

And finally… For April Fool's Day in 2016, then 57- year-old Jon Lovitz and 27-year-old 90210 alumna Jessica Lowndes punked the media with rumors they were engaged to be married…

… and even though the whole thing was just a publicity stunt, I thought peppering the end of this blog with pics of Jess would be a good way to cleanse our palates after such an angry ending.

It's a privilege to show them to you now…