Media meltdown as 'Kill Tony' breakout star Kam Patterson infiltrates liberal stronghold



One anti-woke comedian whose life was changed by Monday nights is about to try weekends on for size.

Kam Patterson, known mostly for his appearances on the viral comedy podcast "Kill Tony," has already landed roles in Kevin Hart's upcoming Netflix comedy "72 Hours" as well as the David Spade/Theo Von buddy pic "Busboys."

Turns out he'll also be trying his hand at another, more established, weekly variety show.

'Seeing people try to attack a black kid because he said he "voted for Trump" is absurd.'

"Monday nights changed my life, let's see how I do on Saturdays," Patterson wrote on Instagram, tagging his new employers, NBC.

Last week, "Saturday Night Live" revealed Patterson would be joining the cast for the 51st season, alongside four other rookies.

"Welcome to the cast!" the company wrote. Others in the media were not so sanguine about the Orlando native's new job.

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Pajiba's Dustin Rowe attributed the hiring to SNL head Lorne Michaels' desire to tap into the "alt-right comedy space."

"He still uses 'gay' as a pejorative in the way it was tossed around in the ’80s," sniffed Rowe, while also noting that Patterson voted for President Trump.

Meanwhile, NPR's only note about Patterson's stand-up career was his defense of friend Tony Hinchcliffe, who dared to make a joke about Puerto Rico at an October 2024 Trump rally.

Syracuse.com took umbrage with Patterson's attacks on upstate New York, noting that the Orlando native had likened the food in Rochester, New York, to "pig slop" during one "Kill Tony" appearance, prompting Hinchcliffe to add that people in upstate New York settle down with "the first person that said they like you" before getting "stuck there, forever in eternal hell, while literally the rest of America laughs at you."

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BlazeTV's Dave Landau offered a different take, however.

"Kam is a genuinely kind person and comedian that crowds really love," the comedian said. "I think 'SNL' is making the right choice with Kam because it’s about being funny, and comedy should never be about filling a quota or an agenda."

Landau continued, saying that Patterson has already won, despite what critics are saying.

"Seeing people try to attack a black kid because he said he 'voted for Trump' is absurd. I hope he hits superstardom."

On top of his many, many appearances on "Kill Tony" as an act, Patterson has also appeared on the panel at least four times ("Kill Tony" #633, #664, #700, and #710), despite outlet Pajiba claiming the reason he "hasn’t sat on a panel is because he’d overshadow everyone else."

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Jerry Seinfeld gets brutally honest about what ruined comedy television: 'Extreme left and PC crap'



Legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld thinks he knows what ruined television comedies.

Seinfeld — co-creator and star of "Seinfeld," which is regarded as one of the best sitcoms of all time — told the New Yorker in an interview that political correctness and the "extreme left" ruined comedic television.

"Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it," Seinfeld said.

"It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, 'Oh, "Cheers" is on. Oh, "M*A*S*H" is on. Oh, "Mary Tyler Moore" is on. "All in the Family" is on.' You just expected, 'There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.' Well, guess what — where is it?" he continued.

"This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people," Seinfeld declared.

If progressivism ruined TV comedy, then Seinfeld believes the same forces are behind the renaissance of stand-up comedy.

"Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone," Seinfeld, himself a stand-up comedian, observed. "The audience polices us. We know when we’re off track. We know instantly and we adjust to it instantly."

That is the key difference between stand-up comedy and TV, he explained: Whereas a stand-up comedian gets direct feedback from the audience, Hollywood writers, directors, and producers control scripts. And through the production process, someone somewhere is bound to be offended by certain jokes.

The irony, Seinfeld said, is that networks like HBO understand people like the "offensive" material.

"But they’re not smart enough to figure out, 'How do we do this now? Do we take the heat, or just not be funny?'" he explained. "And what they’ve decided to be is, 'Well, we’re not going to do comedies any more.'"

Fortunately, Seinfeld believes there is a "slight movement" away from the PC-heavy culture that has dominated entertainment for the greater part of the past two decades.

"With certain comedians now, people are having fun with them stepping over the line and us all laughing about it," he said. "But, again, it’s the stand-ups that really have the freedom to do it because no one else gets the blame if it doesn’t go down well. He or she can take all the blame themself."

Seinfeld is trying to bring legitimate comedy back to television. His newest film, "Unfrosted," a story about the origins of the Pop-Tart, will e released on May 3.

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Tom Hanks slams campaign to modify classic books to please cancel culture: 'Let me decide what I am offended by'



Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks explained in a new interview that he opposes cancel culture and modern efforts to police content for what some people may deem offensive.

In an interview with BBC, the film legend said he doesn't want the overlords of PC culture to tell him what he should be offended by.

"I'm of the opinion that we're all grown-ups here. And we understand the time and the place and when these things were written. And it's not very hard at all to say: that doesn't quite fly right now, does it?'" Hanks said. "Let's have faith in our own sensibilities here, instead of having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by.

"Let me decide what I am offended by and what I'm not offended by," he declared. "I would be against reading any book from any era that says 'abridged due to modern sensitivities.'"

Hanks was reacting to a movement in publishing to revise classic books that contain language and ideas, though once accepted, now considered offensive by modern, progressive sensibilities. In recent months, so-called sensitivity readers have updated works belonging to Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, and even R.L. Stine.

Anything else?

Hanks is doing press for his debut novel, "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece."

The book has received mixed reviews. The Sunday Times called it "clunky." The New York Times said it "sags under a deluge of detail." Those are hardly resounding endorsements.

But Hanks told the BBC that he remains unfazed by critics because he believes he is "stronger when it comes down to really being torn apart." Still, Hanks said his book will ultimately "live and die based on its own ability to entertain and enlighten an audience."

The book released on Tuesday.

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Comedian Chris Rock slams  cancel culture, says it breeds 'boring' entertainment: 'People are scared to talk' and 'especially in America'



Comedian Chris Rock says that cancel culture is disrespectful to audiences and is leading to "boring" entertainment across the board.

Rock made the remarks during an interview with "Breakfast Club" hosts Angela Yee and DJ Envy on Monday.

What are the details?

Rock told the hosts that he believes canceling an entertainer will only set the industry and its players up for failure.

"It's weird when you're a comedian because when your audience doesn't laugh, we get the message. Like, you don't have to cancel us." he said. "They're not laughing. Our feelings are hurt. When we do something and people aren't laughing we get it. I don't understand why people feel the need to go beyond that."

The 56-year-old comedian added that the very idea of telling the audience where or how to find humor is disrespectful.

"Honestly to me, it's people disrespecting the audience," he continued. "Like, 'Oh, you think you know more than the audience?' The audience knows more than everybody!"

Rock added that as a result, comedians and entertainers are forced to play it safe and bland out of fears of alienating the general public and saying or doing something offensive.

"What happens is everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything. Things get boring," Rock said. "I see a lot of unfunny comedians, unfunny TV shows, unfunny movies because people are scared to make a move and that's not a good place to be. We should have the right to fail because failure is a part of art."

"It's the ultimate cancel, but now you got a place where people are scared to talk. 'That's not — especially in America — you're scared to talk, but that's what people want, you gotta make adjustments and, you know, let's do it," he added.

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