Comments on: Annotated 25-26

By: john

john — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:35:44 +0000

Perhaps his success in staying the hell away is exactly why we don’t see him again.

By: Sumgai

Sumgai — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 01:50:12 +0000

Agreed. I still don’t really understand the choices he made here, but I was disappointed that we never saw him again. I’d have liked to see him learn something from this, even if it was just “stay the hell away from politicians”.

By: WuseMajor

WuseMajor — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 01:00:20 +0000

Yeah. It still would have been nice to see him at least as a background character in one of the various pieces of the epilogue, telling better jokes or even having gotten out of comedy. Or something.

By: The Gorram Batguy

The Gorram Batguy — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:56:11 +0000

A nice idea, but no great introspection would be necessary, I think. It’s all about catering to his audience. In Gastonia, he plays to the racism. In Souf Korral (however it’s spelled) the audience has changed into a more inclusive and tolerant one, and so would change his comedy material.
I don’t doubt he’d always have wished to work with the latter kind of comedy. He just knew his customer base too well for that.
Honestly, that’s why I don’t see the phrase “redemption arc” being relevant to him. If anything, he’s just had it. He saw that even with all the pressures on him, even after all the years of humor at his own expense to but food on the table, he deep down has standards which he doesn’t want to transgress. He discovered that on stage, in this case, and now he knows better, even if his livelihood for the time being still requires self-deprecating racist jokes.

By: Pylgrim

Pylgrim — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:19:09 +0000

I like to think that after an intense time of self-introspection, which ended at about the same time as the comic, he later became an inclusive comedian who learned to use comedy to punch up.