Oof. That might as well have been billed as Glenn and John live at a Park Slope birthday party.
Were the comedians even present during the first part of the show? When they took the stage, they engaged with nothing that John or Glenn had said in their long prelude to what was, I thought, supposed to be the main event. I didn't expect them to agree - but in that case, I had hoped they'd at least engage. Pushback, whether in a bantering spirit or in a more serious tone would have been welcome, but there wasn't even any of that.
This just felt like two independent conversations - first a Glenn and John primer, followed by... something akin to an NPR broadcast, only slightly funnier. The "looking over the shoulder" phenomenon of which John spoke was in evidence throughout.
I do wish Glenn or John (or an audience member) had asked Jon Laster *why* the police - black policemen, as he noted - had once put guns to his head. I also wish the comedians had asked John and Glenn about *their* experiences being harrased by the police for no reason, since that's an experience that they seem certain that almost all black people share. For all I know, John and Glenn do have such stories. Or maybe they don't. But why not ask when that topic was being discussed?
Sorry to grouch. Even though I think this one didn't work, I do really like the idea behind these Glenn Show / comedy club crossovers.
I'm 100% in agreement. Within moments of the comedians taking the stage the police were represented in the time-honored fashion as a racist force bent on persecution rather than the 60% non-white force they are and the fact, thanks to research by Roland Fryer, that while there are more interactions between police and young black men (because guess what guys; profiling works on everything from street crime to rape to serial murderers) police are a lot let likely to draw/fire upon a black suspect. I was waiting for John or Glenn to say to the one comedian who saw himself in George Floyd's position, yeah, IF you spent the morning "hooping" to the point of collapse and then passed a counterfeit note!!!! But that response never came...
Oof. That might as well have been billed as Glenn and John live at a Park Slope birthday party.
Were the comedians even present during the first part of the show? When they took the stage, they engaged with nothing that John or Glenn had said in their long prelude to what was, I thought, supposed to be the main event. I didn't expect them to agree - but in that case, I had hoped they'd at least engage. Pushback, whether in a bantering spirit or in a more serious tone would have been welcome, but there wasn't even any of that.
This just felt like two independent conversations - first a Glenn and John primer, followed by... something akin to an NPR broadcast, only slightly funnier. The "looking over the shoulder" phenomenon of which John spoke was in evidence throughout.
I do wish Glenn or John (or an audience member) had asked Jon Laster *why* the police - black policemen, as he noted - had once put guns to his head. I also wish the comedians had asked John and Glenn about *their* experiences being harrased by the police for no reason, since that's an experience that they seem certain that almost all black people share. For all I know, John and Glenn do have such stories. Or maybe they don't. But why not ask when that topic was being discussed?
Sorry to grouch. Even though I think this one didn't work, I do really like the idea behind these Glenn Show / comedy club crossovers.
I'm 100% in agreement. Within moments of the comedians taking the stage the police were represented in the time-honored fashion as a racist force bent on persecution rather than the 60% non-white force they are and the fact, thanks to research by Roland Fryer, that while there are more interactions between police and young black men (because guess what guys; profiling works on everything from street crime to rape to serial murderers) police are a lot let likely to draw/fire upon a black suspect. I was waiting for John or Glenn to say to the one comedian who saw himself in George Floyd's position, yeah, IF you spent the morning "hooping" to the point of collapse and then passed a counterfeit note!!!! But that response never came...