• SlappinPickle@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    He definitely had receipts for the prom story but, oh man, did he not clear himself of the FBI or anthrax bits. His explanation of his thought process for embellishing those bits made him sound like a pathological liar. Like dude, the experiences you said that actually happened to you in this apology video sound interesting enough. But you obviously thought you had to take experiences from others or make them up to sound more like a victim.

    Also him saying that his standup self is a different “character” than his correspondent self is a very Fox News thing to say. Like how Fox News says their “real news shows” are during the day and their “opinion news shows” start at 8pm and viewers should just know the difference without a warning.

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      1 year ago

      Also him saying that his standup self is a different “character” than his correspondent self is a very Fox News thing to say.

      It’s a very Daily Show thing to say. It’s not like Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta, Lewis Black, etc aren’t play a character when they’re on the show.

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      1 year ago

      The only minor changes he made were used to make it a cleaner story to deliver in front of the audience. You can claim he shouldn’t have done this, but it most certainly was not his intention to make himself sound like more of a victim.