Holmberg has become the Mancow of the West
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“I’ve been a loyal listener for decades. I’ve enjoyed listening to the evolution of this show through the years as it’s always been must-listen morning radio because of how well Holmberg actively worked against the formulaic triteness of the format. He’s an excellent interviewer and the guests (mostly comedians) he gets, if they’ve been there more than once, usually comment on how much they like being on the show. As well, he’s wickedly sharp at digging into things with the other co-hosts on the show to make it seem like you’re listening in on some genuine ball busting between friends which has always been yet another reason why I’ve listened for as long as I have. Still, it’s John, or at least The On Air Persona of John, who seems to actively want to drag down the show as of late. In the last few years he’s turned into a thin-skinned and spiteful troll. When left to pontificate on subjects that usually saw him punching up, he cackles at his bold and transgressively hilarious take that he’s “gay”, loves to say he’s politically not one way or the other but drapes his commentary in the talking points on subjects like trans rights, COVID, misogyny, obesity, or any other hot button social issue that would make you wonder if you were listening to Fox News all the while being enabled by co-host Brett, a man drenched in the stupidity of a 13 year-old boy who thinks that being a mental pig is hilarious as he tosses out bon-mots like “wildebeest” when describing less than attractive women. His thinly, and at most times, overtly, ideas in elitism and his own self-importance are just tired. His use of “woke” and his hey-I-just-learned-a-big-word “solipsism” is his nearly daily crutches which not only show how little he actually knows, or cares to know, but when he keeps saying he’s “only here for the laughs” his constant rants that veer so far from actual comedy and become spiteful screeds show just how much of a simpleton, and easily offended, he is. Great, he’s number one in the ratings. Great, he’s doing it by way of demagoguery. Whatever works, I guess. He gets to keep flying his JSX, keeps going out with Phoenix’s own Doug Hopkins, keeps being able to stroke his own ego, it’s just a bummer when he thinks great comedy now comes by punching down as many times as he can.”
ClotheslineChris via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/05/22
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