Idolisation is one of the oldest and worst frailties of our species. It doesn't matter if it's a celebrity, sports personality, politician, influencer, scientist or anything else. All lives are complicated if you want to look close enough and blind faith is always foolishness.
It's just so crazy to me who people choose to worship as though they are gods. Like the fact that the most common choices are people that literally dress up in costumes and play pretend while people record them is so incredibly strange to me. Right behind them are people that write poems and bang on instruments while reciting said poems loudly while being recorded. I guess the common denominator is to just record yourself? idk people are weird... and annoying.
I do find it funny that Eric Idle said he didn't think cancel culture was a thing right now and that story was burried whereas John Cleese saying cancel culture is ruining everything has got his own show on GB news and lots of news coverage.
Then they release a top selling book explaining how they're cancelled. And complain on social media to their millions of increased followers how they were cancelled.
@@vinnieramone4818 I wouldn’t say Picasso was an ashole more an bastard and I like him. But all good artists are bastards. Mr and ms sunshine maybe happy but their art will always be crap.
Don't worry its fine. In fact, wear it as a badge of honour and make sure the wokerati see it at any opportunity! I show off my Michael Spicer tattoo at any opportunity and this has caused me no end of legal trouble. But what the notoriously WOKE Met Police call "indecent exposure" I call freedom of speech!
Not old; those _it girls_ have cult followings. Popular culture's atomised into cliques these days. Taylor Swift's reputedly the biggest popstar in the world, yet has produced no famous songs.
I hate how everyone has just accepted "being cancelled" as a turn of phrase because it distorts the conversation. we just want people to be held accountable when they are actively harming others with their actions
But it still involves disgusting and vain moralising and an absence of the most human of qualities: forgiveness. If you've never fucked up in life, then you must be about as interesting as a wet Sunday at an old people's home
@@granitesevan6243 sexual assault and assault and battery are not mistakes. No one is perfect but trying to avoid accountability makes you an even worse person.
@@ariaharies3594 Yes, of course those are serious offences and not mistakes, but it is completely fallacious to suggest cancel culture exclusively addresses extreme criminality. That is the point: positing an irrefutable moral position does not give you carte blanche to support a "culture" that, in the vast majority of cases, seeks to discredit, marginalise and exclude people via a kind of illiberal orthodoxy. This is also an abuse of power - abusive in the sense that it is frequently invoked to suppress competing ideas and even ambitions - and one that overwhelming affects "ordinary" or powerless individuals or groups. I see it both in my work (academia) and my community
The most astoundingly ironic thing ever said by this group of people is this. "If you offend someone, you don't get to decide you didn't." - Louis fucking C.K.
His moral objections to couples' age-gaps were weirdly trifling and old fashioned. No one's calling for Michael Douglas to be cancelled. Plus Michael Jackson wasn't found guilty of any child molestation.
What's even more interesting is the reverse cancel. For example, Johnny Depp was cancelled. Then Amber Heard was cancelled so hard she had to move to Spain.
I've always found parasocial relationships of mainstream celebrities so strange. I've never felt personally connected or related to powerful millionaire performers and artists. Sadly I can relate to middle aged men talking to themselves in their bedroom. Thanks Michael... Have a great day.
Sean Connery said in two interviews in the 60s and 80s that he sees no problem with men hitting women when they disagree too often and don't obey. He did beat up his wife once for coming home after him. Whenever a woman says he was an attractive man I have to laugh. Maybe on screen yeah, from far away...🙂↔️
@@avchoo Wow...no wonder he accepted an Academy Award for his portrayal of an Irish-American with a thick Scottish burr. His hubris clearly has many strands.
I thought it was funny that Jerry Seinfeld said that Seinfeld couldn't be made today with the episode showing Kramer exploit Homeless People and Rob McElhenney posted a pic of Rickety Cricket from Sunny.
After years of watching the beloved sitcom "Seinfeld", fans are shocked to learn that Jerry Seinfeld is actually an unfunny hack comedian and also a terrible terrible person.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, even if it sounds pretentious as hell: You can stan fictional characters but always keep an open mind about real people. You don't know them and they will have aspects of their life you don't know about, even if they are no longer alive. You can like them and support their work but never place them on a pedestal, even legends like Ursula K. Le Guin and Terry Pratchett. I'm like this because so many of my childhood heroes had nasty sides to them and I wouldn't wish my resulting mental state on anyone.
@@obscurum6 For me, it's not just "parasocial", it's just even "social". If you want me, I'll be in the corner of the pub with my dogs, and my headphones in. That's your cue to leave me alone.
He made nice paintings. Those are comfy to look at. Peaceful. Can't say for his art of rhetorics or writings, I can't read German so I would not know. His group of fans do produce great artistic stylistic paintings, posters and fashion. Even if they are a bit unhinged.
Interesting point. I could not do what Daniel Barenboim did, and conduct performances of the "Ring", judging it only on its merit as a musical work, but I would not encourage people to boycott it either.
Or the music of Gary Glitter? Who would defend listening to that when every time it’s played on the radio, streamed or bought, that disgusting abuser gets money? Or M.J. too? Sometimes the art cannot be separated from the artist.
@@bhoops13 I don't think he does. Spare a thought for the actual musicians and writers of the G band. It wasn't their fault. GG was just a front man. I hope the other guys are getting their PRS and residuals.
The legal age for marriage is 16. Whilst I would never let my daughter marry someone at that age, Chaplain broke no law. It’s weird and frowned upon but not outside the law.
Legality doesn’t equate to morality, but in cases like that I think that the fact that it was a repeat behavior and past his 20’s that really raises eyebrows. It is really hard to defend it as “meeting the one” at the wrong time when it kept happening, and more like someone who is too immature or wants to take advantage of younger partners
So it IS true. I thought that TikTok video of the terrible suffering of those gentle (occasionally very violent) creatures was a deepfake. Just goes to show. Ah well...
Back before early modernism made artists into celebrities, we could like them under the assurance we'd never know anything about them. That seems to be the only art that has staying power in history.
If you haven’t already, I would thoroughly recommend Stewart Lee’s stand up special “snowflake”. There is a really funny criticism of Ricky Gervais “saying the unsayable”.
Ricky Gervais roasted the Hollywood elite at the Golden Globes, as much times (5x) as Susan Lucci (19x, for more than 2 decades, protraying the villainous acid-tongue vixen, Erica Kane on the daytime "All My Children" soap opera) has been nominated for an Emmy (but didn't win; fortunately, Erica Kane finally did win a Lifetime Achievement award at the 1999 Daytime Emmy's, by actor Shemar Moore ("SWAT" action/drama tv show series).
Louis CK, and the like, will always have work and are uncancellable. However, if you're a minor league celeb (someone from Mumford and Sons who read a book instead of burning it, or a gigging comedian who was either quoted out-of-context or made a misjudged joke about the "current thing"), then it's more of a problem. I wouldn't want to be unable to feed my family because someone on the internet was virtue-signalling.
I love the fact that during editing, you thought about turning the video upside down….and then did it anyway. It demonstrates a level of petty foolishness that I’m totally on board with. Thumbs up.
9:05 Suddenly it is "... Mr Phelps' films" instead of Mr Jeffrey... I liked the video, thumbs up as well as this comment so the algorithmic gods will be happy, but we jackals gotta nip at things needing correction in stuff we love.
Something I learned after I met a 'hero' when I was serving with the Air Force....Now listen up..... You don't want to meet your Hero. Keep your illusions. Same with celebrities. Leave them on the screen.
I don't follow any celebs, I don't even know their names unless its in the title of there works MICHAEL! I like the media I watch and the music I listen too and thats it. Except you, you are my hero...
The general rule is anyone who has said more than 10 words in public or lived more than 20 years will have said or done something at some point that someone considers puts them outside the "community of the acceptable". If they haven't, then they are so vanilla and mild then there's no reason to follow them anyway.
I'm reminded of what Dave Chapelle said about cancel culture (before HE himself got cancelled): "Louis C.K. was a very dear friend of mine, before he died in that horrible mast**bation accident."
Idolisation is one of the oldest and worst frailties of our species. It doesn't matter if it's a celebrity, sports personality, politician, influencer, scientist or anything else. All lives are complicated if you want to look close enough and blind faith is always foolishness.
It's just so crazy to me who people choose to worship as though they are gods. Like the fact that the most common choices are people that literally dress up in costumes and play pretend while people record them is so incredibly strange to me. Right behind them are people that write poems and bang on instruments while reciting said poems loudly while being recorded. I guess the common denominator is to just record yourself? idk people are weird... and annoying.
It's no small accident that it's one of the Ten Commandments...
@@adidab14 Have you ever thought of a career in the diplomatic service?!
If you idolise real people then you exoect them to be perfect all thr time
You put them on a pedestal
Celebrities are just like everyone else
Charlie Chaplin will not be making any verbal statements regarding the accusations at this time.
He's got things to answer for so I'm bringing out that ouji board😂
However his hat did fly up into the air a few times.
He was definitely canceled by basically the McCarthy era... (And Hollywood apologized to him many times later.)
Is everybody ignorant of his later "talkie" films like _The Great Dictator (1940)_ and _Limelight (1952)?_
@@bethh.6455 - 😂😂😂😂
I do find it funny that Eric Idle said he didn't think cancel culture was a thing right now and that story was burried whereas John Cleese saying cancel culture is ruining everything has got his own show on GB news and lots of news coverage.
The pipeline from left wing young comic genius to reactionary grumpy old man is usually paved with money
Please tell me the thing about Cleese having a show on GB News is a joke
@@DanKeatis nope unfortunately
I swear John Cleese has been complaining about 'woke' for the last 20 years.
The Nazis have taken over Britain as revenge for us defeating Germany in 1945.
Cancel culture is when youu complain about being cancelled on your netflix special.
🤣🤣🤣 Well put!
Then they release a top selling book explaining how they're cancelled. And complain on social media to their millions of increased followers how they were cancelled.
Yes!
Are you saying Pablo Picasso was called an asshole? My good friend Johnathan told me Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
@@vinnieramone4818 I wouldn’t say Picasso was an ashole more an bastard and I like him. But all good artists are bastards. Mr and ms sunshine maybe happy but their art will always be crap.
How dare you correctly call me psychologically maladjusted! That's grounds for a cancelling
Unsubbed. Let’s get #HoldTheSpice trending everywhere.
You too, huh?
Yep.
My Michael Spicer tattoo seems like a pretty dumb idea right about now
Don't worry its fine. In fact, wear it as a badge of honour and make sure the wokerati see it at any opportunity! I show off my Michael Spicer tattoo at any opportunity and this has caused me no end of legal trouble. But what the notoriously WOKE Met Police call "indecent exposure" I call freedom of speech!
you know you're getting old when you don't recognise the cancelled celebrities by sight and have to wait for Michael to mention their names.
And when you hear the names and still don't know 🤣
Not old; those _it girls_ have cult followings.
Popular culture's atomised into cliques these days.
Taylor Swift's reputedly the biggest popstar in the world, yet has produced no famous songs.
Thank you. I was struggling and being old😅 and feeling stupid!
@@beingsshepherd Shake It Off?
@@JaneAustenAteMyCat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is that up there with:
Like a Virgin, Wanna Be, All I Want for Christmas is You, I Should Be So Lucky, Eternal Flame?
As a responsible consumer I only enjoy the works of artists whose crimes haven't been found out yet.
-found out- called out by msm consensus.
😆
It's gaslighting. They simply changed "being accountable" into "being cancelled". By doing this, they get sympathy for their mistakes.
This. The majority of these people screaming about being canceled are usually talking about it as they plug a new Netflix special.
I hate how everyone has just accepted "being cancelled" as a turn of phrase because it distorts the conversation.
we just want people to be held accountable when they are actively harming others with their actions
But it still involves disgusting and vain moralising and an absence of the most human of qualities: forgiveness. If you've never fucked up in life, then you must be about as interesting as a wet Sunday at an old people's home
@@granitesevan6243 sexual assault and assault and battery are not mistakes. No one is perfect but trying to avoid accountability makes you an even worse person.
@@ariaharies3594 Yes, of course those are serious offences and not mistakes, but it is completely fallacious to suggest cancel culture exclusively addresses extreme criminality.
That is the point: positing an irrefutable moral position does not give you carte blanche to support a "culture" that, in the vast majority of cases, seeks to discredit, marginalise and exclude people via a kind of illiberal orthodoxy.
This is also an abuse of power - abusive in the sense that it is frequently invoked to suppress competing ideas and even ambitions - and one that overwhelming affects "ordinary" or powerless individuals or groups. I see it both in my work (academia) and my community
The most astoundingly ironic thing ever said by this group of people is this.
"If you offend someone, you don't get to decide you didn't." - Louis fucking C.K.
Edison didn't invent shit. He was a brilliant thief and manipulator, though.
Tesla was betrayed.
You were able to analyse this whole issue of problematic faves in a very balanced way. Well done.
His moral objections to couples' age-gaps were weirdly trifling and old fashioned.
No one's calling for Michael Douglas to be cancelled.
Plus Michael Jackson wasn't found guilty of any child molestation.
What's even more interesting is the reverse cancel. For example, Johnny Depp was cancelled. Then Amber Heard was cancelled so hard she had to move to Spain.
Luckily Michael Spicer is not a celebrity but a genuinely good comedian :)... so are we safe to like him? :)
He is more likely to kill himself than get me2ed, well we can only hope... Love you Michael please don't off yourself
More importantly, what do I do about the oversized tattoo of his face on my back?
You are safe to like Mr. Spicer, just not safe in admitting that publicly.
🤣
I'll start the queue behind you, as I too, sit in that "small boat".
@@archivist17
Wear a shirt?
@@Toupret careful with the small boats... we might get turned back to France :D or get shouted at by Nigel F. :D
I've always found parasocial relationships of mainstream celebrities so strange. I've never felt personally connected or related to powerful millionaire performers and artists. Sadly I can relate to middle aged men talking to themselves in their bedroom.
Thanks Michael... Have a great day.
Joseph Swan invented the lightbulb. I mean I love you man but facts innit.
Oh no. I bet that made you incandescent with rage…..!
@@nidostar2013 hardly. Curious take 😂
Sean Connery said in two interviews in the 60s and 80s that he sees no problem with men hitting women when they disagree too often and don't obey. He did beat up his wife once for coming home after him. Whenever a woman says he was an attractive man I have to laugh. Maybe on screen yeah, from far away...🙂↔️
Abuse is toleratable depending on how attractive people are.
he didn't ever budge on that opinion either, did he?
@@avchoo Wow...no wonder he accepted an Academy Award for his portrayal of an Irish-American with a thick Scottish burr. His hubris clearly has many strands.
Connery was a c***
Soldiers don't murder women?
Actually the best analysis of this topic I've ever come across! Thank you!
We don’t ‘like’ what you do Michael, we love it!
Excellent work, as always
3:10 ".. he was mainly a corpse." - cuts to Marilyn Mansons picture.
Getting better with every installment, thank you very much yet again!
Micheal, if you do something to make me hate you, I swear to god I'll ............buy tickets to your show at madison Square....I guess..?😂😂😂....
...which of course... is still ...controversial.
- With nary a wince. Excellently done.
... i am certified psychologically maladjusted; I KNEW there'd be good reason to read the whole damn card!
Chris Brown is the one that always disturbs me
I used to admire how much of a gentleman David Niven was. Then I found out how he treated his family.
I wonder how people visually conveyed having come up with an idea, prior to the light bulb's invention... 🤔
It's a tiny part of this entirely delightful video, but your take on Picasso was a stand-alone gem :)
An adult single ticket for the "You can't say anything these days, can you?" gravy-train, please?
Psychologically maladjusted 😉😂
#me too😂
@@jonharvey6277 A meta joke on a meta joke! I salute you both.
Oops! Psychologically maladjusted too, and proud of it! lol😂
TBF anyone who was in the Wonka film deserves to be cancelled with extreme prejudice
I thought it was funny that Jerry Seinfeld said that Seinfeld couldn't be made today with the episode showing Kramer exploit Homeless People and Rob McElhenney posted a pic of Rickety Cricket from Sunny.
After years of watching the beloved sitcom "Seinfeld", fans are shocked to learn that Jerry Seinfeld is actually an unfunny hack comedian and also a terrible terrible person.
@@azarisLP Not at all, Seinfeld is funny and his TV show will always be a classic.
@@soundscape26 He's not even the top 5 funniest comedian in his own show.
@@azarisLP Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David literally wrote the whole show.
@@azarisLPwhy is Seinfeld a 'terrible person'?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, even if it sounds pretentious as hell: You can stan fictional characters but always keep an open mind about real people. You don't know them and they will have aspects of their life you don't know about, even if they are no longer alive. You can like them and support their work but never place them on a pedestal, even legends like Ursula K. Le Guin and Terry Pratchett.
I'm like this because so many of my childhood heroes had nasty sides to them and I wouldn't wish my resulting mental state on anyone.
Parasocial relationships have become a real problem with the current internet.
They are everywhere. 🙄
What is really bad is they go after you for not being like them.
They've been around forever. Read about beatlemania.
@@obscurum6 For me, it's not just "parasocial", it's just even "social". If you want me, I'll be in the corner of the pub with my dogs, and my headphones in. That's your cue to leave me alone.
7:44 The slug-balancer seems now to be doing some feeble impression of Buster Keaton
“Seperate art from the artist” What about all those arts made by a certain Austrian painter back in the early 20th century?
He made nice paintings. Those are comfy to look at. Peaceful. Can't say for his art of rhetorics or writings, I can't read German so I would not know. His group of fans do produce great artistic stylistic paintings, posters and fashion. Even if they are a bit unhinged.
Interesting point. I could not do what Daniel Barenboim did, and conduct performances of the "Ring", judging it only on its merit as a musical work, but I would not encourage people to boycott it either.
If you can't paint as good as that, then you're definitely worse than Hitler.
Or the music of Gary Glitter? Who would defend listening to that when every time it’s played on the radio, streamed or bought, that disgusting abuser gets money? Or M.J. too?
Sometimes the art cannot be separated from the artist.
@@bhoops13 I don't think he does. Spare a thought for the actual musicians and writers of the G band. It wasn't their fault. GG was just a front man. I hope the other guys are getting their PRS and residuals.
The legal age for marriage is 16. Whilst I would never let my daughter marry someone at that age, Chaplain broke no law. It’s weird and frowned upon but not outside the law.
Legality doesn’t equate to morality, but in cases like that I think that the fact that it was a repeat behavior and past his 20’s that really raises eyebrows. It is really hard to defend it as “meeting the one” at the wrong time when it kept happening, and more like someone who is too immature or wants to take advantage of younger partners
Chaplin married those girls in America, where it is very much illegal.
Either something is legal or illegal
If you're against something then make it illegal or shut up about it
11:10 all those people that got Daenerys or Khaleesi tattoos after those last 4 seasons of GoT lmao
Some celebrities are great people. Some others are terrible people you shouldn’t allow in your home, associate with, or allow around your children.
Love is blind.
Consider how many civilians president Obama had killed.
Also there needs to be a distinction made between allegation and that which has been proven (i.e. the Michael Jackson and Lizzo references)
Michael Jackson was a serial child sex abuser.
Don't put anyone on a pedestal ever.
People can change. No one’s perfect. And no I’m not talking about nonces or abusers
Genius, pure genius. Can't disagree with a single word.
Maybe you should get a Michael Spicer tattoo?
I look forward to your videos so much, the best content out there!!!
The industry work so hard influencing public to build weird parasocial relations with those celebrities ! WE should stop playing into their games
“At least he made this plate! “
Colour me psychologically maladjusted! 😂
Probably because popularity is getting more dangerous and the more celebrities are more famous it’s harder to ignore them.
Will this video be replayed on the news when Mr. Spicer is inevitably arrested for electrocuting giraffes?
Or carving secret formulae on elephant tusks
So it IS true. I thought that TikTok video of the terrible suffering of those gentle (occasionally very violent) creatures was a deepfake. Just goes to show. Ah well...
What am I supposed to do about my Michael Spicer tattoo now😢?
Back before early modernism made artists into celebrities, we could like them under the assurance we'd never know anything about them. That seems to be the only art that has staying power in history.
that charlie chaplin statement absolutely folded me up, hat movements and all
Oh, I'm psychologically maladjusted, thanks for the diagnosis
I'm proud to say that I'm psychologically maladjusted
Thoroughly enjoy your work as they are thought provoking and of course entertaining as well.
You nailed it. I do struggle with stupid feelings of loss over cancelled artists. Thankyou Michael.😂
Excellent as ever! Mike's on a hot streak 😊
Very thought provoking thank you
Brilliant! Intelligent, thoughtful and, crucially, very funny.
If you haven’t already, I would thoroughly recommend Stewart Lee’s stand up special “snowflake”. There is a really funny criticism of Ricky Gervais “saying the unsayable”.
7:48 oh dear, I'm psychologically maladjusted
This is particularly brilliant.
**cancels appointment for getting a Michael Spicer tattoo**
so i guess i'm psychologically maladjusted
Tell the truth Michael: you wrote this just so you could play Charlie Chaplin! You're not fooling ME! 😂
Ricky Gervais roasted the Hollywood elite at the Golden Globes, as much times (5x) as Susan Lucci (19x, for more than 2 decades, protraying the villainous acid-tongue vixen, Erica Kane on the daytime "All My Children" soap opera) has been nominated for an Emmy (but didn't win; fortunately, Erica Kane finally did win a Lifetime Achievement award at the 1999 Daytime Emmy's, by actor Shemar Moore ("SWAT" action/drama tv show series).
Louis CK, and the like, will always have work and are uncancellable. However, if you're a minor league celeb (someone from Mumford and Sons who read a book instead of burning it, or a gigging comedian who was either quoted out-of-context or made a misjudged joke about the "current thing"), then it's more of a problem. I wouldn't want to be unable to feed my family because someone on the internet was virtue-signalling.
Edison didn't always invent stuff, he employed people to invent things and put his name to them. Other than that, great vid 👍🏻
Who else held their breath when Chalamet came up!
Phew!
But he's got a long career ahead of him,
so watch this space...
Me :D
He is a Zionist
Thank Christ Willy Wonker 2 has been saved!
I love the fact that during editing, you thought about turning the video upside down….and then did it anyway. It demonstrates a level of petty foolishness that I’m totally on board with. Thumbs up.
...what?
Arent there two L's in "cancelled"?
The other L was cancelled. We don't talk about that L.
Somebody took an L.
9:05 Suddenly it is "... Mr Phelps' films" instead of Mr Jeffrey...
I liked the video, thumbs up as well as this comment so the algorithmic gods will be happy,
but we jackals gotta nip at things needing correction in stuff we love.
So true!
Why does Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas keep referring to himself as Michael Spicer?
I don't know, but he should definitely be cancelled for it!
“Thomas Edison once publicly electrocuted an elephant…. Turns out it was the wrong elephant!"
Or better still... don't follow celebrities to begin with.
Something I learned after I met a 'hero' when I was serving with the Air Force....Now listen up.....
You don't want to meet your Hero. Keep your illusions. Same with celebrities. Leave them on the screen.
cancelled (two l's) is preferred in British English and other dialects
Dont make statues to people. Make statues to ideas.
You're the guy from the 'hello northerner' skit!!!
I've never been bothered by the reflection of your light ring in your eyes.... until now :P I cannot focus on anything else hahaha
Celebrity worship has to end
I'd do an ever broader stroke and say worship has to end
3:13 "accused of allegations"? 😂
Thank you
Oh lordy, turns out I'm psychologically maladjusted
Edison didn't invent the lightbulb it was Joseph Swan in 1860. However, Edison was a right Bar-Steward
I don't follow any celebs, I don't even know their names unless its in the title of there works MICHAEL! I like the media I watch and the music I listen too and thats it. Except you, you are my hero...
Celebrity worship is a replacement for mythology.
I cancelled Arnold Schwarzenegger for his screw your freedom and pushing Pfizer clotshots. 😣
Michael, your Americanized use of canceled is triggering me. As is my iOS. 😭😤
Charlie Cahplin's been real silent before this dropped
I do like what you do but apparently I'm psychologically maladjusted.
I wrote a very long insightful comment which was both witty and apt.
But then I accidentally cancelled it.
Thank Christ for that
I'm psychologically maladjusted 😀
7:51 Oh, I see … well I did pause so I guess I’m a bit of a loony? 🤔😬🤪
The general rule is anyone who has said more than 10 words in public or lived more than 20 years will have said or done something at some point that someone considers puts them outside the "community of the acceptable".
If they haven't, then they are so vanilla and mild then there's no reason to follow them anyway.
How are we spelling “cancelled”?
Wish I'd've viewed this before I got that Jon Hamm tattoo!
I'm reminded of what Dave Chapelle said about cancel culture (before HE himself got cancelled): "Louis C.K. was a very dear friend of mine, before he died in that horrible mast**bation accident."
I really liked this one. Continuous excellence from the start. Well done Michael :)