[ SECRET POST #4419 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4419 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Roxane Gay (author)]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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[Jonathan Groff in Mindhunter (formerly King George III in Hamilton)]


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05.
[The ABC Murders]


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[Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile]


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[Marcus Wareing, Gordon Ramsay - Burning Point (documentary)]


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[Parks and Recreation, Ben/Leslie]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 51 secrets from Secret Submission Post #633.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. https://i.imgur.com/cus3bR9.jpg
[Roxane Gay (author)]

[(Anonymous)]

because confidence is nice but arrogance is annoying?

"i thought it was funny, and still do"
vs
"i insist you knew it was funny, and aren't admitting it for some reason"

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know the author in question, but agree with this as a general concept. A lot of people don't understand the distinction between confidence and arrogance.

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone calling themselves "fucking funny" would piss me off even if they were like, a pro comedian. What's funny is highly subjective, and there will always be loads of people who don't get your humor. Other people who think you're funny get to call you that, but you don't.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even know who she is, but ... it's generally not a good idea to refer to yourself as funny.

That's not something that's up to you to decide and it makes you look like a dick if you try to force that on people like it's fact, instead of entirely subjective and 100% down to the opinion of the person you're speaking to.

You'll rarely even find a comedian who insists they're funny and being funny is literally their job.

[sienamystic]

I saw her speak recently and she was pretty dang funny. She's also got charisma out the wazoo. The whole room was eating out of her hand.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen her speak on talk shows where she was promoting her writing, but that might not be the best venue for her to shine. Her timing always seemed completely off whenever she was trying to be funny on those shows.

As I said in the secret, I find her writing amazing and no doubt she's clever and she entertains me to no end. But I haven't seen a single thing yet that I could describe as funny. And when she tweets something that doesn't land for everyone, or is a bit on the stale side (IMO), and then doubles down as if it should be funny for EVERYONE... ugh.

I'd love to be able to see her in person at a place where she can build up a good joke to prove me wrong, though.

Re: OP

[sienamystic]

I can see tone of voice not working over Twitter - I follow her and I feel like sometimes she's so dry that the joke may not convey like it does in person. I saw her at the university I work for where she did a short reading but mostly just answered questions from the audience and it was great.