The best roasts lead to worst cases of remorse. Has standup comedy finally gone too far?
Tom Brady Roast: Nikki Glaser surprised by Kim Kardashian Kanye West jokes
(Entertainment Tonight) May 8, 2024: Nikki Glaser says she was surprised by jokes about Kim Kardashian and her ex-husband Yeezy (Ye, Yeezus, Kanye West) during Tom Brady's roast on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Ahead of Netflix's "The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady," the standup comedian and master roaster says she assumed jabs surrounding the reality star, who got big boos from the audience, we're "off-limits," On Sunday, Glaser watched as the former New England Patriots quarterback referenced Kim and her ex-husband Kanye.
Nikki Glaser kills on stage
It's nice that men no longer have a monopoly on vicious standup comedy and the devastating art of roasting celebrities, taking the mickey out of overinflated, self-important stars (like Bieber) and politicians (like Trump that time) and, best of all, comedians themselves. Don Rickles, step aside. Sarah Silverman, Natasha Leggero, Lisa Lampanelli, and Nikki Glaser are here to show Hollywood and the world how it's done. Poor Tom Brady, loses Giselle Bundchen, his career, all that money, and now this.
Nikki Glaser’s best roast moments (Comedy Central) Nov. 17, 2019: #NikkiGlaser
Nikki Glaser unleashes on her fellow dais members at the Roasts of Bruce Willis, Rob Lowe and Alec Baldwin.
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Nikki Glaser’s best roast comebacks 🔥 (Comedy Central) May 24, 2022: Nikki Glaser unleashes the hottest comebacks at the Roasts of Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, and Rob Lowe. Paramount+ is here, so stream all your favorite shows now by trying it FREE at bit.ly/3qyOeOf#ComedyCentralRoast#NikkiGlaser
She stoops to conquer
Shy deadpan girl viciously defeats a big loud guy in a NYC roast
(The Stand NYC) Aug. 10, 2017: The RoastMasters (8/7/17) Tournament: Dave Kinney vs. Dina Hashem opening round battle from the 2017 RoastMasters Tournament hosted by Luis J. Gomez with judges: Rich Vos, Big Jay Oakerson, Joe List, Eli Sairs, Bonnie McFarlane. Follow the tournament and rankings: roastmastersnyc.com
Editors, Wisdom Quarterly COMPILATION, "When comedy becomes cruelty and schadenfreude"; Roaster Nikki Glaser, Netflix, Comedy Central
Encouragingor praising suicide, war, abortion...is the karma of "killing." Ask Carter.
Nothing Higher to Live For: A Buddhist View of Romantic Love
Ven. Nyanasobhano (formerly Leonard Price)
Wisdom Quarterly tackles tough topics.
Practically nobody questions the supremacy of romantic love, which is good enough reason to do a little poking around the foundations of its pedestal. Who is entirely satisfied with the romance in his or her life?
Who has found the sublime rapture previously imagined? And if one has actually found such a thing, does it last, or does it not rather change and decline from the peak of ecstasy? And if it declines what becomes of one's purpose in life? If a purpose is achieved it is no longer a purpose; it can no longer guide or sustain us. Does one taste of nectar satisfy us forever?
When we tire of crass, material goals we may go searching for love instead of, say, religious insight, because love seems both more accessible and more urgent and because so much of institutional religion in our time has degenerated into insipid humanism.
Some claim refuge here but many more, longing for authentic and moving experience, turn to the vision of the "lover," that source of wonder, joy, and transcendence, who it is thought must be pursued and if captured perfected and if perfected then enjoyed forever -- or until some other lover lights up the horizon.
If you loved him/her you'd "prove" it?
Love is its own justification, especially for the young who have no other inspiration or no career or responsibilities to dull themselves with as their plodding elders do. Longing bursts through this one channel that seems open, dizzily insisting that the life of unreflecting passion is the highest they can aspire to. They do not reason, but fall.
Their elders do reason -- obsessively -- but fall all the same, thereby admitting that, with all their thought and experience, they find, when driven to extremity, they have nothing but love to live for.
Who should you date, a cub or a cougar?
This is not to say that such a surrender must be bad, only that it happens out of instinct and uninformed passion. Love is sweet and it is our nature to give way. But why do we worship it so ardently, and why do we break off our search for fulfillment here? Perhaps because we see no other gods [Kama Deva, "Cupid," Lucifer as Tempter figure in Christianity, slick Mara in Buddhism].
Yet, if love is the highest thing to live for then this is a hopeless universe, because we should see in a calm hour that Cupid's arrows not only thrill us but make us bleed.
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"Man Kills Estranged Lover Then Self.""Wife Stabs Husband in Domestic Quarrel." "Love Triangle Leads To Shooting." So read the headlines with depressing regularity. The stories behind these are only the most shocking of countless tales of passion, but they do forcefully suggest that romantic love is not always a blessing.
One might object that hate, not love, spawns such tragedies, but where has such hate come from if not from a prior attachment now broken? We should know from experience how easily what we call love can turn to bitterness, jealousy, and malice, and though we protest that this is not the fault of love, we ought to notice that where one passion arises another is likely to follow. Passions are unreliable, volatile, dangerous, and a poor foundation for happiness.
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Beauty and supreme songstress Lana Del Rey obsessed withdysfunctional relationships.
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Divorces, suicides, dissipation, violence, depravity, fanaticism, and other miseries great and small follow from passion, and yet passion is still, in the public mind, considered commendable, a mark of vigor and liveliness.
Though everybody will admit that passion gone awry is dangerous, few realize that passion is by its nature likely to go awry. Romantic love is a chancy passion that may result in the opposite of what is desired. It may have happy consequences, too -- else it would not have so many votaries -- but it raises the stakes in the gamble of life and makes us more vulnerable both to our own weaknesses and to unpredictable fortune.
As most of us count the joys of successful love (however we define success) worth the pain involved in its pursuit, we must learn to step lightly and with intelligence.
No demonstrators gather for dumb b/f killer.
We believe, with some reason, that love can ennoble and redeem us and call forth our purest energies, but we are slower to see that when the lamp of love flickers out, as it tragically tends to do, we might lose our way in a fearful labyrinth of suffering.
Granted that few will shun the pursuit of romance out of fear of unhappy consequences...More
(GlobalPost) Palden Choesto is one of 11 Buddhist monastics who have set themselves on fire (self-immolated) since March to protest Chinese crackdowns on Tibet. Other nuns witnessing the... This shocking new video, which Tibetan activists say they smuggled out of China, shows the most graphic images yet seen of a growing protest movement spurred by monks and nuns setting themselves on fire in often fatal displays of dissent against Chinese rule. More
KANDY, Sri Lanka -- Today in a precedented move, a Western meditator living in the vicinity of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, noted his breath. The sensation was one of plausible expectability.
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However, the noting was undertaken with utter mindfulness and clear comprehension (sati sampajanna) of circumstances and conditions just as they are (or were). There was neither addition nor subtraction from the equation of the direct experience. As meditation improves and insight dawns, the expectation is that advancement towards enlightenment will be made.
WQ editors, however, caution that without the assistance of jhana (meditative absorption) the "dry insight" road of this yogi will be difficult at best and is likely to be unsuccessful altogether. More as the situation develops. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island...
PHOTO: Stewart enjoying meditation stateside (robinstewart.com)
Female suicide bomber kills 24 in Sri Lanka Jean H. Lee (AP, 2/9/09)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel who pretended to be a war refugee blew herself up Monday as Sri Lankan soldiers frisked her at a checkpoint. Twenty troops and eight civilians died.
State TV showed the carnage after the suicide bombing in Vishwamadu, a northeastern town where hundreds of civilians had been waiting to be sent to refugee camps: a woman in a blue dress curled up in the fetal position, her face and neck spattered with blood; plastic lawn chairs upended and piled in a jumble from the force of the blast.
A soldier briskly picked up a dead child who was sprawled face down in the dirt, yellow shorts peeping out from beneath her bloodstained pink-and-purple dress. He dropped her rag-doll body on top of another corpse in a truck, leaving their bloodied, bare feet jutting out the back.
The footage, released by the government, did not show the bodies of any soldiers.
Government troops claim to be closing in on the Tamil Tiger rebels in their push to end a 25-year-old war that has killed some 70,000 people. The military has backed the rebels into a strip of land on the northeastern coast, and the Red Cross says some 250,000 civilians are trapped there too. More>>
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