I try not to publicly malign the work of other comedians (unless I genuinely dislike them on a personal level), probably because I’m so sensitive to it that the idea of subjecting anyone else to it seems crazy. But around the release of the movie, and in the months following, people I really respected started mocking the movie—not just what happened with it; they literally were saying it was shitty. A joke Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made at the Golden Globes that year was particularly painful, not only because I look up to them so much but because I knew they were right and that the movie itself
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