Podcast: Celebrity Snark with Amelie Gillette and Alex Blagg
How's this for a change of pace... an issue-oriented TSOYA! We talk with two people I really like about a phenomenon I really hate: celebrity snark.
Amelie Gillette is the author of the very funny column and blog "The Hater" for The Onion AV Club. Alex Blagg is one of the bloggers on BestWeekEver.TV, the blog spinoff of the popular VH1 series.
We talk about the proliferation of celebrity snark, the recent Kimmel/Gawker kerfuffle and much more.
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Friday, May 11, 2007
2 Comments:
Awesome interview.
Jesse, you totally called these two out on their "holier than thou" approach to celebrity gossip. It seems like bloggers are so rarely challenged by others in the media.
Amelie Gillette is barely a fraction as smart or witty as she thinks she is. Her pop culture insights are trite and immature. Her column in the Onion is painful in its high school level snark.
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