Discussion for article #237160
Cute kid, and very brave. It warms my heart that this teenager seems to have more class, tact, and balls than the adults that ostensibly are charged with molding his, and other kids’ characters at his school. Not bad one liners either. And quoting Vera Lynn was a nice touch. Bravo. Kudos to Wilmore for standing up for this young man too.
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Larry Wilmore, that was great! Thank you so much for having Evan on the show. Even seems like such a sweetie and someone I’d have made fast friends with in my high school. Thank you!!
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When this story came out originally, I contrarily agreed with the principal. I understood that the whole speech was about his coming out and argued that valedictories were not place for self-centered soliloquies, and that he was making the speech all about him, rather than his class. I still feel that way about those me-me-me speeches.
But I was completely wrong here.
The excerpt of the speech I heard was inclusive, witty, and elegant. His coming out was just a small, but critical part and completely appropriate in context.
The principal should have let him speak every word of it. It was a great valedictory.
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I’ll be watching tonight, but I’m not sure Wilmore should have put ‘Ass’ in that slogan.
The principal of the school is probably beginning to feel…idk…stupid right about now. Had he let the speach go as it was all of this would have blown over.
I do hope that the kid gets a job as a comedy writer later on, though.
But…I kind of felt ick during the panel discussion…
We now stop the show when they get to the panel. 7 minutes with 5 people talking, all trying to make lame jokes is usually not very good. We kinda liked that when the show first began, but he often has some regulars that we don’t like. Especially hate that young kid who always wears a ski cap. Ugh.
I think the panel is not working very well even though they’ve cut it down to three people and Larry. It isn’t just the lame jokes, but they never seem to have someone who has any real facts to bring. Like last night, they discussed Caitlyn Jenner and they didn’t have any trans people on the panel to refute some of the stupid stuff being said.
I’m probably going to end up leaving the show about that point too.
Larry Wilmore you get the award for today:
Hey Brendan, a summary of the speech would be appropriate since some of us work for a living and are unable to watch videos during work hours.
Are there any decent principles out there?
I’m starting to believe there’s not.
All of mine were assholes as well.