<![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:50:46 EDT Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:50:46 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c536600 If only Steve Coogan could show us the way! Oh wait...

Nicolars

]]> 33:208790:c536600 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:50:46 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c535870 Steve Carell, a raving jackass?! I think your spite is misdirected.

Oh America. Why didn't you stay British?

MJ

]]> 33:208790:c535870 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:11:17 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c534720 justified yet again in never giving a dime to ye olde alma mater...

hndinglove

]]> 33:208790:c534720 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:14:54 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c534698 Comedy Central is about two clicks higher on the satire dial than Dane Cook. There's a world of difference between cutting, informed, unapologetic satire and smug, self-righteous water cooler one-liners. Most Americans wouldn't know, because we've only known the latter.

shallowrewards

]]> 33:208790:c534698 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:11:45 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c534488 Satire is absent in the media? Somebody needs to give a heads-up to Stephen Colbert.

Poubelle

]]> 33:208790:c534488 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:54:09 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c533553 halfway thru the first clip and i'm most blown away by how dumb harvard students are.

rackattack

]]> 33:208790:c533553 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:51:40 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c533453 Thank you, Idolator. After reading this, I don't feel bad about drinking instead of looking for a new job.

Why bother?

IamnotStarJones

]]> 33:208790:c533453 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:39:26 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c533357 The clown here isn't Nick, this is a major issue, just as the class and he suggest; but the fact that a Harvard classroom would need to dedicate time to sorting this out is maybe a slam the educational system in America.

As mentioned on another blog chained to this story, the referendum here is that America has lost what tiny speck of self-awareness and self-ridicule - or even self-suspicion - it arguably never had in the first place. And that's nicely demonstrated - as mentioned somewhere else - by British comedy like The Day Today and Alan Partridge and especially The Office, which is a show that had to be Americanized to "work" here. Americanized: Steve Carell, raving jackass with all the sly wit of a Green Bay Packers fan at the 50 yard line.

Subtlety - leading humor - and satire are all lost on the majority of Americans and absolutely non-existent in our paranoiac, advertiser-controlled media. Magazines and papers hide behind terms like "on brand," "our reader," dumbing things down because they actually think most of America is too stupid to understand humor. Or they're afraid of the backlash and lawsuits from the people being lampooned, the loss of exclusivity, or even the protests from the percentage of idiots with no grip on reality. Suggestion, satire - even willfully misdirection - are costly routes to dialogue and nobody will touch them. This is another reason why we hide behind pathetic "cultural references" and comparative (non)criticism and why we grow dumber and more bored and alienated every day: we're afraid of risk.

shallowrewards

]]> 33:208790:c533357 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:30:40 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c533234 Cold lampin. \M/

shallowrewards

]]> 33:208790:c533234 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:13:01 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c533204 God, how many times today can I post "This is SO embarassing!" as a comment to an entry regarding the idiot antics of socially retarded music geek boy wonders?

...At least the idiot antics of print "journalists," Pitchfork "reviewers" and the hacks of the blogosphere are all well-represented today.

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:208790:c533204 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:10:31 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c533084 I know those facts are a real bitch to keep track of. Why hasn't Fox snapped this little gem up yet?

rchick

]]> 33:208790:c533084 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:56:55 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c532638 Stephen Glass is cuter than I remember.

MTS

]]> 33:208790:c532638 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:01:12 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c532422 The face of a generation.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:208790:c532422 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:24:28 EDT <![CDATA[Nick Sylvester's Harvard Lecture: This Clip Will Crash Your Computer And Crush Your Soul]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/nick-sylvester/nick-sylvesters-harvard-lecture-this-clip-will-crash-your-computer-and-crush-your-soul-208790.php#c532415 There's discussion at the class's wiki here. And now I feel like I need a shower, a drink, and/or something to punch.

millwhistle

]]> 33:208790:c532415 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:23:11 EDT