Today is Thursday, May 29, 2025. Today will be brief since it’s late here owing to my watching an HBO special starring openly out comedian Jerrod Carmichael whose special was called Don’t Be Gay and it revels in dirty jokes about his relationship with his white boyfriend and his frustration with his parents. All of the jokes emanate from his examination of his attitude toward himself and his acceptance of his gay identity. But he begins the special with expressing his inadequacy toward having a white boyfriend and how he had to enter therapy to deal with this. The show just has Carmichael stand on the stage at New York’s West Side YMCA in front of a gold curtain where he tells well-written, well-performed jokes. At one point, he admits he has an open relationship with his boyfriend and that his boyfriend fucks a guy with a dick that has “a lot of heft to it.” I thought this was quite funny. Then he slams all mothers for being crazy at one point; his mother, he admits, has become very religious. While his father has stopped talking to a large degree. He notices the difference between gay people who openly admit to being horny, while straight men have to do things like call Sydney Sweeney [a relatively new actress] “attractive” without admitting that they would love to bonk her. Carmichael basically revels in this honesty, while admitting he has issues with expressing feelings of inferiority toward white people. In 2024, this up-and-coming comedian starred in his own reality show called Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show on HBO; I watched some episodes from this series sometime ago and enjoyed what I saw. His humor might not be for everyone since it’s quite raw and contains vulgar language. But what comedian isn’t like this these days? Carmichael was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

After watching this special, I indulged in watching a horror film from 2020: Final Destination which has spawned an entire franchise. This is the film that has as its theme can death be cheated after being tapped to die after a group of young teens bound for Paris exit a jet that eventually blows up in the sky, killing everyone onboard. It is Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) who has a premonition that the plane was going to explode in midair, so he and six other classmates get off the plane and watch it actually explode shortly after takeoff. He and the other survivors have thus cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long. One by one, the survivors fall prey to ingenious ways of dying. The only actor I recognized in this initial Final Destination film was Tony Todd who was the title character of Candyman some years back. In this movie, he plays a mortician. Of course, Rotten Tomatoes gave this horror entry a very low rating. I thought some of the death scenes were ingenious, but a little too farfetched to be believed.

Anyway, it’s getting late here.

Have a good Friday.

And so it went!