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Alora barag sa KathNiel fans, nag-sorry agad: ‘Insensitive joke po, mali ako…di na mauulit’ KINUYOG ng KathNiel fans at mga netizens ang komedyanang si Alora Sasam dahil sa kanyang “insensitive joke” sa breakup nina Kathryn Bernardo at Daniel Padilla. Na-bad trip ang mga supporters nina Kath at DJ nang mabasa ang ipinost ni Alora sa kanyang X account sa gitna ng pagluluksa ng milyun-milyong KathNiel fans sa buong mundo. Isa si Alora sa mga close friends nina Daniel at Kathryn kaya naman sumama ang loob sa kanya ng mga fans dahil sa tila mapanukso niyang social media post na burado na ngayon. Kahapon, December 1, nagbahagi nga si Alora sa X ng litrato nila ni Kathryn kung saan nakayakap sa kanya si Kathryn habang tila may ibinubulong. “Shot puno mamaya. Bawat tumakas,” ang nakalagay sa speech balloon ni Kathryn. Sabi naman sa speech balloon ni Alora, “Pwede iwan ko na lang atay ko? Balikan ko bukas.” Hirit pa ni Alora sa caption ng ipinost niyang picture, “December 1: Philippine National Shot Puno Day.” Kasunod nga nito ay binatikos ng netizens si Alora dahil hindi nila nagustuhan ang pagdyo-joke nito sa paghihiwalay nina Kath at Daniel. Hindi raw ito ang tamang pagkakataon na gawing katatawanan ang pinagdaraanan ng KathNiel. Baka Bet Mo: Alora Sasam nag-sorry sa KathNiel nang magbakasyon sa Thailand: Pasensiya na sa istorbo, hiyang-hiya ako! Narito ang ilan sa mga comments na nabasa namin sa post ni Alora. “Wala pang lagpas 24hrs since the announcement kagabi. The pain is still fresh. Kahit kaunting respeto man lang sana.” “Alora posting a meme a day after kathniel confirmed their breakup while everyone is saddened. shows how insensitive she is.” “Matagal ka ng insensitive pero mas pinamukha mo ngayon kung gaano ka ka-insensitive.” “Okay lang sana if hindi naman sya kilala but she’s literally one of kath’s friends. feels like she’s celebrating the break up or smthn.” “God bless you, @alorskieee we hope you also find peace and you’ll put your good effort in the right place, in the right way.” “The fans are well aware that the world won’t stop just because we’re hurting but please lang, have some little kindness and be sensitive enough. 12 years ‘to, alora!! 12 freaking years!! parang di naman nag grade 2 dyan.” “YUNG TINUTURING KANG KAIBIGAN PERO GINAGAWA KA LANG MEME SA LOWEST POINT MO. KAPAL NG MUKHA NITONG ALORA NATO LITERALLY KIMMY!” Matapos ma-bash nang bongga, nag-sorry agad si Alora sa mga fans dahil sa kanyang “insensitive joke”. Aniya sa kanyang X post, “Hello po, sorry, insensitive joke po. Mali ako. Di na po mauulit. Sorry po. Deleted na po.” Nitong nagdaang November 30 inihayag nina Kathryn at Daniel sa madlang pipol na naghiwalay na sila matapos ang 11 years bilang magkarelasyon. Sey ni Kathryn, “I’m well aware of the rumors and speculations going around, and as hard as it is to put everything into words, I want you to hear it straight from me; It’s true that Deej and I have decided to part ways. “Like any relationship, we tried our best to make it work. We’ve been drifting apart for a while now, and we ultimately had to accept that we can’t go back to were we used to be. “It just won’t be fair to pretend that everything is still the same,” aniya pa. Disclaimer: The comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Bandera. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.

Norman Lear, who made funny sitcoms about serious topics, dies at 101 Norman Lear, who addressed serious issues in humorous sitcoms, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. Matthew Lawrence, a spokesperson for the family, said the producer and screenwriter died of natural causes. Lear was hailed for producing beloved television shows like All in the Family and The Jeffersons , and later, for his work as a political activist. A post on his Facebook page said that he was “surrounded by his family as we told stories and sang songs until the very end.” The families in Lear’s shows had conversations about the real things that were going on in the 1970s. Before these shows, television worlds were simpler, nicer places, says Darnell Hunt, a leading scholar of racial representation on TV. They had plot lines like: “I burnt the pot roast. What are we gonna do we don’t have anything for dinner. Or I have a talent show at school and I don’t know how to dance.” Then Lear’s roster of hit ’70s sitcoms revolutionized television. “Those shows took on issues that couldn’t be resolved,” Hunt says. “They were issues that were at the heart of inequality and struggle in American society. He tackled everything from homophobia, sexism, racism, you name it.” If you watched All in the Family, you probably already have a sense of Lear’s own family. Archie Bunker is reminiscent of Lear’s own father, Edith was based on his mother, Jeanette, and America knew Lear’s ex-wife Frances as the character Maude. Lear grew up in a Jewish family in Connecticut. “I was a kid of the Depression,” Lear told NPR in 2012. “I saw my father’s brothers go belly up. My father was always belly up. It’s very difficult for me to call my father what he was, so I use ‘rascal.’ He served time. He was in trouble a lot with the law. … But I can’t overstate how much I loved him. You hear me talk about him lightly because I cannot make him a villain. I loved him.” Lear dropped out of college and enlisted in the Air Force to fight in World War II. In his late 20s, he moved to Los Angeles. He struggled for several years, selling furniture door to door, taking baby pictures. Eventually, he talked his way into writing for a nightclub comedy act, which led to variety show gigs. “He worked for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and then Martha Raye — this is a kind of who’s who of television in that era,” says Marty Kaplan, founding director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California. By 1971, Lear was almost 50. He had produced and directed some shows and movies, and his life was about to change. “I’d read in TV Guide about this British show Till Death Us Do Part, ” Lear recollected in the DVD set The Norman Lear Collection. “That dynamic of the father and the son and the political arguments and the bigotry and so forth — that was my father,” Lear says. “I grew up with that. I couldn’t believe it hadn’t been my idea, it was so clearly a show.” So he decided to make his own version. He cast stars like Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton and he got a pilot filmed. But Lear had to fight for years to get All in the Family on air. When it finally did air, viewers got this warning first: “The program you are about to see is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show — in a mature fashion — just how absurd they are.” The network was prepped for lots of complaints about the family patriarch, Archie Bunker’s, unbridled racism. But people got it — and All in the Family made it to the top-10 for eight of its nine seasons. “I set out to make people laugh, truly to make people laugh,” Lear said. “But we approached it seriously. Our writers read two, three newspapers a day, paid a lot of attention to their kids and families, came in to talk about everything that was affecting us in our daily lives. And that’s where we got our material.” All in the Family was the beginning of Lear’s sitcom reign. Edith’s cousin Maude, spun off her own show. Maude’s housekeeper Florida and her family became Good Times — about a black family struggling with poverty. And then came The Jeffersons, about a black family on its way up. “The Jeffersons were unabashedly black,” says Darnell Hunt. “It tried to engage race and class dynamics and gender dynamics at the same time. I remember The Jeffersons growing up, I remember feeling like, there really isn’t anything else like this on TV so I have to watch this.” Hunt says the portrayal of a black family was far from perfect, but it had a level of realness that black audiences could relate to. The Jeffersons ran for 11 seasons — one of the longest running sitcoms on television. It became another Lear success story. “He had at one point, three out of the five top shows on television, and this was a time when there were only three networks,” says Kaplan. “Routinely, a show might get 50 or 60 million viewers. He was in direct contact with the living rooms and families of the country.” Lear took that reach seriously. He routinely fought with executives to get on storylines that reflected the social upheaval of the ’70s, with the black power movement and women’s liberation. “It didn’t escape our notice also that if you can get people to care when they laugh, they will laugh more,” Lear told NPR in 2008. By 1980, Lear was moving away from sitcoms, and toward political activism. “The mixture of politics and religion scared the hell out of me,” he said. “And I went out and made a 60 second television spot.” In that spot, aimed at the religious right, Lear says: “There’s something wrong when people — even preachers — suggest that other people are good Christians or bad Christians, depending on their political views. That’s not the American way.” He says he never intended to start an organization, but People for the American Way “just sprung up around it.” Lear bought an original copy of the Declaration of Independence and toured the country with it. A nonprofit campaign that grew out of that tour called We Declare says that it registered nearly four million young voters ahead of the 2008 election. Lear’s passion and activism turned him into something of a lightning rod. “I’ve received a lot of death threats,” he told NPR in 2012. “I never intended to be a lightning rod. Somebody asked me in an interview, if I had a bumper sticker, what would my bumper sticker be? And I said, ‘Just another version of you.’ And that’s what I think we all are — versions of each other.” In more recent years, Lear had something of a comeback in Hollywood. For example, he helped reboot his series One Day At A Time . He was pitching pilots and holding political fundraisers, and recording twitter videos on his front porch — even after turning 100 years old. Kaplan says Lear did all he did with humor and compassion. “Norman divided people into wet and dry,” Kaplan explains. “Dry people were calm, cool, unruffled. Wet people were emotional, and impulsive, and things get to them.” More On Norman Lear Lear considered himself a “wet” person — he teared up, he joined causes, he acted on what he believed — and his life was anything but dry.

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Chevy Chase has added a new wrinkle to his dishonorable discharge from Community in 2012. As it turns out, he never really thought the show was that funny to begin with.

By the time Maron brings up Dan Harmon’s beloved cult series about an hour into the podcast, Chase seems surprised to hear the title at all. The former Fletch had just finished talking about how much he loves his life, which consists primarily of spending time with his wife and kids, when Maron brings up Community being a “big deal”—again, to Chase’s surprise. “I kind of forget about that,” Chase said of being asked to be on the show. “They wanted me, so I said ‘yes.’”

Chase lasted 83 episodes on the sitcom before creator Dan Harmon fired him for using the N-word on set. The actor sarcastically asked aloud if his character would start using racist epithets. For Chase, though, the show could have been better to begin with.

“I honestly felt the show wasn’t funny enough for me, ultimately. I felt a little bit constrained,” Chase told Maron. “Everybody had their bits, and I thought they were all good, but it just wasn’t hard-hitting enough for me.”

“I didn’t mind the character. I just felt that it was—I felt happier being alone. I just didn’t want to be surrounded by that table, every day, with those people. It was too much.”

Despite the Harmon-Chase feud making its way into the discourse occasionally, Chase says he’s “okay” with Harmon but has not seen him since 2012. “I have no idea if we’re okay,” he said. “I’ve never been not okay. He’s kind of a pisser.”

Last year, after news broke about a Community movie supposedly coming to Peacock, Harmon said he didn’t “even know if it’s legal for [Chase] to come back.”

“That may be out of my hands,” he continued. “Maybe something I sign for with an insurance company, I really don’t know.”

For what it’s worth, Chase does say that he and Bill Murray are okay these days. Maybe there’s hope for Community yet.