A comedian has the right to say whatever he wants. This critic believes this the way he believes in gravity, in the Dojo, and in the front row. On October 10, Sebastian Maniscalco hosted Saturday Night Live and told the nation that he had not been to the gym in a long time, and that he did not know women just dress like whores now. The internet convened. Sebastian said what he said, he is entitled to it, and this critic will defend that to the grave, a place he thinks about often.
I will go further. I have a soft spot for whores, because my wife is a whore.
I'm sorry. That was unfair and untrue. She is a woman who made choices, and I respect her choices.
She left me and took the children. She will not let me see the children. I have made mistakes, and I do not know what they are, but I accept that they were large.
She is a human parking violation.
I'm sorry. I take that back. I am the parking violation. She is a person.
I am not the same man I was. I might be the same man. But please, let me try to be different. You accepted me once. Accept me again, for who I am, a man who sits alone in the front row with a juice box and a prepared statement.
Anyway. Sebastian Maniscalco: free to say what he wants.
Verdict: five out of five. Consummated in spirit.