Author: Matt Drufke

Matt Drufke is an self-described expert on pop culture, and will come to your parties if you have a dope cheese tray.
Comedy, Misc., Pop Culture

Apologies To Those Offended: My thoughts on Shane Gillis…

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Apologies To Those Offended: My thoughts on Shane Gillis…

When there is breaking news about comedy, there are two guarantees.

The first is that it’s never good news. There is never an article about John Mulaney curing some disease or Sarah Silverman winning Le Mans. It’s only a story about controversy.

Knowing that, the second guarantee is that for a few days, my Facebook feed becomes fucking insufferable. Between hot takes, juicy bits, and other nonsense, every comedian wants to lob out some nugget for all of social media to socially mediate. I’m also totally guilty of this myself, so I apologize if I’ve made your timeline insufferable.

So, if you are a comedian or know a comedian, or know anyone that has watched a Netflix special or has an opinion about free speech, your timeline these past 24 hours has no doubt been filled with stories of Shane Gillis.

And I’m about to make it worse.

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Music/Movies

Fancy Boys Go To The Movies: The Farewell

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Fancy Boys Go To The Movies: The Farewell

This is the period in the cinematic year when studios stop sending us their blockbusters (how they make their money) and get ready to start sending us their Oscar bait (how they feel good about themselves). Both now, and in the spring when the same thing happens in reverse order, can be a feast or famine for a film that the studio doesn’t know exactly how well it could do. Sometimes, a film can find the right audience and become a massive and unlikely hit. More likely, a film can get lost and not find the audience it deserves.

I hope The Farewell finds the audience that it deserves, because it’s one of the best movies of the year.

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Music/Movies

The 2019 Summer Blockbuster Wrap-Up

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The 2019 Summer Blockbuster Wrap-Up

September is here. Labor Day has passed. The kids are back in school. This marks the end of the summer movie season, that beautiful period from May through August when the major movie studios only care about one thing: making that sweet, sweet, sweeeeeeeeeet paper. You want remakes? THEY WILL GIVE YOU REMAKES! You want sequels? THEY WILL GIVE YOU SEQUELS! You want compelling Oscar-worthy think pieces? FUCK OFF! THEY ARE TOO BUSY GIVING YOU REMAKES AND SEQUELS!

So, how did the studios do?

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Comedy, Misc.

The Worst Comedy Set I’ve Ever Seen

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The Worst Comedy Set I’ve Ever Seen

This collection of writers at Fancy Boys Club all have one thing in common: stand-up comedy. Some of us perform (or have performed) it. Some of us produce (or have produced) it. All of us love it. Or have loved it and then hated it and then loved it again. Relationships with comedy can be very complicated.

I’ve been lucky enough to be performing stand-up comedy for over 12 years now. How am I as a comedian? I’m… ok. There are nights when I have amazing sets and nights when I bomb. Most sets lie somewhere in the middle of those.

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Misc.

President Trashdick?

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President Trashdick?

(AUTHOR/EDITOR’S NOTE: The views in this piece are mine and mine alone. My political opinions, though I believe them to be right and true and the only pure form of light in this insane political climate, do not reflect The Fancy Boys Club or the other writers for the site.

UPDATE: This piece was written on Thursday to be released today. Earlier this morning, Joe Walsh announced on ABC that he would officially be running for President.)

You have to believe me, I wanted to start out nice.

When I decided to help this site come to life, I was envisioning a friendly place with happy discussion and writers passionate about their topics. I expected my own little Garden of Eden, a place where I could go when I was seeking emotional solace.

I’m currently a few hundred words into an essay about how much I loved the ending to Quentin Tarantino’s new film. All of my inner peace changed when I woke up Thursday morning to a Mediaite article saying Joe Walsh was planning a presidential run. And, just like that, my inner peace evaporated. Because Joe Walsh is a trashdick. He HAS a trashdick. 

And it’s important to me that you know that.

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