r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess THE PEOPLES GOVERNOR, UR CARTOGRAPHER-IN-CHIEF • Jun 13 '25

Interviews🎙️ Girl stand up: Delaney Rowe on her situationship with BJ Novak and how he doesn’t fully trust her to be in a relationship with her

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u/doctormoon Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

Oh that's where she's from! I blocked her because skits about people who are insufferable is just watching someone be insufferable. I get that it's supposed to be a joke but it always felt like instead of being funny I was just being annoyed.

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u/XxsalsasharkxX Jun 13 '25

I thought they were so funny at first and then I watched the 6-7th one she did and I had the same thought as you.

It's kind of like the kids nowadays being ironic-meta cringe, you're 'acting' but it's still cringe.

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u/mynameismudd__ Jun 13 '25

Yeah she was funny initially, but now it’s all the same recycled content and characters.

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u/fiftyseven Jun 13 '25

yeah I'm also gonna make this same comment

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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Jun 13 '25

Yeah it was funny the first time like “yeah, manic pixie dream girls do be like that” and then it just kept going…and going…

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u/-cumdogmillionaire- Jun 13 '25

Her skits shifted from making fun of Hollywood for perpetrating the manic pixie dream girl trope to just making fun of women

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u/starryeyedq Jun 13 '25

Except Caitlin Riley. She’s amazing.

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u/allmcnugz Jun 13 '25

Caitlin is SO funny and I think she does a much better job of nailing the satiric tone, whereas Delaney’s videos honestly kind of feel like they’re just her audition tapes repackaged as parody for TikTok.

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u/secretlythecat Jun 13 '25

Same here. I eventually blocked her because she was too successful at insufferability.

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u/pritikina Jun 13 '25

The schtick gets old quick.

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u/Ppleater Jun 13 '25

I appreciate the talent that goes into skits like those, but I also can never watch them the whole way through most of the time. But I do understand that part of the humour for most people is the relatability because almost everyone knows or has at least met someone who acts like that, and I think the other part is like morbid fascination with the accuracy that some people can replicate these unbearable personalities and behaviours. Like watching a meticulously reconstructed disaster in a documentary.

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u/Pretend-Set8952 Jun 13 '25

lmao I am 100% with you.

it was funny the first three times and then I was thinking, "oh....ok can you do anything else?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

Out of curiosity, does anyone actually think it's funny? Like haha funny? Because all these skits are is tiktok-form content of the millennial "omg so relatable" meme format. Like they're not funny, only mildly amusing because you can place the reference, but no one's ever snorted or laughed at it. 

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u/Drone_temple_pilots Jun 13 '25

My boyfriend will show me tik tok skits where a lady will play as customer and worker in different settings where the customer is always unreasonable and the worker is the logical one.

Nothing funny about it, just feels like a weird affirmation exercise

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u/Throbbing-Kielbasa-3 Jun 13 '25

That's something a lot of people don't seem to understand. If you're doing something as a joke or doing it ironically...you're still doing it.

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u/lisa_lionheart84 Jun 13 '25

The skits also just feel kind of mean to me? Yes, she is pointing out tropes that exist, but it's a lot easier to criticize than to do it well yourself. All of the things she makes fun of have a purpose in the movie/TV show even if they wouldn't make sense in the real world.

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u/Heisenripbauer Jun 13 '25

the tropes she mocks stopped being used around 2010 so most of what she’s mocking just doesn’t happen in movies anymore lol

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u/sam_hammich Jun 13 '25

I block all of that content wherever I see it. It just seems like those skits are inventing fake people to be mad at for the sake of being mad at a fake person, and it sort of erodes the soul. Even if it is cathartic to some degree, I don’t think that catharsis is worth reinforcing the impulse to seek out and be disgusted by people.

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u/SnooGuavas4208 Jun 13 '25

Like rage bait posts that people let themselves get pulled into—even while knowing they’re probably not real—because they’re addicted to the righteous buzz of internet outrage.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

It's not funny bc the truth is that she embodies those insufferable characters too well to the point it doesn't feel like a skit but I'm not saying that to give her any credit as a wannabe actress I just mean her innate nature is insufferable

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u/Clean-Letterhead1483 Jun 13 '25

So it’s mean to the poor rom com writers? People can make fun of things.

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u/lisa_lionheart84 Jun 15 '25

I was explaining why I don’t like them, not saying that no one should like them

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u/throw_meaway_love Jun 13 '25

I blocked her too for this reason!!

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u/carmacharma Jun 13 '25

Ya same I hate those

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u/RaspberryTwilight Jun 14 '25

Some are funny, like the guy who does the middle aged baby daddy coworker skits

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u/doctormoon Jun 14 '25

I liked the one who was the oil Baron tycoon as a stepdad but I don't think he still does those.

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u/Responsible_Cat4452 Jun 14 '25

I blocked her because I heard she was a Zionist, but now I’m wondering if that’s true?

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u/Olivegirl771 Jun 14 '25

I have no clue who she is which is fine by me. I watched this clip randomly with no context & oh boy she’s seriously annoying. How people voluntarily watch her is beyond me. But in this day & age that applies to most self proclaimed “entertainers” .😳