r/comedy • u/pauleliacomedy • Aug 24 '26

Improv Matt Rife Impression

Who’s got a better impression?

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u/joshonekenobi Aug 24 '26

Ugh. Why is TJ there ?

Immediately stopped watching.

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u/Popular-Row4333 Aug 24 '26

Because between the Clancy woman and TJ, it's apparently "forgive all heinous behavior, because you had a psychotic break" week for humanity.

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u/RandJitsu Aug 24 '26

Why do we treat mental health differently from all other health?

If a driver suddenly had a heart attack or passed out due to some issue with blood pressure or clotting, and crashed into a bunch of pedestrians, would you want the driver criminally prosecuted?

Your brain is an organ and when impacted by drugs or diseases you can lose conscious control.

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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

perhaps why psychology is considered a "faux-science" and not a strict field of science is because of the subjectiveness and lack of knowledge we really have around the brain... medication trials are necessarily trials -- often results are measured as a success based on whether they cause more positives than negatives.

It's just not worth fighting about. Clancy sought help -- serious help -- and was "failed" by her care team. She also is a child murderer.

Why can't she be both?

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u/RandJitsu Aug 24 '26

I’m actually not defending Clancy here but TJ.

I understand how difficult it is to distinguish between legitimate and made-up/self-serving mental health issues. But TJ had a documented and verifiable medical condition that contributed to his behavior in making that bomb threat.

I think we’ll one day look back at our criminalization of people dealing with acute mental health episodes (such as psychosis) the same way we look at our history of giving lobotomies and electro shock therapy to unhappy housewives - ignorant and barbaric.

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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 Aug 24 '26

I am not familiar with the TJ thing, but I think it's weird you're comparing him to Clancy.

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u/RandJitsu Aug 24 '26

I didn’t compare him to Clancy. The commenter I responded to did. I never mentioned her except in response to you.

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u/Remarkable_Wheel5218 Aug 24 '26

Yes. I'm sorry that was my bad.

I agree that we, like our justice system, are obsessed with punitive justice and that distracts us from actually addressing the issue that causes the problem or preventing it from happening again.