‘Entourage’ Creator Melts Down Over Satire About His Show

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“We don’t want modern audiences to have to confront this potentially offensive content or wonder how this show, an unironic love letter to douchebags, was ever considered worthy of being broadcast on HBO,' Max Davidson's essay reads.

. “Talentless nobodies like you speak on Twitter and then your zombie friends at shitty newspapers, that nobody reads anymore reprint your trash. Tell president Obama and the nytimes how offensive we were. Those who try to rewrite history are offensive. And dangerous. And Spielberg already regrets touching ET. Anyway, fuck you. Oh we got a Peabody and a bafta too, ya loser.”. “It’s taking sensitivity readings to the extreme of editing shows from 15 years ago. The ET joke was quite intentional.

After Davidson and several others had pointed out to him on Twitter that the piece was satire, Ellin backed off—while still insisting he had a point.Friday morning in response to someone who noted that the author was being “sarcasitc,” adding, “I know that now!”

 

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