Nick Offerman Roasts MAGA Commentator After His Bizarre Masculinity Rant
Offerman brushed off the conservative commentator’s criticism, saying he turned it into a joke and prefers to keep making his work.
- On Sunday, Sept. 6, actor Nick Offerman appeared on the Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso podcast and reacted to a 2023 video of political commentator Ben Shapiro criticizing his role in HBO's The Last of Us.
- The Daily Wire co-founder previously ranted about the episode Long, Long Time, dismissing it as a gay Ron Swanson story and claiming the narrative lacked zombies or stakes, calling the romance "Romeo and Romeo."
- Offerman said he was "embarrassed for his reading comprehension," noting Shapiro got eight things wrong in his recap besides his "rampant homophobia." He blasted the commentator's mischaracterization throughout the critique.
- During his tour, Offerman turned the criticism into a song, joking that Shapiro "questioned my masculinity and I can't write a better joke than that" while choosing to avoid further engagement.
- Ignoring the public zeitgeist, Offerman said he navigates life by the writings of Wendell Berry and his parents' values rather than focusing on Twitter trolls or what he called the "sadness of Elon Musk.
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Nick Offerman calls Ben Shapiro's 'Last of Us' critique homophobic
Actor NICK OFFERMAN is renewing his criticism of conservative commentator BEN SHAPIRO over Shapiro's years-old takedown of Offerman's gay role in HBO's "The Last of Us," accusing him of "rampant homophobia."
Nick Offerman Slams Ben Shapiro’s ‘Rampant Homophobia’ After Being Attacked for Playing a Gay Role: ‘Holy S—. That’s Crazy’
Nick Offerman recently appeared on the “Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso” podcast and blasted Ben Shaprio’s “rampant homophobia” after seeing a video for the first time of the Daily Wire co-founder and political commenter’s attacking Offerman’s gay role in HBO’s “The Last of Us.” “The entire episode has no zombies, no real threat, and it is about two gay dudes who meet and have a relationship, in which one grows strawberries for the other, and then …
Nick Offerman Responds to Ben Shapiro’s Homophobic Digs… Three Years Later. We Love an Unbothered King
When Ben Shapiro fires verbal shots at Nick Offerman’s masculinity, how does the Parks and Recreation actor respond? Spoiler: he doesn’t. While sitting down with Sam Fragoso of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso for an interview published over Labor Day weekend, the talk show host shared a clip of Shapiro floundering to explain the premise of The Last of Us season one’s iconic third episode, “Long, Long Time.” The episode shares the story of a beautiful…
Nick Offerman blasts Ben Shapiro’s ‘insane’ critique of The Last of Us’ gay storyline
Offerman starred in a standalone episode of the post-apocalyptic drama opposite Murray Bartlett
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