It was also meant to be self deprecating towards him. It’s critic shielding self-awareness but self-awareness has become scarce with public figures (and people in general) these days.

It sounds like you came out ready to pounce on ANYTHING McFarlane did and watching with that mindset you didn’t get that the opening bit was a satire of hollywood appealing to the male gaze. Admittedly his jokes toward the end became more mean spirited but as a whole he was not nearly as awful [...]