Weekend Whats

What to Stand-up: “If they rebooted the office right now it’d end with Pam winning a landmark sexual harassment case. And in the series finale you’d learn, ‘That’s what the documentary was about. They were just gathering evidence about Jim.'” Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix stand-up addresses his past issues and our current ones. This is one of the best stand-up shows I’ve seen in a long time.

+ What to Book: “To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: assume a fake identity, intentionally get captured and sent to the new camp, and then report back to the underground on what had happened to his compatriots there … The name of the camp was Auschwitz.” Jack Fairweather with the story of the man who went to Auschwitz, on purpose. The Volunteer.

+ What to Doc: “For more than three decades, Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.” An absolute must-watch on HBO: True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.

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