People go on about touchy-feely liberal clapter, but it’s always the edgy anti-PC crowd who give these tedious, preachy speeches. It’s the same kind of persecution complex that made late-period Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks so exhausting.

Or we could, you know, knock down all these arbitrary geographic boundaries that have carved up the planet in the name of profit, especially now that the actual barriers that made this system somewhat justifiable in the past have completely disappeared.

is it sloppy copy or is the implication that key’s episode was somehow also a premiere? do the mid-season returns count as ‘premieres’?

Laboured, but I'll allow it.

I think it’s fine Silverman questions this, I don’t think she’s being overly sensitive for pondering it. Anti-semitism is still going strong.

Rachel Brosnahan (Mrs. Maisel) is not Jewish. It’s noted in the article.

I find it weird that the actor portraying Mrs Maisel is not Jewish when the character herself is very Jewish. I wouldn’t go out of my way to argue it has to be a Jewish person, but I’m also not Jewish. I could definitely understand an argument that the portrayal is borderline offensive especially because it’s not a…

Let me meet you halfway and suggest Weird Al Yankovic.

How much does this social media thing cost

It's like jazz. You gotta watch for the Irishmen who aren't in it.

You posted this twice but I heard the second one in a lower pitch?

Going to a theater in the midst of a pandemic to see Dear Evan Hansen, over two superhero action blockbusters, should be grounds for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

Disney is a monster, and I have some sympathy for Lieber, but Ditko never showed any interest in lawsuits when he was alive. I’d also argue that the families don’t even really intend to get the characters back — Thor becomes a lot less valuable detached from the rest of Marvel and much of his supporting cast — and the…

This is funny because they’re both clearly in one scene in the movie

The ESPN Classics with Will Forte are some of the best that SNL has ever made. Jason Sudeikis is one of my favorite cast members. Aside from the “classic” recurring characters, he had a lot of memorable bits, some of them just kinda random moments that really killed me. It’s not surprising to me at all that he’s…

How far left economically does one have to be to be “anti-capitalist”? Like, just against unfettered capitalism or further than that? Same for “anti-imperialist.”

the queen community...baltimore? cincinnati?  charlotte?  which one?

It’s a big get for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Tom, all three of these series of columns have been appointment reading for me the last few years. I really hope you've got another one in the works. Otherwise, I'll have to go back and start Age of Violence over again.