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With facial hair Taran Killam is a dead ringer for Roy Underhill. Not sure how they'd pull it off but they should definitely work in a Woodwright's Shop parody.

Aww man ya put Killers in the gateway list and you don't mention Halo of Flies? For shame.

or slayer

Of all things Dave Mustaine's autobiography has a really good description of being that age in that exact time and place in the first couple chapters.

Best cover song ever. Their version of Wicked Games is a close second.

Matthew Weiner certainly cribbed from It's Always Sunny. Fat Betty is almost as funny as Fat Mac.

Most scholars who study Operation Paperclip and ODESSA focus on Nazi scientists and Argentine relocation, but many former officials found their way to Florida, which goes a long way toward explaining their current political climate.

Unlike the TSA overreach nonsense, this is something that's actually real and not a libertarian think tank astroturf effort against federal employee unionization.

Crappy beer is the best for cooking. It's not like people sit around chugging bottles of cooking sherry. Or maybe they do, when they run out of paint thinner and airplane glue.

Oh c'mon people effusive praise for The Great Escape reference but no love for the Terminator 2 LA nuke dream sequence reference during Bryan Cranston's explanation of the coming resource wars?

The biggest difference is Limbaugh used his position of power, such as it is, to attack someone without any power, whereas Louis CK used his  position of power, such as it is, to attack someone with more power than himself. The latter being one of the key elements of comedy.

Beefcake the Mighty

It's a legit complaint. Frank Zappa's music has all the same elements- impeccable musicianship, complex jazz and contemporary classical motifs, subversive lyrics- yet his songs manage to be largely exciting and memorable.

Hicks' thing was funny even while he was alive for those of us old enough to have our first holy christ everyone is bugfuck crazy moment during the Reagan years instead of baby Bush.

We haven't reached the 90s revival saturation point until Mutha's Day Out gets back together.