Oh, and if 3 of the carpenters are hacks churning out the same tosh year after year; and the fourth one happens to be an innovator who is creating new and fresh carvings / furniture, then damn straight I don't care what the 3 old hacks have to say.

I don't "hate" those comedians, I just find them dull and mediocre. And how is that "bias"? It's not like I saw a poster of them and went "he looks unfunny, I bet his act stinks".

It doesn't "weaken his point" as much as simply not making it at all would…

I never said it should. However surely you can see the difference between the casual opinings of a comedian; and the official feed of the Catholic church's intercessor to God, who has the power to make infallible decrees on numerous issues and whose institution has influence and authority across the globe - and has…

He may have been making an ironic statement - that as much as we might dislike Gervais his criticism of the Catholic church is valid and thus in a small way helps to keep the church and the papacy from using its influence to hide its transgressions. Hence the question.

Well, I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt. And even if he very really doesn't, it has no bearing on the matter. The author's dead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Surely whether you find his discussion self-absorbed and insightful or not is as subjective as whether or not the other comedians on the show are particularly interesting?

That lambasting Gervais for criticising Catholic church policy concurrently with yet-another example of the Catholic church fostering atrocities reaching the news is ironic?

Truth in television? They get put in old-folks-home so that people don't have to bother with them - so they can "just get on with it" out of sight.

Yeah, but Louis CK is boring and his material stinks, so I guess that takes a big cut out of that 90… Seinfeld's material is generic, dated, and forgettable, that whittles it down further. Chris Rock has occasionally awesome material, but lots of incredibly tired ethnocentric filler material that is frankly just…

Is this irony? You know, you posting this while 800 baby corpses found in a mass grave at a Catholic institution are still a lead news story? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/w…

I think this article's a bit unfair.
The show's called Derek, but it's not about Derek. It's about Hannah. It's about how her trials and tribulations and hard work, and her taking the world on her shoulders, enables Derek to have a childlike love of the world and people.
It doesn't matter if we cynics find Gervais's…

Get the number re-routed to a premium-rate line that will get you income every time you clearly state in your own manly voice that they should learn to read area codes. It'll pay for itself and make you happy to receive the calls.

No "he's pretentious, and a loser" Ted Mosby?  But we get the "stuck between a rock and a hard-place" Ted Crisp who I thought was a surprisingly good lynch-pin?
Meh.

I found the following blog post to be slightly more informative; but it still seemed to be a case of "the jury's out".
http://askakorean.blogspot….

Maybe it's because I'm English, and as such there's a transatlantic language barrier going on here; but the term "Oriental" is considered racist now?  I was under the impression that, here at least, it could be used to distinguish Indian, Pakistani, or other "Southern-Asians" from the "East-Asians"; and thus save the…

He wasn't in a crowded theater - nor any other location that might give his clearly ironic comments a legitimately threatening context.