I know, I know, I know. Like I said, i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But it honestly felt like he was using it as a way to get us to sympathy-laugh at stuff that wasn't doing too hot right up until that point.
And it went on for like…a genuinely uncomfortably long time.

Snarky Oddsman, Bookie At Law!

OK, lemme clarify:
I have actually been to a Chris Hardwick comedy show. This was essentially my first real exposure to him, and he went onto a long riff about how his dad had just *died*, you guys, and he got all choked up and he looked like he was gonna cry…and…
…and then he just used it as a riff platform for his…

That beard is attached to a guy who is basically Vince's Ideal Wrestler. He'll make an exception for Braun.

It's hard to imagine the AJ Styles Open Challenge.
It feels…so far away…

McMahon doesn't like Sami. He's an indy geek (strike one), he isn't big enough or roided enough (strike two), he has a beard* (strike three), and he's of a religious background that WWE has a uniquely awful history w/r/t representing positively (strike four).

Insulting to Sami? He's basically jobbed to everyone in the company on one night or other, by now.

Simply by virtue of the guy NOT being picked for the storyline, Gable now gets legit audience interest and sympathy, which he can back up in the ring.
It could just have easily gone the other way.
What a weird company.

CURTAIN CALL!

"It doesn’t seem like such a big deal, but it means a lot that AJ Styles is finally wearing blue gear."
From what I hear, AJ was supposed to go to Raw in the re-draft, but that got changed at the last second - but not before all his newest merch runs were done in red.
So there's that…
…
…
…PLEASE DON'T LEAVE

It has to be said: there is something seriously fucking medically wrong with him. It's not just privilege. It's not just stupidity. It's not just his "style".
He literally cannot convey a coherent thought without being scripted.

ANTHONY SCARAMOOCHIE
WILL RETURN

Guess what: once an issue is in the brain-grapes of these people, absolutely nothing gets it out of there. These people are still furious about Whitewater.

RON PAUL 2008

I think fully half of them legitimately aren't sure if they believe in Pizzagate.

I want bodies…for pleasure.

"Didn't CNN ban Trump surrogates from appearing?"
Haha, yeah, that there was a policy that would surely stand the test of time.

You know, people say that this unthinkable miasma of bullshit is a deliberate strategy on the part of the RNC and Trump to inure us into complacency, and looking at this shit, that's just giving them too much credit. They're all little morons working their moronic little schemes, all at the same time, and it works…

Jesus Christ, in summer? I'm not holding your hair back when you go to tell your troubles on the pipes, Gnome.

NOT THE AV CLUB
8 stout men with strong backs