The fact that he looks and talks like a real-life muppet makes him naturally entertaining in small doses. It doesn’t really matter if he isn’t doing anything mindblowing. I actually like him better than much of the SNL cast, which is admittedly a very low bar to clear.

I think Louis has two extremely funny bits - “suck a bag of dicks” and “pig newtons.” And the rest is usually...not that great. A lot of lazy dick talk, a lot of putting other people down, some virtue-signaling about women that never sounded sincere, dumping on his ex, some arbitrary “shocking” material.

Aside from my potato shaped-head, haircut, glasses, pasty whiteness and lame fashion sense I look NOTHING like Dwight. And even considering all of those things, it’s just rude. I mean, look, I may have once remarked at Christmas that my nephew-in-law had grown up to look like like one of the bullies from the Simpsons,…

That famous gaffe is easy to explain, actually. He’s trying to say “keep plucking that chicken.” It’s some reference to an old Purdue commercial (note that right before that he basically says the tagline “it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken” but he is applying it to Nick, who has just given a forecast for…

The one time I went to a Chick-Fil-A the African-American gentleman behind the counter insisted that I look “exactly like” Dwight Shrute from The Office. He went on and on about how uncanny it was. I was traumatized for life.

I was actually really frustrated with this remote, because it insists on breaking everying down into routines. You wanna watch TV? OK, it says, let me turn on all three appliances (cable box, tv, audio) and change the inputs.

I was actually really frustrated with this remote, because it insists on breaking everying down into routines. You…

The primary value of the internet has been to reveal what people are really like behind the veil of propriety and civility. We’re all just fancy monkeys waiting for the opportunity to throw some poo on Marie Kondo.

They might also accept that God created man and he used the process of evolution to do it, basically trying to have your cake and eat it too and pat yourself on the back for being "smart."

This is so fucking easy. Just wait until it’s a tab that you are paying and then act like YOU can’t figure out what the tip should be. Then, when they suggest a low amount, say “Oh, isn’t that only like 10%? I always do 20. Isn’t that what’s normal?”

“Acting like a ridiculous asshole” is more words but I think it really nails what journalists mean by unhinged. It is debatable whether Trump is crazy in a clinical sense but most of us can agree that he is one of the worst assholes we’ve ever seen in government.

Fun fact: Before 9/11 most American Muslims voted Republican. But who needs their votes when you can stoke all of that sweet fear and resentment.

Conservatives. Dumb AND not funny.

I remember at the time that this was a meme (in the proper sense of the word, an idea that spreads because it is appealing to some people.) While it was all still fucking happening 30 blocks away one of my colleagues was going on about how they were “celebrating in the streets of Iran” and doing an imitation of Muslim…

It was an incredibly subtle joke about how the Hollywood Foreign Press will vote for any goddamn thing, because it’s a reference to the idea that you can get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” The HFP will nominate a ham sandwich like Michael Douglas and then give him the win, and Melissa McCarthy was subtly…

Today I thought of a pretty good Black Mirror premise: A famous couple is using a surrogate to carry their child. Episode starts from the point of view of the surrogate, with all of the creepy negotiations and whatnot. Eventually, the famous couple tell this person that they want to introduce her to the world at a…

I mean, it is easy to say that it doesn’t matter whether it is a solid concrete wall, per se, but just some kind of barrier. That’s actually sensible. I really don’t even care if people keep calling it a wall when it isn’t.

Also, if she stopped while the backup track was still playing everyone would hear the rap-along backup vocal playing by itself, and I’m sure that’s something most 21st century pop performers are very self-conscious about. Her whole job is to sync to that track and sell it as a legit spontaneous performance.

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CK was always buds with Chris Rock (he directed Pootie Tang) and I think that he saw Rock’s success with that particularly infamous bit, felt that he was down, and wanted a piece of the N-word action.

I’m going to piggyback on your story of mortality for our worst Christmas. We had been working on getting pregnant for years, doing a few cycles of IVF et cetera, and thought that we had made it. We got to 13 weeks and started telling friends and family - then it’s time for the anatomical scan at the hospital, on the…