Writing is a very therapeutic thing for anyone who experienced something traumatic. Even if her book becomes a NY Times Bestseller, the pay is still pretty crap, especially compared to writing for film or TV. She’s not going to live off of book money, she’s still acting, never stopped. The idea that having a voice in…

Did I misread the article, or did we never learn what the question was?

My vote’s for Pete Holmes:

It is a comedy show. If you listen, you’ll understand.

Chainish and it’s not to be taken too seriously, it’s dumb and complicated and so so so worth catching up on 7 years of podcasts I promise

An odd content piece for sure.

Parks and Rec ultimately made very little impression on me

The thing about Perd Hapley is that he was a journalist named Perd Hapley who always stated the obvious, much like I’m doing right now.

How do these people fit thru doorways?

Nobody is “forced” to go to the theater. If you don’t want to go, you can wait. And the disease is only “raging” among morons who refused to get vaccinated. Contracting covid while vaccinated is comparatively rare, and the ones who do contract it typically have mild to no symptoms.

A rich asshole clock is still right twice a day.
Scarjo is owed money along with everyone else who was depending on those box office sales.
She’s just the loudest voice, but this doesn’t start or end with her. 

I hope this is just exhaustion and not something more serious.

I understand that this is dirtbag, so the flippant tone is expected, but it seems oddly callous and weird to me that you’re treating a situation involving alleged guardianship abuse as a sibling rivalry. If Britney Spears’ testimony is anything to go by, she holds her entire family responsible for the abuse she has…

I give Craig Ferguson a lot of credit for asserting, way back in the early 2010s, that people should be ashamed of themselves for making fun of Britney Spears’ mental health problems and her public divorce. He was way ahead of the curve on that one, based entirely on empathy. 

Something that I think Conan realized about the late night environment was something that every host in that sphere has recognized on some level: once you’ve secured an audience, you’re basically guaranteed it for the forseeable future. If you’re good enough not to cancel, you’ve got that spot for ages.

Conan was really in the Letterman mold of weird humor. He owes a lot to Letterman. And, like Letterman, he was dicked out of the Tonight Show job. It’s amazing what both NBC and TBS let him get away with over the years. It hit me as I was watching the travel show montage. He had a hell of a great gig.

I’ll trust Letterman’s general assessment that Leno was a good standup in the 70s and early 80s. But once he got that network gig, became straight up warm milk to keep everybody happy. Truly a “safe” comedian that wasn’t funny for fans of comedy. Not to get all judgy, but I think the older and mainstream/simple…

Don’t gloss over the fact that Jay Leno stole alot of his bits from Howard Stern, Jaywalking was a rip off of Stuttering John’s street interviews with people, and then Jay had the balls to off and steal Stuttering John himself from Howard.

Something that has become increasingly endearing is that Conan always seems to have people on the right side of comedy in his corner. The outpouring that Conan seems to get from actual funny people is wonderful. Hearing someone like Bill Hader talk on the podcast about Conan’s influence makes me smile so damn much.…

I was a viewer of Late Night With Conan O’Brien from his first episode, and man was he ever awkward and uncomfortable. And he was awkward and uncomfortable for a looong time. It was great when he finally settled into a groove. Up until then, I remember thinking, “When is he ever going to settle in and get relaxed…