One time a stranger was sort of rude and expected my generosity and kindness in return.

The things that's really fucking odd is she didn't give up any of the other lefty folksinger stuff, she only embraced the virulent anti-gay shit. I've never heard of that before, don't you only go in full tilt on these major conversion episodes? What a weird selectivity of hate.

Abso-fucking-lutely, it's only three albums and two of them are outstanding (Global A Go Go and Streetcore, take or leave Rock Art and the X-Ray Style).

Indeed, as a wise man once said, we are all sausages.

I didn't even read it as lazy/sick humor, so much as a dig at the impracticalities of a bat signal.

Kids in the Hall did surrealism better than any comedy ever. The Pear Dream, the darkness sketch with Bruce and Mark shoveling coal, and of course…sausages. It really blurs the line of what constitutes comedy and they don't make me laugh as much as other sketches, but god damn do I love the KitH for it more than any…

@avclub-14e4cee178d88fb9aa346dbcc11f2873:disqus Absolutely, it's all relative.

I'd put JFK in because I absolutely believe he's talking to the audience in that case, it's a very didactic ending. But Do the Right Thing, like Persona and Sunset Blvd., seems more like an artistic choice to put you right in the mindset of the character and not really breaking the artifice of the film. In a certain…

You thought she was gonna Caruso it, but she just Britta'd it.

Well whoo-hoo-hoo, sir. Whoo. Hoo. Hoo.

Big ol' fucking edit: I wrote this whole thing about how they didn't "get" the mockumentary feel like they did last time around, and it now occurs to me that wasn't even what they were going for, just a straight film documentary. In this sense, fair play, it is a different visual style.

Best joke of the episode, my only outright guffaw.

Yeah, some of these are right on the line, and just because someone's staring down the camera doesn't necessarily mean it breaks the fourth wall, it might just be the camera in someone's eye line for emotional effect, The Great Dictator being one that's more of an thematically implied fourth-wall break than a…

Cries and Whispers is actually the only film of his I've seen in theaters, and it definitely left the most disturbing impression. It also has some of his best color cinematography.

Oh God get Blitzer to host it, if only to watch him mispronounce "potpourri" every night.

I feel like Lorne Michaels is one of those assholes that insists on having their jewelry buried with them when they go. Tough break for whoever is in the cast at that time.

I just listen to the Beyond Belief ones, and I can't recommend those enough. Also, I think we should all want to encourage more written podcasts and that is top notch writing.

Best prize grab contribution ever.

@avclub-8210173b51782dc7755ef71fc36d4197:disqus Yeah, his personal demons are well-documented even by the man himself. He never shied away from presenting his ugliest traits in interviews. 
I should have clarified. The line I always heard was that his films enjoyed a better reputation outside the country than within,…

I know we're long past comparing US to UK, but I just happened to catch the Extras Christmas Special on cable the other night and it's shocking how the American Office now bears a much closer resemblance to When The Whistle Blows than the actual series it was based on. It was actually a sort of wonderful, personal…