And syndication, aka the place I first watched the show, at 12:30 and 1:30 every Saturday night.

Jokes on them though! The True Lies Guys already nuked them Keys up good!

I feel like Letterman used to do it a lot back on Late Night and in the early CBS years, but gave it up as he got older and cut back on the work. I would imagine Colbert would probably be pretty good at it, too, but Fallon/Meyers would be terrible, which is a shame because 30 Rock/NYC is such a perfect location to do…

Anyone who understands how the White House works knows that First Ladies have far more power by being the President's closest partner and adviser than they would gain by getting stuck into a cabinet post. You're much better off being close to where the actual decisions are made than sitting in meeting after meeting in…

Yeah. It's kind of like situation with Amazing Spider-Man movies. Even though they made millions of dollars, they leave such a bad, forgettable taste that nobody thinks the audience would really do well with another.

Yes, in part because of the post-Watergate, post-Pardon midterms left him in a huge hole. Which is why the show being "Frank's a genius! Fuck yeah!" for his whole season 2 plot was moronic. If Frank cares so much about his legacy, he designed the perfect way to be remembered an Oval Office mediocrity.

What if Apple puts my devices on the side of a mountain, and then there's ice everywhere? WHAT THEN?

Much like Birdman supporters, he was just an artiste angered at Hollywood's franchise mania. Were Malcolms I to IX not enough for you, demanding moviegoing public?

I disagree strongly that it's a better story. It might make a nice parable (although the ahistorical nature of the story undermines it as such, and there are better examples in King's life of the failures of White Moderates). The actual story has plenty of stuff that makes for a better story: King sending Andrew Young…

Meanwhile, plenty of people online are outraged about the complaining because it's all a secret Hollywood campaign against the movie's Oscar chances. Someone told them the complaints were baseless, so they were.

The problem, of course, being that the "white moderates" in this case were far more active and involved than the movie portrays. While Johnson was reluctant to push Voting Rights first, once Bloody Sunday happened he and his administration were working behind the scenes with King and the SCLC: The DOJ joined their…

I was kind of hoping at some point we'd get a riff of "Journey to Fuck Mountain: A Burt Reynolds Christmas," because it would have been perfect, but it never came. The Bridges rant was superb. Just sticking him in a weird fantasy world is comic gold.

The bizarrely ironic thing about the FBI and COINTELPRO is that they hated, hounded, and bugged King and the Civil Rights movement, but also really destroyed the Klan as a viable force in the South.

I wonder if that says something about how tent-poley, franchise (and established intellectual property-ey) and Summer Box Office fixated Hollywood has gotten. There used to be room for the middlebrow, high quality movie that could make $100 million and still get nominated for Best Picture: The Fugitive, Jerry Maguire,…

I remember those criticisms and found them flawed if only because Lincoln is about Lincoln and the 13th Amendment. I'd say that's not quite my problem with Selma, which is that because it's bored with the politics it only tells half of that story. On some level it knows that King is in Selma because he wants to…

I thought Lincoln was superior in part because it challenged the myth better. We like to pretend Lincoln and other 'founding father' type American politicians (the kinds you learn about in Grade School Picture books) somehow came from on high with their ideals and made everything better, and showed how the actual…

I think if the picture was showing King wresting the timetable away from Johnson, it would be a lot more interesting. Instead, it reduces it to a lot of Johnson says "Don't March." King says "We're marching anyway." Johnson's still not happy that there's marching, and King keeps marching, even though Johnson doesn't…

Having finally seen Selma, I found it terrific in parts but painfully generic in a lot of ways that get frustrating when you know the history. The parts I thought were superb were the visceral shooting of the various moments of brutality against the protesters and marchers, which were gripping and hit you right in the…

Especially when Britain is currently governed by Tory Oxford Toffs who with the exact same background as the "heroes" of the movie.

It really is altogether fitting that even though his first flavor was terrible and ended up pulled from the shelves, they gave him another, bigger flavor.