It's the calling card of the series, and is clearly the opinion of the creator. Nihilism is the philosophy of our times bra. Religion is over and science is best at talking about objects, not subjects. Why do you think this show is popular? It finally says what everyone is thinking but won't admit they are thinking.…

Jesus fucking Christ, Nietzsche is not a pessimist, what a dumb fuck. He's responding to and critiquing Schopenhauer's neo-Buddhist 'everything is suffering' schtick. Nz. explicitly argues against nihilism. I knew I was right to turn the TV off once it got to that ridiculous conversation in the car. I love when faux…

What luck. First he gets rich by being a terrible terrible terrible writer, and now he can say that it wasn't him doing the terrible terrible terrible writing! I hate this guy!

everything thermals? straight from the pages of your journal? born in an outer space wormhole, brought to life by the big bang, traveled to earth in a dodge van? the thermals go right to your head, the thermals have sex in your bed? yeah everything thermals, they come in 4 shades of purple, some are tight some have…

JON STEWART GOT REALLY BOTCHED PLASTIC SURGERY. Oh my god, I'm sorry, I have no friends, but I had to get that off my chest. His lip is now folded in crazy. Am I wrong? Oh, poor guy, poor me for gossiping, but there are other fucked up people out there willing to talk about this and sooth the horror inside them for a…

It is a term that corporations use to make tweens feel like their childish pop lives are important rather than shallow and soul destroying. You know, I deleted the bookmark for AVClub months ago, but I think it's time I also start actively avoiding coming here, reminding myself not to check the site. I just bought…

What's your Internet dating procedure? I live in a big, liberal city and if you put "bi" on OkCupid as a male, you ain't getting any girls. So, do you lie from the start and then backtrack later and 'come out'? Or do you just pretend you're gay because straight girls typically think it's effeminate to suck a dick?

People's self-expression's are not "a quirk of our species." The duck face is a historical event that took on significance at a particular time within a particular community. Humans that can't be subjectively pinned down by any objectification talking to other humans that can't be subjectively pinned down by any…

You're right, this is an eternal problem that could never change and has never changed, it is stupid to talk about. Thank you for enlightening us all with your history lesson: there is no history!

Ah a subtle mind! Play your subtle tricks elsewhere subtle mind!

This is a horrible, horrible 'article'. The Dinner Party is about race because there was one throwaway joke about a black and white cookie? The Merv Griffin Show's Jerry subplot is really about date rape because there is a throwaway joke bringing up the similarities? Cutting analysis!

I've been rewatching Seinfeld, was once a huge fan. Holy shit is most of it pretty fucking terrible. It does not hold up. The first episodes have the best, most authentic writing, where it's Larry David just pouring his real life into the mold of a sitcom. Past that, the best parts only ever appear in moments. The…

Well, well, well, Harvey Keitel… et al.

Your 'incurable ennui' is do to laziness and/or a lack of an ability to think through the problems of modernity. You're mired in skepticism, but that's stupid, just be skeptical of your skepticism, problem fixed. But for real, get reading. Maybe start with some Pippin.

Norm Macdonald Live is back and you silly fucks are talking about Adam Sandler's career plans.

JOHN OLIVER PLEASE BRO LISTEN: stop fucking smiling after your jokes, especially half-smiles that you-just-can't-contain. You are eliminating the audience from the fucking dialectic. You provide the negativity, we transmit the negativity into the positivity of laughter. WE DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKING HELP. In fact, you…

Yeah, Maher is just a liberal who is more to the left, and more willing to be hated. And you're right, I can't imagine how nuts Maher would be if he got Stewart's Serious Person moniker, but he has protected himself against that by being as aggravating of a voice as he is. Stewart isn't aggravating, he is nice. So he…

You mentioned Chelsea's penchant for vodka in this article. But it wasn't a joke, it was just a way to get a specific detail about Chelsea into the article. Therefore, that portion of the article was an extremely effective advertisement for Chelsea and her persona. We were lured into an article thinking it was a…

Yes, his arrogance is not as annoying since he is sort of the underdog, that was the point I was trying to make. And yes, he certainly does love the smell of his own farts. But that is acceptable because, again, he is the underdog, and he is taking a position so far left that he will remain an underdog. Stewart, like…

Poor Bill. I'm happy Oliver now has a show, but this is really rubbing salt in an unfairly produced wound.