He also did a Samurai sketch during the Charles Grodin episode.

Well, he didn't show up in one of those sketches, but he DID show up for the 15th Anniversary Show in 1990. I'm pretty sure he's the one who gets up and apologizes for Steve Martin's inability to say more than "Wooooo!" the whole time.

XO is wonderful, it's probably the "easiest" Elliott Smith record to listen to. The tunes are all breezy, the production is similar to Figure 8. And like everyone's saying, it's got Waltz #2, Bottle Up And Explode, Pitseleh, etc.

Totally agree on the original/alternate A Distorted Reality.

It would have been pretty great if Will had brought that up during the interview.

I agree that the 3rd season is where it starts to actually get good - Yesterday's Enterprise, the Sarek episode, the episode where Q becomes human, Best Of Both Worlds. Seasons 4-5 are by far the highlight of the show, but you can see where they're going in Season 3.

Louis Pasteur, Marlene Dietrich, Cokie Roberts and Gerard Depardieu.

I remember seeing First Contact in the theater, after the scene where the Borg queen basically sleeps with Data, someone sitting behind me was like, "Man, Data's still getting more action than Geordi."

She's Brian Dennehy's daughter. You'd think she would have been in a few more things.

Truthfully, it doesn't make much sense that he would have stuck around after that. He's promoted to Captain, they lose more than half the fleet, but once Picard comes back, Riker gets demoted and sticks around as First Officer another 20 years or so. There's no way that would have actually happened.

I was gonna say Mark Ruffalo looked amazingly sexy when he was younger.

I'm pretty sure the only reason I remember him saying he's Cyndi Lauper is, it comes right before she flashes her awesome rockin bewbage.

Yeah, and the other guy's Cyndi Lauper.

Actually, I wouldn't stop at universities - if they really wanted to, struggling creative writers can make decent money writing copy at any number of places.

He's got an entire album of unreleased stuff, which he apparently completed just before his death. That's the album I really want to hear.

Bob Loblaw?

"When I feel my heart break, I almost swear I hear it happen, in fact clean and not hard; I come in off the highway and I park in my front yard; Fall out of the car, like a hostage from a plane; Think of you awhile, start wishing it would rain, and I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok down, down towards…

Fielding questions from Steven Hyden, and. . . well. . . that's about it.

Nakajima definitely deserves some kind of award, the dude played Godzilla for 18 years. From everything I've read, it's pretty hard work. At their lightest, those suits would weigh at least 80 pounds, but at their heaviest they push 200.

Haruo Nakajima, Kenpachiro Satsuma, and. . . whoever's on the left. I didn't pay as much attention to the more recent Godzilla movies.