“There’s a feeling of, this is a decent human, like a good person being before being a great person.”

He wasn't pooping; he was doing his spoken-word thing.

The six years I spent in North Carolina were hellish largely because Popeye's only had two or three locations there, none in any of the cities I lived in. The dominant fried chicken chain was Bojangles, for which native Carolinians inexplicably would trade their first-born children. I always thought of it as Popeye's…

"The Star Wars prequels … deserve your hatred."

An article for a video explaining the definition of "literal" is apparently needed, though.

Well, then. I was way off.

This is just a guess … Donald Trump is in real estate, so maybe he has tenants who withhold rent?

It is just you; everyone likes his own brand.

Aka, the Clarence Boddicker quote thread. Bitches, leave.

There's a brief scene in Empire where we see him sitting on a custom porcelain throne, remember? There's a device that automatically puts on his helmet for him, but that seems to be its secondary purpose.

I know! I've been waiting for over a year for someone at the AV Club to finally summon the intestinal fortitude to write something unkind about him!

When you realize that Trump is supposed to be the bad guy, it all makes sense.

My copy of Infinite Jest is extra-dogged eared. Just ask anyone at the locally-owned coffee shop who's seen me toting it around.

"undid eight years of Bush-Cheney's crimes against the constitution"

His p.r. handlers didn't have the balls to put The Brother From Another Planet on there.

Well, that's the power of a good P.R. shop, isn't it?

Oh yeah, there's that. I always hit mute when it comes on. It reminds me of the Entourage theme. Oh yeah.

He actually did what I consider to be a call-back to that in the South Korea episode of his CNN show. There's a going-on-a-bender-with-Asian-businessmen montage set to "Smooth Sailing" that's sort of a homage to the QotSA music video.

The guy gets a lifetime pass for devoting an entire show to hanging around with Josh Homme at Rancho de la Luna and the High Desert.

It definitely enhances my understanding of this news about a fictionalized comedy involving a TV personality who died decades ago.