Sounds like, looks like, might as well be.

John Parr is from Worksop, a small town not far from me, still dresses as if it were 1985 (increasingly grey mullet and that) and is treated by the locals with the sort of reverence that Pat Robertson would have for a reborn Jesus in the body of Tim Tebow (so long as he's metaphysically in it, not in it in the faggy…

RIP. Where's Dick Clark gonna get his Secret Formula Youth Cream from now?

Nick Hancock? I like him, but he's a fairly obscure comedian to drag up to give it British appeal. He really hasn't got a legacy of great shows, nor has he done anything in the past few years. Sounds like they may be struggling to get (deliberately aimed at the UK market) guests.

It's good, but it's full of assholes doing bad Borat impressions. Thinking of migrating to Kyrgyzstan instead, less tourists.

I don't see the Styx thing happening any time soon; thanks for the recommendation! Will look for Rock and Roll Over soon.

Does it involve picking up Rock and Roll Over? It'd be good to kill two birds with one stone.

Where do people recommend starting with Kiss? In my crazy, backwards country we mostly know them for Crazy, Crazy Nights and a few Family Guy jokes and I'm legitimately Kiss-curious.

I'm disappointed not to have seen some limboing professors to demonstrate NYU 'bending over backwards' for Franco. Shame on you, Taiwan. I demand your translations be even more literal!

True story: I once saw a copy of 'The Manson Family' in a store under the section marked 'Roman Polanski Collection'. Well, by 'saw', I mean 'placed'. But I wasn't responsible for moving a crapload of Pet Shop Boys CDs to the Queers' section.

They're even better when you're dead!

My wife, Eleanor.

HipsterDBag rejects your support for the use of the word 'unironic'.

Yeah, the world ended a lot in that series. I think they had a remit to make every single alternate reality more depressing than the original, and eventually that means you have to start destroying the world. Hell, they could have done 'What if… Spider-Man preferred Coca-Cola to Pepsi?' and the world would have ended…

Nope, crap is crap, childish ad hominem attacks or not. If somebody is doing their job poorly, you shouldn't pussyfoot around it; if they can't accept that then they're the ones who are 'spoiled children'. The Simpsons has, to a number of people, been crap for a few years now, so why let the writers get away with…

Did he come to the interview from the podiatrist?

He used to be seen as a British equivalent to Sammy Davis Jr. Probably around the time he was on the Muppets he moved more into game show hosting, where he's stayed since. Song and dance and glamourous assistants man.

O'Neal got fired again, mid-sentence.

Heck, do you remember a few years before that when he vanished into Onslaught for some vague reason, then came back as 'Joe Simon Vol. 2', being drawn by Rob Liefeld? Thank heavens that didn't last too long.

I think he was, wasn't he?