Yeah, I'm surprised so many people are saying that nobody knew who he was. I've watched maybe 5 or 6 comedy specials in the last year, and his was one of them. I didn't think he was that unknown.

For me, it's like . . . when the Harry Potter books were coming out and I would go online and read all the fan theories. For years, basically. And the problem I had was that when the later books did finally come out, it was hard to get too excited about reading them because either a) The fan theories were right, and I…

Yeah, I read them all in succession and there's no real drop in quality. But I can see how it might feel that way if you read the first 2-3 in a row and then had to wait five years for each of the next two. If you wait that long, your expectations are higher.

Yeah, I like how his excuse for not doing the thing everybody wants him to do is, "Look, guys, I have all this other stuff to do that nobody else actually cares about." Like if you were a kid and your mom told you to clean your room, and your response was, "Look, Mom, I'd really love to, you know that I would. But I…

It'll be a problem if he tries to mimic Stewart's brand of humor too closely, but there are ways that he could use his outsider status to play off the absurdity of American politics. He'll just have to go more along the "baffled" route and less along the "indignant" route that Stewart took—which seems like it's more…

The problem with the supervillain question is that in order to have a remotely interesting answer for it, you have to have thought about it in advance. Unless you grew up a big fan of comic books, it's probably not something you've ever contemplated with any real depth, so your answer is going to be boring as hell.

You're lucky; for those of us who grew up with pipe dreams of Olympic gymnast glory, we had to face the fact that we were already washed up by 16.

Since True Detective is structured like a series of miniseries rather than an actual show, I imagine that they have more leeway. It's not like they're locking actors or writers or directors in to seven seasons, then taking two years between seasons or something.

I'm actually old enough to remember Alcott fans complaining about the idea of remaking it in 1994/all the casting. (The idea of Winona Ryder as Jo earned some special vitriol.) The fact that so many people regard it so fondly now is a bit strange, taking that into account.

"They write completely different types of songs that are influenced by completely different styles of music."

Sure, and that's why it would be fair for Allen to ask, for example, why the media seems to be focusing more on Cosby's assaults than they do on white actors repeatedly accused of similarly despicable crimes. But it doesn't make it fair to suggest that the reason rape victims are coming forward is to malign Cosby's…

Allen actually says that came from a question her mother asked her, so they're probably both getting it from her.

I think most of her take was more nuanced than some, but there is no nuance in asking why "these people" (read: rape victims) are "trying to destroy Cosby's legacy," as if that was the fucking point in their coming forward. Had her quote been cut off before that sentence, then sure, it would have been fine.

Yeah, I get what they were trying to do with that transition—show how the ideals of your college-age self eventually have to meld with the pressures of entering the real world and making your own money—but it was such an extreme shift for her character and they spent, what, half an episode on it? Had they dragged it…

Yeah, I've never thought of this as a Cosby show. Everything good about it was a direct result of Debbie Allen's involvement; the only thing Cosby did was get it on the air in the first place. (That said, Debbie Allen is apparently a Cosby apologist—she repeated that whole Patricia Rashad line about "Why are these…

I've been impatiently awaiting that movie for what feels like a decade now. (But given that I waited for Sweet Valley Confidential for basically an actual decade, and it turned out to be horrible, maybe it's for the best if this never comes to fruition?)

Yeah, my parents weren't going to let me have Barbies, but in those days it was the go-to birthday party gift from age 3-9, so soon I had fourteen of them (plus a Skipper and a Ken) without them ever buying me a single one, and they gave up on trying to enforce that ban.

Krasnov's "white man-patronizing statement" was co-written by the Vietnamese Students Association, who seem to have been the major party pushing for the show's cancellation.

If it bothers people, it's entirely fine for people to pressure the promoter to cancel the show. The promoter can decide whether or not to do so based on what he believes would be the best business decision. If there are other promoters out there that think booking these guys is a good business move, they're welcome…

I mean, in general I think naming your band after something "exotic" that you have no connection to is sorta the equivalent getting a kanji tattoo, but it's worse when you don't even bother to do any research as to what your band name is about before you do so, and especially worse when that lack of research leads to…