So "I met this Circle Jerk last night at CBGB" or "at CBGB's"?

To settle this once and for all: Is it CBGBs, CBGB's or CBGB? The latter, right?

@avclub-a93a879594c13c12a83fd45ab289a022:disqus WOW. This is like Adam West on "The Simpsons" in real life.

But he'd know Mary-Lynn Rajskub and at least would have heard of the Hitchhiker's Guide as this British comedy thing then.

It's endlessly fascinating to me. Like…how?

Could you share this list? Pleeease? Off the top of my head I can only think of "The Clash" and Gaddafi.

After your description my expectations were too high. "Telling Stephen Metcalf Off" is a show I would listen to every week.

a.k.a. "The O'Neal"

Sorry, I realize now how creepy that "Mike doesn't like" thing sounded. My apologies. I just feel really strongly about Lanzmann's film. (And not just because of the obvious, I wanna point out.) There is something going on in them that I can't really explain. They definitely transcend the "people recount their life in…

Just to be clear: Mike said he didn't like the Sobibor documentary because it was just a man talking. I fear your reasons might be too complex to get into.

For ideological, philosophical or aesthetic reasons?

To be fair: Mike also doesn't think that Lanzmann's documentary about the uprising of Sobibor is any good.

PDN missed his chance to trash Theresa Russell then?

…eh, you know about the whole incest and child rape thing, right?

@sarapen:disqus There are characters in "Kir Royal" (a sort of Bavarian Dolce Vita) that are Jewish without anyone mentioning it or it being important for the plot. They just are. I find that refreshing. I don't think you could have a character on a German show that is simply Jewish today, even though chances of…

Exactly - maybe also one of the many reasons for the cult around Graf Stauffenberg. (Man, Felix von Luckner. That's a weird one.)

To answer your question about Doktor Faustus: It's not *that* bad, or at the very least expected, but considering it's supposed to be his novel on the Third Reich and basically none of the crimes in eastern europe are mentioned, yet the bombings of German cities you could say the balance might be off. What really…

I like the cut of your jib, fuzzball.

Don't watch "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens". That's an absolute clunker.

What's the last truly great German TV show? "Kir Royal", right? (That was also the last TV show with characters who were allowed to be Jewish.)