So he was the cute one because he was the prettiest white dude?

See, that's just asking for product placement. Giving everyone an arena cup with bacardi and pepsi logos printed on it could probably pay for at least one guest per show.

So, I have the dumbest, dumbest confession to make:

In the before-time, the long-long-ago, the Son of Cars had material that was, as the elders say, fresh?

No worries. In your defense, the Nightly Show's panel discussions have been (IMO anyway) better than anything Stewart or Colbert have done for years.

It's cargo-cult dickery.

We were talking more about a format popular in the UK. Basically it involves a group of celebrities or quasi-celebrities playing a goofy party game or succession of goofy party games.

I kinda got that feeling from how much they insisted that it was UNCENSORED without actually calling it unauthorized.

Well, even if you are going computer senile, silicon heaven can't be that far off.

Ah. I, alas, am a blighted millenial, and have to guess from what I can glean from profiles and that oral history that came out a while back.

Well, a fair number of people do find it annoying, judging by this thread? I mean, imagine you're on the bus and someone's playing a song on his phone's speakers rather than using headphones. I don't like it, a bunch of people probably find it annoying. It's not technically against any rule, but it's rude.

It was basically a perfect storm of reasons to kill the genre. Which is sad, because by now it's probably way cheaper and way more entertaining than most white noise programs.

He had the standard "I get the promotion or a huge payout" bit in his contract, and I think that it's generally understood that taking the payout means you're taking it as severance.

Eh. I can kinda see it, if you're judging stuff by seventies standards.

The issue is length of series and the kind of contracts people had back then. Basically UK Panel shows run for short enough spans, and pay low enough, that they're sustainable. US Panel shows largely fizzled out because per-episode payouts for the permanent panelists kept creeping up and seasons kept at a constant…

No, but we're now at a point two years past ironically obnoxious sigs going out of style because sigs/stingers/taglines being a stupid thing to have has been an online social norm for so long.

So what you're saying is, you do it because you're senile and miss when having a forum sig was acceptable?

Am I high or is this yam talking to me?

The latter, mos. def.

Yeah, but it's so obnoxious and has Chris Hardwick :/