Yeah, that's a really great book, I just read it a few months ago. Not only does he manage to make the details of a forgotten labor dispute riveting, but it's the best book I've found so far for giving the atmosphere of the 70s comedy boom, down to all those minor names, now-forgotten, hanging around Mitzi Shore and…

George Carlin's book is quite good, I thought. I maybe biased because I love the guy and still miss him. (Tony Hendra, who is on this list, helped him write it.)

Definitely the best book written by a Marx brother. And without the pressure to crack a joke every other sentence like Groucho, you get some nice descriptions. I love how he describes their childhood in New York and what the city was like in those early 20th-century days.

Yes, but according to my estimates, the baby boomers will all be dead in another 200-300 years, and what are the cable companies going to do then?

SLP should get credit though for bringing back Chris Tucker now in the exact correct proportion: minor supporting role.

That statement is nothing but trouble.

That's a good point. I remember laughing quite a bit at the movie Blades of Glory when it came out, the one time I saw it in the theater. I've never bothered to watch it again and probably never would have a reason to.

Counter-counter-point: Dr. Strangelove is the Dr. Strangelove of all eras.

I remember it mostly for having one of the best/worst video covers of all time. Every time we stopped in the local video store my friends and I would make fun of it. The look on fake Billingsley's face is priceless:

On CBS she would go scuba diving and see Jesus down there instead of a turtle.

You sound like fun.

I liked how Dana Gould summarized the plot of Skyfall on his podcast: "A Spanish man with blond hair tries to kill an old lady."

Diamonds are Forever is definitely helpful in making the Connery-to-Moore shift. Connery is still Bond, but the tone is the same campy one as the 70s Moore ones (and same behind the scenes crew as well.)

That movie is the reason I like that song! They just kept repeating it over and over again until I had no choice…

The Ask is definitely up there in the top five funniest novels I've ever read, based on the sheer number of times it made me laugh out loud.

Unicorns: something else hipsters like to wear on T-shirts ironically.

Not to mention pilots are routinely bad, or at least end up looking that way compared to the shows that come after them. Just off the top of my head, watch the pilots for Seinfeld or 30 Rock and tell me you could predict the heights of their later greatness from that.

Yes! I might even go as far as to say it's THE best 70s neo-noir. better than Chinatown. (Sacrilege, I know.) It had the better twist.

I agree. If I didn't know any better, I'd think this website is a business that has to continue to generate income or something…

Just when you thought it safe to go back in the water…