Shoulda been Bam instead of Ryan Dunn.

Of course. He's fifth or sixth banana on a show that something like 1 in every 100 Americans watches.

We're not talking about idiots on the street, or embarassing relatives.  Everyone involved is a public figure with an audience of millions.  Given those facts, I'm not really sure how saying something can be "safely ignored" is not tantamount to tacitly saying it's OK.

Except when he gets called on something.

Who would have thought Jon Stewart's most influential contribution to the political discourse would be the "don't take me seriously, I'm just a comedian" defense?

I don't really get this point. Misogyny is OK if you have some, but not a lot, of influence over political policy?

I once saw Akroyd tip about $300 to a bartender at a club in LA for a couple of  mixed drinks, and not make a big deal about it.  I know he's got a ton of scratch, but it's still a pretty cool thing to do.

I thought I might give this season a try after being exasperated with the overwhelming positivity from the judges last year, along with endless Steven Tyler "that was beautiful" critiques.  Then Reed Grimms comes out first and performs that awful, lounge jazz version of "Moves Like Jagger," something that would have…

"In no way do I intend to glorify or romanticize Kurt’s chosen way out, nor make light of it.”

This is great news, but I'm really not looking forward to the VanDerWerff write-up that starts off with four paragraphs comparing the show's return to something from his childhod, like getting a letter from a cool, older classmate who bought him a Depeche Mode record for his 13th birthday and made him realize that…

HACKERS will always have a special place in my heart for finally committing to celluloid the sequence my teenage mind had optimstically proposed: an end-credits sex scene.

I think this is an example of Jerry Stiller forgetting his lines, to actual (albeit unintentional) comedic effect.

So is the dig that I like to sleep? Or that I go to sleep early? Kindly explain the comedic logic of that zinger to me, Oh the Possibilities.

This guy's got experience with the half hour format, at least from my perspective. That's all of "Mystery Team" I could make it through.

Marc Maron is so unbelievably humble. To my knowledge, he has never once mentioned on his podcast that he produced "Nevermind."

You do it to yourself, you do …
All of this is ultimately just a rip-off of Radiohead's "Just" video:

This is a great accomplishment …
… now can Marshall please stop shouting at me and telling me how the world is out to get him?

Kesha as actual homeless person …
It might be up there with Jewel living in a van in terms of potentially apocryphal origin stories, but Ke$ha claims that she did in fact live in a car during her formative years in LA ..

Moshing/Crowd Surfing Epidemic Circa Mid 90s.
Rabin's Collective Soul anecdote is good, but I've got that one beat. I saw a Third Eye Blind/Smash Mouth double-bill in Hanover, NY where the crowd started moshing and crowd surfing to the pre-show music over the PA, before the show started. I guess the kids really wanted…

"Vauxhall and I" a return to form?
Time to revisit "Your Arsenal", Rabin.