Above my pay grade, I'm afraid, but the goal around here, as I understand it, is not to stifle actual debate, just to weed out the abusive.

I reject entirely that there are any subjects whatsoever that are off-limits for humor. Blazing Saddles is all-time hilarious. Make it funny and it's funny. The difference is that Blazing Saddles isn't just yelling "n*****r" and "f****t" and expecting the word, or the idea that someone is black or gay to be the joke.

If this episode had managed, somehow, to be funny, I would have graded it accordingly. It wasn't. It was the worst episode I've seen in, what, two decades? That's an F, regardless of the host.

"Was this genuinely worse than usual, or a case of the AV Club, having done its 'we're appalled by this, but want as many clicks as possible out of it*' article earlier in the week, grading politically?"

Compared to the TwitterDome, AV Club commenters are the Harvard debate team.

S'okay. Thanks for reading.

Awww, you guys're alllll right.

That sounds like the path to the dark side.

This morning? Yeah, pretty much.

But not for this! Smoke bomb!

Sadly, he was there in the Trump presidency sketch & the music industry taped segment. Plus, Trump zeroed in on him for a reluctant hug in the goodnights.

I sent a text. It was easier.

Tonight's review brought to you by "breaking the format."

You know—it is!

You are nice. I hate your product, but you yourself are very kind. But, seriously, screw yogurt.

Something messy and interminable that seems to last for three days? Sounds about right.

If I'd been wrong about it being doomed, I wouldn't have written it was doomed. Timey-wimey critical paradox.

Katie knew you were going to say that.

Well, he eventually started hugging people of his own volition.

[Wearily puts up hand]