I maintain that Riggs' motivation was to promote the game and enrich himself: he never intended to beat Margaret Court in the first place. She had recently given birth, and hadn't made a full return to competitive tennis. She signed up for a friendly exhibition, not to be the defender of femininity: she folded under…

My issue with "Chuck and Larry" was never its plot. Some of the great movie comedies of all time satirized contemporary sociopolitical issues; also, this film's concept is a close relation to gender-bending farces like "Some Like It Hot" or "Tootsie." But to make a comedy about gay marriage in 2007 required some…

Now I want to see awards established for terrible music, television, and theater, so there can be a humiliating counterpart to the EGOT.

Miley Cyrus: just a dippy stoner chick.

I expect the right-wing xenophobes to say terrible things about the refugees; the most disgusting thing I've seen was an uncensored photo of the Bataclan with the caption, "Refugees Welcome." These attacks are the product of men who have given up their humanity; the worst thing way we can react to their acts as a…

Didn't Showtime produce a series with the exact same premise starring Laura Linney just a few years ago?

The distaff counterpart to a cuckold is called a "cuckquean." It's an awkward term, not least because someone unfamiliar with the word may read it as "cock queen," which is the exact opposite of what it really means.

I mentioned this in a different comment thread, but Good Charlotte is amazing in that they recorded "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," and the Madden brothers are currently married to Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz. This is a band whose songs are all about how terrible rich girls are, yet it's two founding members…

Good Charlotte is fascinatingly awful in that all of their songs seem to be about how terrible rich girls are, yet the Madden brothers seem to be only capable of dating socialites.

I'd disagree that Tyson wouldn't fight as a heavyweight today. He always weighed in at around a solid 220 pounds; at 5'11", he was a little shorter than the average heavyweight, but unlike a lot of smaller fighters who did move up in class (see: James Toney, a natural middleweight who was described as a "fat tub of…

He did lose his title twice by fluke knockouts, though. He avenged both of those defeats, but that has to count against him in the big picture.

Young Tyson was a beast. He wasn't just powerful; he was an elusive target for his opponents to hit. He had cat-like reflexes, but those are what deteriorated as his life became a sideshow.

I'll be honest: I couldn't make it more than ten minutes into today's episode, solely because Scott and Mulaney went on a "Moneyball"/cryogenics riff while lamenting Walt Disney is the only famous person rumored to be frozen. Come on, guys: Ted Williams! That's the perfect reference, and it was a lay-up!

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So long as Teti doesn't upload them onto his Twitter feed, it's all good.

Again, we're talking about 1979-80 here: there's only room for one Japanese-American character actor on a hypothetical American sitcom already starring a Japanese pop duo. I'm just being realistic.

A real American would have wielded an AR-15 and blown away twenty people.

In the sense that "Match Game" can't work on TV today because the answer to every riddle would be "penis," you better believe that "Pink Lady and Jeff" in 2015 would give audiences more gigantic white cock than it could handle.

It seems like he arrived at NBC without a vision for the direction of the network's programming. At CBS, he committed to contemporary series that rejected the small-town idealism of '60s television; at ABC, he monopolized younger audiences with cleavage and bright colors. The programming he put the air at NBC, "Hill…

It's not Silverman's fault that U.S. boycotted the Olympics; the games behind the Iron Curtain should have been a media boon, but then Afghanistan happened.