I've never really understood this stereotype about him. Cohen's all about joy, and always has been. He's just never pretended that that's all there is.

In his last few years of touring, he closed out concerts with variations of this:

He's hilarious live.

Oh dear. The binge reviewer wrote that she doesn't like Milky Ways, and now this. A house divided cannot stand, AV Club. Get it together.

It's maybe less dissonant but I've always appreciated that perhaps the most reliable voice of calm and insightful reason is Cookie Monster.

Something I wouldn't mind seeing explored in the coming year is the ways in which the Trump campaign has pulled the cover back on how a giant media corporation tolerated and enabled a serial abuser of women.

You see it's okay if we let powerful media personalities rape people so long as we keep up appearances. They absolutely would've left Trump alone if he hadn't been so stupid as to to run for office.

Yup. WaPo just did a pretty good roundup of the rules at this point. They're outa luck. Even if he dropped dead tomorrow he'd almost certainly be on the ballot in almost every state, and at least some of those electors would be obliged to vote for him in states he won.

It's not their fault, their yoo-hoos just make it hard for them to think clearly. Honestly, up and down, up and down, all day long, it's amazing the poor dears ever even make it out of the house.

Hey, it worked!

It's too late. Early voting has already started in some states. They could pull support for him, he could drop out, but his name is going to be at the top of the ballot with an R next to it.

It's actually nothing particularly weird or shady. The Access Hollywood folks were trawling their archives for old Trump footage (because why wouldn't you?) and found it. It was being prepped for a show next week but leaked to the Washington Post early.

"Anyway, g2g, I'm packing rocket launchers to blow up some random consulate in Benghazi lol"

As I recall it got banned by the BBC for the line "And in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt". I'd comment on how times have changed, but I note that Jimmy Savile had the run of the place raping children around then.

No, in the extremely unlikely event that neither wins a majority of electoral college votes (which would require a third party to win a state, plus them to be in a dead heat otherwise), it goes to Congress. Not at all likely. There's a good chance that neither will win a majority of the popular vote, but that doesn't…

I've been assuming that they've all reverted to whatever their perfect age is, which for most people is probably on the younger end. I'd love it if we found out Chidi had lived to be a ripe old 90 or something like that. I definitely get that sense from him.

Commenting from the future for no particular reason, but I can say from personal experience that that area, the ribs/flank, is the most painful place one can be tattooed, other than places people very rarely get tattooed at all. That said, those flowers didn't look all that extraordinarily big or complicated.

Yes! I adore Sugar. I've only watched up to this episode but I hope he makes it out okay in the end.

I mean, that's pretty much exactly what they say they're going to do…

Well, no, because the 1973 film doesn't have any of the themes of personhood, memory, and transhumanism the modern show has, and which so strongly evoke what Dollhouse did.