I think it's worth remembering that World War I was still in living memory when Blackadder Goes Forth was made, and while it was airing there was some criticism of using a recent-ish event that literally tore Europe apart as part of a comedy programme.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, muthafucka.

Very good in Atonement and Stuart: A Life Backwards, solid in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, amazing twice in Danny Boyle's Frankenstein.  The second series of Sherlock was a train wreck, but he did his absolute best in it.

The entire line-up of Tony, Toni, Toné also auditioned, but it felt like overkill.

Oh, Alec.  Did Shia le Boeuf's heartfelt plagiarised letter teach you no humility?

Or at least something to prevent him writing a second volume of autobiography!

*Kate Winslet enters thread, wonders what everyone is laughing at, goes home*

Surprised you mentioned 127 Hours there.  My favourite movie of that year.

The end of the X-Files episode 'Tooms' had a bit that always struck me as funny: when he shuts down the X-Files, Skinner apologises and mentions that he's impressed by Mulder and Scully's 75% conviction rate.

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Reading up, I got the Dubai thing wrong - it was in reference to his short film Cruel Summer, which was funded by the Qatari royal family.  (He did look for funding from Dubai, but as far as Wikipedia says they didn't end up putting any money into the finished thing)

Yeah, that phrasing did make me sound a bit Glenn Beck.  But that's not where I was coming from.  When we're using "He owns businesses!" and "So what if he's rich, he has feelings too!" as defences, that really does bother me.  I honestly think Kanye's place in culture at the moment is putting a trendy new face on…

@avclub-bc476393a92222ae842903c5ace5f0af:disqus - even in context, it's a profoundly stupid point.  Firstly, people of all races get laughed at for saying they are a god.  Noel Gallagher said it at the height of Oasis's success and everybody rightly laughed.  Secondly, it sets up a false binary where either we support…

@Bitenuker:disqus He was clearly deathly serious when he started to talk about the prejudice he received for being an egomaniacal rich prick.  He clearly isn't being tongue-in-cheek throughout the whole interview - he referred to it as "the only honest media in years".

@avclub-f979394c282f4c89bbd91e8ef5589479:disqus Perhaps not, but they're much cheaper to produce.  That's their real ace in the hole.  Nobody ever buys a box set of a reality TV show, but they can more or less break even just by being made and broadcast.  Sure, you have the long-term matter of continued syndication…

If The Wolf of Wall Street gets bumped I'm going to be pissed.  Grace of Monaco, yeah, I'm interpreting the delay on that as a tacit admission that it should never have been green lit, but this…

Well done on using left-wing social justice terminology to defend somebody who works with the Dubai Ministry of Culture.  Slave labour is brilliant but god forbid anyone mock the multimillionaires!

"It's OK to be a sexist classist egomaniac asshole if you're 'tackling issues'!"

He said he was a fucking god in that interview.  How in the name of all that is sane is that not outrageous?

@Bitenuker:disqus You don't think saying you're a god, then complaining that people don't show enough respect to confident and successful people (in this wealth and celebrity-worshipping society!) is worth mocking?  What could he say that would be more self-important, ludicrous and ignorant than that?