@avclub-ff1734f86dd0ad88b35d4ce5004479f0:disqus , I'm going to take the initiative to upgrade @avclub-9cd818ea56273170b63f339aa6f34bca:disqus ' request to a Lola-Cat-Valerie-JonHamm F/F/M/M quatro.  
JonHamm can play himself instead of Mr. Childrens. That way the show will be able to keep its legendary verisimilitude…

Is Kaiser implying that Dushku was capable in her role as Echo? Because she was not. For evidence, compare her performance to Enver Gjokaj's on the same show.

@avclub-85eb892f8ef6b1099535fbc59cfe11d2:disqus , yeah, that was what I was alluding to. In his interview with Gillibrand it was especially prominent that he was thinking of his wife when discussing the issue.

I thought his interview with Kirsten Gillibrand was awesome. It was great to see him just go along with her and then suddenly bring up all her financial backers. He wasn't sure how to continue that line of questioning through her defences, but that moment he still showed a lot of potential for some great interviewing.

I agree. Oliver seemed to know how to use the correspondents better for the day-to-day stuff, while Jon often seems focused on using them for more intricate and impactful storytelling.

I think part of the issue is that Stewart is very much the Jersey-New York Kid that he sells himself as, and so a lot of the ridiculous news he's satirizing tends to where on him a bit, because it directly cuts to his identity.

Wow, that sure is a lot of inaccuracies!

And who are we to disagree with Regis?

On an actual news show, when a guest anchor does a fill-in, the convention is for them to say "I'm X sitting in for Y"; so it makes sense for a satirical news show to do a satirical version of that re: "I'm John Oliver, John Stewart is off doing…".

@avclub-2b4da655d7cee9a149406da930671ae9:disqus , it is if you're using it as a fundamental distinction for both societies.  It is not if you're acknowledging it as among the many ways that differing philosophies have created different systems of meaning among cultures. 
For instance, the Shame vs. Guilt analysis is…

@avclub-b20754d0f1e8ae843e00a8b39a667112:disqus  My favourite part about U.S./Canada relations is how both sides could soon have cops operating in each others' nation without being held culpable to that nations' laws!

Japan, Korea, and China are all Shame societies rather than Guilt societies, so there's a significant inclination in all three societies to whitewash the dirtier elements of their histories to save Face.

@avclub-8e3d05b3a02cebcb45d304a5224a6113:disqus , the disapproval between populations isn't necessarily indicative of Japanese nationalism. But yeah, the last poll about China and Japan had both at over 90% disapproval.

I'm so glad that the United States and Canada spend millions of taxpayer dollars fighting the marijuana industry rather than putting that money towards dealing with a drug problem that costs tens of thousands of lives each year.

@wolfgangvonschrei:disqus , well said.

This is a matter only Hip-Hop Santa can solve!

If Weird Al parodies you or Nardwuar interviews you…

@avclub-51048bfa2332a3aba727434b85da1dd6:disqus , not really.

@avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus , compared to Secret Invasion, Civil War is freaking Shakespeare.  At least it had an actual storyarc, as opposed to: What's going on?  Skrulls?  Okay. THE END.

Finally finished.  Did anyone else notice that Beca basically had assembled a cult of personality around herself by the end of this film? Is she a Sexy Stalin allegory?