I only noticed this because I checked to see what else Marah Eakin had done lately, and she did both articles, BUT:

Hell, even Dave Chappelle did a silly choral version of "The Diarrhea Song" on his show ~12 years ago.

I mean, we can't all write for stoner sitcoms that feature tons of dick and vagíne jokes. That is high-brow right there.

I don't begrudge anyone their ability to eat, and I don't really find it useful to sling "sellout" at people. But when your previous (already well-paying!) work was marked by rather militant class awareness, rejection of mass media, and solidarity with the downtrodden, and then you turn into the house band for the…

Related, I lost whatever respect I had for Jackie Kashian when she pulled the "We know her heart and she's not racist" card about that whole thing. Like, holy shit, it IS RACIST to make jokes about tired-ass stuff like "I'm not brave enough to date black guys," just own it and think about it a little!

The unwritten rules are looser on nightly (Conan did Letterman a couple times and vice versa), plus guesting a nightly is way different and less noteworthy than hosting SNL. Heck yes, Lorne is that petty

Except only people who are Fallon/Black's age would get that. Those are Gen Xers, the future retirees and dedicated Tonight Show viewers of decades hence.

Also his trying way too hard has been rewarded with an utterly charmed life, unlike Mooney's character.

One of my favorite things on Twitter is when people needle Black Thought for going from the guy who literally endorsed the theft of his own music by poor people if it would help start the revolution, to the guy who helps Slow Jam The News and rides around Manhattan in a limo. Sometimes he's just like "Fuck it, you're…

(Nearly amputates ring finger)

I've been watching a lot of Hartman era, and while they're not always funny—god no, not even close—the main difference is the tone. It feels like 40-year-olds writing for 30, instead of 25 writing for 15.

It's not clear if Brockmire was, as he might say, a "sexual astronaut" before he found his wife in that big to-do.

Additional viewings helped that a bit for me. None of them are going in the pantheon of great movie characters or acting jobs, and I still have a hard time remembering all the names (Pilot, Blind Guy, and Fat Guy mostly), but they're pretty easy to like.

I was disturbed by the lack of action scenes set to '70s bongo-soul instrumentals.

Hm! I didn't, and I quite liked what they did with her anyway. Maybe now I will do that.

Also, the cop aspect allows them to do wacky action scenes multiple times a year!

When the world foists so, so many forgettable white dudes upon us, it's hard to keep up.

Anyone here watching Brockmire? It's not perfect or even essential, but it is a good ribald laugh, especially if you like Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet, and baseball.

Eh, the history of things getting ruined by gimmick casting is long. But yes, absurd in retrospect.

In this battle of you vs. a single poorly chosen word in the author's column that I did not personally use or defend, needless to say I surrender.