I never heard any of the stuff with John Stewart but he doesn't seem to have written much of note at the time. The album with Gold is weird since it's produced by Lindsey Buckingham and sounds so much like Fleetwood Mac. His first album, California Bloodlines, is really great though. The first three are all good but I…

Here's my quick take on this. Sure, that line is not so misogynistic on its own. But look at the whole song, first he's dating a girl he doesn't seem to like or respect at all, then he's writing a whole song about how much she sucks, sharing it with the public, and using her name in the chorus (whether that's a real…

I never heard of this band and although I did see Dumb and Dumber I don't remember ever hearing this song before. Sometimes just bringing my attention to a song that is hilariously terrible is enough, to me this is a contender for worst song/band of the 90s. Lyrics aside, it's garbage. Not that my opinion is any more…

Just because you call one black person a spear-chucking monkey doesn't make you a racist, you just don't like that individual.

Lots of people really love the coffee, I think it's a bit bland. Basically it's very strong but much less bitter than other methods. It's a little fiddly getting the grind right and can be messy. The one thing I do use it for is iced coffee and it's great for that, since you dilute it with water anyway you can do it…

Weren't the boys dating Ru Ru Ru Gakuen a few weeks ago?

Yes, so much. I enjoy watching these guys build stuff and blow up stuff but the premise that it's in any way scientific nearly ruins it for me. My favorite example was the brown note; they tried several frequencies but they never even tried sweeping through a range of low frequencies which would have required…

What is this? I've never heard of this but I see it's an Australian show on its third season, is ABC2 available in the US now?

Personally I like Shelley Duvall a lot, she was in mostly Robert Altman movies and then Woody Allen and Kubrick, I guess she was attractive to auteurs of the 70s. And while Kubrick could have had his pick of actresses, in the one film that had memorable roles for women the most famous one he cast was Shelley Winters,…

I've actually read quite a few of his books despite not liking him much at all. I would say mainly go by length, anything from the 70s and 80s and under 500 pages is worthwhile and the short stories and novellas particularly so. Christine is a little longer but still decent.

I think I watched his other specials a few too many times, He's a great writer but all his jokes have the same shape; zig zig zig zig ZAG!, zig zig zig zig ZAG!, over and over. They're great one-liners but personally I may have worn him out. But it's just as good or better than all his other albums/specials.

Schumer had Claudia O'Doherty and Maeve Higgins on her show last season, and probably more who I didn't recognize.

I thought Jen Kirkman's special was a little better than this one, maybe more on the honesty/personal stuff side than the jokes per se but as an hour it was very good. And Bamford is a fucking genius, I don't think there's any American comic doing weirder or more interesting stuff.

I agree with the first point but disagree about the batting average, and of course it's subjective, people aren't overrating, they genuinely hold a range of opinions.

Was I the only person whose DVR cut off the last two sketches? The Mets/Cubs game didn't actually go over but in New York they had to talk about it for an extra 10 minutes?

I missed a bunch last year but I think it's a contender for sure. It had very few misses, compared to last week that had few highlights (which is much closer to the norm for even good periods of SNL). The high points were mostly throwbacks, a really great episode should ideally have the introduction of a great new…

That show hasn't eroded all my affection for Funches yet but I think Delia is actually the best part of the cast, the other main guy is awful and everyone else is irrelevant. But I haven't watched the live episodes yet. It's hard to believe that's the whole NBC comedy lineup, or will be in a few weeks when that…

I thought it was a poor episode for the reasons he gave, mainly there were no good sketches. He gave credit where it was due (monologue, commercial parody, Update) but it was hard to ignore the fact that Schumer has been doing a good sketch show for a few years and this suffered by comparison. It wasn't terrible but…

Once he ballooned up in size he looked a lot like a character from Smackdown vs. Raw 2007. I'm saying that CGI was terrible.

One thing with Murakami is he offers a lot of good suggestions himself, most anything his characters are reading is worth checking out.