Something like 49% of Americans say that have a "very unfavourable view" of Trump. Someone who is that unliked is surely unelectable. Surely… please…

I remember thinking after the 2008 election: "Well, Obama has exposed the Republicans as too far to the right for the American people, they'll have to adjust their message, start appealing to blacks and Latinos, let go of their crazy morality politics and focus on their economic credentials." And they very quickly…

But I'm kind of hoping this is the time the media (and the other candidates) stops treating him as a novelty and starts attacking him as they would any other politician?

His asides and analogies are hit or miss, but it can't be easy to craft jokey asides out of some of his subject matter. But that stuff can be forgiven because the show's main game is pointed satire and big budget parody and it does that better than anyone.

I really like Sam Bee's show so far. It has a very different pace and style to Last Week Tonight and The Daily Show which makes it worth watching even when it is covering the same news.

I did have to watch his DVDs to check which versions they were (they were the US theatrical release which was dubbed with bad English dialogue). One of the perks of being an IP lawyer. Then there was the time I had to order beer after beer in a bar to see whether they gave me the brand I asked for.

What he said. The guy claimed he had bought the rights off some random company, so we had to first prove we owned the copyrights. Once we did that, proving infringement was as simple as proving we'd bought his DVDs in a store.

This can actually be surprisingly difficult to prove. You need to identify not only which copyrighted works they've used but all the details associated with that work - who created it, whether they are dead yet, when they created it, when it was first published or screened, what version of the copyright legislation…

No, he said he liked the Stooges but not Iggy, he thought Iggy's stage posturing was ridiculous. Which is just wrong, but he also chose "The Nasty Bits" as a band name, so he clearly has no taste. Honestly, couldn't they come up with a better fake British punk band name?

The Muriel's Wedding scene is a great one, but the clip above ends before the end of the scene. Her roommate falls over in the chaos and then gradually tries to get Muriel's attention to point out that she can't feel her legs. It goes from two minutes of riotous chaos to deadly serious in a heartbeat.

I was at a whaling museum recently (jealous?) and they had an unbelievable story - apparently 100 years ago getting inside a dead whale was considered an excellent cure for rheumatism and arthritis. They cut a person sized hole and got in. You had to stay in for at least 4 hours, and then as long as you could stand…

My grandfather was a POW in Burma in WW2. He was half-starved for 4 years. After coming home, he never ate rice the rest of his life. Kind of rules out a lot of dishes but no one was about to make him.

Hopefully the films and their provenance is one of the things that will get explained over the course of several seasons - hopefully. This film is evidently some sort of alternate alternate history and this gets discussed (very) briefly in the final episode.

I'm not quite as high on this show as you but I agree that the last few episodes are really strong. If they can somehow keep that momentum into series two (and the final scene of the finale gives them plenty to work with), this could be a must-watch show yet. They have a lot of the ingredients right already - they…

Yeah, kind of interesting twist that in this history, he wasn't assassinated and FDR was. He was at the forefront of the Night of the Long Knives, so obviously he is useful to the story in that he has form in murdering his political enemies.

He seems to be American but an enthusiastic collaborator and Germanophile.

The series picks up for the last few episodes starting with this one, we get some good action and suspense and while Joe and Juliana are still pretty dull and Frank is still a tool, the supporting characters (Tagomi, Kido, Wegener and Childan) are really getting interesting.

Yeah, with the rectangular jets on them. They actually call them rockets. I assume developed by Werner von Braun as an offshoot of the V2 program.

The strength of this show is that it has the whole alternate history that it can just drop like breadcrumbs through the series. They do that really well. I want to know more about FDR's assassination just like I want to know more about who Lincoln Rockwell airport was named after. Unfortunately the rest of the show is…

I had never heard of George Lincoln Rockwell, not unhappy about that. Wikipedia says he didn't found the American Nazi Party until the 50s, but I guess in this show's history everyone sympathetic to Nazism got on board a little earlier.