Has Nick Thune done a special recently? I always liked the guy, and usually point him out to friends when he pops up in commercials, but I haven't seen any new standup from him for a while. I would definitely check it out if I came across it.

Also, to add to that, the bit with the ethnic accents was super low hanging fruit that he later tried to redeem (and deflect criticism of) by taking a turn into absurdism. Can't speak for other audiences, but at my show people were laughing at the funny voices - which comprised the brunt of the joke - not the weird…

This is a much better summary of the special, and the suicide bit in particular, than I was able to articulate. "Punching down" is spot-on.

It was a cool interview. Sudeikis wasn't lying about his rambling, though, haha. I had a hard time making heads or tails out of his first couple responses. Hathaway's answers were more coherent, and really gave a sense of how passionate she is about the project. (I did really like Sudeikis's "I don't think I have…

I don't think the writers hate women, to be clear. I think they fell back on a common cliche of the crime genre, which is the "shrew wife." And to answer your question, I do think Walter Junior is more three-dimensional than Skyler. He has a more fully formed personality, and while the viewers get to see his…

This was a pretty great interview. Kelly's quite knowledgeable and surprisingly amiable, as well. Donnie Darko is one of those movies where you can't help but notice the voice behind it, and I mean that as a positive. There's a clear vision behind every scene, and there's a real mastery of tone that you don't see…

I think he's still absolutely one of the best comedians out there, but this special largely turned me off. I saw him do it live a couple months back, and frankly a lot of it came off more bitter and depressive than funny. And I'm not sure if he's refined the bit on suicide since, but at the time it came off - to me,…

Sure, it could make sense. No one's stopping anyone from living their life the way they want to. But that doesn't make them Native American. Just as relating to or identifying with certain elements of black culture doesn't make one black. Everyone should live their life in the way in which they feel most…

I also have a job and a sister. In your eyes am I now a three-dimensional character? If "has kids" is one of the only character traits you can come up with, you're kind of making my argument for me.

Paraphrasing you, but you're essentially asking "What if her personality feels black? Can't she identify as black?" I know you're just hypothesizing on someone else's mindset, but can you see why that question is kind of tone deaf? There is no "black personality." It sounds like this person is romanticizing black…

Uh, no, she just has to have a life outside her husband and ideally more than one emotion. As I acknowledged in my comment, Skyler was in the moral right and had good reason to be angry at Walt, but that doesn't change the fact that if that's the only note her character ever gets to play her screentime grows…

I think he's funny too. I can understand him not being to everyone's tastes - I've definitely given a few of his comments the side eye - but it's really easy to scroll past a comment if you don't want to engage with it.

I think we're too delete-happy in general on this site. I've seen people call for bans on commenters over a simple political disagreement, where no names were called and nothing disrespectful was said. People call for Buzz to be banned when half his comments are benign non sequiturs. I appreciate how often everyone…

I…disagree. Not arguing that that contingent didn't exist, but I think there were plenty of legitimate criticisms made of Skyler's characterization that unfairly got lumped in with the vocal but comparatively small MRA backlash. To name a few examples, her main defining trait over the course of the series was "angry…

The disappointment to me came off as him trying to cover his ass for making a controversial statement. He's drawing a correlation that he has no data to back up. As edcharleston points out, the sales were already in decline before the introduction of these characters, so there's no reason to draw the conclusion "I…

I was thinking that, too, but then two lines later it says "telling saying in a recent interview…" Not a hundred percent sure the colloquialism was intentional.

Yes, this strikes me as an exec wanting to blame the audience for his company's shitty output. There's no reason to assume it's the diversity that's turning readers away when by all accounts the comics themselves are fairly low quality.

That is hilarious.

The fact that his initial comment is structured similarly to a haiku makes me think he is perhaps not entirely sincere in his idiocy.

I just like the idea of a federal appellate judge having "bros."