Night Out with Wayne Brady is one of those sketches that defies what normally works for me in comedy:  it's just one joke, repeated with minor variations.  But for some reason, every single iteration of that joke just KILLS me.  The serenade of the cop, the way Brady shoots Dave at the end for no reason at all ("I'm…

Night Out with Wayne Brady is one of those sketches that defies what normally works for me in comedy:  it's just one joke, repeated with minor variations.  But for some reason, every single iteration of that joke just KILLS me.  The serenade of the cop, the way Brady shoots Dave at the end for no reason at all ("I'm…

Gah!  Best notice EVER!  That seems like it has to have been intentional.  You even left out the fact that River's defense of her action is "He looks better in RED!"

Gah!  Best notice EVER!  That seems like it has to have been intentional.  You even left out the fact that River's defense of her action is "He looks better in RED!"

The whole Russian Tea-Room bit had me thinking Louie's been reading a lot of Kafka lately.  Kafka, of course, also famously had problems with his father, and the scene had that kind of complete failure to connect and empty language that Kafka used a lot.  The whole ongoing bit of his uncle describing the Duke as "this…

The whole Russian Tea-Room bit had me thinking Louie's been reading a lot of Kafka lately.  Kafka, of course, also famously had problems with his father, and the scene had that kind of complete failure to connect and empty language that Kafka used a lot.  The whole ongoing bit of his uncle describing the Duke as "this…

I get the impression from his interviews and so forth that Louie actually finds this stuff funny — he's not trying to be deep (or at least, not ONLY trying to be deep) and thinking he's Beckett.  He just finds it funny.

I get the impression from his interviews and so forth that Louie actually finds this stuff funny — he's not trying to be deep (or at least, not ONLY trying to be deep) and thinking he's Beckett.  He just finds it funny.

Anya was also drop-dead gorgeous. 

Anya was also drop-dead gorgeous. 

He was wrong.  I hope that makes you feel better.

He was wrong.  I hope that makes you feel better.

I've been listening to a lot of comedy podcasts lately, and I get the impression that SNL is a completely different thing for people involved in its production, and people in the comedy world in general.  Not just a different experience, but it represents something different, it's thought about differently.

I've been listening to a lot of comedy podcasts lately, and I get the impression that SNL is a completely different thing for people involved in its production, and people in the comedy world in general.  Not just a different experience, but it represents something different, it's thought about differently.

Since I was watching this show with my wife and we were both talking and browsing on the intertubes while it was on, I wasn't sure if my inattention caused me to miss all the cooking sequences and times when the food was the focus.  Glad to hear that it wasn't just me.

Since I was watching this show with my wife and we were both talking and browsing on the intertubes while it was on, I wasn't sure if my inattention caused me to miss all the cooking sequences and times when the food was the focus.  Glad to hear that it wasn't just me.

Yup!  My wife and I got immersed in a five minute conversation about that and had to look up the precise release date of each song.  I wasn't sure if I was experiencing one of those "telescoping memory" events where childhood memories seem ages apart that were actually only separated by a year.  But, nope — decade. …

Yup!  My wife and I got immersed in a five minute conversation about that and had to look up the precise release date of each song.  I wasn't sure if I was experiencing one of those "telescoping memory" events where childhood memories seem ages apart that were actually only separated by a year.  But, nope — decade. …

I never really sat through much of the original Trek.  My memories of it are largely tied to being a young kid in the early seventies who would occasionally have to stay at Gramma's, when the only thing to watch on her tiny grainy TV were old Trek reruns on some cable station — low budget sci-fi with cheesy dialogue…

I never really sat through much of the original Trek.  My memories of it are largely tied to being a young kid in the early seventies who would occasionally have to stay at Gramma's, when the only thing to watch on her tiny grainy TV were old Trek reruns on some cable station — low budget sci-fi with cheesy dialogue…