I was really impressed with that NYPD Blue arc. I still vividly remember Sipowicz sitting in an ill-fitting hospital gown all beat up and stupid, feeling sorry for himself. Was that Milch showing through? After this, I was pretty much committed to watching the show through to conclusion.

I (re)watched the first season with my wife and she couldn't take the implied bad ends for everyone and had to stop after that. In particular, she had so much anticipatory sadness for Bubble's inevitable demise that I almost told her the truth (a simple family dinner showing so much) to get her to watch it…but to…

Back when they did Episode 24 (which was an incredible summing up of The Great Undiscovered Project amongst other awesome) he said, "hey, so me and Eban are going to take a couple of months off, but we'll be back real soon."

I bet it is probably is hard for him to make a living off of Podcasts. That economic issue is partly because he doesn't take a lot of sponsors and, partly,despite his seemingly relaxed monologues and riffs, because he appears unable to not meticulously plan and engineer his work.

He is funny and charming. Actually, he may be the most charming comedian out there right now and Laboring Under Delusions was repeat-watching hysterically funny.

Will, you make this seem so effortless and breezy, but it's obvious that creating that effect takes a lot of hard work. Great interview. Lot of fun and I really enjoyed the links.

Wait, what, this isn't an unwatchable redux of Taken? Because that's what it looks like in the trailers. Shouldn't they end each ad with a disclaimer (claimer?): "Note, this movie is not as crappy as Taken 2"

Because journalists also have $150k in student loans and live in expensive cities.

Fair enough - I wasn't on Twitter and was only commenting on the Cheerios commercial and wasn't thinking too much of the (innocuous but mediocre) Coke commercial. I can see Palin attention-seeking-types not happy with foreign languages being used to discuss sacred "American Exceptionalism!"

I don't know which car commercial it was, but I really liked the one where the dad kept catching the kid before he was injured - the barbecue incident was the best.

And, I thought TWC was going away after its dismemberment by Comcast and whomever they partner with. Why would they spend so much money on this crap?

There has been so much more "Oh, boy the right wing is going to be outraged here, huh?" than any actual outrage about the ad.

I love him and I happened to see the production in New York, but you didn't miss anything. He was great, but, in my opinion, overall it was a terrible, terrible production filled with a lot of distracting agitprop and weird character/actor mashups (i.e., the same actor playing different (meaningful) roles in the…

"I like sports"
"I don't care that you like sports"
"I don't care that you don't care that I don't like sports"
"FASCIST!"

I don't even own a television. Notice I didn't say "TV." "TV" is a nickname and nicknames are for friends, and television is no friend of mine.

Would've picked Vienna Waits for the melancholy around Alex's disappointment associated with an effort to open himself up to a positive experience (pretty depressing ending with a sweet twist) and Jim's inheritance for a terrific set of visual jokes and an example of a really perfect usage of music, but you had these…

I always saw that montage as the first time (or second, depending on when Carmela has the "blood money" conversation with her psychiatrist) that the show suggests that the viewers are complicit in lionizing a character who ruins lives. I think that the contrast of the spoils of the party and the tawdry horridness of…

I want to give credit to Pharaoh. The way he played that 12 years not a slave bit was his best non-impression work to date. He can be pretty charming and that's what that role called for. Maybe he's just channeling Will Smith, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I thought he said, that, "If I win, I'll probably party with table service 24/7, 364, with, you know, one day for the Lord."

I think that you miss Eshuster's point.  People were watching some regular comedy because it was funny and a nice distraction when you got home from work.  Then it became a show about the process of coming out and was less funny.  Sitcoms trying to make a point are rarely funny.