The thing is this: H. Jon Benjamin/Zach Galifianakis/Jon Glaser/Paul F. Tompkins et al. have hipster cred but are also very funny. There are other comics like Aziz who have tons of hipster cred but are only a little bit funny.

Well put, Ciariace. The weird thing for me is, I like some of those UCB-type comics (the used-to-be Rififi crowd). But I also think that crowd often overvalues comics that are more style than substance, and in that sense they aren't very different from the Blue Collar Comedy crowd.

I'll go ahead and say it…
I don't find him very funny. Human Giant was good, but I think his standup is pretty mediocre. Why do people think that Aziz is great and Randy is terrible is when the difference between Aziz and Randy is basically inflection and a jacket?

You're not alone. He's mediocre.

Jimmy Kimmel just won some respect from me - it takes balls to call out another comic like that.

There's a direct line between Birbiglia, Kroll, and Mulaney: Birbiglia started an improv troupe, which Kroll and Mulaney were in. They also helped each other out as they moved to New York (also, Gaffigan helped out Birbiglia early on). So if you were there before Birbiglia, there probably wasn't much comedy to speak…

Mulaney, too. And Mike Birbiglia, and Jim Gaffigan.

I've met Nick: he's not an asshole. Or at least, he wasn't an asshole the couple of times I was around him.

More talentless hanger-on: Yoko Ono or Courtney Love?
I've got to go with Yoko, but it's close.

I'm no fashion expert, but if you make Padma's ass look unappealing, then you're not doing a very good job.

I think Eli is definitely in the "less bad than the worst" category that Scott identified. He'll be gone within the next few episodes, along with Robin, Ash, and that blonde lady who's not Jen.

Shame on that show twice: once for the routine, and once for making me think positive things about Harry Connick, Jr.

I vote for Annie. She has a real take-the-pencil-our-of-the-hair-and-shake-it-out kind of vibe.

I'll go with the one where Bart drops the radio down the well and pretends to be Timmy O'Toole.

I guess I'm alone in not finding this show very funny. I like Joel McHale, but this show is just not doing it for me so far.

Wait, Gillian Jacobs was "great"?
Because I thought she was fucking terrible. Not the least bit believable. If she's going to be this bad in every episode, then I predict that this show doesn't make it out of its first season.

The only thing better than watching people I like succeed is watching people I don't like fail, and last night's Jeopardy provided a little of both. Last night was just more confirmation of what we already knew: you don't have to be even the least bit smart to rise to prominence on a cable news network these days.

Agreed - the rare case of success going to someone who deserves it. Now if we could only get Paul F. Tompkins back on TV.

Wait, what kind of line? Oh, a LINEAR line. Thanks for clarifying, Courtney.

I care; I wanted to know who was the money whore here. Good to know it's still Courtney.