Twain really leaned on his editors, didn't he?

Just call it Welsh.

That's right!  We fought a war for independence so we didn't have to respect David Frost!

Yes, he is now cold for teacher.

So no obit for Sir David?

Just watched The Shout, a nifty little creeper from the 70s, and darned if Jim Broadbent wasn't in it, and bare-bottomed no less.

Certainly his Castilian accent should leave no room for doubt.

Reportedly one of the initial inspirations for Gilligan's Island was Sartre's No Exit.

In a sense, yeah, but I'm not sure that, comedically or dramatically, the casting of David Hyde Pierce as Dean in the Stone movie could be bettered.

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus : Indeed.  Allen was actually persuaded to become a standup by Rollins and Joffe— he was more than successful as a comedy writer and hardly needed the extra pressure, but it certainly honed him as a performer.  He almost certainly wouldn't have been able to carry a movie…

Well, as @avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus 's question points out, pretty much the only major stand-ups who have been served well by movies — depending on one's definition of "well" I guess — are those that have been able to exercise full or great control of their material: Woody Allen, Albert Brooks,…

@avclub-55e3810d28d3d3b098f2405b29602eea:disqus : All I know is, I haven't gotten my Manhattanite sitcom yet.  What's up with that?  I've got some really interesting observational humor to sh— hey come back!

Rye manhattans rule.

He's very in tune with pop culture.

Honestly, you look how poorly the movies treated a talent as great as Richard Pryor's, it's hard to blame Chappelle for feeling leery about it.

Oh Sweden!  You're such a freewheeling nation!

I'm all about miserabilism but I'm not entirely sure I could watch Au Hasard Balthasar again, great a movie as it is.

Wait till Two and a Half Cathars debuts this fall.

So he's a successful sadist then.

Of course it's only a few generations since China romanticized the farmer as the noblest of professions, and urged professionals and scholars to take it up— a cultural mandate that a great swath of the population took quite seriously.