"I remember studying Australian provinces. I knew where South Wales was compared to Queensland"

French people don't smoke any more than Americans do. The French smoke less.

Which one? The 1991 French version, starring Gerard Depardieu, or the 1994 English version, starring Gerard Depardieu?

He's a Russian citizen because Putin himself decreed it. Cronyism at its croniest.

*gasp*

The lyrics were written by then-14-year-old Mike Altman, son of M*A*S*H movie director Robert Altman. For directing the film, Robert Altman was paid a flat $70,000. For co-writing what would become the theme song of a long-running hit sitcom — despite the fact that the version used was instrumental, making his…

"I'm not sure why and since when the Dean is so easily a part of the group."

Now let's all celebrate with a cool glass of turnip juice.

If she's a grandmother to one and a (great?) aunt to the other, their parents would be cousins at the closest.

You're either mispronouncing the word someone or you don't know how diareses work.

Unless your son is D.O.A., I don't really understand what your deal is.

…but not on the face.

2. Confused practitioners of electronic espionage.

Intentional foul

He got $45M for letting NBC end his pay or play contract.

Which time?

He could have said, "I am definitely not returning to the Tonight Show. Period." He did not do that. Man, oh man, did he not do that. NBC wouldn't have fired Conan if not for Leno continuing to hang around as both a backup plan and a pre-news ratings spoiler, ipso facto that $32 million pay-or-play cashout was his…

No. For as long as CNN has existed, it has been the de facto international propaganda arm of the US government. Television Free Europe, basically. (For example.)

The worst soup I ever had was beef & cordial.

No way. Fox had no luck at all marketing their own late night talk shows. (Remember Spike Feresten?)