You're right. He's no white upper class piano player playing Chopin to other rich white people. He's just a fucking black boy trying to be higher than his station. DANCE MONKEY DANCE

You were hooted down because he can't exactly do TV show jokes on stage. Even if he dressed up (which, come on, he's not Gallager) he would still be missing the editing that goes into televised comedy.

In clubs, maybe, but he's doing festivals. A good chunk of his audience is there to see someone else, so doing the old hits (from a tv show, by the way, not stand up, so hard to adapt) won't please anyone.

That'ts the main difference. People want show jokes but he's doing standup.

@avclub-394dc8be941678fb1dcfc647005e6af6:disqus Do you listen to his podcast? He basically just riffs for an hour every Monday, and he's always funny on there.

This happens to Kyle Cease all the time. He's the slow-clap guy from Not Another Teen Movie, and he has a few other old standbys too. His way of dealing with it is to record every show, and put the hecklers up on Youtube. Also, he's really good at handling them. He doesn't get angry like most comedians, but rather…

He should do Dimebag Darrel, but in reverse. As in he just shoots people in the audience. With a gun.

I'd pay for Bill Burr and Chapelle to do it.

"Turn that shit up! No, seriously nigga, I can't hear anything out of my right ear."

I think he should just say "I'm Rick James, Bitch!" literally 100 times without moving. Then get on with the show.

RUN!

Yelling lines no one wants to hear isn't the same thing as crowd interaction.

Yes they would. Have you ever been to a stand up festival?

The proof was in the pudding. I think it wasn't just that it was a preexisting property, but also that it wasn't his original idea, like all his other shows. I think he finally took a leaf out of the Whedon playbook: do a crowdpleaser or your shit will continue to get cancelled.

Would you like to have dinner with me some time? I make a mean veal.

I never watched Hannibal when it was on,except in the background. But my girlfriend did. Let me tell you, it was a great pleasure seeing her, a diehard Fueller fan, gradually (read: by the second episode) accept that Fueller made the right call by going commercial. It now ranks just under Pushing Daisies for her.

Scandal's second season is already up on Netflix. FYI

@avclub-75c0ce4ad8c4d435237c84af7d40b443:disqus I agree. And I think working on Insomnia brought Nolan a lot of experience with big name actors he didn't have up until this point. Pacino, Williams, and even Swank were all bigger names at the time than anyone he'd worked with before. We know now how well Nolan directs…

Agreed. The Prestige is amazing. And to be better than Inception and The Dark Knight, two of the best films in the last 15 years, is quite an impressive feat. It does help that he was working with such strange source material.

I go back and forth. Batman Begins has a nearly perfect villain in the Scarecrow, that the script immediately throws away for Liam Neeson. Dark Knight Rises is much more beautiful and ambitious, but, yes, it did need another rewrite. Despite how much more I liked TDKR, I'd say it was weaker than Batman Begins, though,…