I did notice that "new Seinfeld" was a lot more focused on interpersonal rituals and manners than the stereotypical perception ("what's the deal with airline food / consumer products / advertising copy?") of the material that made him famous in the first place. In the routine I saw, he did about five solid minutes on…

Good discussion about comedians getting rich and having trouble with new material; it's something I noticed when I heard that Jerry Seinfeld was getting back into stand-up after two decades as one of the wealthiest men in comedy. The trouble with being rich (and it's not a bad problem to have) is that the things…

It might pull a Cougar Town and quickly become a fun hang-out comedy with its own weird inside jokes, watched by a small but loyal contingent who will eventually get tired of saying "I KNOW it has a stupid name, but you have to watch it! It's good!"

I remember this dude from the "Metal version of 'Let It Go' (from Frozen)" link that was burning up my Facebooks months ago. I'm extremely jealous of the sustain he gets out of that rig, although I guess he could be cleaning a lot of it up with Pro Tools.

I found "Li'l Homie" to be far funnier than the steampunk sketch. Peele really brought the character to life. I laughed at that the first time I saw a one-second clip of it in the pre-premiere commercial, and laughed even harder at the full-length sketch. Whereas the steampunk thing just seemed like a retread of…

Now I'm imagining a Being John Malkovich episode of SOA, only with Jerry Seinfelds.

I enjoy both giant TVs (with closed captions to assist with mumbled dialogue) and going to movies. I am kind of shocked at the horror stories about price I consistently hear, as well. Typically I go to a Saturday or Sunday matinee at my local AMC 30-plex and the ticket price is a cool $6.50. I will usually drop…

Brady : Gruden :: Favre : Madden.

Misunderstood Organism Designed Only for Karing!

Zack, I beg of you: please stop calling Jury, the boss of the Indian Hills chapter, "Jerry."

It still amazes me that this is the same actor who played Tommy in Snatch. Both characters are gangsters, and both are kind of dim-witted, but they couldn't be farther apart otherwise.

I agree with this. It's kind of like watching how a regular person would handle the role of gangster, rather than the population of sadistic assholes with unquenchable appetites and personal quirks that characterize the breed in most popular fiction. Nucky's made some cruel choices, mostly out of necessity, but he's…

My favorite iteration of that was the "Junior Newsreaders" episode, where Rosa interviews Kate Walsh's daughter. Laughter is even more infectious in the form of two giggling little girls.

I very nearly passed on this show sight unseen, because the previews made it look like a lame, broad comedy about quipping assholes we're supposed to think are cool because somebody spent 10 grand on hair and wardrobe.

And they squashed Jim Miller too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Well, it's not exactly random, in that it has just enough of a fantasy-football application (at least for WRs and TEs) to be plausible — taller WRs do have an advantage, although until someone at FootballOutsiders crunches the numbers I'm going to believe it's marginal at best — and it rhymes with "white", allowing…

It's definitely the kind of thing NFL players do, but typically they want to get a little PR for it, so they'll do it for a fan in the local market. Especially for the Philly fans, a notoriously hot-headed and grudge-holding bunch, taking a girl from Chicago to a school dance would probably do Sproles more harm than…

He did the two things Pete always does: leverages someone's embarrassment into a viciously unfair trade, and used his league friends to try and improve his station. Both efforts met with modest success.

I guess that's why the coach inexplicably gave him the day off to attend a junior-high dance in Chicago. (Although I guess since they played in Indy, he was in the neighborhood?)

The thing about the Eph's-family storyline that bugs me the most is the serious undercurrent of hostility toward women that flows just beneath the surface of everything that's happened: