Privilege = me being able to just enjoy a funny comedy without also having to be excited about all the ways it strikes a blow for social justice by not being too male, too white, too skinny, and not New York enough. It's pretty sweet.

It just seems like there are 776 because of all the reruns.

Mmmm…I saw "Amerida" live, and I fear it will not live up to your 20 years of anticipation. It does have the virtue of ending when it runs out of steam, rather than dragging on for 3-4 more minutes as is customary nowadays.

Jump right in! The first season left the status quo pretty much untouched, save for our howls of laughter.

Microsoft Outlook, via predictive text, fills in addresses you've recently sent email to if you start pressing keys. If there's a squad distro list and Jake has recently used it (of course he has) and he fat-fingered S-Q-Tab (to auto-complete the first suggestion, "squad"), and pressed Enter, he could easily have…

Doom metal is what happens when you say "hey, I wonder what would happen if we took Blue Öyster Cult's classic song 'Godzilla' and played it at 33% normal speed?"

I'd suggest that Night Songs is a fairly conventional glam metal album, but Cinderella's 2nd and subsequent albums hewed more to a wannabe-blues-flavored hard rock along the lines of Aerosmith.

Shorter: "We all agree that sloppy DIY punk is better than virtuoso guitar rock, right? Right."

I had trouble believing her as an American, especially in the pilot; her accent goes wobbly at the worst times. (Which is sad, because she was born in my hometown and lives in Los Angeles.)

BBC America aired it last autumn, out of nowhere and with little fanfare. It was 2 hours, and most of the footage from the first 10 minutes of this episode was pulled from it.

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I've got your back on Legend of the Seeker. Hell, the first time Craig Parker showed up on Spartacus as Claudius Glaber, I said to myself "Aw, shit! It's Darken Rahl!"

My favorite part in the original is when the background vocalists start chanting "Hallelujah" backwards during the bridge.

You, sir, are no gentleman. I bid you good day!

I fell in love with Julie Delpy when I saw this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Back in 2007, my online coffee klatsch of ne'er-do-wells held a mini-vacation meetup in Chicago (my home town) and one of our group activities was to catch a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, since one of the guests was a former Chicagoan who had transplanted to L.A. and several others were out-of-towners who were stoked…

You can no sooner stop that than you can stop Smash Mouth's "All Star" from being the de facto anthem of all lovable loser PG comedies.

All late-night talk shows cycle through comedy segments depending on what's working and what is easy for particular groups of writers to come up with. But I'd say that Colbert stuck to its guns in that it always remained centered on Stephen's performance, and that the "Stephen Colbert" character was fully fleshed…

I'd say the larger peril for The Nightly Show is avoiding the fate of Totally Biased, W. Kamau Bell's show over on FXX, which crashed and burned when it was forced to expand to a 5x weekly schedule, or Chocolate News, Comedy Central's previous (1x weekly) effort to get a satirical comedy/news show with a predominantly…

A string quartet version of this song was played during Monica & Chandler's wedding on Friends.