Gary Larson who famously did the "Hell's Video Store" cartoon (where the video store is staffed by demons and stocks nothing but endless copies of Ishtar) said he was only jumping on the bandwagon with that joke and later on saw the movie and found it to be decently entertaining. He said it was the only cartoon he…

It's Your 25th Hour, Charlie Brown!

The writer of a TV show doesn't just write a bare transcription of dialogue and then passively wait for the director and actors to come up with absolutely everything else, you know.

Also some of his well known songs do rely a lot on a stream-of-consciousness list of visual images; I Love LA is a good example.

Renner brings the creepy to his action-movie roles too, though; part of the reason he makes a good successor for the Bourne franchise is that Bourne always had this latent edge of creepiness to him that gave a gritty realistic feeling to stories about being a professional killer that the Bond movies frequently didn't…

Also, of course, the unhinged-ness of the modern GOP isn't all based on race.

What's shocking to me isn't the massive backlash that's turned America so far right-wing — that's really just America's historical personality reasserting itself — but how successful we were at turning leftward in the mid-20th-century and how massively we've erased our cultural memory of that leftward shift.

I get this and I don't think it's even 100% incorrect, but the problem is that the drunk idiot who can't control himself in a public space usually isn't actually the  world's finest judge of comedy aesthetics nor is he a finely tuned barometer of the feelings of his fellow audience members.

Apparently Art Modell was invited to a funeral in Cleveland (of a former Browns player who'd worked with him) but declined to come because apparently no bodyguard company was willing to guarantee his personal safety should he ever set foot in Cleveland again.

@avclub-e5cb6734891848adc94674a231112f49:disqus It's still not heckling because it's not actively interrupting and disrupting the show for other audience members who like it and want to see it.

I think the worst case scenario is one that Patton Oswalt — who is the source of all comedy anecdotes on AV Club — told in that little animation feature they have here — someone who isn't actually a "heckler" per se but interrupts your show to, very politely and earnestly and even kindly, tell you that you're not…

The best/worst part of that little jab is that we did, in fact, already nuke Japan twice.

I would get *so* much more pissed at anyone I dragged to a comedy show for heckling during the show than for snapping at me afterwards for making them see something they didn't like.

You think it's bad as a stand-up comic? Try being a tour guide leading school groups around a historic site sometime.

I don't think he meant "incorrigible", I think he really did mean "encourageable", i.e. "people who respond to encouragement".

@avclub-4602fc349ffc0ad649190e937f2a5f14:disqus Look, if you're saying that you respect Rand's methodology rather than her conclusions, I can respect that a bit — more than I would someone who actually believed in her conclusions — but it's still kind of a bogus thing to laud her for. The concept of trying to reason…

@avclub-4602fc349ffc0ad649190e937f2a5f14:disqus Look, if you're saying that you respect Rand's methodology rather than her conclusions, I can respect that a bit — more than I would someone who actually believed in her conclusions — but it's still kind of a bogus thing to laud her for. The concept of trying to reason…

I sure know the reason *I* advocate gun control is the vast profits I stand to make from all those consumers not buying guns!

I sure know the reason *I* advocate gun control is the vast profits I stand to make from all those consumers not buying guns!

All of this is like a blaring siren alerting us to the fact that the author is deeply closeted.