Right. He's had a few really good episodes but he hasn't found the right balance for 'informed' and 'funny', especially for panel guests. It would be fine if one of the writers was there as a foil, but the rest of the guests need a step up. He needs to spend the next break watching QI and Big Fat Quiz and other…

Ideally that would be the Secretary of Labor.

one of these days you'll grow up and regret this stupid comment.

Yeah, but Hungarians are always going to be world-class assholes about this. They like to remind all their neighbors that they used to belong to them and that one day they'll own them again. They love to complain about Soros not giving back to the country, helpfully ignoring that time when they tried to kill him as a…

Bourdain has said he lost a lot of respect for Waters when she said her favorite meal is shark fin soup, which is incredible hypocrisy from her.

He's at StarWipe.

Russian internet is awesome. It's the crazy love child of Dostoevsky and Black Twitter (verbose, insular, slangy) all done on platforms (livejournal) and in mediums (dashcams) that the rest of the world has forgotten about.

I fucking adore seagulls. Yes, they're rats with wings, but those wings are amazing. They're like schooner sails and they can soar on cold days low to the ground just by angling their wings. Also, other shore birds like to nest near seagulls, because seagulls will defend them against eagles.

He's in the kampf that finds the book hard to read.

Look at those trees.

It's the same location as Community, which is even more weird because Faxon and Rash (Dean-a-ling) are writing buddies. I felt like Mr. Peanutbutter hanging out with Bojack.

Right. Each subgenre often has their own branches, and an actual flowchart could be made off of that so people can figure out what sort of movie they would want to watch for Halloween.

The exoticism. Americans are short on camp, eroticism and choreographed fighting, so Asian and European movies will guarantee two out of three of those. Americans have iconism (Golden Age Hollywood, movie stars, etc.) which gets recycled in every way possible all over the world.

I'll watch their performance tomorrow, but I've recently caught up with Run the Jewels, and they leave me a bit cold. It's solid shit, but there's also no breathing room or ambiance.

It's not an adaptation at all.

One hundred percent this. Within minutes of seeing some sort of "Why your fave is problematic" rant I knew it was just Fundamentalism all over again. I'm actually kind of grateful for all those days in Sunday School right now because I know Fundie jujitsu (which is quoting Jesus's words until the other person realizes…

Problematic needs to be defined and understood as something structural, and it's about ideas that are too easily overextended. On twitter problematic too often just means "I don't like this but I don't know how to articulate why."

Lane is a good writer but sometimes will phone it in. Denby can be a good writer but in recent years has taken upon himself to the Don Quixote of Human Decency.

I think our example over here has shown that familiarity breeds respect. I can look at your facebook profile but if I know I'll never run into you, what I call you doesn't matter. On the other hand, we're given free rein to be anonymous and weird here, and when someone starts commenting here they stick around for…

That's because they all have cloacas.