There's little things here and there in Gervais's post-Extras work that make me think he just doesn't pay attention to societal trends and his solo efforts suffer as a result. One that comes to mind was a scene in Derek where some financier loudly brags about being part of a massive banking group and is crestfallen…

I think you're overstating things a bit, the clamour over the dress was knowlingly amped up for fun (I refer you to Mindy Kaling's twitter response and the joshinn her showbiz pals were giving her).

I've seen the picture at different levels of brightness and it's never appeared to me as anything but black and blue.

If by "severely altered" you mean "washed-out and crappy" then yeah, but what's your point? It kicked off because groups of people were staring at the same image and seeing starkly different colour sets.

I don't think much of attention-policing in any case, but even so you guys really weren't picking your battles when it came to the dress. As far as I'm concerned it amounted to a pretty fun and illuminating exposition of a rarely-encountered neuroscientific phenomenon.

I think you mean Wizzard, who recorded "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day". Slade did "Merry Xmas Everybody". Sorry, I'll leave now.

It feels like there's a million specials that should be up there instead of the garbage that is Little Britain, but the most appropriate substitute for my money would be the one The League of Gentlemen put out.

"actually good" - I'll believe it when I hear it, which will be never.

I went through a germophobe phase when I was about nine that made gross-out comedy often uncomfortable but I mostly got over it by the time I turned ten, EXCEPT for the slapstick-meets-toilet-humour of Round the Twist, which frequently horrified me. Especially the one where the local bully ends up shoving his face…

I was surprised and a tiny bit disappointed that Shaun of the Dead wasn't there, particularly as Cabin in the Woods made the list. Fran Kranz said at one point the cast were asked to watch Shaun to get a sense of the sort of film Whedon/Goddard wanted to make.

Yeah, I didn't get that at all either. It didn't help that I actually once knew someone he looked and acted so very much like Gilchrist's character. Tarantino needs to recalibrate his hawtness meter, even the character who was supposed to be something of a rugged hunk looked at best high-average to me.

There's a lot of people saying "it's overrated" in this comments section when what they really mean is "I'm outvoted".

By coincidence I had this discussion with a friend yesterday and by further coincidence his choice was also Radiohead. It's the Red Hot Chilli Peppers for me. Even my snobbiest of music snob friends find something to like about them, but there's something about Anthony Kiedis's voice I find really off-putting. It was,…

I'm not sure I follow. Is that supppsed to be a rhetorical question?

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. To reiterate: I'm not saying we all have to assume in Kesha's favour until further notice. I'm saying that the notion that this makes this aspect of her suit collapse is ridiculous (although you seem to have softened your stance from "I don't believe her" to "we shouldn't 100% side…

"I don't know why anyone would give her the benefit of the doubt unless there's proof" - I can honestly say I had to turn that sentence over in my head for a minute or two, utterly nonplussed. We're living in a post-Operation Yewtree, Rochdale scandal and Cosby allegations world, and you ask that question in total…

I'll bite. At this point, there's a mountain of essays and, on my side of the pond, the odd goverment-commisioned enquiry report that could tell you why women may be reluctant to pursue abuse allegations. But I get the impression you're not really interested in any of that and just like being told what a callous piece…

Ah, in that case I stand half-corrected.

I'm gonna take a punt here and suggest that you meant to say Noel Edmonds, unless Brooker is casting his satirical net a lot wider than I thought. That is an interesting fact, though.

That's a mighty broad brush you're painting with there. Some people might have been slavering for Eich to lose his job. A great many simply stopped using a service because of its association with someone whose opinions and actions they sincerely considered retrograde (lest you think "minor trangression" is anything…