"Apatow shouldn't be allowed to make movies "
that's better.

Her original self, before her memory loss, was named Yoko which sounds Japanese, but who knows. She was a cyborg raised on a colonized Mars, who can say for certain if she was Japanese or not.

Spade isn't weaselly, rodentwise he's more like Brown Jenkin.

During his time pretending to be a stand-up comedian Diamond gained a reputation as being a colossal egotistical diva and a joke thief who would also try to claim other comics had stolen jokes from him.

Why not make a more appealing offer, like getting a Lyft ride from a man is constantly clearing his throat with lough, phlegmy coughs. Or a convicted ax-murderer who keeps whispering to himself.

I saw a Sanders supporter put a small child in a trebuchet and launch it at a castle wall.

I'm pretty sure at least some of the critics and "journalists" talking about the massive sexist backlash against Ghostbusters are getting paid somehow to do it. Marketing a movie as OMG THE MRAS ARE ATTACKING THIS MOVIE doesn't actually work that well, and it hasn't worked at all with Ghostbusters - a significant…

What about the intensity of the derision in response to Rolfe's tame video? On twitter, lots of people, from comedians with blue-check-confirmed accounts to professional media people and "critics" popped up to whine about it via unfunny attempts at snark and straight up insults, from people like critic Eric D. Snider…

I was a bit nervous about Y2K rolling around but mostly over whether it would cause me any personal problems, I didn't think reactors would fail and cities would have blackouts.
There was a bookshop in the town I was living in at the time that had a great selection of books (which is why I kept returning) but it was…

Well, I'm also basing it on a large percentage of the other improve I've actually seen, amateur, college, and even "professional", but hey.

I think a more apt description I've ever heard about improv is that it's the Pyramid Scheme of comedy - everybody shells out for seminars, workshops and venues while they all go to each others' shows and convince each other how great it all is. Like any pyramid scheme, there's a handful of people with a legitimate…

Wells and Wilson playing a version of "One Potato Two Potato" to determine who gets to go on the suicide run was the moment that really stuck with me.

My response to the next "oral history" post in GJ,I will probably be something like, hey AV Club staffers, how about you listen to the oral history of DEEZ NUTS.

I'll admit some of the anti-vaxxers don't alarm me too much - the ones who slightly lean that way because they harbor some skepticism towards Big Pharma or are nervous about their children - not I agree with any of that but I can at least sort of comprehend that. The people who do it because they listen to the likes…

"Heh, yeah if you got polio you might not be able to play sportsball games!" :exudes sense of smugness so intense it's almost tangible:

I can't say I've ever found myself caring for the particular brand of cinematic cheese put out by Troma. An overdeveloped self-consciousness with an underdeveloped sense of trying to make a film that isn’t actually total garbage will do that to me. I'd much rather try to find films that are actually funny and weirdly…

The American TV industry's system for making pilots is a deeply flawed, inefficent, outrageously expensive way to create TV series. The vast majority of pilots made in any given season are scrapped… never to be broadcast.

Even Ludlum made fun of his book-titling methods, in one book there was a character who was a best selling novelist who wrote a series of thrillers with single-word-exclamation-point titles connected to the story, like "Shark!" or "Tank!" and other people mocked him for how predictable this titling scheme was.

Speaking of synthwave, I'm surprised that the official music video French electronic music producers Carpenter Brut released for their track Turbo Killer never made it to Great Job, Internet because unlike, ahem, some GJI entries it was actually a great job, on the internet. The video was directed by a French duo…

And that cop's name? Albert Einstein.