Chance's song "Wendy and Becky" with Joey Badass, over an awesome beat by Thelonious Martin, is pretty great too.  You can download it from the Soundcloud post:

"Like Junior Griffey smashing homers, never land bitch"

Did you ever hear JJ DOOM's Keys To The Kuffs, DOOM's collaboration with Jneiro Jarel?  It's pretty good and in a similar ballpark to what Clams + DOOM sounds like.

Yea, Clams + DOOM isn't something I necessarily would've thought to put together but i like that track.  There have been some stirring's from DOOM in the last little while; I hope that means a new album is coming sooner rather than later.  Here's a song he released a few months ago, in case you missed it:

It seems like he's been popping up in things a bit more lately. I did a literal double-take when I was watching Horrible Bosses on a plane and he showed up (in the movie). I'll always be thankful to Favreau for having the good taste to cast him in Elf, too.

Pfft.  Krusty's worthless half-brother.  Yea, he used to be a big star…on Fox.

Agreed.  I love the history of comedy and I thought this was really interesting. I'm going to try to track down some of the books mentioned in the article; thanks for the heads-up, Kyle.

[sheds a tear]

One of my favorite Troy McClure lines; Phil Hartman just nails the delivery on "…blue."

Yea, Shelley Berman was a bit of a known hot-head;  here's a good article from a few years back when the L.A. Times was talking to him in advance of Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm - http://articles.latimes.com…

Bob Newhart is one of the greatest of all time and his timing and delivery are something that only he could produce in the same way, but it was interesting to hear Shelley Berman on WTF basically still smarting from Newhart getting famous for the "one-sided telephone conversation" bit that he felt that he had come up…

[imagines the bear driving around in the little car, scored by Random Access Memories]

But doesn't the film tacitly condemn torture in it's final moments when SPOILER Maya breaks down crying in the aftermath of the successful Abbottabad mission, suggesting that the ends, however desirable or worthwhile, may not have justified the means?

Good ear @avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus !

It would be disappointing if this really is post-Avengers; it would step all over what I thought was a pretty-well-handled death in the movie.  I just assumed this would be pre-Avengers; I can see Disney/ABC wanting to springboard off the movies as much as possible but it does seem like it would've been easier to…

I don't feel like the movie thinks it's breaking news that comedians are often sad sacks or disturbed people.  I think most people know that to be the case and there've been plenty of other movies that tread similar ground, like Punchline, Mr. Saturday Night, King of Comedy, etc.  It's a story set in the world of…

I could see the complaint that the songs can be a little bit on the nose.  The wide-eyed wistfulness of "Carolina In My Mind" while Ira is experiencing his first taste of the good life, the "lost" Beatles song "Real Love" scoring the montage of George re-establishing his connections with estranged loved ones…probably…

For Our Consideration

I think Funny People is really good, all the way through.  It's definitely strongest and most entertaining when it's dealing with the comedy world but, in the end, it's really just a long character study of George Simmons (with Ira as a counter balance), and I think it does interesting things with it's final third.

This was the episode that IFC put up on youtube a few weeks ago, http://www.youtube.com/watc…, and I liked it when I watched it the first time; it's got some good laughs…Maron and Leary's interplay, when Marc and Kyle get the "Have a good one" from the other work crew at the Taco Cart, "It's a three man job…No, it's a…