PTF is by far the best improvisor I have ever heard. Never goes for the low hanging fruit, his characters feel lived-in from the get go and they are all clearly distinct from each other. I could listen to Scott and PFT shoot the shit for hours on end.

Side note: the Tom Leykis episode is probably the best With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus episode ever.

About a year ago. I found Lil Button Puss on YouTube and I was hooked. It's so much funnier when Scott has a personal stake in the proceedings. He should do that more often.

I was thinking about who could host an American QI, and I think PFT is the only acceptable answer.

I love Whomp it Up. Marissa is a character that nominally should get tiresome very quickly, but St. Clair and Parham give their characters a real emotional core and imbue them with vulnerability that grounds the show despite all the craziness around.

The first Zionists came to Palestine to build Jewish agricultural colonies, not to establish a state. That didn't prevent Palestinian attacks. Even after the issue of the Balfour Declaration the goal of the Mandatory regime was only to assist in the creation of a national home - an intentionally vague term that did…

And what do we learn by making this analogy?

Palestinians have been murdering Jewish settlers way before the occupation or even the establishment of the State of Israel.

Having read the comments, I am glad that although I listen to a lot of metal and play heavy music, my identity is not tied up with metal. There's a point in which the need to be subversive and edgy and insular just sours into petulance. As others have pointed out, it seems that it's specifically Black Metal that has a…

Animals as Leaders and Zeal and Ardor are also cool black metal bands.

Genocide and racism are not inherent to Communism, Christianity and Islam (whatever their other faults may be). Genocide and racism are, however, inherent to Nazism.

I use online dating to improve my conversation skills. I'm a standoffish academic who is rarely interested in non-academics and I find small talk very boring. But online dating forces you to have small talk with people who are very different from you, and I love it for that. As for actually finding love, the chances…

I'm pretty sure her signature guitar came out at least a year ago. Or is this a new model? It looks like the old one.

That's my dentist. And she KNOWS I'm Jewish.

Oh fuck.

Please tell me you don't live in Toronto. This sounds - minus the I love Germany - exactly like my dentist.

I would like to say that the AV Club has turned into a virtual stick in the mud so gradually I didn't even notice, but sadly, I DID notice. I come - or at least I used to come - to the AV Club for exquisite snark, and now all I see here is a misplaced sense of indignation. The AV Club has stopped being fun. At least…

Or just bring Todd Haynes in and make an "I'm Not There" style project.

Tool's "Maynard's Dick".

Jimmy and Chuck fuck and suck.