I didn't get stoned for saying that Jonah's better at the invention exchange than Joel, so I think you're safe.

It's meant to tap into a very American phenomenon. Basically in the days of yore, local TV stations would play old B-horror movies with inserted host segments that starred characters… like Elvira, but lesso.

It's fundamentally the same song, but also very different. Basically, it's now in-universe. The mads force the test-subject to reenact his capture while a house band plays the theme at the start of every episode. The rationale is that the mads' storage media is too lossy to keep copying it.

They mentioned in What's on Tonight? that for some reason they apparently gave Adams the assignment right before he went on vacation.

What have we seen on drugs/incarceration that's concrete? Obama stepped up DEA raids of dispensaries despite public opinion and congressional tutting, you really think that Trump's going to be swayed by that? He already rolled back the single most important piece of 'progress' (never implemented' on mass incarceration…

By preaching to the choir on HBO, a premium cable channel.

I don't think you read my comment. Please read it again and tell me where I somehow said the opposite of what I said.

I think it varies from case-to-case- I don't think gay marriage will be eliminated, but I think that a lot of the protections we get based on anti-discrimination might be. I'm pretty sure legal weed will.

It sounds like this is going to be a competition show based around finding young comic and musical up-and-comers. Someone call Dan Nainan.

Actually, a better comparison would be pro-wrestling, rather than Colbert. Colbert was just a jumped up and more political take on Letterman's anti-Talk Show material. Wrestling has more of the quasi-earnest drama.

It's pretty fucked up that people like him can see that and then just shrug it off and get caught up in the next half dozen highly performative and largely useless wars.

Seriously how do they say "leftist" and "establishment" in the same breath? There's not even a leftist party with seats in either house in the US.

You really have no idea how precarious that 'progress' is, do you?

Kill Your Idols, dog.

I think what people are really mad about is what Oliver represents, more than the man himself. A recent piece about The West Wing that ran in Current Affairs is pretty relevant to the point: Liberals prize the idea of Smart vs. Dumb, of owning your enemies through superior logic and character. Oliver's style of…

Why would you expect any different from a Daily Show alum?

I'm re-reading The Doorposts of Your House and On Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach. I ran through it really fast the first time, which I think made me miss a lot of the funnier stuff.

Keywords are a factor, I know that much. Netflix's for MST3K are "Absurd" and "Offbeat."

I think that the extent to which he violates norms (hell, the extent to which he's out of step with mainstream Washington thought) is somewhat exaggerated. But I also think that on some level it's important that we realize that the trappings associated with the Presidency aren't uniquely important and that the office…

And it virtually never bites them in the ass.