Laura Dern had to do everything Sam Neill did, only backwards and stupider.

Fake butter and AIDS, and Twin Peaks!

[smacks gum incessantly]

The A.V. Club Women's Studies Department will get back to you on that.

That's not a very appealing nickname for it.

I used to think his eyes looked huge because of his enormous glasses. Then I saw him in The Thing and Being There and realized that the guy just happens to have huge eyes. Sort of like the bookstore manager in Top Secret.

Because you just can't do the kind of exhaustive prep work he does on his chosen subjects when you're doing four shows a week.

It seemed as though he kind of ran out of gas after leaving the show. Honestly, despite all his "I'm just a comedian" stuff, I think he fed off the idea of being sort of a cultural force. TDS had been losing that status slowly for a few years now, and has been at its nadir since John Oliver sucked all the air out of…

Or so the Germans would have us believe.

The John Hodgman Show with Joel Hodgson Featuring Jake Johannsen

You can't make a hashtag of a post you just made in the same post. That's crossing the streams.

Yes, I'm sure he's regretting his unqualified success.

Somewhere on Mark Evanier's website, he has a story about briefly sharing an office at Hanna-Barbera with Tex Avery.

Your mom.

James Franco? Good.

He is the WhackerOffer.

Somehow, she seems to be the only person who's ever worked with Chevy who still likes him.

Serious question: Supposedly it was worked into Chevy's exit deal that he was banned from working directly with the rest of the cast after his use of the n-word prompted them to get rid of him. Now that the two black members of the cast are both gone, is it possible that the ban is no longer effective? That seems…

There was some daytime talk show years ago where he and Jane Curtin made an appearance to talk about an SNL anniversary. At one point he launched into a tirade about how it was nonsense that women weren't given a fair shake at SNL, it's just that they're not as funny. (I'm pulling this from memory, but if that's not…

I'll never get used to living in Siobhan Fallon, Tennessee.