He seemed a lot more focused during the conventions, although even on those shows, a lot of the interviews just hung there.

Maybe I'm totally off-base here, but was anyone else made a little uncomfortable by that segment with Stewart? I'm sure Stewart would do something similar for any of his proteges, but something about the way it was done gave me a weird vibe, like The Great White Father was giving his seal of approval to the notion of…

At some point, everybody who's on a short clock is going to start looking for other jobs. There are only so many opportunities out there, and the schedules don't always line up just so. Even if you're loyal to Larry, if a writing position suddenly opened up on, I don't know, let's say The Late Show that needs to be…

This chocolate enrober pulled itself up by its own bootstraps!

He does very well in individual, tightly-written segments. For whatever reason, I never found him to have the charisma that made me want to watch him for 30 minutes, even though he seems like a very nice and smart guy.

Joe Biden.

And the question of why she keeps avoiding the question of whether she'll employ him in the future. She turned her response on Twitter into such a word salad, it sounded like her show had been canceled.

Cohen was on WTF recently, and they talked about how much of Borat and Ali G involves getting his marks to gloss over the characters' rank stupidity and racism because they're trying to be polite to someone they believe is a minority. He and Maron seemed to believe they were somehow sticking it to the powerful and…

Better name for a grave monument company.

This actually does sound like something late-era Kaufman would do, now that you mention it.

At the end, he seemed to be somewhat contemptuous of his audience. Getting Zmuda to take over as Clifton seemed to be nothing more than a way for him to be able to secretly laugh at the people (a.k.a. his biggest fans) who still thought it was him. There was no other real point to it.

Picturing that just made me laugh out loud.

Look at his response when people started ragging him for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies. It veered back and forth from fairly thoughtful and reasonable (these are kids movies, they're not aimed at fans of my standup) to awkward and unaware (I needed the money because I wanted a second home for my dog).

I liked Carlin because at least he had range. Hicks was a one-trick pony.

Damn right!
— Michael Richards

I used to dislike the standup from both Cross and Patton Oswalt for this same reason. But lately, I've enjoyed Oswalt a lot more because he has grown up. He has acknowledged without embarrassment that he's mellowed somewhat and doesn't have to be The Angry Guy on stage all the time. Cross seems to think his routines…

Most bizarre media deal since NBC traded Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Disney in exchange for Al Michaels.

A personalized message from Carl Kassell.

They frolic on the beaches of Dakar-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r.

…in Blow Your Horn