Depressing as that is a) you can't be sure any of them are legit and b) Yahoo! commenters are not a great barometer for sanity. The English ones are just incoherently angry about everything and also make everything about immigration.

You'd be supporting a writer :-)

Well done, Mike :-)

And to be fair it's pretty easy to find similar quotes and recordings where he says stuff along the same lines. If you didn't know he had contempt for half the world's population you simply weren't listening.

Seeing how TDS and The Nightly Show panned out, it's insane to me that Noah still has his job and Larry Wilmore doesn't.

So work has been messing with my downtime and consequently my podcast time (no I can't listen at work).

It's fun to wonder about the recording for it because Handler was actually replaced as screenwriter at some point in the process and there's a lot to suggest he had some issues with the finished product ;-)

This was a Very Fun Description.

To be fair Olaf is pretty hammy in the novels. And I thought he came across as being menacing at points in the film.

Well the Volunteer Fire Department was a club with a lot of side projects but it got torn apart by people being people and some questions just don't get answered ;-)

To be fair the overarching story starts to kick in for books 5 and 6. Book 5 is The Austere Academy where they meet the Quagmires and Book 6 is The Ersatz Elevator which has Esme Squalor's first appearance and some hints about V.F.D and the involvement of the Baudelaires' parents.

It gave us the best end credits of all time though. By which I mean great to look at and perfectly scored.

Olaf isn't actually their uncle. He's some really tenuous sort of cousin.

I liked the last few books the best. The characters become slightly more developed and I quite like what happens with the Baudelaires themselves.

Is that the emoticon version of one of these books?

Did you read The Sense of an Ending?

I'm guessing this disdain started twenty years ago when you were a vulnerable youth in the middle of a complicated relationship; looking out on a garden that was a metaphor for your own troubled path in life? ;-)

That's pretty much baked into literary fiction. I get an insatiable urge to parody the likes of Julian Barnes every time I read one of his books. But they can still have some interesting characters or ideas in.

See- silly.

Zaltzmanesque, well done sir.