You're right actually- he didn't appear often in Men on Films sketches, my mistake. He just became famous on a show that was celebrated for its vicious homophobic mockery of gay men, and put on a wig to play a mockery of women called LaWanda. Again, my apologies.

Love David Sedaris a lot. That love gets strained at times in recent years. His last story in the New Yorker was about this magical fox in his garden in England, and it ends with after all his attempts to engage with the fox, the same fox magically appears to walk with him down a road in the moonlight. Following…

He says he likes and is fine with "boyfriend", even though they've been together for decades now and his accountant hectors him to get married because he's filthy stinking rich (deservedly!) and it would make things easier for his estate, if, god forbid anything happens.
I can see it. British people admirably use…

That was fucking great.

I'd love Saunders as a British ambassador or attaché. Or anything. Her and JLD in a scene together would be fun to see.

Many times JLD has only have to arch an eyebrow to leave me in stitches. She's a master of expression in comedy.

Two can be two things.

Veep has found space to make Jonah a more rounded, relatable character

In Living Color on tv, the recurring "Men on Film" sketch, where they played drastically effeminate caricatures of gay people, with lisps and limp wrists and "two snaps up!" and it was all about mocking the faqqots. It's pretty notorious, it was a really mean-spirited bit of homophobic mockery that went on for…

Commenters on Twitter and elsewhere are noting, "So, Republican president Trump went and sold hundreds in billions of weaponry to the cruel autocratic Saudis who fund terrorism and are committing genocide in Yemen with our weapons, blew up the longstanding alliance with NATO that gave the Western world unprecedented…

Really love her, such a bright comic presence (and fashion plate) in her films. Thank Zeus for TCM. I keep films like China Seas with Gable on the DVR because they enchant me. Another time and place, I like an escape to that world. And the glamour photographs she made with George Hurrell are works of art. Sweet…

It could have been two things?

Foxx was totally mocking deaf people. How crazy, those people use their hands to communicate! I'm used to this shit from him, since he became famous for nastily mocking gay people almost 30 fucking years ago. Not laughing with, he was all about laughing at. The idea that this brick-shit brained stupid fucker…

Bravo showing National Lampoon's Vacation/ European Vacation. Enjoyably silly shit that seem like masterpieces of comedy now.

Good to know, thanks.

Ok, why is it a problem that a worthy charity gets "free publicity"? Should they have paid an expensive PR company to let the world know they exist? Yeah, forget it, if people want to bitch about DiMarco raising awareness that underprivileged deaf kids need early training in ASL to have a life where they can…

We Oldes grew up listening to 60s and 70s rock/pop/soul on the FM radio everywhere; a great lot of good stuff that holds up nicely. Talking Heads were a bit avant-garde for me as a kid; a performance from them on SNL in 1980 or so when I was 11 left my mom and me agreeing that it was the worst thing we'd ever seen,…

My mother watched the whole thing in an afternoon and told me how powerful and moving it was to her. She grew up Catholic in N. Ireland where the Church ruled their lives so heavily. The revelations of the past years or decades there and here have put her far beyond that grasp, and things like Spotlight and The…

I'm happy for Sofia Coppola; I've read good things about The Beguiled, and she's a worthy filmmaker. She's made interesting and idiosyncratic films that seem quite personal to her and unlike most fare. The fact that the movies are strongly female with the characters, roles and themes is pretty great too, although…

That was PWR BTTM.