Merchant is the bitter man who made sure that Tim and Dawn didn't get together, and then Gervais is the people-pleaser who said "If we're going to do a special, they have to get together at the end." And together, they make magic, but neither one of them alone can figure out what they're doing wrong.

Merchant is even worse solo than Gervais is!

I wouldn't say unwatchable, but it is terrible. The entire plot of the movie is contingent on Ricky Gervais accidentally throwing out two passports because he thinks they're a letter. Vera Farmiga is pretty funny in it, though.

The first episode is not that great, there is too much to set up in it. But it basically comes down to whether you think Dylan Moran is funny or not. [No offense to Bill Bailey, who is hilarious in his own right, I just think the show is way more on Moran's wavelength overall.]

Who can forget when David said to Tim and Gareth "Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?" and then they all go over the hill?

If you watch "Special Correspondents" expecting any sort of satire at all, then the joke is on you!

I'm pretty sure that the only thing keeping stand-up comedy on the Tonight Show as long as it was was Carson, and that as soon as he left, no more stand-up except under extraordinary circumstances.

I was gonna say, it sounds like the kind of thing that was written by somebody who thinks Brett Easton Ellis is good writing, and also like the kind of thing that if you watched it, it would make Ellis's look like good writing.

It's literally the film he made directly after the highest grossing movie he ever starred in.

"a sad collection of poorly imagined lies" is a great phrase that I hope to remember long after I've forgotten what movie the reviewer who wrote it was actually talking about.

If I met him and had to dig deep, I'd go with "Butterfly Effect" and maybe fall back on "Dude Where's My Car".

This is the memorable one, but the last time I watched "Dumb and Dumber", I realized he improvised a throwaway 'Silence of the Lambs' reference in that too. I can't remember it off-hand, but it's in the scene where they walk into the fancy soiree dressed in their blue and yellow suits. I suddenly wondered, "If I…

You beat me to that quote, which is too bad, because I can't imagine there are too many times in life when I would be called upon to cite the one incredibly memorable line from "The Last Shot".

When I was younger, I always thought it was a cop-out that Carrey beats the shit out of a guy who is so deserving, but now I have completely flipped and I think it's hilarious that he beats the shit out of the guy even though the date is clearly going badly and she is never going to see him again after this.

Oddly, mine was "Dead Man Walking". The X-Files episode with Black and Giovanni Ribisi had just aired a week or two back, and I had seen the name "Jack Black" listed as a guest star and thought, "Oh, that's a terrible stage name." I then saw "Dead Man Walking", and I'm pretty sure his name was in the credits,…

They can't stock what they used to; there are almost no DVDs left in the world where the "available new stock" is going in any direction but down. So any time a disc is stolen (common) or broken (very common), they can't replace it. And that's even assuming that they have a permanent blanket license for all titles,…

At a certain point, if somebody doesn't have a CD player, they probably won't have anything to play DVDs on either. (But it's a while away.)

The problem for me is that I'm even less likely to want to move than to want to get rid of something, so asking myself that question, the easiest answer is "Then I'd better not move!"

The real question is, how much would you have to get from selling them for it to be worth figuring it out? If 1% of your CDs were worth $75, that would be $2250. Is it worth that to go through 3000 CDs, figure out that 30 of them are worth something, then deal with the process of ebaying (or whatever) those 30,…

No, and yes.