Here's a picture of her in blackface if that helps? http://culture.affinitymaga…

I absolutely adored this, though I can definitely see how it didn't work for other people. It's wry and sly and looks insanely beautiful in a smotheringly kitschy way. It also contains the greatest tampon joke I've ever seen.

He had thyroid cancer a few years back, hence the weight fluctuations. The moustache, I have no explanation for.

Very glad to see Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show here. It's one of my favourite podcast episodes of the year.

I'm not sure I agree necessarily, but your last sentence is a god damned delight.

I of course didn't mean that the individual cases featured of people with mental health problems committing crimes should be forgiven (after all, they committed crimes). His tone when discussing mental health generally is grotesque. He makes sweeping generalisations and conflates people with pyschosis with…

I stopped listening to Sword and Scale because the host kept using the term "unexplicable". And the time they dedicated half an episode to using the transcripts of a child rape case to prank a co-worker. Oh, and the consistant demonising of mental health sufferers. Which is a shame, because it's very well produced.…

I was just responding to Alvy Singer's question. I can see both sides, really. Obviously from an academic perspective all aspects of this episode can be explored, but the reality is more complex because the show doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's hard to deny that there's a consistant undermining of non-white voices…

Ashley Ray Harris, something about being tired seeing white writers interviewing white actors about this. Nothing particularly contentious (and some interesting discussions have arisen from it) so I'm not sure why it was deleted, aside from it being unusual to see one staff member respond negatively to another in the…

Han reshot first!

Remember that time the Taliban thought Bergdahl looked sad so they did a dance to cheer him up? That anecdote alone justified series 2 for me.

I only recently discovered that Shirley Maclaine and Warren Beatty are siblings. The world has looked different to me ever since.

Hipster Hader looks so much like Johnny Knoxville in those images.

Would it bother you more to know they cast an English actress from England?

In the episode where her Avon Lady friend comes to stay, they make some joking reference to some bum Joan was married to in her youth. We've never met him, it was a throwaway line.

But…kiwis are a flightless bird. Why would the Air Force have that on their insignia? That's wonderful.

How quickly we forget our once-beloved Scottish producers who betrayed us in favour of a slightly warmer climate. It's Tom who made his triumphant return to the Bugle, not Rick or Rich. Of course, either way, he's dead to me.