Matt Besser gets a lot of shit for things like musical episodes, but I appreciate that he's willing to find inspiration from unusual sources. That journal stuff was great both weeks.

Check out her spots on Improv4Humans, and if you're ever in LA, see her at UCB. Her character work is indeed where her fanbase comes from.

So Thomas Morton has a new outlet for looking uncomfortable and a little bored?

I forgot to mention them in the review, but Frontline recently did two different prison specials, both of them excellent. The one about solitary confinement made me sick.

Why's that? I always thought Dickerson was one of the few bright spots in political journalism, evening dating back to when he was at TIME. He's the best of the four Sunday hosts for sure, and his analysis on Washington Week is always thorough.

His anti-flu shot rants are the worst, and his writers have gotten really lazy. So many of his jokes are just retreads of viral headlines a week late.

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I prefer that sex comedy they did back in the 90's, Gizmodo.

I thought Wyatt Cenac the other day was great, and Sarah Silverman episodes are always worthwhile. But yeah, I usually feel like the UCB shows are cut short. I think the city he's in makes a huge difference, too. I imagine it's harder to book reliable folks on the road.

"And those who want to replace 'Merry Christmas' with 'happy holidays' or 'season's greetings'…whatever THAT means!" It means happy holidays, dip shit. There are more than one.

I'm going to sidestep this conversation about Chris Hardwick for a minute and focus instead on the real culprit in this story that's being revived, at no one's asking, from the 90's: fucking comedy magic.

Maybe it's because he looks like such a teddy bear, but I just thought that was part of his stage persona. His quips seem more calculated and funny than ill-spirited to me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about HIV-awareness, but this year's ads are like speed bumps for fun.

When old, accomplished celebrities pass away, I don't tend to feel that bad. They've lived great lives and have given us the gift of decades of their work. If someone like Stephen Colbert were die in his prime, though, we'd really lose something irreplaceable. As a gay guy, I feel better knowing there's a mainstream,…

Van Kirk's Wahlberg is one of the better recurring bits on Sklarbro, I think. James Adomian doing Jesse Ventura is the one that cracks my shit up every. single. time.

Lancaster is a ball of enthusiasm compared to the chefs in the Cook's Illustrated web videos. I often wonder if they're forced to reshoot them if they accidentally slip in any intonation. I don't read it as disinterest, though, and it helps that everything they suggest actually works.