Yeah. It being half-bad on purpose is part of what makes it not suck.

I thought he was just being polite/calling Maher on his posturing.

Well, I'm assuming. This is how I would do it.

After four years.Wasting your enemy's time is a tried-and-true form of guerrilla warfare and counterintelligence.

Because they are as sick of him as we are.

To quote one of the two black characters on Arrested Development:

Ladies and gentlemen…we got 'im!

It's in every show. Even United States of Tara couldn't go without the sister bragging about being deflowered by her mentally impaired neighbor at the age of eleven.

Maybe I find it more fun because it's in my town. But I'd happily list it as one of the best movies of that year, as well as one that eerily presages the Trump phenomenon (alongside Nightcrawler, which one might also find on-the-nose at times).

I tried open mic comedy for about two weeks living in SF as a young lad. It immediately became clear that spending any more time around those people would be suicidal.

The only funny in-universe comedy show I've ever seen was the one in Don't Think Twice.

Canter's is only beloved because of its location. If you don't want to pay out the nose for quality Ashkenazi cuisine, go to Langer's on MacArthur Park. It's not a Jewish neighborhood, but it's way more central and the food's a lot more flavorful.

Showtime shows are 50% misguided HBO imitation, and 50% creepy implicit underage sex.

It's TV. There's no usher to stop you from going into the theater. Anyway, like kids are going to be interested in the fictionalized goings-on of morbidly depressed 1970s standups?

Did we finally get him!?

See, now we're getting somewhere. Hamas recently updated their charter. It does not renounce anti-semitism, it does not renounce terrorism, and it does not renounce taking back all of mandatory Palestine. But it does renounce unilateralism. This is a huge step toward the PA regaining control over the Gaza Strip, and th…

My former friend.

Ah, but in 1960 you had to go to foreign or indie films to see blood! So they had a very different dynamic with regard to content and marketing.

Jerry Brown: "Movies are an escape."

You should read Kevin Bleyer's Me the People (kindly overlook that he writes for Bill Maher). He learns that the military was originally seen as a threat to freedom, acting as it did on behalf of the nation-state. After the Civil War, people were way more comfortable with the idea of America as a nation-state (Lincoln…