(don't forget that Maron has political talk radio experience)

I don't know if he was better, but there was a great energy to his show that has been subsumed by the show's subsequent turn to the political.
Even then, it was a writer's medium, Craiggers just happened to have the perfect amount of smarm to deliver it.
Exhibit A: Writer's on display, I still chuckle at Kilby…

Never heard of Smokey the Bear or Hootie the Owl?

What's this urgent need for Stewart's legacy to be untarnished? So he could be an asshole boss. He's human.
You're right that 'outrage' was making a mountain of a molehill, but not in the way, or for the reasons you think. It's pointing out that assholishness in less of a 'liberal icon' would damn the asshole…

White People is still on the air and poor Mr. Seacrest is already cancelled?

I'd say his Achilles heel is his singular vision when it comes to writing. It bit him in the ass on the Sarah Silverman show when his tantrums made the star afraid converse with him and he ended up fired.
The Community issue is a little more murky because his feud with Chevy was entirely justified and the wrongness of…

I'd characterize him as a person who takes getting used to.
When I first listened to Harmontown, my overriding sentiment was 'how far up one's ass can one possibly get?'
After a while, you realize he knows he's up his own ass and is actually pretty deprecating about it, and more importantly, funny and creative about it.

You know, you blithely go through life thinking you're a 'tan and fit' man, then you get a glimpse of Natasha's pale getalong sticks thrashing from a burlap bag and it all goes topsy turvy!!

That's Chuck Taylor to you!!

I was referring more [if obliquely] to her being Joe Lo Truglio's wife in real life, but sure.

Same folk elected a dead man to office because it was sad that he died before the election, soooo.

I thought, more than poor to average writing, it was building to something that never got a chance to emerge before it was cancelled.
Haven't seen it since first air, but I recall a growing attachment to the plotlines as the season progressed.

"the thought of McShane’s gravelly eloquence belting out Lovecraft-inspired lines like, “What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger,”"

No spoilers, but down the line when Neil's girlfriend arrives. . . perfection.

Maybe this will help your schadenfreude

OMIGOSH!!
It wasn't until the 3rd episode that Josh/Blake's
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Bleached patch
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registered with me.

I wondered if anyone was gonna mention l'il Wolverine's voiceover work.

Do knit ponchos go that far back? I don't remember them before the great poncho and rugby wars of the late 80s.

Four of the first 8-10 albums [err, cassettes, ugh!!] I owned in my life were Kill 'Em All, the 5.98 EP, Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning [each bought day and date at Venture], and this is effing HILARIOUS!!

The severed head sketch is a couple of sketch/standup guys riffing on how long crowd testing material goes back. They've doubtless had numerous and endless conversations with other comics about 'why this works and that doesn't.'
I got what they were going for and was a little underwhelmed at first, but when he pulled…