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Edmond Dantes Inferno
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I think the thing that people find so galvanizing about "Live" is not its humor, specifically, but rather the application of it: in other words, in the best of situations, comedy is this poetic opening into our lives, and this was absolute raw openness. That it was improvised is great as a "Look ma, no hands" thing,

You know, the so-called "Great Vocal Chord Shortage" was completely caused by the British, taking all the good, earthy vocal chords, and letting their subjects try and use what was left.

My favorite rumor was the "Jack Bauer Meets John McClane" combo movie.

It kind of sounds like a line from a hard-R movie, cleaned up/dubbed for the USA Network showing.

Mush-a ring dum-a do dum-a da
Whack for my daddy-o…
Whack for my daddy-o!
There's whiskey in the nerd!

She just cashes in those big, fat Police Academy: Mission To Moscow residuals checks and does whatever she pleases.

Skymallrats. The whole thing takes place in coach, waiting to taxi for takeoff.

The ol' "double dumb-ass on you!"

Dear Carrie,

"She's winking at me. I swear to fucking Christ she's winking at me!!

Someone saying, "Geezer Butler? Man, that's just mean. Everyone gets older, and the guy can still rock and… oh, really? Oh. Ha. "

Solution: A shitload of extension cords.

"To lose one best friend/sidekick to HYDRA, Mister Rogers, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two, looks like carelessness."

I'm going to guess Lorena is talking about… ummm… Tom Waits? Yeah, probably Tom Waits.

Crab juice.

I'd listened to her album where she talks about the ads, but had no idea what the ads were - certainly didn't realize it was a massive campaign. And yeah, the LD versions are them, run through the filter of how they must look & feel to Bamford.

She just wants to crush the skull of the next person to complain about Dumbledore being gay.

But every time he's not on screen, the other characters will ask, "Where's Joker?"

Teenage Tortoise Ninja Guys was the laziest of TMNT rip-offs.

"It's too bad she won't halt and catch fire! But then again, who does?!"