I don't agree that Gervais doesn't give a toss what other people think. His blog and twitter make him out to be particularly thin-skinned. He doesn't take bad reviews well at all. Look at how long he was desperately fighting his idiotic usage of the word 'mong' a few months ago. The amount of vitriol he doled out to…

Sometimes I really hate the AV Club. And the world.

When people talk of Ender's Game in terms of being an "undisputed classic" are they referring to the series as a whole? I'm about three-quarters of the way through the original book, and I'm finding it distinctly underwhelming. Is this a Harry Potter situation where the books improve as I go? Because if not, then I…

The existence of this article alone is a testament to the pointlessness of so much of pop culture today and American sports in particular.

That's a very anecdotal way of supporting your argument. I'll take your word for it, although I can't personally really remember an episode of an American show that is set at an open mic night. If it is more prevalent in American TV though, then I would suggest that is probably more due to the fact that American shows…

Your impression is incorrect. Stand-up in the UK is extremely popular, much more so than in the US I would wager, and it is far from dominated by characters and sketches. Open mic is also quite popular.

American, American, American, yawn, yawn, yawn. Americans (Mitch Hedberg and Bill Hicks excepted) just don't do stand up all that well.

Also Alice is Irish, not British. They're not the same.

Yes, they are all available outside the UK.

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That's a sad state of affairs in that case.

That last part was directed at Mister by the way.

I don't see why it should be that an American whose job is keeping up with pop culture should have much less of a clue about the cultural context of other English speaking countries when people from other English speaking countries manage to get by and understand American culture.

Again, one non-American based podcast only. I really don't understand this policy. The AV Club reviews books, films, music, even occasionally TV shows from other countries. Podcasts are far easier to get hold of than any of those things, so why don't you at least look into them? As it is, all you do is review a bunch…

Every single week This American Life seems to be in the 'the rest' section of this page. You never seem to rate it highly on a week to week basis, or don't even bother to review it at all, and yet here it is on your top ten list. Why?

I watched the first couple of episodes of season 1 of Louie and left it there. It simply wasn't all that funny. I appreciated the strange ways it dealt with narrative and the way it was shot, but Louie CK isn't particularly funny.

Yeah, he would have totally recognised Lionel Blair.

On the Newsradio Season 1 DVD, on the first episode commentary, Joe Rogan completely rips on Fear Factor, saying how it was such a stupid little show and was basically easy money for him. I think it must have been recorded after the show's original run ended, and either no one involved in hiring him back heard it, or,…

Rabin, you bloody low-talker. You are the most infuriating man to listen to. You're all the way up and then all the way back down again and I cannot hear you. Your contributions are almost always all but lost to me on the podcasts, but then that could have something to do with my shitty headphones.

First of all, where on this page does the AV Club say they give the game 50%? That is how metacritic has interpreted a C grade, so take it up with them.