I think it's because a company wanted to self-promote by disingenuously associating an event with a flashpoint of the culture wars. It's like walking up to Caliban with a mirror and charging him a dollar to look at his reflection.

If you build up a readership by being on the outside of the tent pissing in, you'll lose it once you're on the inside of the tent pissing out.
You thought they liked the pissing, but really they hate the tent.

'Rubles' is one of the most fun words to say in a Russian accent. LLLLLLLLROOBILZ

Adam Carolla is lagging about 8 years behind the zeitgeist, but luckily for him the average American is 10 years behind.

The longer Archer has run, the more they've settled on a format where they put too many characters in each scene to shout at each other. In earlier seasons the dialogue would reveal subtleties or character traits, but now it's simple naysaying and a kind of exhausted anger.

After the 2000 GOP primary he said that by 2008 he'd be retired. He'll die in his chair in the Senate in 2031 after a lunch of pudding and a quiet little mumble about aircraft carriers.

He'll join the FBI and fight crime!

I think Tuan has a few things going on: he has to re-prove his loyalty to the cause, and also wants to push back against their excessive control. As a teenager he's acting under emotions and social dynamics that adults have already matured past.

I don't see how they could have run the show into the ground with only 10 episodes per season.
It's understandable when a 23-episode show runs out of ideas, but if you've only got 10 then you should be turning out Westworld-level content.

These days, apart from billboards/signage I'm not exposed to any advertising. If I visit a friend and some commercials come on I find it jarring and I wonder how I acclimated to it when I was growing up. I used to be able to tune them out, but now I can't — I find myself watching commercials carefully, which is…

This is the beginning of the end for this show.
One lead goes insane, the other goes vigilante — the writers are conceding that they've run out of ideas and now they're resorting to gimmicks.

Given that Sedaris' usual output is fiction disguised as a genuine first-person account, it's hard to distinguish things he says happened to him from things that actually happened to him.
It's not clear at this point if he is even capable of writing an account of his own life without constantly injecting exciting…

This is the Abs Orb. Just ten minutes a day, and fat melts away!

That means she can have two more kids without getting fired!

Makin' copies (of popular right-wing talking points)

Katie, you're throwing stones in a glass house when you make comments on appearance.

Do you ever see those documentaries about people who get baby wild animals because they're cute and cuddly, but then the animals grow up and just spend their days peeing everywhere? They're not doing it maliciously, it's just what happens when something dopey gets big.
Maybe NBC knows a nice family with a big farm…

In the final episode, mail robot comes home to see femail robot being held hostage by foreign robots. It transpires that femail robot's CPU was created by the NAZIS.

If you can't pacify the audience you happen to find yourself in front of, you're not much of a politician. This guy's staffers did 20 minutes of homework to see what Meyers and his audience normally liked and kept the anecdotes crowd-friendly.
He'd do the same at an NRA event, but it wouldn't play for a national…

They had me up until "a former writer for Gawker" and "an actual journalist" were used together. That particular episode turned out well, but I think there'd be an entire book's worth of discussion about whether calling someone who worked at Gawker a journalist is an endictment on: (a) the state of the industry, or…