The Emmys knew it sucked long before the rest of us did. Hence all the awards.

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Adolescents kill themselves over mean internet comments too. How do you know none of the strangers you try to be as nasty as possible to isn't a sensitive 14 year old on the edge?

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Liebkatoffel below does actually imply he likes rape.

"Girlfriend's step-daughter and son's step-sister" still sounds pretty bad.

The To Do List is not about comedy! It's about rebellion, about political and social upheaval!

Critics must really be slitting their wrists over this one. The art film crowd, the only people who are supposed to care what the critics think, are all going "the critics hate it, so it must be good. Fuck critics!" like a bunch of Michael Bay fans. It's gotta sting to know that your job is pointless.

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I'm not a fan of those "look how cool I am for not liking something that sucks" type articles, but at least the hatesong people actually listen to the songs before they decide they hate them.

Flaming Lips have entered that Woody Allen/ 90s Scorsese period where every album is referred to as a return to form, before being forgotten about by the time of their next album, which will also be called a return to form. See also: David Bowie.

"I don't even listen to modern music" is the new "I don't even own a television."

The Av Club have already said they find the term dad rock offensive. Worse than racism, I think they said.

If your clients were the inventors of Dick in a Box, they would have invented Dick in a Box!

There seems to be a divide in how people see these jokes. The people who say you can't ever tell rape jokes think that they're like racist jokes. Racism is a purely societal problem that was huge in the past and is now dying out, and when comedians tell ironically racist jokes they run the risk of actual racist…

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It's the hidden third option: no joke you make is going to affect the rapists world view at all.

Worth pointing out that the media has been glamourising serial killers for the past 20 years and yet there's been no discernible rise in serial killing.

What's interesting (and scary) about those statistics if they got them by just asking guys if they raped someone, without calling it rape. So really, the rapist in the audience would probably hear a rape joke and not even think it applied to him. That seems like the real problem with rape culture: whenever I've seen…

Jeselnik's writes pretty good jokes, but they'd be a lot better if they were delivered without the smirks and smugness. I don't know why so many comedians pick smug as their persona, I can't think of any instance where being smug makes something funnier.

Wait, there's a rapist in every audience? Maybe if you're playing 20,000 seaters, but otherwise that doesn't sound accurate.

Jag was a lawyer show and NCIS is a detective show, though I guess those are pretty close. Lou Grant's the only other proper example.

I'll wait for season 2 when they retool it as Roger Sterling, Monster Hunter.

A half hour show, but not a sitcom, more like Girls, i.e. lots of extensive Odenkirk sex scenes.