Cruel Shoes was the first gift that I was cognizant enough to pick out for my dad for his birthday. (I was 6-7 when it came out.) I've read it since then, love it so much. "The day the dopes came over."

That's unfortunate. I just re-watched All of Me and The Lonely Guy a couple weeks ago—it had been probably 25 years since I'd seen either. I had those movies memorized when I was a kid.

"You forgot your pa-yammas!"

It really depends on how much you like his music. It isn't acting or stand up, but it is very good. And despite his prodigious musical talents, hints of his comedy definitely still peak through. Witness: "Atheists Don't Have No Songs."

I love Three Amigos so much. Always have, always will. If loving Three Amigos is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Nicely played.

Yeah. They literally named their song "Tears of a Clown" about a dead comedian. That's completely trite…and shite.

If this were a reaction the day after he died, I would understand it. But since it comes a full year later and there has been much more revealed about the state of Williams' health (i.e. Lewy Body dementia), to reduce it to "tears of a clown" is yeah, pretty fucking trite.

Good. I was hoping that story ended with something like "I struck them to the ground."

I'm now consumed with the thought that CeeLo was provided an entire list of restitution options ranging from "cleaning up trash on side of highway" to "tutoring low income students in math" yet somehow ended up with "write shitty song about Robin Williams while totally underplaying the circumstances of his death" as…

Fair enough. Though if the Monty Python group wanted to take a crack at it, I'd probably be far more receptive.

What the frack with these way-past-their prime artists cranking out shite songs about Robin Williams? Yeah, CeeLo Green, I'm looking at you, too.

Reading reviews for new TV shows is just as often as not to send you disastrously the wrong way.

Anyone who isn't affected by James Cromwell's performance in "Babe" is cold and dead inside.

I barely made it through the new special. I get that I'm supposed to like Tig (for being a nice person off-stage) and for "bravely" talking about her cancer. She has a solid storytelling delivery except, for me, the story just isn't at all comedic. I expect long stories to be at least somewhat funny from a comedian…

Okay your argument is too persuasive. You win.

No.

Is it, though, a stretch? Consider Cain's contributions to the media that made him most mockable: the Uzbeki-beki-stan-stan, shucky-ducky, the bill that can't be more than 3 pages long. He seriously might as well have been an Amos & Andy character.*

Well, I agree that a troubling part of the story is a writer being shot down by a boss, particularly if the writer is the only black writer on staff. (Though I am keeping in mind we only have one side of the story.)

I get what you're saying but that doesn't really answer the Herman Cain conundrum.