Exactly. As much as a I love West Wing and Sports Night, pluck any random piece of dialogue from his work and you’d never be able to tell from the writing if it was spoken by CJ Cregg or Casey McCall or Jordan McDeere or Mark Zuckerberg. He has one tone, and he uses it for everybody.

Great plan, right when I get back from Tosche Station. I need to pick up some power converters.

Fair is fair, in California right now water is probably worth more then gold.

I honest to god do not understand anything going on here.

Don’t bother with this dude. Last time when I pointed out he was being slutshamey, he threw a tantrum and called me a “liar” and a “disgusting” person for saying he might have implied something slightly sexist. Save yourself the trouble. And you’re absolutely right about this.

Somebody else already linked Arken the history of stand up, but they’re still going trying to convince themselves that modern pop culture was immaculately conceived at the Apollo.

That’s too much stupid for me.

Oh, I am not saying that they are not responsible for popularizing it and making it what it is currently, at all! Just that stand-up comedy is so old that black people weren’t allowed to do anything but be slaves at that time...

I wouldn’t even bother, Bears.

Technically speaking, wasn’t what Mark Twain did with his “speaking tours” pretty much like modern stand up comedy? Quick funny quips, selling his books, etc.

These are the precious moments they’ll never remember

James Harrison just knocked over his dining table.

I bet CC Sabathia was even more upset he missed the game when he heard that the stadium was full of boos.

Whitlock is losing his mind on the Twitter machine right now and I am really enjoying it.

It’s really not hard to envision the utter shitstorm that would ensue if ESPN actually started publishing stuff like that TNC piece. The comment section would go nova. It’s bad enough on the Atlantic, where people expect to find that kind of thing.

#daddyshome

Really— aren’t handicaps like “I am unable to write in any different voices than my own” and “I am unable to consider how a character might speak if they are a different gender from me” usually things that writers try to HIDE?

“INCREDIBLE GPA”

It would help if he didn’t recycle his dialog from show to show ....

In fact, that's one of the first skills that one is encouraged to developed when writing for the theater or the screen. Shocking, isn't it?

Yeah that one got me, I’m hoping it was badly phrased because otherwise :-/ If yo earn your living as a writer I’m reasonably sure all my characters sound the same isn’t a proud boast.