My favorite fun fact about this song is that it’s what Michael Jackson is referring to in that well-known gif (where he’s at an awards show mouthing “I love this song”). 

Put simply, “This channel made TV for people who do not watch TV. And we’re going to make TV for people who watch TV instead.” It’s sad, but not their fault that the people who watch TV like to watch dreary fucking sludge.

His performance often straddles the line between “worst thing about the sketch” and “by far the best thing about the sketch”

It’s Hateful 8 for sure. While Gangs may be a complete mess, at least it’s got Daniel Day-Lewis leaping off the top rope.

Sneakily, this works as both a humblebrag and simply an anecdote displaying Rickles’ style. I have no doubt Rickles did exactly this, it makes perfect sense. But there are obvious ways Tarantino could interpret this to suit himself. And I think at this point it’s no secret how much disdain Tarantino has for Scorcese’s…

This probably had more people watching than the viewership of every single episode of Succession combined, and as soon as it was over, the cultural memory of it evaporated like the steam on a microwave window after nuking some easy mac

Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie”? Yeah that’s actually from The Zutons, and you know what: It ain’t a half-bad summery pop jam.

The YouTube comments on any clip from AHX are a special kind of hell.

“Hardline” is a definition that shifted in the Trump era, there’s a decent-sized clutch of republicans who watch Fox News and hate Obama and all that...but had a very brief look in the mirror when 2016 went down and now prefer to keep more quiet about their beliefs. They maybe even poured one out for Liz Cheney when…

I went to Coachella in 2010 and 2011, interesting to see a few of these acts pop up here (albeit some from a different year they performed). I was interested mostly in seeing DFA1979 reunite, but there were a surprising number of acts that I thoroughly enjoyed even if their music wasn’t my cup of tea. Arcade Fire was…

I mean, if you’re a full-grown adult and you see this movie without being accompanied by kids, it’s a little bit like going to Chuck E Cheese for the pizza. Everyone would rightfully question what you’re doing there, since the pizza...is what it is.

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Yep, Twitter doesn’t really line anyone’s pockets, least of all the guy who sunk billions to buy it. I think that’s why it’s by far the angriest and most savagely cutting of all of them - it’s where broke people go to take humongous shits on the rich and beautiful. 

The unkind thing to say would be “lmao, purveyors of creatively-bankrupt jukebox musical bullshit dislike when their audience sings along to the dumbass pap being shoveled in front of them,” and also that sounds pretentious! So I definitely won’t say it and then hit the Publish button

Yeah, you can come across a lot of hateful Masculinity Influencers on Instagram, all trying to sell you some rhino horn boner pills or classes on how to insult women and open up dropshipping companies, and they gravitated towards images of John Wick for a while as meme fodder. And on the surface, it makes sense: He’s…

A real show would necessarily have sponsors and one of O’Malley’s clear themes is that we live in an absolute wasteland of buzzwords, brands and bullshit that is rotting our brains from the inside out

Yep, the pendulum swung back too quickly on Pitt - he got his Oscar, his rehab story, and of course Angelina got painted as your classic unreliable narrator / imperfect victim. Unless Pitt creeped into about 450 teenage girls’ DMs, he’s good for at least ten more media cycles.

“Do you think that that’s like, a natural progression from ‘Never done nothin, never,’ to ‘Most Important Job in the World?’” Still slays me even if it’s not quite as tidy a burn as some of these others. All in the delivery.

“Conference call jokes are just the best, aren’t they?” Is an incredible rejoinder from Roman as well.

There is no way in hell they didn’t beg him to do it.