They're friends IRL, aren't they?

I'm pretty confident I read the book before I ever knew who Maria Thayer was (certainly before Forgetting Sarah Marshall came out). And yet that is rather what Joelle looked like in my mind's eye too.

Since we're playing fast and loose with the ages, Avril is so obviously a slightly aged-up Cate Blanchett.

I thought VITLG was kinda uneven. That being said, I thought that one about the window was fukn great.

I am—admittedly—way in the bag for DFW, but I do not understand people that hold this opinion.

There's like four people who review books on this site. And they seem to have pretty idiosyncratic tastes. I don't think a book's exclusion from (or inclusion on) this list is much of a commentary on it's worthiness beyond 'hey, one or two jerks liked this'.

The issue of representation with regard to (at least) comedy podcasts seems reflective of the issue in comedy more broadly (stand-up, et cetera). The reasons for which are manifold but one of the easier ones to point to would be the way young girls are socialised. I'm generalising here but traits like outspoken-ness…

For whatever it's worth, I thought it was Esposito too.

Kitson has a bandcamp page with a couple of recordings of old shows on it for cheap.

Related: who is that in the drawing next to Moshe?

I fukn love Stewart Lee. He's almost as funny as Del Boy falling through the bar on Only Fools And Horses.

'Why didn't they get Peter Serafinowicz?' is an appropriate question to ask of most projects.

Annoying laugh.

Dude's definitely dead.

I liked Hello Sadness and I also liked their other albums. I bet I'll like this one too.

No doubt, man. But you said there wasn't anything besides the yoga comment to lend weight to the just-the-Iranians theory. I was suggesting that there was something else.

Remember when Virgil was all, "Why did you call my brother?" And Carrie was all like, "Because you gave me that message on the phone in the last episode about how our call was being listened to." And then Virgil goes, "That ended like two days ago or whatever." There was that.

It also serves to connect Margaret to the wider world of the show, rather than just having her off living with her brother in Brooklyn.

That'd have to be the case. The scene where Saul and Fara clam up when he walks in on them seems to function to underscore Saul's lack of trust in (or even dislike of) Adal.

Does Chris sleep in the goddamn living room? Can't they just acknowledge they have nothing for the character to do, rather than shoe-horning him into Dana/Jessica scenes?