You are by no means alone in your assessment. This movie kicks ass.

You might prefer Marilyn Mozzarella

Fuck yes, if you told me she did that for real, I’d believe it.

The strength of the central characters’ relationships could fill several columns, but let’s not forget James L Brooks’ typically strong supprting cast. His movies have always had a great “no small roles” quality. Nicholson looms over the lower-tiered talent like both a lure and a threat, and Joan Cusack is just a…

(horse whinny) 

That's an underrated movie start to finish. Even Monique gets some good lines, playing off Leachman very well. 

I love how Herzog’s interviews are amazingly never gibberish. They have the cadence and vocabulary of bullshit, but always retain the weight of someone genuinely contemplating a question or topic and trying to address it. 

The 7-minute format sounds like a great idea. 

Truffles or GTFO

My age was mentioned as a reference point for how long King’s persona had consistently been treated as a running joke, which led into an honest question about whether there was more to him than I’d seen. Then several people answered, “yes there was” and gave specific examples and explanations.

That’s good to know, and does indeed explain his appeal to guests. I suppose my frustration is in how little that seemed to translate into valuable (or, for my tastes) interesting on-camera substance.

I’m 45, and his persona and complete lack of interview skills have been a joke my whole life. As far as I could tell, his only skill was being able to score big-name guests (presumably because they knew they had nothing to fear from him.) Was he ever respected as an actual journalist/interviewer?

Great, one of these guys.

W was famously allowed to wave aside his decades of cocaine use by evoking the Reagan-esque phrase "when I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible." So according to the GOP, "young" can be as old as "early 40s."

Maybe the real friends were the balls we tasered along the way? 

My hatred for this whole incident is enhanced by the fact that there was a dog involved, a dog who could have been raised to be a big friendly agility star and/or couch potato in another life. 

As the internet has taught us all:

I got lucky! 

I know you guys probably aren’t allowed to even acknowledge its existence (and I’m not sure it strictly qualifies for the spirit of this list since it’s basically a traditional website as opposed to some sort of performance,) but the best thing on the internet in 2020 is Defector.

Fuck Clapton’s racist ass.