Is the book good? I remember him making the podcast circuit when it came out, and a book about a guy who's been everywhere in comedy the last two decades sounds like it would be pretty fascinating.

"By the end, he was more like a supervillain than a plausible human"

You can see that in later Apatow movies, too.

There are a lot of examples of movies like that. For some reason, "Anything Else" comes to mind first in that same category. You can't market a standard Woody Allen movie to teens (pedophilia jokes aside).

I would've loved to see him try, though. Farley played somewhat of a sad sack in a few movies (despite the hyper-physical comedy). He was a lonely outcast in Black Sheep and Beverly Hills Ninja.

I was about to make this comment.

Norton was legitimately funny in Fight Club, which is really more of a dark comedy than anything else, at least according to David Fincher's DVD commentary.

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I'm not trying to make a joke: she was Daria before Daria. That show wouldn't have existed without her.

Get out.

I feel like Broderick-in-Godzilla in a nutshell is the gaping missed opportunity for a joke when he's buying dozens of pregnancy tests and runs into his ex. It goes completely unmentioned.

I was just talking to my fiancee about Airborne. I thought we were the only people who remembered it. Another piece of evidence of the eventual Seth Green takeover.

I only ended up catching it on premium cable, thankfully. It was just…really not good at all.

I think John Cusack is much better than Broderick, but I see them as having a similar problem in many movies: they can't help but play themselves, no matter the character. John Cusack can't not be John Cusack, and Matthew Broderick can't not be Matthew Broderick.

Aside: I love your avatar. It's worthy of back TO back TO back adulation.

I think my favorite random Kyle Gass role was he and Andy Richter as James Caan's assistants in Elf. I don't know why.

My favorites have been Frank Turner on "Imagine" and David Lynch on "It's a Small World," which got real weird real fast.

O'Reilly isn't an idiot. That's what's scary about him.

If you want to see how good Dumb & Dumber is, see Dumb & Dumber To. The first seems so over-the-top and exaggerated, but when comparing it to the second, you can see how much subtlety and nuance the first has.

"Well, in many ways the Mack never left, sir. He's always offered the same high-quality meals at competitive prices."