The mainstream media isn't hosting conversations, they're hosting feeding frenzies via satellite. Wilmore has (at the best of times) been engaging in actual dialog, where people interact and bounce ideas between one another to gain actual understanding of respective positions. Moreover, the Keep it Hunnit thing is a…

Yeah, and I'm not put off by Wilmore cannibalizing that stuff, because a show has to find its feet. I hope it does well enough to stay on the air, because it's cool to have a show built around actual conversations about issues. Monologues are fun, but they aren't where things should begin and end.

I've been enjoying it as a hang-out show. When the whole table just actually talks about an issue (and they have a good diversity of opinion) it can be really engaging. I remember when they had a conservative black woman on the panel, and Larry gave her both the appropriate quantity of shit for that, and a chance to…

I've liked him so far, he's got a solid delivery and an accent like hot sex. He hasn't necessarily blown me away, but with a strong writing team and a unique perspective, I like his odds.

I can agree with that, especially considering that Wolverine's smoking metal skeleton is one of the more iconic DOFP images.

I think weakest VB episode has to be "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner', despite the absolute brilliance of ghost Lincoln there.

There's part of me that wants to stand up for the Venture Bros. Depending on whether or not you're counting the pilot as part of the series proper, then the second episode is either 'Dia de Los Dangerous!' or 'Careers in Science', either of which is really funny, though not necessarily indicative of what the show's…

Many bros are known to go shirtless on the reg, the better to promenade sick abs for 'mirin' audiences.

Good point on the parallels with news media. That ties into my big worry with all these true crime sensations, which is that it's going to throw the court system even further off the course of delivering actual justice.

"I used to take long quiet walks on peaceful spring eves with guys like you in prison!"

Good point. When I try to look at the show in the larger context of what Cartoon Network was doing at the time, it's hard to figure out why CN would greenlight such a strange project in the first place (John Hughes meets vintage mecha anime, but targeted at an adolescent audience). Why would Genndy invest so much in…

Cartoon Network may have burned that bridge with how they treated Sym-Bionic Titan.

I paid money to see the first Hotel Transylvania movie on the basis that every dollar gets us a step close to someone (anyone, please) greenlighting a Samurai Jack movie.

In general, I think the AVC reviews on classic Futurama have been too harsh. Or at least, it seems like the reviews have a lot of expectations in the wrong places.

THIS IS A CHARMANDER HOUSEHOLD, I CAN'T BELIEVE I LET YOU INSIDE ME

I say, just get really good at changing the subject! It's impossible to get into a fight about anything in your sex life if instead you're arguing about which Pokemon you should pick up in Pallet Town.

Does it undercut the joke, or does it underline how incredibly vapid the internet douchebags are? I mean, they're either so un-self-aware that they can't tell when the joke is on them, or they're so cynical that they don't care and will gladly give you the rope to hang them as long as they get to be on stage for a…

Remember, only wear ties with large licensed graphic images, like maybe Bugs Bunny slamming a dunk into the Space Jam logo.

I walked to the nearest one I could find around my hotel. It was pure kismet, and from what I learned about the movie afterwards, probably for the best. I haven't watched it since then, because I like that my entire direct experience with the movie was in such a singularly weird circumstance.

I've told this anecdote from time to time: