The tiny twinge of mild annoyance I had reading your post (never underestimate the diversity of regional weirdness in a country this big) might qualify as the most patriotism I’ve felt in decades.

So what you’re telling me is he just randomly showed up without any explanation as to why he exists?

THE AV CLUB

Send me some liquor, I'll let you know if I can figure it out.

The point is, if Joss Whedon doesn’t find his birth certificate quick, he’s going to fade out of existence, Back to the Future-style.

This is a proper joke.  Well done indeed.

“Whedon’s current issues stem from his recent wedding to Canadian artist Heather Horton”

Go watch anime!

I would rate “Under the Bridge” and “Californication” as significantly more worthy of snark than the innocuous “Don Jon”.

Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked Sean O’Neal left.

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what the target of the snark here is supposed to be. That Don John wasn’t actually good? That the show’s idea sounds unoriginal? That it’s a self-evident joke that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has “directorial flair”?

Dude I know you’re joking but lumping Manson - who has been accused of literal rape - with Whedon - who has been accused of being mean to people on set - seems a bit trivializing.

Citizen Kane and Black Panther both had heart, but Man Getting Hit By Football had a football in the groin.

I don’t know what kind of weird sarcastic defense you’re attempting here but there’s also all the other testimony that Scott Rudin is a bullying asshole.

Real talk, I have a master’s degree in public health and 8 years of experience working with contraception specifically, so this is one of the three or four very minute parts of human existence where I do indeed know what I’m talking about.

I don’t have a specific citation on hand, sorry. If you want more evidence than the word of an internet stranger on an entertainment website, you would have to look for that on your own.

“Anti-vaxxers don’t listen to the experts. Stay tuned for one of my comedy writers on whether people should get vaccinated.”

Unwarranted pettiness is always comedy gold.

Can somebody answer THIS question though:  why will I read literally every article I find about the Steamed Hams segment?  I think I’ve been cursed ...

“It’s not that its star is a rapey scumbag, it’s that its protagonist is a statutorilyrapey scumbag.”