“If I reduce people to politics, how am I better than he is? From now on, I’m just gonna stick to reducing people to their race.”

If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?

Last one turned out to be a huge drip.

What will I do without a new episode of This Week Tonight with James Olivier?

They're still working out the kinks. 

Writers’ strike or no, The Daily Show needs a full time hose they can rely on. It can make or break a lawn during the summer. 

It would happen a helluva lot more if it were as simple as you’re framing it.

Not having total control over everything is part of being an actor. They’re not the director, and they’re not the producer.

Well, 99.99% of us don’t have to answer “How does this align with your viewpoint?” when we go to work.
For most of us the answer is “I come in and do (something) for X hours and I get Y money, which I really don’t feel is enough, in exchange for it.”

What do you mean? None of the kids who starred in Harry Potter ever have to do anything in their lives again, which is an enormous amount of privilege to gift to any 9-22 year old. It’s basically insurmountable. That said, she doesn’t come off too wrecked by it here. Maybe she could add some humility by admitting that…

Yes and no? I could see how the process of seeing potential in a script and then spending preproduction/production/postproduction watching things degrade as choices are made outside of your control, then having to spend the media cycle being the face of something that’s bad or even just-fine, that’d be really…

Eh, I think former child actors get a bit of a pass there. Being able to step away from their profession and not starve is a privilege, sure, but for many of them the alternative is pretty unhealthy. And when you were a household name from the age of 10, your life wasn’t going to be comparable to most of ours anyway.

Well, yes, the privilege of having so much money by age 20 that she never has to work again. Seems like a healthy view to not do things that don’t make you happy when your economic situation allows you to do so.

She made a shit ton of money from the Harry Potter films. She still makes residuals on the Harry Potter films. Her and Radcliff and Grint basically had to live their entire lives in a single franchise for a decade. If they all want to fuck off and do nothing for the rest of their lives (which, she’s doing other…

Only a handful of people from the accountancy firm (might still be Price Waterhouse Cooper) ever know the voting tallies from the Academy Awards (for nominations and then the voting for the winner after that’s decided). We will never see them officially publicly released.

Fuck the AMPTP. I hope the writers get all their demands met in full, and Netflix forgets all their passwords to their internal systems

I haven’t watched him in years, but doesn’t he have a “New Rules” segment where he can be aggressively centrist in the douchiest way possible?

I remember someone once saying “A libertarian is an anarchist with a hard-on for capitalism.” and that’s been definition in my mind ever since.

Even Brian Singer is reading this thinking, “I don’t specifically remember this one but I bet that was me.”

AV Club didn’t review them but both Sisu and Polite Society were great. I highly recommend both as palate cleansers for next week’s superhero fatigue discourse.