Oh. Well… The "gee, what's going on here" straight man role is what Jon played in every correspondent segment ever.

Some TV is of high quality, as I noted. That's about as far as I'm interested in arguing the point.

Cheers to that.

Bitterness is a tragic thing.

I believe the intention of that segment was to entertain. I didn't really see how your genuine ongoing surprise was particularly necessary.

"he's all literary and intellectual pretension (in the best, most earned ways)." Well, I think they're good enough and earned enough that, frankly, his qualities deserve better words than "pretension." Being intelligent and well-spoken are nothing anyone has any need to apologize for or shrink from.

It's in many ways an improvement of The Daily Show.

Really excellent television—and I'm rarely willing to credit TV, even good TV, with being anything more than an enjoyable waste of time. Jon Stewart's been downright important.

Wow! I had no idea this was being made. I've never gotten over my annoyance at Michael Cera, but everything else about this really makes my day.

"Even Helms, whose puppyish neediness can be trying, finds a clearer persona for Rusty (optimistic and open-minded to a clueless fault) than Chevy Chase did for Clark, who often felt detached from his on-screen family (he appears here briefly in more avuncular form)."
What puts that conversation to bed for me is that…

One of the most humorless trailers I've ever seen for a comedy movie, just made me want to punch everybody involved.

He indeed inspired me to go to journalism school. Though I changed majors within a year, as—surprise—studying journalism had nothing in common with reading Hunter S. Thompson.

Under that spell, I wrote a paper on bukowski and authenticity for a college English class. It was drolly savaged in the margins by the professor; wish I could find it now and reread what he wrote. Must've been his thousandth time through a paper like that.

Not really.

Wyatt's story was a powerful listen, and I don't doubt its veracity. But when I went back and watched the footage, I found the Cain impression surprisingly tame. I expected something more outrageous, like the robin Williams jive voice he also described. I grant that I may be whitely tone deaf on the issue, but it…

I recognize that I haven't seen most of his work. I doubt I'd change my answer, though.

A few years ago I briefly thought everybody had suddenly started referencing Chris barnes's post cannibal corpse band, six feet under.

1991 twister sounds great.

No… I'll keep it in mind.

Good job. Only thing I'd gripe about is that I'd take aronofsky over everybody you mentioned at A.