Agreed. He could have had a good career as a screenwriter if he'd worked with someone who could have reined in his worst tendencies.

I think his point was that confessional comedy is a scourge and even though a few people manage to pull it off it's now become a prevailing style, which is problematic not only because it's bad but because comedy is about the individual and any time a bunch of people try to do one style of comedy, it sucks. People are…

I think Norm Macdonald was onto something recently when he went off on the confessional comedy trend (something along the lines of Louis CK is brilliant, but he birthed a million idiots). Not a lot of people do that well, but a lot of people do it.

yeah. if she'd framed it as "when I first came out here, I fell into a trap where my jokes were trying too hard to be like the girl's version of a dirty male comic's jokes, but then I realized…" people probably wouldn't be so angry. As is, her tone is more "wtf is wrong with you, why can't you be more like me?"

It was, but no one uses it anymore! No respect for history.

I do have it set to notify me for "pubes" "bush" "pubic hair" and "merkins" if that's what you're asking

Yeah, when he came on the scene with short hair and not fat he just kinda looked like a guy you might see at a Dave Matthews concert. But his Erlich Bachman look is just so physically hilarious in that classic Falstaffian way.

There was a thoroughly depressing comic posted on Buzzfeed dramatizing his last days: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ke…

Mine too. Between Milne and Beatrix Potter (her other favorite, please save me from ever having to read Squirrel Nutkin again), my daughter will be sorely disappointed to grow up to find she does not live in an English countryside forest with talking animals.

That's fair re: Carrey, but it felt like Daniels was so tonally way off with Harry. Harry was a goofy guy who was dim in the first movie. The joke was that he could kinda pass for a guy of average intelligence because he had this matter of fact, deadpan way of speaking that made people think he must be joking. He had…

I'm convinced Jeff Daniels was either trying to sabotage the movie or had no memory of the first movie and had never watched it.

I like that Stiller admitted he only has a few characters. But they're greater characters. Also the "do it, do it" guy who appears in The Ben Stiller Show, Heavyweights and Starsky and Hutch.

I haven't been able to find a review on the site, which strikes me as peculiar. Maybe it's just late? I'm about half way through it and Courtney Love has pissed off Karen O and seduced Julian Casablancas…and I think we're still in 2002.

Since we're talking music, have I missed any pieces about the new Lizzy Goodman book Meet Me In the Bathroom? Seems like something the old AV Club would've been all over. Is the new target audience too young to even know those bands?

I didn't really group it with those films because I don't think she meant for the anachronistic music to be a gimmick like "history…but COOL!" I think she was trying to make it personal for her (I think she related to the subject A LOT) and she was trying to bring Marie Antoinette closer to her own teenage experience…

There's something about it that feels like the dream of a brilliant teenage girl whose obsessions are post-punk music, Revolution-era France, Amadeus, and Barry Lyndon.

I never said dozens. I said A dozen!

I love Virgin Suicides and the much-hated Marie Antoinette. I know Noel Murray agrees with me on the latter because we had a back and forth on Twitter about it. So that's at least 2 of us, and I suspect there may be a dozen more out there. I'm not terribly fond of Lost in Translation.

40 Year Old Virgin would be my 2nd or 3rd choice for best Apatow movie this century, behind Superbad and (maybe) Pineapple Express.

I doubt she's getting scientific with it. Probably just thought "what have been the most enjoyable movie watching experiences of the last 17 years?"