“What I said was, when you hear rumors about someone, and they ask you to go on the road with them, this is what being a woman in comedy is like—imagine if there’s always a chance of rain over your head but [with] men, there isn’t. So you go, ‘Should I leave the house with an umbrella, or not?’”

Does DNA even work the same way in a world where humans mate with animals and species-specific traits don’t hybridize? Or would a horse offspring be expected to share more DNA with its horse parent than its nonhorse parent? If so, Butterscotch’s daughter with a nonhorse and Bojack’s daughter with a nonhorse would have…

As far as I know, the only press source for the “He jerked off in front of unwilling women” rumor was that Gawker blind item. I never got the sense that Gawker wasn’t confident who the subject was, though, and the supposed accuser never said anything about it not being about Louis; she just said that the report had…

I just noticed this was also based on only 500 adults so the numbers are probably laughably inaccurate and I’d guess overstated—there is no way 17% of all adults watched Westworld

“Apparently they want to murder you in a well, it says here on this card.”

“P.S.: Your c**t is in the sink.”

Nope. A blind item article from Gawker is not enough evidence to warrant reckoning with allegations.

I mean, I suppose it could be the other guy who in 2012 was considered both the nation’s most highly regarded stand-up comic and a critically acclaimed sitcom auteur, and who also warranted awkwardly shoehorned references to him being “hilarious,” “shameless,” and “lucky.”

Except that Stanhope’s “confession” is manifestly false. The article he linked in that tweet to may or may not be true, but it is unmistakably about Louis CK and not about Stanhope, who has never been, by anyone’s estimation, “our nation’s most hilarious stand-up comic and critically cherished sitcom auteur.”

Such a weird movie. It’s like an episode of that Canadian Outer Limits revival from the 1990s—competently mounted but undistinguished, desperately earnest but not nearly as meaningful as it thinks it is—but with a cast worthy of the original Twilight Zone. How did they get so many talented people to sign on for…

I thought the show started to go off the rails in season 5, but only in the last few episodes. Suddenly this series that had always been so good with the tiny nuances of politics was throwing around completely random and nonsensical details about Congress’s votes for president and vice president—reliably liberal…

“I’ve always hated snakes, and I always will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy.”

I always figured it was just a character quirk, potentially one designed to demonstrate that little Gertie was willful and precocious.

I think the article is misreading IHW’s comments a bit. He doesn’t say anything about Arya really wanting to kill Sansa; he says that Sansa decides to check with Bran before SHE follows Littlefinger’s advice and kills ARYA.

As much as they ever existed. They’ve always been able to drum up attention disproportionate to their status as the fringiest of fringe groups. They’re barely even a religious organization; aside from a few weirdo hangers-on, almost all the members are Fred Phelps’s relatives, and the “church” is just Fred’s last and…

The cynical answer: the last two episodes of season 3 of VEEP. There’s something absolutely brilliant about suddenly making Selina president, upending the entire premise of the series by giving her everything she ever wanted and everything we never thought the show would let her have, only to reveal that all that…

The Stanhope thing is a total blind alley. Whether or not the original blind item was true, it was most definitely about Louis CK. It even did that blind item thing of sneaking keywords into the text that identify the subject unmistakably (in this case, the names of Louis’ old stand-up specials).

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Testing? I think I’m in the right account this time . . .

Cancel the cry for help — at some point the login instructions were updated to specify that Kinja adds the suffix "—disqus" to the end of unavailable user names. Sure enough, "devf—disqus" turned out to be my login name. Whew, I'm in, and it only took a whole day!