As someone who qualified to be in the hopper but was never invited (Fine! I didn't want to be on that stupid show! I drove three hours to take the test on a Sunday morning for fun anyway!), my question is, what was most tense-making: the money or the pride? Which is to say, what made you most nervous, the possibility…

eh. I don't know. I think it's "If you're wrong, you're wrong, if you're right, you're right." As in sports, it's always preferable to get the call right, and promptly. But if it's a choice of one or the other, right is better. Otherwise, you're taking away an "unjust" penalty from the person who got it wrong…and…

Ah, but Moira Kelly will always have The Cutting Edge. In fact, that may be all she has. But I think she's a big part of the reason why I love that actually probably kinda mediocre romcom.

Because now you imagine Kilmer is the ball?

Absolutely Pat Tabler: one of the great Dylan songs from the 90s.

Great performance. And so weird that he seems to have mostly disappeared in the few years since. (I'd look him up, but I'm afraid to find he's a bit player on Two And A Half Men or something.)

I meant to also stick up for his hosting of the first few years of MTV Unplugged. But that's because I always forget that was Jules Shear, and have no idea who Jools Holland actually is.

As someone who tunes in Ferguson's show here and there and can never understand the big deal, I can only say…I guess so?

Come on now. Judge him by his comments, not his looks.

You want a downvote? I can get you a downvote. Hell, I can get you a downvote by 3 o' clock.

I remember liking Kilborn's version just fine…mostly. What I didn't like was that the objects of the correspondents' straight-faced mockery tended to be perfectly decent people who were quirky or silly (or just not fratboy-cool enough). In the Stewart version, they tend to be either people in power or oddballs whose…

Of course, Nat King Cole's "Stardust" is magical, so that probably doesn't hurt. Looking forward to seeing this.

I'll introduce them to everybody, but they're busy, um, sucking on chili dogs. And that's not something you want to see.

What do you mean, in the future?

lauding and raping…an interesting mental image…

In fact, wasn't the Alda line, repeated several times, supposed to be an indication of his hack-ish pseudo-insight, a la Polonius? So attributing it to Allen might be similarly problematic.

Can we slow down here? I can't be expected to follow this lawyer-ese.

Ah. Makes sense.

All the more impressive, then.

"Finding the Hole"