"The Denver Post speculates that this may simply be a strategic move on Cinemark’s part to get the plaintiffs to drop any further appeals."

Setting aside The Redeeming Power of Sports (tm) issue, all the "sportsball" stuff is Twitter and Facebook "comedy" at its hacky and unfunny worst. Parroting jokes by standups who are OK at best doesn't make you funny.

The writer's take on the commercial performance ("moderate success") of the song is also strange. Top 20 in the US on the Hot 100 and #1 or #2 basically everywhere else, #1 on the US Modern Rock Chart for a month in the absolute commercial heyday of that format, video was basically wallpaper on MTV. It was probably…

Exclusive: the guitar pattern kind of looks like dazzle camouflage.

Not sure, but it would be fun to see someone put Ethan Hawke in Hell's Gate, particularly if it's preceded by one of his preachy monologues from a Linklater film.

And to think, Comedy Central passed on my improv "Taxicab Confessions" parody pitch in the late '90s …

"Hey guys!"

I'm a fan, but I feel like at this point Louis is pulling the curtain back a bit too far on the business side of his undertakings. I get that part of it is because he's forging some new paths, but for me it ultimately takes the focus away from the comedy. (But I can't really get into the whole comedy nerd/WTF level…

All I really remember about that episode is that they nearly managed to ruin the well-earned Jim and Pam sentiment by making Kevin into a character who is essentially developmentally disabled … doesn't he wear tissue boxes as shoes or something?

The whole "At KROQ" EP is really a tantalizing example of what might have been.

You kind of wonder how much Stephen Merchant had to do with it given Gervais' diminishing returns, but then "Hello Ladies" makes a mockery of that thought.

See, I actually thought this was true at the beginning of the series. The characters were heightened versions of people you might work with. They Flanderized everybody by the end, though. Dwight, for example, turned from a semi-creepy suckup into an absurd sexual dynamo who took glee in cuckolding Andy.

Gervais is really up there with Kevin Smith on my list of guys I used to effusively praise and now actively disavow. In both cases, the obnoxious public persona has a lot to do with it. Gervais is a notch below, though, because I don't even like the early Kevin Smith movies I used to love, but I still think the UK…

" ..that 73-year-old Martin Scorsese apparently knows how to use a laptop?'

I have no interest in comics, cons, or Comic-Con, but the coverage of San Diego Comic-Con really makes it seem to an outsider like people are travelling great distances and spending a ton of money just to get access to marketing.

What happened to the good ol' days when commencement speeches were about remembering to wear sunscreen and dancing like nobody's watching? If it's not on a Successories poster, I don't need it!

Why not make a direct connection between the series and have Julia Roberts' bulging forehead vein make a return appearance?

Yep, I guess it *has* been just long enough for people to forget about Bam Margera's post-Jackass MTV show and think this is a funny bit again.

So McDonald's is the Dawes of restaurants?

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