I see people say this a lot, specifically about Blazing Saddles. They usually imply that audiences wouldn't be able to take it, but I think they would. That's why we still watch Blazing Saddles. I don't think he would've been able to get it made, however. If he got past that, I think we could take it.

I loved that line even when I was 12 and didn't know who the hell Carl Reiner was.

Oscar nominations and wins make a whole lot more sense if you replace "Best" with "Most," especially for the technical awards. Period pieces always get the costume Oscar because they have the most costumes, even if there are movies set in the present day with costuming that is far more subtle yet more effective.…

"Don't cry for me. I'm already pegged in the face with dogshit."

I know the courts will settle this, but I know and you know and we all know you're just Pete Holmes-ing my original podcast, What the Ruck?

The line between "delightfully abrasive" and "like dragging your ears over electric sanders" is very thin, but that character was definitely on the latter side of that equation.

I already contribute to Radiotopia and it's somewhat satisfying; I don't feel bad about turning off 99PI before Roman Mars goes into 5 minutes of ads at the end.

I listened to the Best-Of eps mostly for the intros and even those were a tad lackluster this year. At least four of the episodes voted in were episodes I'd turned off midway (I especially knew this wasn't "my top 15" when Pow Pow Power Wheels got any place on the lineup). The fifteen-minute Olympic Song Challenge at…

Walker told me I have canceraids.

I voted Trump because the Wendy's drive-thru was closed.

Big Mothma's House.

All these questions and more will be answered in Death Star Janitor: A Star Wars Story!!!

On Molten Pond

Counterpoint: Fat CJ.

I guess AP Mike finally pulled together that fifteen hundred dollars it takes to get a mention.

If I can, I'd like to tack Danny Brown on there. I've always been aware of him, but I picked up this year's Atrocity Exhibition and realized that once you get past the fact that the beats sound like murder music and his voice sounds like he's been eating out of an ashtray, this guy is really fucking depressed.

I can see how it's a handy rubric. The books are about to become a tv/movie franchise, so if someone really likes watching Game of Thrones, they might enjoy getting a jump on this before it hits the screen.

I enjoyed Witcher 3 immensely, but the combat was atrocious; "floaty" is the best word for it. I first played it after Bloodborne, and returned for the DLC after Dark Souls 3, and the direct, visceral combat of those games really puts Witcher 3's "press attack near an enemy and you'll bop over to them automatically"…

XCOM 2 is the first game I've played on easy without feeling like I'm losing out on the experience. I tried three playthroughs on the normal mode (whatever they call it), and had to quit after blowing it on the shipbuilding aspect or losing so many soldiers I couldn't take on harder missions. I'm playing again on…

I'm with you; I was certainly entertained, but I didn't see what made it so unique and great. I passed on the second book after hearing it just ramps the Mary Sue factor up to 11.