In the same special, the stuff about his dad dying is so fucking good. I'm terrified of death AND I'd lost my dad not too long before I first saw the routine, and I found it really cathartic. I'm sure other people have deconstructed "in a better place" before, but Norm's withering description of how "in bed, alive" is…

IF THEY WANTED TO HAVE JOBS FOREVER THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE JOINING A SOCIALIST UNION

One thing I've never 100% understood about Conan is that he doesn't seem to understand how he could do bits without having a traditional talk show. I mean, I liked Late Night and I liked him on the Tonight Show and I sometimes watch his TBS show when I catch it… but after so many years, why be a talk show host? I know…

Screwed! Which I saw! In its original (only) (very brief) theatrical release! And cracked up at! But I'm pretty sure IS actually terrible, it just made me laugh, who can say why.

I've mostly just caught when he talks to ex-SNL folks, to be honest (which he was doing OFTEN for a while, understandably but a little embarrassingly). But I think he's super smart and I like that he's relatively warm and inviting without being as smarmily cute as Fallon (who, even after his sort of unofficial fall…

Tony, babe, that's an oversimplification on par with Bernie Sanders explaining U.S. tax code to Jihadi John, a cha cha.

Seth Meyers still doing it is kinda one reason I don't 100% count him. And also, I'm not sure if Update really prepped him to be a talk show host so much as to do a really good Update-style segment on his talk show. No beef with Meyers, though.

Especially weird because I can totally picture Crystal waxing poetic/nostalgic about some dumb Yankees game.

I'd put many of Sofia's movies above many of Francis's, but you do you!

Eleanor is the wife of Francis Ford Coppola, and mom to Sofia.

Strangely, I love Tempe.

I'm pretty sure there were was some kind of casting news about this movie that actually had Cage in it (!)… though I don't know who he would have actually played. I assume not the Frenchman. Maybe the Baldwin part? But as vaguely insulting as it would be, I would LOVE to see Cage assay a mustachioed Frenchman, a la…

Confirmed.

There wasn't a scene where Elle Fanning goes to talk to Jabba the Hutt in the original.

I kinda hate Transamerica, but little to do with the casting.

Maybe in the sense that the movie is poorly written in general and she bears the brunt of that, but she has a LOT of screen time devoted to her problems.

In their defense (and not much defense because it's not a very good film), while the film is all about transitioning, it also takes place entirely before any actual physical/medical transitioning has taken place, so I can see why they might want someone with a female body to play this guy, as it's about his struggle…

YES OMG I noticed that too! And I was wondering, wait, does this happen all the time and I just don't ever notice, or did they just do a terrible job when they got this clock in the shot so many times??

Hard to argue when you just say "no," but I'll bite anyway: In the movie, transparency is presented as an excuse for making your personal information available to the whole world and, as such, very dangerous (which of course it would be on a personal level). But given that the current administration is trying very…

I'd say he's pretty pivotal to the film! And I say that as someone who thought he was remarkable (regardless of how/why) in Boyhood.