Right? Maybe Conan in his TBS phase just wanted to send a strong message to the networks to keep that timeslot for something more "wacky" and adventerous. But even then, no matter what, it would have had to be with someone younger too.

After reading the review, which makes a great case for Macdonald's direct and tinged with curmudgeon approach to comedy, I recalled that moment on the last night of Letterman's show, when he was going to deliver parting words about Dave, at that point the otherwise mask-like (especially more recently) expression of…

Tempting… I find Macdonald comes across as a comedians favorite ( I mean how Letterman and Conan certainly show they enjoy him on their show ) but sometimes without a real feeling of him doing anything for it on their respective shows, sometimes it feels just as the review described the book, which can feel…

Thanks for that info - the good news about doubles!

Yes! Spy, the magazine that delivered, among other things, a wonderful researched work (lifted by Harry Shearer first-person reveals) about the unreleased Jerry Lewis film, "The Day the Clown Cried" which back then no one was talking or daring to talk openly about. Whatever this new temporary version of Spy works out…

Call it "after Scrubs" - what could go wrong?

But there are plenty of examples through the series of Bill caring about the Hills and even in that sense showing a kind of family consideration in his way. Certainly towards the end with the story of the Dauterive bbq recipe, and having no way to market it he passes it on to "family" which in this case turns out to…

To be exact, one of the earlier episodes was about Bob starting out plainly saying Teddy wasn't his best friend and even just a work-related friend and that upsetting Teddy. In the end of course Bob takes more like a kind pity on Teddy. In that last respect, he has something in common with Hank, only Hank has been…

Great review - and yes, even just in your plot description for Teddy and his ex etc … Bill Dauterive came to mind immediately. Having said that, refer to the best at least. The much more actorly, modulated (a kind of quiet-shouty) voice of Bobby Hill split into 3 kids, with Gene a kind of physical (though shouty…

Right - I head her Maron interview a while back, quite likeable, funny, and she seems to know what she's going after in the business after alot of years. I guess it was paycheck, in the case of playing the surprise daughter of Charlie Sheen's character in the last year or so of Two and a half Men. Her character was…

This was a great first episode for establishing quite a bit about a character and related situations and (important for first eps) it left me really interested how it would continue. Rae has a very expressive face (luckily as this is tv format) able to register nuanced, fluid, sliding differences on a range between…

The couple Michael brought to share the apartment didn't put that hipster vibe across. But I'd add there is something disconcerting about the fact that The Good Place draws on a sample as rich as the world offers, only to end with a certain American gated-community feel to it. Which one can cyncially argue, just…

Sure, but don't read into "according to Islamic principles" as outside of positive readings, revolutionaries address their communities and societies to recognize an ethics to that statement — much closer to secular socialism back then in fact, just meaning addressing communities following THEIR principles rather than…

A revealing scene as it was about Cameron actually abusing her power by spying on his other, private, personal chat exchanges, and which he called her out on when he realized it. Which she ran away from because she couldn't deal. That was a good indicator for really big problems of having a self-centered, very…

It's in the production values too. When you hear the Knacks version, especially the guitar, that would be closer to a 60s original.

"The Knack, a 1970s power pop band whose own music was frequently compared to The Beatles" has a lot of allowance there: I think 1970s isn't helpful as it usually describes bands who were already big in the 70s, but really Knack were a brief "new wave" year or two, having their hit in 1979. As for music compared to…

Right! I forgot that was a good Maron podcast too. Shandling seemed to have been really getting into a good spot, able to reflect and so on just before he dies. Seems strange timing still.

Colbert's intro for them on his show was great… the whole moment was good tv, back when the camera was more in the audience for those music segments.

That reminds me, the Emmy clips memorial for Shandling were so stupidly conceived, making him at best a simple comedian. They should have just taken a minute from the Comedians in Cars part where he walked through the old comedy clubs.

But not the same format and allowances and audience, late late is not late night, as we keep seeing from Conan onwards. You are expected to experiment more on late late slots.