Definitely. I was thinking about Jim Gaffigan and Gabriel Iglesias said that early in their careers they made a conscious decision to not use profanity or talk about sex, and that’s when their comedy clicked and they became successful. And even though they’re capable of more adult or darker jokes, and they have no…

I know it’s his most successful show, but I really don’t see The Office in his comedic voice. The show DID get worse after he left, but the cringy, horrible people, unironically loving the pretty young people with cool tastes and hating everyone else was funny but the total opposite of everything he’s ever done. And…

I love Kate, Aidy and Cecily, who are up there for most talented ever. But it’s time. The cast is way too big, they’re repeating their jokes, and they’ve outgrown the show. Beck and Kyle can leave too, and that’s not just me having never found Kyle’s one note funny. We get it, you were awkward in the 90s.

I didn’t think the teen nerd sketch worked at all, and usually I love everything Kate and Aidy do. The problem is, that kind of nerd character is a Saved By the Bell cliche that, if it existed then, doesn’t now. Usually they’re so good at that kind of person. Girlfriend’s Talk Show (I know I’m the only one who liked…

They HAVE been making bun of Cuomo, a lot. And the other two aren’t real things, they’re just right wing echo chamber nonsense. There’s nothing about Hunter Biden no matter how desperately you want it to be so.

And now they’re doing Monnlighting but with lots of murders and rapes. I’d rather watch a Jerry Orbach episode for the 10th time.

The joke was she was passing as a WASPy blonde. 

Crazy Rich Asians is actually a good example. All the roles on that show are supposed to be ethnically Han Chinese. But Henry Golding is half white, half indigenous Malaysian, Akwafina and Ken Jeong are Korean. I don’t think that’s bad. Being obsessed with getting the ethnicity right would have cost them.

OK I certainly see that we should strive to be race neutral as much as possible. But demanding gay people play gay roles and Tamil people play Tamil roles hurts that. I’d rather see Zachary Quinto and Neil Patrick Harris playing romcom leads and action stars and straight historical figures in Oscar-bait biopics. Let’s…

Sure. Ideally, generic roles shouldn’t default to white. Romcom leads should be any colour, and not have it be a black movie or an Asian movie. We’re starting to see that. Same with generic action heroes. Not just the rogue cop who plays by his own rule, but the villain should be black/Asian/Latino without it being…

Still mad they cancelled the original show. Even though if it were still on, they’d be dragged into all these dumb crossovers and I would have hated that, but the original show was my absolute favourite comfort show.

Really? In the last season of the real show he was the DA. I haven’t watched the spinoffs. 

Does he have range? I think the only other thing I’ve ever seen him in was 42. And he played the real-life 40s baseball manager, as Stabler. It worked for the role, but still. Played him as Stabler.

The Cragen seasons of the Mothership were some of my favourite. And that Cragen would NEVER. He gave Mike Logan shit for trying to avenge Greevey’s murder.

This is really cool. Good for Lilly. I love in general that the Girl Scouts have made the transition to selling online better than many businesses.

The novel was really mostly worldbuilding and character study, not a huge amount of plot. The sequel novel is the opposite. They weirdly don’t really go together. 

OK, I’m going to get criticised for this, but I want to know why I’m wrong.

Don’t think the comparison to Raj on the Big Bang Theory makes sense. Yeah, the writing of the character was a weak spot, a holdover from the first season or two when the show was much broader, meaner, and stereotypical (and sexist) than it was later on. (Side question: has any show ever ran that long and got better,…

I’d have said South Asian myself. Sounds like the writer was trying to find a delicate way of saying Muslim-majority, not obviously slotted into our usual white/black/east Asian categories. 

Co-created by a British-Nigerian woman, basically the only representation of Africans on American TV. It’s not the best thing to come out of the Lorre factory, but it could be worse. It’s not offensive, just bland.