Bill Burr does have F is for Family, plus a Star War, kinda. But he’s probably still principally considered a standup. It’s actually sort of surprising that Bargatze has gone as long as he has without stumbling onto a few bit parts in shows or movies. Even comics like Steven Wright and Mitch Hedberg randomly showed up…

Yeah, you’re bang on. The main difference is the type of bread. The English also like to stick a bit of fried mushroom in a fry up which I consider INAPPROPRIATE because it’s just meant to be grease, fat and carbs, consumed in shame whilst hungover.

Baldwin isn’t really available to play Trump once again, fortunately. JAJ is one of the few Trump imitators, along with Anthony Atamanuik, who nails him perfectly. There are more people who can do an adequate Biden, but Trump requires more finesse than you’d assume, so the weird logic and the insecurities are upfront…

Yeah, it was funny thirty years ago when Tom Hanks got his jacket and they packed a bunch of cameos in, but they’ve really watered down the concept since then. The only person who got less fanfare than this was Will Ferrell, who was shown in the opening wearing his jacket and it was never mentioned again.

I agree with your “Please Don’t Destroy” take. That bit mined the standard, “ick, they’re doing gay stuff” revulsion-humor that really shouldn’t cut it these days. I’m sure they’d use the cop-out “oh no, we’re spoofing homophobia” - but obviously the gag was rooted in a shocking/gross/laughable vantage point of 2 men…

To me, the main thrust joke wasn’t the gay reveal, it was the extent of the life the other two were leading and hiding from the third guy, but seemingly only from him. That said, two men kissing on television is still pretty damn rare so I would agree that it’s a cheap/lazy guaranteed crowd reaction stunt for the…

Nothing slaps harder than a Will Smith single.

Gerald Ford appeared on SNL in its first season.

Just earlier I was listening to the Blank Check podcast on Monkeybone where they discussed how Chris Kattan gave by far the best performance in that movie, and how he was so successful on SNL and cratered once he left (the inverse of your Robert Downey Jrs, Julia Louis Dreyfus, etc).

I don’t think Gilmore Girls fans are known for their hostility towards other fandom. 

I don’t understand why they all remained silent for so long about this. I can see a person looking out for themselves to make sure they have a job, but after the job is over...why didn’t they say anything? For the longest time they all praised Joss.

Low fantasy (where it’s basically our normal world but with magic) is always tricky with adult characters for these reasons. X-Files worked because the investigations were their jobs, and because the long-running arc centered on enough post-Cold War spy stuff to balance the sci-fi.

I was not Noxon’s biggest fan when she was a writer on Buffy, but I think she gets something of a bad rap for supposedly taking over and ruining the show in its later seasons. (To the point that she even jokes about it herself; her Twitter bio is “I ruined Buffy and I will RUIN YOU TOO.”)

Whedon did invite a steady group of pals to both write and direct shows, even from the beginning, I think. Maybe that was part of the show’s success. Each person gave it a little innovation and flavor. But yeah, trying to keep both a superhero story and a family drama in constant play did seem to get very messy at…

Somewhere in the middle of season 5 they started writing the characters as closer to the actors’ ages; no one was a convincing 21-year-old at that point. But then you had a bunch of implied 30-year-olds who weren’t really working and were still going to the Bronze. They never really got a handle on more adult stuff. 

It’s definitely Please Don’t Destroy. Those guys do the same schtick every week: overreact to something and escalate the intensity. They need some new tricks.

newsradio did that almost 30 years ago. the writers saw the dave/lisa relationship heading down that route so to cut it off they had them hook up basically immediately

Can’t believe we had two awesome Nileses in 90s sitcoms. We were truly blessed. 

I liked Moffat. He was always the perfect “Todd”.

“I don’t know how it got a rep as an ew! gross! food”