Is this like that time on Curb when Larry tried to become a car salesman just to see if he could do it?

It…can be both? It’s not like Afterlife wasn’t also a heartless, unfunny cash grab.

He’s coming to your toooown.

slow jerk is one of the most reliably funny bits I’ve ever scene.

Reno 911?

Wow!...
A... a gallon.
Yeah.
Th-That’s that’s illegal, right?..
Yeah it’s a felony!
It’s a felony!...
Yes.
Wow!...
And here you are with it anyway...
That is... Wow.
I uh, I didn’t even knew it came
in liquid form!
Science.

Voiceover:

And the people are all phonies! No one reads. Everything has cilantro on it—

It didn’t change me!

But she doesn’t name any names here, just like she’s never said who “You Oughta Know” is about. (It’s not about Dave Coulier. She will say that much.)

He is right wing, but knows he isn’t supposed to let it slip for his lefty paymasters at the BBC.  Highlights include his “question time” session before a byelection where he isn’t bothering to hide his support for the conservative candidate (and increasing frustration that the guy isn’t coming across better).

Maybe that’s the parallel. Colbert’s American right-winger is an aggressive and successful villain, while Coogan’s British right-winger is a pathetic failure... seems appropriate!

It’s not really the same. Colbert’s character is aggressive and successful, and a broad satire of a particular kind of American media villain - I don’t think he had much of an off-screen persona. Partridge is a sad-sack mediocre white dude whose ignorance, laziness and self-delusion result in acts of self-sabotage…

My first thought was “duh boston”

I read the Matt Damon thing elsewhere and the comments were all “How is this still happening?”

Modest Mouse has never not been fun. Angry and weird, sure, but always a blast to listen to.

STEVE!!

Walking Dead is a framework in which other story arcs are told.

Ah, the Cartman Gambit, as it is known in technical circles.

This gon’ make me lose my mind.