A major issue is that nearly every writer from the past years is gone, replaced by new, disposable people who are trying to make a name for themselves without making real sparks, plus the two proverbial cockroaches who have outlived nuclear apocalypse, Barsanti and Hughes. At this point, the AV Club is mostly an IP, a…

We’re just innocent bystanders. Univision (back when it was still named Univision) buying a majority share in Onion, Inc. was the beginning of a long, slow slide into mediocrity. Univision bought up The Onion sites and the Gawker sites thinking they’d use them to make content for their short-lived English language…

Was the show better than usual? Yes. Were there ads literally popping up over each other while I tried to read this AVC recap? Also yes, and goddamn, what did we all do to deserve that?

The url is still twitter.com, so I’m calling it twitter.

Don’t call it anything other then a Tweet.   Its a Tweet on Twitter.  I have it on good authority every time someone calls it Twitter, Elon cries a single tear, so we much continue to do it

It still kills me that Minhaj was rejected because he fabricated some elements of his real life for his stand up routine.  Wow, how mindblowing, only him and literally every other comedian on the planet.

A good example of that was the show when he had Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan, as a guest after 9/11. Musharraf was remarkably frank about the not-so-veiled threat of “you’re with us or against us” from Bush.

Tell me the date that Jon Stewart last hosted and I’ll tell you the date I stopped watching. I’ll be tuning in on Mondays now.

I think there’s a misconception that people - including Taylor Swift - didn’t laugh because his jokes were offensive. People didn’t laugh because they weren’t funny.

Watch “Plane Crazy” (which would have been Mickey’s first-released short) if you want to see him in full on rapist mode. 

Have any of these people actually sat down and watched Steam Boat Willie? Mickey Mouse is a goddamn sociopath (that poor mama pig) you can’t make him any more of a gleeful, violent sex pervert than Walt Disney already did.

They don’t even edit in English.  Bilingual copy editing sure as hell isn’t in their budget.

The problem is that when people dip their toes into the alt right now, they find that the water is juuuuust fine, and not only that, it’s a huge, warm lake ready to embrace them with the soothing waters of grievance and once they’re underneath the cozy waters they look up and see a refracted world that is just…

One thing I remember about the spring and summer of 2020 was how many—how very many—videos that were going viral of older white men just absolutely losing. their. shit. Trying to shove their way into stores without a mask (often assaulting workers and guards), kicking doors, screaming at people. Complete loss of any…

What a fall from grace. He ended his show because he knew people were laughing at the jokes for racist reasons. Now he refuses to have poor people live near him, hangs out with Elon Musk saying only the poor people are booing, and nothing but lazy trans jokes.  Hes cruel and boring in equal measure.  I never thought…

One weird phenomenon is that no one can seem to be a little bit Trumpy. There are so many people like Chapelle, or Elon Musk, or Rudy Giuliani, or Lara Logan, who at one point seemed to have normal-ish views of the world. Maybe they were skeptical about COVID lockdowns (Musk) or seemed too deferential to the military…

so typical to gatekeep once you’ve walked through the door; suddenly transitioning is a problem to Dave only now that he identifies as a rich white man.

I feel like if I did that I’d be contributing to cruelty to animals.

So this is probably a slightly odd, niche response but I have followed Cummings for a good chunk of his career largely because I really enjoyed the cartoon Bonkers but disliked the voice of Lucky Piquel. And I started noticing that voice fucking EVERYWHERE in the cartoons I watched. Generally minor characters but he…

Finally, I can realise my dreams of a Tigger/Lady Chatterley crossover porno.