Daley even included an origin for the scar on Solo's chin…

They sure don't deserve my affection or my money, either. (And the didn't get it after the first one.)

Not a hologram. Pepper's ghost

Like all of her stuff. Uncreative.

Did you see them when they were new?

SNL never had any real political edge - it's been a spot where smarmy self-congratulatory pseudo-hipster liberal-intellectuals did toothless shtick for an audience composed of the same.

Yep. I figure that the author was contracted to deliver at least 650 words, and realised that, after completing the perfect review, he still had 615 words to go…

Haven't seen "Real Steel" - won't. The original story and the Twilight Zone episode (Just "Steel", please) were great.

Perhaps you darjeeled incorrectly.

The mention of one person doing two different characters on one show reminds me.

Nope. I'm an Anglophile, though.

Laurel & Hardy. Marx Brothers. Lenny Bruce. Buster Keaton. Monty Python. The Goodies. Danny Kaye. Benny Hill (sometimes). Steve Allen. Tom Lehrer. Bill Cosby (the jokes are funny, no matter what he's done since). Peter Ustinov. Zero Mostel. John Alderton and Paulette Carroll. Peter Sellers (sometimes) …

Offhand, i can't really say - very few current "comedians" are really funny.

Nobody in TV that i can think of - well, Jon Stewart on the Daily Show was usually funny.

Nope. He's just not funny.

Oh, i get him. And what i get is despicable. Anyone who wants to enjoy his smarmy slime has my full permission.

If you mean Kaufman's shtick when you say "meta"

And you know nothing about it.

Jay Leno is just as bad, but in a different way.

Oh, yeah. It is, of course, a Western in space, but it's a lot more than that.