For UK journalism I think this may be the current high bar for persistance:

Yeah, makes sense it'd be something like that. However much it may deserve to, ordinarily I don't see it beating "The Big Bang Theory" in a popular vote (let alone winning as a show in a couple of categories and its leads winning in theirs too).

Super-strength was the intent but in Daisy's Dad's case it ended up causing a more Hyde like personality change as well as physical deformity to go along with his strength (Hyde is a reference to Jekyll and Hyde BTW, Daisy's dad is called Cal Zabo, a Marvel character).

You know comedy, no doubt (coincidentally, my favourite comedy band).

Wow, the American public _really_ likes 'Outlander' huh ?

Perceptions vary of course. As an example though, I remember Natalie Dormer's first time on there where she started playing the [chat show] game rather than just talking to him like a human and you could see his attitude change pretty much straight away, it's almost like he basically wrote the interview off as a bust.…

Yeah I rememeber watching at the time and that seemed really harsh. Have you seen the Big Red Chair special that aired in the week after New Year though ? They interviewed the guy on there and it was actually slightly more setup than it seemed - he apparently tweeted some jokey comment a couple of days beforehand to…

Ferguson was more "schticky" than Norton is (deconstructing schtick is still a schtick) but they both have a genuineness and ease with the guests that most other chat show hosts don't. Particularly in his later "Zero Fucks Given" years Ferguson would go off on tangents and if he had a guest that could keep up it could…

For whom, ironically, dental problems are immaterial !

Also, a few times Graham's made a comment that's a bit over the line and it'll be the celebrities or the audience that signal that. In other words pretty much everyone involved wants the person in the chair to do well.

Yeah, that's a bit odd then. Although I guess you could see why, if he's got a weird tick, a professional comedian might exaggerate it for effect, particularly when his set is often very close to the bone and his weird laugh could act to humanise him for the audience.

Yeah, the differences between American guests' first time and subsequent appearances on the show are usually really obvious, they're much more at ease second time around knowing they can be looser with their language and that it's not just about going through the rote steps of promoting a film.

Yeah, that's one of mine too. It highlights one of TGNS's strengths in that, whether it's just the booze or a combination of that and Norton himself, guests often come across as very at ease and natural on the show. Damon said of that episode that it was the most fun he'd ever had on a talk-show and you could well…

Everybody knows what they're doing in the Big Red Chair segment, it's not really about being cruel to the general public but actually more about celebrating them/us. Bear in mind the UK penchant for taking the piss, out of both ourselves and others - despite how it may sometimes appear it's actually about inclusion,…

If you watch his stand-up he'll usually spend a few comments lampshading his own laugh. It's very odd but he knows it.

In fairness, that's partly because he's not _the_ Doctor (_not_ the definite article. As it were).

I think your experience in this regard may be atypical.

"Brick" isn't a parody at all, that's why it works in my view (at most it's a pastiche but in fact i'd just say it's a neo-noir film set in a high school and leave it at that).

Aha, that makes way more sense, thanks !

I feel like i'm missing a joke here or something ? Because it's not crazy on its face anyway is it ? I mean we say the Mariana Trench is 7 miles deep even though miles are a unit of distance too - the seabed there is (about) 2.3 Leagues Under the Sea. Depth is just a distance downwards.