Great point. Wolf is definitely on the rise, and may be the one most likely to eventually surpass Mulaney.

Yes, those people are frightening; and there are far too many of them. But a comic who elects to play to that crowd will not be a mainstream success.

No joke, I assure you. I loved the movie, as well as the book it is based on. The Mortdecai movie did a great job of preserving the music of the prose of Kyril Bonfiglioli,who is is nearly as funny as P.G. Wodehouse. And Depp’s interpretation of the title character was simply scrumptious.

I wouldn’t like to decide which one is funnier between Aziz Ansari and John Mulaney; but if I were forced to, I’d give the slight edge to Mulaney on account of his skill as a racconteur. Their energies and their rhythms are so different. I think they’re both great.

In fact we are living through a golden age of stand-up, comparable to the mid-1970s, when George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Robert Klein, and David Brenner were all in their prime, and when Steve Martin became a superstar.

People aren’t going to forget Louis’s cruel mockery of the victims of school shootings, to say nothing of his sub-Dice-Clay-level racist material (“Asian men have no dicks”).

You have compared Mulaney to one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time.

At this moment, with Aziz’s career still hobbled by the accusations against him, Mulaney is well above him.

Immediately after the revelation of Louis CK’s terrible behaviour, I probably would have agreed with such a prediction. Of course, at that time I was assuming that Louis was wise enough to keep a low profile for a couple of years, and then re-emerge a repentant figure. If he had taken that path, he likely would…

Ellen DeGeneres is in a different category. She is one of television’s biggest stars, and is no doubt more famous than Mulaney. 

Mulaney’s ill-fated sitcom (which was, in my opinion, very good) came before he was so well-known. One cannot really assert that that “flop” hurt him, because his profile has skyrocketed since the show’s cancellation.

Right. Mulaney is no longer a niche phenomenon; he is a fully mainstream hit.

With the demise of Louis CK (well, he’s not actually dead; he has just entered a kind of living death), John Mulaney has emerged as America’s top comedian.

It makes no difference when Seinfeld went off the air; it is a permanent part of our shared culture. If an announcer made a reference to a Shakespeare play, surely no one would complain that that announcer was mentioning “some guy who died 400 years ago”.

Johnny Depp is a national treasure, and is the best American actor of the last half-century.

I discovered the amazingly melodic music of the fantastic band Bang Camaro on account of Rock Band. And the weird thing is that I don’t even play that game — or any game. A friend heard the band and predicted (correctly) that I would love it.

No, not “good fans”. Idiots. Your team lost a good player? Here’s the remedy: sign a different good player.

Ah.  Well, then, carry on!

Kelly showed great strength by demanding to go on the shuttle mission with Gordon. Also, let us recall that Kelly once wondered whether Ed could handle sending her on a mission that was so dangerous that she probably wouldn’t return. We found out here that he can.

And now that Kelly has survived, this is one less…

Except that it means that both Yaphet and Ty are both small and gross.