The fact that she was able to keep a straight face having to endure those attempts at British accents around her shows just what a professional she is.
Her monologue was the only funny thing that whole episode.

The nakedly classist disdain for anyone who didn’t go to school with Colin Jost was especially blatant last night. That last sketch wasn’t just unfunny it was hateful.
Frankly the only actual jokes are the cast’s continued Dick van Dyke-level attempts at British accents. 

Good lord, this is one of those things that really brings out Americans’ deep seated love for rules and class-divides, isn’t it? Just looking at how many people feel a need to defend the meaningless distinction between the sky-peepee holes.
First time I flew to the US I sat near the front of the cabin and used the…

You should probably drink more water.

Poor Chait, in Joe Biden he’s got everything he wants; a candidate happy to piss on the left, if only his brain and body weren’t dissolving in front of our eyes.

No please, tell me how that still means that the UK wants to be more like the United States when the last time they actually had a choice in leadership Theresa May managed to barely hang on to power after losing her majority in parliament. 

He wasn’t elected, thanks for playing though.

Because Americans respect authority too much. You also have too many guns for most of your politicians to walk around in public like that.
Deep down you want to treat your authority figures like authority figures, while in Europe we generally perceive people in politics as no better than the rest of us.

Because Americans respect authority too much. You also have too many guns for most of your politicians to walk around in public like that.
Deep down you want to treat your authority figures like authority figures, while in Europe we generally perceive people in politics as no better than the rest of us.

The reason things like meatless mondays, and paper straws resonate, is I suspect that they’re a placebo for dealing with the problem that still allow us to participate in the system we know is destroying the ecosystem. The guilt we feel deepdown over consenting every day to all the ways we’re harming the planet and…

Marling and Batmanglij are rich kids with empathy. She interned at Goldman Sachs before deciding to go into a creative direction, together they spent a few months as freegan dumpster divers, to inform the writing of one of their movies. That standpoint informs all their creative ventures, they’re curious about…

I mean, without a certain amount of privilege you’re not going to take a chance on a fringe candidate who promises whatever.
So it makes sense that Biden has broad support. The question is how deep it will go.
A shaky performance in South Carolina could knock it all down for him.

When? Not while Joe is in office desperately trying to be pals with Mitch McConnell. Then after one term of doddering Joe, we’ll get Tom Cotton to usher in the end of days.

You mean the base of African American women who all support Joe Biden? The people who in New York overwhelmingly voted for Cuomo over Nixon?

Maybe if burning peat becomes a thing again. You’re not going to be growing things up in the Yukon anytime soon.

Seeing how scientists have just discovered that a bunch of icecaps are melting a 100 times faster than they estimated, it’s definitely going to get worse.

It takes decades for soil to develop, that combined with the different daylight hours are going to keep most of Canada of becoming the continent’s bread basket once the midwest becomes a dustbowl.

Oh, absolutely. B5's universe was worked out far more than Star Trek’s,
and its politics are more relevant than most of DS9 ever was (the Bell riots two-parter being an exception).
Babylon 5 sometimes suffered from its low budget, but on the other hand it also forced them to be more creative. I also think that without…

I love DS9, and it’s a much better made show than B5. But it’s also a lot less strange than B5, Star Trek in the nineties was a bit more of a generic, corporate production. Babylon 5 was like a homemade amateur circus compared to Deep Space 9, but you have to admire its ambition, and its weirdness.

Babylon 5 is probably the most interesting scifi-show of the nineties, reacting to Star Trek, anticipating future trends in tv, and being so obviously a compromise between unbridled ambition and very low budget. The mistake is to presume its qualities are all down to JMS, a mistake JMS encouraged.
Most of his career…