The exception that proves the rule. That one leaned fully into the absurdity (“I’ll put you in the corner with CNN!”) with an all-out performance by a gifted comedic actor. You think DeNiro’s going to deliver something like that?

You should submit these amazing satirical insights of SNL as sketches! Nails the topical humor they’re known for. I’ll add in my two-bit Dennis Miller impression to round out the packet.

I apologize for I should not have mocked the modern day Jonathan Swift, Colin Jost. As penance for my sins I will force myself to watch Kate McKinnon dressed as Hilary Clinton singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah on repeat until I find SNL funny again.

To me, the political sketches have been bad for a long time; at least 25 years, with a handful of exceptions. I do agree that some cast members can bring life to an impression in a way a cameo can’t, but I feel that even with the cast, most of the political impressions, again with a handful of exceptions, have not had…

I found Uncut Gems an interesting watch, but beyond the actual sound design and editing it was never really “tense” for me. There was nothing that made me care about Sandler’s character, and it was obvious from early on that he was just going to keep making bigger and crazier bets and deals until it caught up with…

I started watching Uncut Gems at home with my mom, using a friend’s screener DVD (the perks of being friends with an awards show voter). It was so singularly unpleasant that after 20 minutes we had to turn it off. I finished it later that night when my mom had gone to bed, but damn was every single minute of it…

Grave of the Fireflies

yerself is steam.

It’s almost...

Sat in church one day and the pastor spent the whole sermon basically explaining that “love thy neighbor” was not an invitation to hate everyone else. Or even that it meant your neighbor was just the people near you.

Damn heterosexuals, always shoving their sexuality down our throats. Gah!

“Poor fucking loser has to go out to the ocean to catch a fish because he’s too much of a stupid fucking loser to pay someone to do it for him and, get this, he catches the dumb fucking thing but then the Jew lawyers show up and take him for everything he’s worth which is just that stupid fucking fish! Hahahaha,…

Such a scenario would only have the potential to make things better if everyone cared. When you have an entire political party that only cares about staying in power, with supporters who only care about sticking it to people they hate, then nothing will get done no matter how bad the truth is.

I think that it is kind of interesting because unlike most of these books (which are spurned former officials looking for payback) Kushner said this to a journalist because he thought it would make people admire trump. And the madness of him thinking describing the president as a psycho cat with no goals or ability to…

in my opinion the prequels did a lot of interesting things really poorly and the sequels did a lot of boring, generic things really well. they’re both kind of equally bad for completely opposite reasons.

I’ve come to the conclusion that anytime now you see anything starting with Influencer, its going to be some stupid shit that irks tf out of you.

Oh, the plight of the pretty white woman. 

Yeah, I keep seeing some really bad takes on this. Americans have a tendency to want to take their own issues and view similar but crucially different political issues happening elsewhere in the world with the same lens, when that’s not possible. There are several important factors here people seem to be ignoring…

I’m pretty sure the Liu Yifei situation is a lot more nuanced than anyone wants to pretend. Yes, China fucking sucks. Yes, she shouldn’t have come out and said she’s in support of brutally cracking down on protesters who are so clearly in the right.

I’m still surly that John Krazinski sold his unoriginal concept filled with other people’s content for millions while CBS laid off a bunch of people. Large media companies are moving to the ‘keep wealth among the wealthy and shut out others’.