I enjoyed the review, but the opening premise of the review is pretty silly.

Rife did a really fantastic job with this interview. The questions are really intelligent and informed, and it's such a pleasure to see two people talking on a very niche subject to be speaking on the same cultural reference wavelength.

David Letterman was more loved by comedy snobs and Jay Leno always did better with the general population. Tig Notaro is both more popular and critically acclaimed.

This trailer is almost like a parody of Cameron Esposito's standup comedy.

She used to have a column on the AV Club about life more or less as a stand up comedian. She's also a Chicago Native soit would suggest the possibility she has some working relationship with someone who works at the AV Club.

I feel like this is really an article about why friendships of female characters are often more compelling than the romantic relationships of those same women.

Most female fans of Gilmore Girls that I' know love Jess, but as a guy, I've always thought Jess was a terrible character.

This is a pretty interesting article and IMO, miles better than the drek that usually gets posted under this feature header (the lowest of the lows was the time they featured the guy singing uptown funk in family guy impressions; I will never forgive you for that AV club), but it is still pretty hilariously jarring to…

I don't know where you got it from that I was ever referring to the people quoting lines that they like.

Uh, What?

That's actually a great point. While still a pretty rough and unfunny performance on Sellers' part, the movie is probably more self aware than my initial reply implied.

I don't think historical context is the problem with Murder by Death's Charlie Chan at all, honestly. Charlie Chan is a yellowface asian caricature in itself, but it is implausibly generous to call Sellers' character a parody of that.

I love murder mysteries and comedies and I watched Murder by Death for the first time a year ago and it felt incredibly dated.

As far as I am aware, there is no evidence to suggest that Dahl wrote the book to be a critique of feminism. It's just a popular interpretation of the book.

Yeah, Misfits actually developed a somewhat strong US following thanks to Hulu (it's still available on Hulu Plus). It was basically marketed as a Hulu original series, even though it's just imported from British television.

I love the Onion example, because I have probably made a million little slight adjustments of behavior (usually temporary) after seeing some unfavorable side of myself reflected in a clever onion article.