I know December tends to be a slow news month, but c'mon.

“I hated them in my teen/college years, but I’ve realized that had more to do with the people who were constantly playing them than anything else.”

I was going to argue against this, but he did play Steve Jobs in a movie once, which is evidently enough, per his former co-star.

“A comedian who’s fame was catapulted on his good looks”

“act like he came out of nowhere on TikTok. He was a regular on MTV’s Wild n Out”

🎶R-E-S-T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G, it’s a restraining order against John Oates.🎶

“drowning every sentence in smug irony to the point where it’s impossible to tell what you’re actually trying to say about the subject”

No, more of a “my pop culture references are out of date and stale” thing. 

“Also, Nate did thank H.E.R. during the goodnights”

I agree, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is a criminally underappreciated song. I'd put at at #5, personally. 

“A few of these actors even appeared in the films of the other young maverick independent directors who burst onto the scene around the same time as Linklater, including Quentin Tarantino...”

That is 100% a response to Randy Quaid now being a batshit crazy QAnon moron. Fact is, over the years he was great in a lot of movies, some good, some not.

“ Grease 2 is a divisive movie that—more than any other sequel on this list—has its devoted fans that will blow up the comments section right after this article posts”

“Has ‘Free Bird’ ever got old?””

Sadly, Ken Norton made a great Ed Norton, but Jackie Gleason thought otherwise.

“I think you might have misunderstood that comment”

I would have added his role as Victor Tellegio in American Hustle to the list. It was an uncredited cameo, but his was my favorite performance in the movie. It was a gangster role he could have easily phoned in, but instead he brought some real weight to the part, and made most of the rest of the cast look like they…

“Che (Sara Ramirez) returns to standup”