Seeing this list, it only now occurs to me how many of HBOs best shows can be summed up with “The American Dream is broken.”

He actually invents things sometimes and puts them into his documentaries, which I think is not particularly cool

“I wouldn’t have become famous if I’d known there would be media scrutinizing my shitty behavior and questionable decisions!”

As a fan of Spalding Gray, I thought that one was so *dead on*. It was fantastic. The globe salesmen is definitely a favorite, but I was surprised the Spalding Gray one didn’t make the list. There really are least half of the episodes that nail it so well.

Foster Glocester

I can’t reconcile these images with the early days of seeing Alex Jones on cable access in Austin when he was only 23 or 24 and clearly did not have this kind of physique.
How old was he when he was in this kind of shape? And why did it evaporate so quickly?

I love John Cleese. I wish he’d shut his goddamn mouth so I can continue loving John Cleese.

They divert the funds allocated for Avatar 5 to boost the box office of Avatar 2, thus saving face and justifying Avatar’s 3 and 4.

I guess I need to give this show another chance. I liked the first season, but it quickly lost me when he was in Egypt trying to date his cousin in season 2. It made me cringe enough to turn off the show and forget to turn it back on.

Counterpoint: No, it really didn’t.

Plus, I hear it only got a 2 minute standing ovation. 

HEre’s to Bill Hader for...doing what he needed to do to keep himself safe...while taking a very calculated risk and putting himself in harm’s way...I guess.

Year of the Rabbit still had some weird-ass Berry-isms. So much show that he got some kind of weird “additional material by” credit, I think because he improvised so much, they had to address it in some way.

Don’t worry darling, I am not going to see this goddamn movie no matter how much you continue to shove it down our throats. 

Best detail is him glancing back at the script after a few takes.

This has nothing to do with What We Do In The Shadows. His entire career is an excuse to give the absolute strangest line readings. I’m so curious how or why he decides to deliberately fuck up phrases and words. It’s interesting that he doesn’t seem to do it at all with his music. So is he taking the piss? Just trying…

I liked it. But I guess I’m the only one who remembers that Leonard Cohen had died, like, 3 days before? I saw it as just as much a nod to him as the election. I think it’s good for a show that is weekly and can respond to current events to be sincere once in a while. It was a very dark time and I imagine they had to…

So you’re saying it’s (wait for it)...unusual?

I was convinced the first time I watched it that they would reveal that the coin he’d been flipping had the Queen’s head on it, and his southern accent had been an intentional affectation the entire time. 

The projects have already been canceled and their combined $350M budgets put down as a loss in the Warner Brothers Discovery books. Such a shame. We had all been so excited for 12 minutes.