Good crowd work is the best. I've seen a few examples of a comic making really pointed and original jokes of of crowd reactions, working in callbacks, being ruthless without really damaging their 'victims'. When it's good, it's great. You really can see the mind of an expert joke-writer at work. But that's few and far…

I get what you're saying. But I also get where she's coming from because it seems women are held to a higher standard in all creative fields.
Then again, I guess Shlesingers comments are more of an example of that than a criticism.

So… can you do just ONE joke? Just to prove you're funny?

I love great standup. But I hate anything that's less than great. Even if I recognize it's just slightly less than great, I still hate it. Even if it's a comedian I've loved in other stuff.
That, and the fact that even a great bit of standup is funny only once or twice, so even the greatest have to keep churning out…

Well, why not give it a go? What's the worst that could happen?

The flan was a lie.

Maybe you don't even HAVE to know where it ends, but you have to know what things are when you show them. You say the Cylons have a plan? Work out what that plan is. You show a smoke monster? Have some idea what it is. You can change it if you need to and can do it without breaking too much of what you already…

Damn, Carnivale's cancellation still hurts a bit.

Well, Heroes started insulting it's viewers pretty soon. Was it in the second half of the first season? Or the first half of the second? Anyway, soon enough that we were warned early. Not like Lost or BSG where we got years of seemingly well build mythology that in the end deflated with a loud hiss.

You also have to be cool with either getting to your end quicker when you learn you get fewer episodes than you hoped, leave stuff unfinished when you don't find that out in time or finish stuff and start a new story when you get a lot more episodes. All of these can of course go horribly wrong. Turns out, script…

And How I met your mother is a perfect example that you also need to be able to abandon that plan when it no longer works. At least, that's what I've learned from the comments on the recent article about HIMYM's ending.

You know it's a ruse when they choose to lose a moose with a useless noose.

HOW DID THEY GET THAT PHOTO OF MY PARENTS!!??
That was a private moment.

If I find Comedy Bang Bang almost unlistenably unfunny, is there still a chance I would like this? I've listened to three episodes, including a best-of and concluded it's definitely not for me. But this sounds pretty great.

I've signed for someone to stand in an election that I had no intention of voting for. Just because I thought he had a unique standpoint that deserved to be heard, even though I didn't agree with it. And of course because I wanted him to stop pestering me about it.

Wait, wasn't the fact that The Mother was dead known from the very start? I thought that was the premise of the whole show. Guy tells children the romantic story of their mother after her death. Was that just an assumption by me, that happened to be true?

I don't have statistics to back this up, but I would guess that climbing trees causes more serious injuries than playing with knives. Didn't we all have pocket knives as kids? Starting with Swiss army knives and later those cool folding knives that lock when extended? And didn't we all have one or two friends with…

Well, the Dutch institution for safety regulations, just started a campaign to encourage parents to let their kids play with knifes and climb trees and shit. And they are saying sorry for the past couple of decades where stuff like that was more and more discouraged. The reasoning being that the benefits of kids that…

Hell, I'm far from an alarmist or a prepper, but if I HAD a bombshelter, I would keep the motherfucker up and running, just in case, you know WWIII does start somewhere in my lifetime.

And you're alive to tell the tale! So who's the square now?