In terms of being a “tastemaker,” I think the worst burden of indie rock is that overall, it’s way overstayed its welcome (in terms of the proportion of album sales vs. press write-ups). The “grunge” revolution lasted only three years, whereas the “indie” genre (which is about as helpful and vague as “alternative”)…

Old man rant:

Yup, it fetishised everything from the fashion to the design styles of 1977-1983 and while it started off with looking back at bands like Television and early CBGBs punk acts it then quickly moved into post-punk and disco beats. It was a very,very retro-leaning era(and then everything from neo-psychedelia to Laurel…

Why don’t you WATCH an episode?

Much like David, he’s always been known in the comedy biz as “a comic’s comic”, and he’s got the reputation of being very supportive of up-and-coming talent. But he’s also lauded as being an early ‘alt-comic’ and boundary-breaker in television comedy writing ever since being a lead writer for ‘The Smothers Brothers’…

More Leon, more Funkhauser, more Susie, more Larry, and more Lewis. Thanks

Are you honestly going to sit there and tell me you didn’t laugh at his delivery of the “It tastes like I stuck a straw in a frog’s ass” line? I don’t believe you.

My review: remove every single scene with Finn and you’ve got an absolutely great 2h Star Wars movie.

This purge has been wonderful, but I do wish we were making more of a distinction between things that should get them thrown in prison and things that should get them thrown out of a bar. This pendulum will swing back as people start burning out on the subject, and if we’ve still got guys like Al Franken and Dustin…

He has a point. Harvey is a serial abuser. As far as we know right now (because 80 women haven’t come out against him), Hoffman was momentarily crude. What Hoffman did was wrong, but it doesn’t seem like it was behaviour he repeated throughout his career. There is a difference (a huge difference) between Harvey…

I said this about Chance the Rapper also: the host was delightful, but the show itself was just weak (comedy-wise).

That was mostly a waste of time. The Welcome To Hell song was good, and the Irish thing at the end made me laugh a lot, especially the part about the dog with the soul of Oscar Wilde. Also, I’m enjoying imagining what it was like when Saoirse Ronan taught everyone to sound Irish.

*Also, RIP Luke Null.

We watch the same episode? Most of these sketches fell flat, yo. Straight up.

On top of settling into the riffing, it also has some new-style gags that I really enjoyed. One of my favorite bizarre moments is in Avalanche when they’re flying around the theater to block the nudity. It takes advantage of the HD screen. I know there was a little bit of that in the old Joel days (ex, him leaning up…

The Hired! bit with the casual handkerchief on the head gave me some of my all time biggest laughs...

I’m pretty tired of reading complaints about Larry David’s jokes on gays, autists, or Hispanics. I, myself am a gay autistic Hispanic, and, I don’t give a shit (only one of those is actually true). Look, Larry tells a lot of politically incorrect jokes which are varying degrees of funny, and, I’d appreciate it if you…

Agreed. He was doing his best but outside Weekend Update the episode was one of the weakest this year.

It wasn’t that good. Chance was incredibly likable, but the material surrounding him was flat, overlong, and rarely very funny. The exceptions? The latter portion of the Feud sketch; the porn sketch; and Pete Davidson’s Update piece easily had the biggest laughs all night. And when a musical guest gets shown up by…

I... I don’t think that we were all watching the same episode.