Armando Ianucci said in an interview (I *think* it was one with Mark Kermode) that, though they went with all the actors using their normal accents to prevent it sounding hammy, it was also a way of highlighting how the USSR was made up of so many different nationalities, backgrounds and ethnic groups.

Damn, this episode had more celebrity cameos in it than Stormy’s had in her.

You also get to see what Gloria Stuart was like, 65 years before Titanic.

The Death of Stalin finally, surprisingly came to my suburban multiplex. I enjoyed it immensely. It took a few minutes for the lack of Russian accents to not seem weird (just because it’s convention, not because Russian characters speaking English in a Russian accent is actually any less weird), but it was clearly the…

I don’t know what happened, but I definitely approve of Jack White with a sense of humor. I remember he was on the Colbert Report for a few episodes in a row back when that show was running and he seemed like he wasn’t having a good time at all with the comedy bits. Still gave some great musical performances though.

Someone should tell Simien that that’s, uh, not really what “triggered” means. I don’t think white folks get PTSD symptoms when they hear the phrase “dear white people”.

IT FEELS GOOD!

[Band puts instruments down, leaves stage]

So is the Internet’s next mission to identify the 4 and half year old girl that was in A Christmas Carol with Scott Aukerman in 1992?

The problem with the “Kanye’s just pretending” theory is that, as Vonnegut wrote and Kaufman himself learned, we are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

There were a few overturned stools under the nooses which would seem to indicate they were used.

As multiple people in various places have pointed out, what makes this shitty show the perfect Trump-voter show is that it’s about a financially comfortable white-collar worker with a giant house who believes he’s a blue-collar working class guy who’s having a hard time.

I thought the Oleg/Tatiana interaction mirrored the Oleg/Stan one pretty well, with Oleg being in the Tatiana role when he talked to Stan.

Erik, that should be “You can take your *Forum* bullshit and shove it up your ass.” EST became The Forum (and later The Landmark Forum) after Werner Erhard sold the company to his trainers/coaches. Philip has been attending The Forum over the years. Not EST.

“Elizabeth spits back at him ‘You can take your foreign bullshit and shove it up your ass.’”

Haha! “Oh my god, characters haven’t been fully developed and fleshed out after only six episodes!” Give it time. Jeez. And you completely missed the point of the Dan/Mark storyline. Dan wasn’t trying to stifle Mark’s creativity. He flat out said the bird house WAS creative. But he was making a (great) point that when…

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Alan, cumming on the Good Wife.

I’m glad I was right about him being in that episode. The room I was watching wasn’t dark enough to be able to make out much, so I was like, 80% sure it was him.

Isn’t this a lot like the Onion video from a year or so ago where they dubbed bizarre sound effects over all of Bill’s dialog?

Okay, so they don’t watch the show.