There’s one joke on this stand-up special when Tim is doing crowd work, and a woman says her name is “Cookie,” and in my head I was waiting for him to say, “Where’s milk?” And instead, he just says, “Cookie... cookie... cookie monster.” with no enthusiasm whatsoever, and the way he had to think that through to come up…

The Titanic song he did in the style of Bob Dylan was amazing 

And Jon Daly. And then they would all get in increasingly loud and intense arguments after hurling very personal insults at each other before eventually revealing THAT WAS A BIT. And then doing the same cycle 2 or 3 times and that was the whole episode. I fucking love that episode and most CBB fans hated it. 

I really, really enjoyed this. He would bring up a topic or a premise and then find seemingly the least-funny approach possible to make it a joke, and the effort required to still be so clever and dedicated to NOT making an obvious or funny punchline is honestly beyond admirable. I can’t wait to watch it again. 

I think Fuller ended Hannibal pretty definitively once he knew they weren’t coming back, and that ending, given those circumstances, was appropriately romantic and ridiculous and absurd. Recapturing that magic again would seem impossible. 

If you go by the cannon that anything he posts to YouTube is the same guy/character, then I’d say this is On Cinema Tim. It’s under his same youtube account that he posts the On Cinema episodes and comments on

Have you ever watched On Cinema? That series is when I finally started to “Get” Tim. And his appearances on Comedy Bang Bang podcast really won me over. 

The thing that I don’t get is that they would have to keep Rader on the backburner for at least another two seasons. The last season left off on a time in Rader’s life when he was about to take a 10-15 year break from killing. The show would have to jump ahead in time in a major way to get to Rader killing more and…

He was just SO good, though. Like you watch game film of him now and every other player on the field looks like they’re in slow motion except for O.J. This was also back when TV had 4 channels and football took up a lot of time on a weekly basis. So by the time he retired and started doing TV spots and became more…

I think both Seasons 2 and 3 had episodes somewhat dedicated to Welfare Queen’s character, but even so, she was given maybe a 25 minute spotlight out of a 300 minute season (more or less).

Also, the show was based on the actual GLOW wrestling TV show from the 1980s, which contained VERY problematic racial stereotypes, and that’s been a big throughline in the history of pro wrestling in general. I think those are two big reasons why those types of characters were included in the Netflix series. 

His character was great though and was pretty key in the story they were telling about Bash all season. 

She was amazing on Mr. Robot, too. What happened to her character still haunts me.

And Masters of the Universe!

I liked him a lot in The Big Short. Strong’s character in The Big Short is who Kendall Roy thinks he is in his mind. He acts very much like that character in the first 20 minutes of the pilot before he ends up having to call Dad for help, and then that false bravado crumbles away. 

Counterpoint, Dan Klein’s amazing stand-up special

My thoughts exactly. I was hoping they could somehow bring Deb and Doakes back from the dead to make the show great again. 

I saw A Good Day To Die Hard in theaters on opening weekend (yes, I’m the one!) This was a much better viewing experience. 

I’m assuming it had something to do with Sears being such a family-friendly chain and Die Hard not being a family movie. Now that Die Hard is no-longer Sears-exclusive, they can go nuts with the branding. 

If they could just get super-ridiculous and make it supernatural and Dexter is haunted by the ghosts of his past - Ice Truck brother, Doakes, Jimmy Smits, Deb, Trinity - then it would be worth it. Other than that? Hard pass.