No, they really talked like that.

Yeah, I mean they invented a whole fake accent just for “proper” characters to use. In the early days of film, most actors were trained for the stage at a time when productions either had dodgy or nonexistent sound rigging, and you had to be discernible from the back row in the balcony. It shouldn’t be surprising that…

It’s hard to say, but we’ve seen plenty of grandstanding antics on the Hill, as relayed to us through the media. I constantly marvel at the high drama from these legislative divas.

Let’s not forget that there are paid trolls working to exploit culture war fractures to depress progressives and delight reactionaries. This isn’t conspiracy, weird and dumb as it sounds, it’s established fact.

I often wonder if people back then were really like that, or if we just think so because of all the media portrayals of olden times.

I don’t care about AVclub’s ranking

This really is, after all, the best takeaway.

“Lazy writers take pot”

Not really. And it’s fun to watch the sycophants crawl out of the woodwork to reflexively defend what is, basically, our health care disaster!

Welp, I guess this is another thing Idiocracy called, though it was Costco in the movie rather than Amazon.

You can’t be a news anchor and a storyteller, period.

which can mix up the McFlurry and will be cleaned after each use

I cannot believe that standup comedy is not a completely accurate retelling of actual events that occurred in real life! What is next, sitcoms not being true? Are they going to start making movies about things that didn’t happen??

“standup comedian embellishes details for sake of comedy.” News at 11.

Really sucks that he lost the Daily Show gig over this :/ I hadn’t read the original article so I didn’t really understand why everyone was so upset but it does sound like they went out of their way to make him sound more insincere and less trustworthy than he is. Leaving out all the additional context around…

Can the New Yorker investigate whether Steven Wright ever actually had a pony?

This is your 73rd best comment.

I’m looking forward to the day when everything on earth is ranked and in order, and we can finally rest.

Try running it under some hot water, then smacking it against a table.

I know these people are leagues beyond my understanding, that I myself have defended them for accounting for contingencies on top of contingencies so there clearly are many somethings I am unaware of in this situation...