"It'd be like if Seth Rogen was cast as a meathead jock and nailed it."

Wow, I'd say that's less "batshit-crazy" and more "100% spot on."

Yep. The Intercept, co-founded by Glenn Greenwald, strongly sided with the state prosecutor and basically said the journalists behind Serial were irresponsible and not very good at their jobs. And Glenn Beck's The Blaze interviewed a woman who essentially says the state prosecutor is a liar, and who is helping a…

Yes, and then I got yelled at.

A walking clock?

Dawes, ground zero:

I don't know how many shows you've watched on Fox, but they're not exactly prudes. And according to John Mulaney himself, they pretty much gave him free reign for his show, so I don't know how much you can blame the network for how it all turned out.

If they aired musicals currently being performed on Broadway on network television, they'd probably have trouble charging tourists $200-500 for live performances.

Improv Unit or Ska Band?

You can shut up.

Cough syrup

Yes, it's a weird choice and on the flipside, I thought Birdman was a shoe-in to win editing, but it's not even nominated.

In pog form?

I'm down. Hitchcock's version is of course a masterpiece and Affleck I could take or leave, but David Fincher + Patricia Highsmith seems like a winning combination.

"What you’ll actually see on CNN in your final moments is probably
Don Lemon, wondering aloud whether the world is being swallowed by a
black hole while noting the smell of marijuana."

For me:

I see OP's point- the Nuge is an American citizen (right?). If someone in Iran made a comedy about assassinating the president, shit might hit the fan.

Everything about this seems like the slowly revealed backstory from an amazing post-apocalyptic novel.

I think one could (I'm sure someone has) write a whole book on protagonists throughout all fiction with a living father and absent (for one reason or another) mother. Like @persia2:disqus says, a lot of this is drawn from old folk tales, but it's still very much common today. It almost seems like single fathers are…

What you heard was essentially a "backdoor pilot" where an episode of This American Life was just the 1st episode of Serial (Serial itself is a podcast only, and as such, hasn't aired on the radio).