Definitely. More people like Wolfgang just because it's the first time they heard them.

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SPOILERS: Not when Tywin is dead.

If by ham-fisted you mean ham-larious, and by 2nd Amendment you mean originalist vs. living constitution advocate, then you are still wrong. It wasn't subtext at all.

Pretty sure you mean SHINY SHINY…SHINY BOOTS OF LEATHER!

What is a serious subject being treated lightly? Ben isn't addicted to painkillers, he's on them because he has kidney stones. That's like saying funny season that involves alcohol is "treating a serious subject very lightly."

Crazy how bad every single one of these suggestions is. They're mostly just lists of funny people that the writers like. When that's not that the case, the picks are even worse—Jhian Ghomeshi is an uptight, self-regarding, humourless prick, and Ta-Nihisi Coates is a really smart guy and someone whose column I always…

If you have any interest in Lipsyte at all I highly recommend checking this out. I loved "Venus Drive," his first book of stories, because it was dark and funny and very well written, but it doesn't have the same heart or lyricism that "The Ask" does. In "The Fun Parts" he has totally mastered the craft of the short…

The people who say they can't relate to it are actually the ones who relate to it so well they're scared by what they see—people who feel like it's meant to represent them and don't like the representation. Those who don't feel addressed can just enjoy it for what it is.

I didn't really get him the first couple times he was on, but as time has gone by and I've come to understand his schtick I've come to really appreciate him. He's a zen master of deadpan anti-humor.

Flight of the Conchords did a WAY funnier version of the Nigerian email scam that turns out not to be a scam.

New Jersey.

Amazing he knew McSweeney's would one day be a thing when he published the first chapter in the Paris Review in 1996. That's foresight.