Eh. While the outlandishness of the events described in a cursory summary of her history are what folks tend to latch on to, the most acclaimed comics she’s been in are actually well written and observed comedic character studies that don’t rely a lot on any sort of power irony, and a lot more on exploring…

I think they’re saying that this surge is the flu, not that COVID is fake in general.

The SNL broadcast mix team (and to a greater extent, the entire NBC live audio department outside of sports) has always been utter shit, and the best musical performances have always been pre-recorded, touched up in post, or, at best, handled by the musicians’ own tech teams.

Yeah, and it’s a combination of “because of the actions of everyone else around him” and “because of technicalities in the rules of magic that the world’s most eminent authority on staying alive through magical technicalities conveniently forgot”.

So, yeah, it’s definitely beyond his control. And sure, he understands,…

It’s just a slice of life look at the bizarrely and overly minute discussions that go into, not just fine dining, but all team-made artistic experiences. As a theatrical designer, I feel like I’ve had the EXACT discussion going on in that kitchen over audio mix levels, fake plant placement, whether the lighting needs…

A secondary market of folks who might only have $277 in discretionary spending? Sounds about right.

That’s the bigger deal. It’s almost not even about him any more, it’s about the fact that the Grammys voters defiantly declared that it sure as FUCK wasn’t gonna be about his victims.

And I know half of America’s response to stating it as such is “And?”. Which just takes us back to the “I don’t how to explain that you…

Terranigma has this feel I can only describe as “compassionately Lovecraftian”. That you are part of battles between cosmic forces barely at the edge of your understanding that only ever see you as a pawn, but it also centers your confusion and fear about the situation, as well as your care for the beings whose…

“Don’t listen to the A.V. people, right? [He pulls out a clarinet and plays “This Land Is Your Land.”]. Who isn’t patriotic these days?”
-The very best of the AV Club

Considering what the Fyre Festival actually ended up being, maybe not THAT much more, hehehe.

“Except that stockholders generally don’t care about HR policy. As long as you reach your projected results, they generally don’t give a shit about what you actually do to achieve those results.”

You keep reiterating the point and think you’re rebutting when you’re actually agreeing. Yes, I know the system explicitly d…

Gamestop doesn’t profit, but the stockholders do, making it the sole metric by which stockholders measure Gamestop’s CEO and board. You know, the ones who decide how to treat their employees?

If the only way a company head gets fired has less to do with how the business is run or how well they treat employees, and more…

One could easily argue that shows of lip-service solidarity that ultimately only serve to maintain a bad status quo are “anti-” enough. This is ultimately what is behind the idea, for example, that it isn’t enough to make a show of simply not being racist, but in the presence of racist institutions, one must actively…

It’s because O’Neal’s snark was florid hyperbole, not easy hypocrisy.

The fact that literally every job sector that isn’t “marketable actors” or “producers” has had its categories reduced and/or eliminated from either the broadcast or altogether. Let’s remember that Best Sound used to be Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing, for one.

I mean, the fact that the ceremony about recognizin…

Didn’t they air all of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie ahead of release as a tiny thumbnail over their entire regular broadcast one year?

It absolutely is debilitating in a general sense. You may not be losing your mind, but you are losing your ability to express it. Heck, for some folks, it means you can’t even read any more.

We of course don’t know the extent of his diagnosis, but but being unable to make semantic sense of the rest of humanity (and…

To be fair, Wanda Sykes was directly asked about it, and she only said that Chris Rock said that HE wished it could be about her.

No, but defending your stance by comparing yourself to an anthropomorphized ideal of an animal isn’t doing it any favors.

And to be clear, the argument is that it’s narcissism because you see her honor getting besmirched as YOUR honor being besmirched. That it’s less the impulse to stop someone from being hurt and more…

It is staggering the amount of times I’ve seen people go up to directors or actors or designers asking whether their choices were because of one of two compelling and complex artistic philosophies that they had in mind, and the artists politely avoiding answering “We were crunched for time, I pulled something out of…