I just think back to the story of Michael O’Donoghue coming back and saying the show was missing danger. Right now there’s nothing dangerous or biting about this show. I still watch it every week. I think it has had some success recently. But for Christ’s sake we are living in a waking nightmare and their jokes and…

I also haven’t found Kenan’s role to be relevant or funny on the show in what...a decade? He’s simply not funny.

She’s British, so presumably “no one had a good time” is her dryly understated way of insinuating that the director was beating the crew with lead pipes and using electric cattle prods on the actors.

It also says not to exceed half a skulls in an 8 hour period, so, if taken over time, it would dilute the high as well.

Poor people got shitty doctors back then and now. My sister has depression and had a doctor that could barely speak English that told her she had depression because she was fat. And after the lying jealous abusive teachers at community college getting her kicked out of a class and screwing up her education and planned…

Anyone that understands jokes, set ups and punchlines and can deliver it well. Not a weak, overly leaning political routine with a horrible shrill voice and unfunny jokes. I like my comedians with the minimal amount of cringe, and to actually be, ya’know, funny.

It’s weird, but I think the public has this capacity to almost separate a murderer, even one whose crime was as brutal and misogynist as OJ’s, from his work in a way in don’t think they can for a rapist, possibly because, unlike rape, murder can be contextualised (murder is a crime with various defences, whereas rape…

I tried that, but the military band couldn’t keep up. The tuba guy almost died.

....so I guess I’m the only person who didn’t really like this episode

I’m so happy they aired this without commercial breaks. I didn’t even realize that was the case until after the episode was over and I started googling it. I don’t think I took my eyes off the screen for 41 straight minutes.

There’s always some asshole to laugh at a guy for failing a rigged game. You agree that it’s unusually harsh and he doesn’t need to be in prison but you’re still cool with it because it helps you feel superior?

Hopefully this isn’t a spoiler, given that Franklin is dead in the show, but the book started out further ahead in the story timeline so the show is being structured in basically a linear chronological way. If I recall, the book started out midway through their predicament, and then had chapters dedicated to how they…

I think it’s good for him to talk about his troubles, but his “my pain is better than your pain” is really not helpful for other people with mental illness.

Bennett’s line delivery and nervous looks to the camera for solidarity were fucking perfect here. The singled out, “They smell like normal lamps to me!” was great, but his constant, strained, “Nooo, I go to the bathroom down the hallllll!” got me every time.

Personally, I would have liked another Daniel Plainview milkshake sketch.

The confusion with robbin season is that white people call robbin season “bitch on NextDoor about someone stealing my christmas presents from my unlocked car on a public street” season.
Also, I have lived a blackness experience like Earn almost exactly. Being super smart put me in an all white world young. Im…

It was definitely a swipe at Chance and his Kit Kat coonin.

An ad for Yoohoo as a necessary consolation for success and selling out to get white money reminds me a little of the Common-selling-Microsoft schtick. The Yoohoo ad still sounded pretty good! Just like Common’s voice makes me want to buy whatever he’s selling.

Barkley doing better than Alec Baldwin is not a very high bar.

Thankyou, IV. This is the kind of critical analysis you just don’t get at the New Yorker.