Who says you should only watch films about characters you like. Also, I would definitely watch Tom Hanks play David Duke. That wouldn’t be boring, whatever else.

I used to always think that someone who was genuinely funny had to be smart. I think Tracy Morgan has disproved that.

If I have to choose, I vastly prefer that attitude to trying to get his work taken away from people who want to consume it.

From Variety:

Can’t believe he was in Rust too.

Alec Baldwin shot him.

I guess some pranks do have a downside.

Is that the mark of a good movie? Try to summarize Chinatown in 3 sentences.

Feel like the venn diagram between people who hated the movie and the ones who said that they “wasted 7 fuckin’ years” on the show after the last episode is just a circle. 

Fun fact: Hugo Blick used to be an actor. You might remember him.

It just seems incredibly telling that this kind of comedy never gets the “hacky” label. That seems to be reserved for jokes that don’t have the “right” politics behind them.

My point exactly. To the extent that these lists can be devalued, I feel like things like this devalue this one.

Except that Arrested Development hurt its ranking with actual new episodes. Louie was the same show.

Does this show make people laugh? Or is it more of a “I nodded in agreement at what he said so hard that my sides hurt” kind of thing?

Anti-semitism not being taken as seriously as other forms of bigotry, Volume 745

I guess I would hope that he would have more ambition than simply playing “the gay character” in every sketch, and I’m not saying he doesn’t. I just don’t think that we need to reduce every actor to their identity, which, in a larger sense, is why I don’t love this trend of insisting that characters only be played by…

Good for the new guy to get the showcase (while the other new guy has been a focal point of all three cold opens...I can’t remember when that’s ever been the case. Maybe Season 1.)

My only point was that it’s not a novel opinion, and it’s not brave. Whether you agree or not, I think it’s unquestionable that there’s a progressive narrative that gets trumpeted on these shows, often in nearly identical words. Again, even if you happen to agree, it makes for a lot of boring, unfunny television. I…

Appreciate that. My page of the script fell out. I will memorize and proceed.

I agree in the sense that, ultimately, I suppose it’s about what they do with the, as you said, “added dimension.” And it’s not as if it’s a negative in and of itself, obviously. It just feels like the result of a bunch of executives getting a room and deciding what a capital-p Progressive move, radical but not too…