That show must have been a real nail-biter to book for. You keep hearing about how unpredictable it is who will be a good guest on regular talk shows and game shows and things like that; some folks just click with the format, and you never can predict exactly who (e.g. Henny Youngman, of all people, was a complete dud…

The Turtle Club scene was also extremely degrading to bispecies Americans.

It's a bit from his routine where he tells the story. Probably too obscure, come to think of it. But it really is a pretty funny bit.

*Jay Mohrs

"China, I love China. I do a lot of business in China. But they are absolutely kicking our asses, believe me. We get all our Coke now, like 95, 100 percent of our Coke, from China. Some of my friends, very, very successful businessmen, have been telling me this. The Chinese, they send us the Coke over here, and you…

You always were good at weeding such people out.

It was a joint statement.

On the other hand, if you drink Miller Lite you are supporting Armageddon:

MORE HOPS! Ar ar ar!

Only Heinieken for me, thank you.

Let's hope Sandra Lee didn't decide to skim the comment section for ideas.

Don't they frisk you in nearly all dance clubs and concert venues? I don't know; I've only been to the shitty ones and outdoor festivals.

Yes, and as it so often is, the pretense falls apart at the lightest poke. Philly's was the most absurd; they tax diet soda but not grape juice, which has twice the sugar of regular soda. But at least they eventually abandoned the claim that it was anything but a cash grab. The poor would have just spent that money on…

In my case, yes. You servin'?

Those were exactly the brands I was talking about, actually. I suppose you might object to calling them "American-style lagers" since they actually learned from the Germans (who apparently did a better job teaching there than at Tsingtao). But I think they're in that broad style category, a substyle of German pale…

At best she could just be considered a fraud. For a person in the food industry, of all things, to be encouraging that behavior is just beneath contempt. (And she's a lifelong New Yorker, of all things; we have been a 25% city for decades.)

Yes. Democrats have turned toward this type of thing as we have moved away from any semblance of working-class politics and centered our party around wine-and-cheese types who would feel icky about being actual Republicans. Now we are dominated by folks (Schumer will be our new Senate leader!) who combine noblesse…

I didn't know that. That's horrifying! Wow, she does a $40 a day show that doesn't actually teach you how to eat for under $40, and a 30-minute show that doesn't actually teach you how to cook in under 30 minutes.

I was going to mention barbecue, too; it's a paradigmatic example, but I figured most people already knew about it. If I may engage in my own snobbery here, I figured fewer folks might know about it and I wanted to spread the Good News in case people were drinking sake with their sushi or some other such travesty.

He he :) He's not really "center-left"; maybe I chose my words poorly. I just meant he's a man of the left who believes in personal liberty. Probably best be described as a left-liberal, I'm guessing; it's how I describe myself.