It’s sort of weird that the AV Club didn’t put out a Dennis Hof obit. I’d imagine there’s some overlap among the commenters here and fans of Cathouse. 

Why is Norm’s show “probably doomed?”

It’s a few weeks old now, but Bruce Vilanch on GIlbert Gottfried’s podcast is an absolute delight, especially if you’re a fan of old variety shows.

Best episode I’ve seen in years. I love how the Maggie-Gregory murder-plot stuff was wrapped up in a single episode. The show is at its best when its pacing is quick. 

Every AV Club news article these days has the tone of a humorless person attempting sarcasm. 

I’ve started to think of New Adventures as maybe their best album, despite being sort of dismissive of it at the time of its release. I love their early stuff, of course, but some of the songs on New Adventures can almost bring me to tears. 

AV Club writers--and especially William Hughes--are masters of the malevolent paraphrase, in which the subject’s words are given the worst possible interpretation. 

That’s true.

Took your advice and got milked. Tell your mom she did an excellent job.

AV Club writers are obsessed with the concept of tone-deafness. If a celebrity says something that isn’t quite tone-deaf enough, the writer resorts to a fake paraphrase that is the worst possible interpretation of what the celebrity might have meant. 

You guys are really milking this shit, aren’t you?

There's a special joy I feel when AV Club commenters have to stop admiring a favorite performer because he says something that offends their exquisite sensibilities. 

Is “Finally” the most overused AV Club headline joke?

Adam grew up idolizing the band and then became famous enough to actually get to know them. I get why he’s reluctant to be critical about them. Auckerman comes across as not even a casual fan but, rather, someone who owns the early records out of sense of duty but mostly finds the band annoying. I feel like each of…

Does it seem that Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman are getting sick of each other? I know a lot of their REM podcast is tongue-in-cheek, but I just finished the Man on the Moon episode, and there seems to be a real tension there. 

This article and these comments are the absolute embodiment of what this website has become. 

At least Robin Williams beat him and not Greg Kinnear.

Damn. I just re-watched Boogie Nights for the first time since its release, and he’s fantastic in it, as he was in pretty much everything.

I had scholarly pretensions and chose it to fulfill my foreign language requirement. I switched to Spanish after one semester. 

I took Latin in college, but, in lieu of studying, I spent all my time in the library periodicals room, looking at back issues of the Village Voice.