It depends who you're reading. Often on this site, reading the review after you've seen the show adds nothing to the experience. Not trying to knock a lot of the writers here, but, well, I am. For shows I like, particularly comedies, I skip straight to the 'Stray Observations' and the comments sections, because (given…

His album, 'Wrong Way Up' with John Cale is pretty good as are his collaborations with Byrne (not yet mentioned is 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts', which I love but is definitely not for everyone). It's been mentioned already but I'll second 'Another Day on Earth', though the non-vocal pieces tend to be pretty…

The Curse of PDN strikes again!

I love Jimmy, too, but he is a terrible actor. He was also atrocious on Lucky Louie. What's good about him, though, is that he often manages to be funny even while acting very poorly.

Thank you for this! I was just about to complain about the reviewer's comment about Norton. Norton is very often that vulnerable and wounded. His self-loathing and vulnerability is a huge part of his act, for God's sake.

Yeah, I don't understand why AV Club does this, either. They did it with the new season of Louie a few days ago, too. Almost no one is going to read the article if they're really serious about the show. Maybe someone who is on the fence about a show might read a little of it, but I'd assume they'd just look at the…

That's what would make it compelling. Because Norm would never do that. Watch his video podcast thing on youtube. The guy couldn't even sell the ManGrate and they left as a sponsor.

Personality? Humor? Nuance? Joke-telling ability? Flair? Charisma? I'd take any of those.

Yep, there's no personality or nuance needed when reading jokes into a camera. That's why all those awards shows are laugh riots.

One could make the argument that Norm did not act like he was 'seriously doing the news'. I feel like that oversimplifies things; after all, he'd start each segment with 'and now, the fake news', and he'd definitely laugh to himself or weirdly look off-stage if a joke bombed. Norm just told jokes about current events.…

Which is why it is disappointing that he is so bad at it.

In my first post in this thread, I think I mentioned that I only read the title of article. Not sure why I decided to then google the guy, so good point.

'Why do you hate the guy for directing the One Direction movie?'

I imagine some old TV president sitting in his dark mansion up on a hill, tenting his hands while watching CNN 16 hours a day, and when he finally sees a tragedy, picking up a red landline phone and, without dialing, coolly saying, 'get me Mark Wahlberg' and then hanging up and swilling a scotch.

I just looked him up, and his name is Rance Howard, Ron and Clint's father. He was also recently in Nebraska, and he was good in that, too. His IMDB is huge, like 250+ credits as an actor.

Shout-out to the casting department on this show for getting Always Sunny's Uncle Jack and that 'What's that about lady's frames?' blind Health Club guy from Seinfeld to be in this episode. The way the latter guy acted (especially when Forrest was quitting and he had to pick up the pastries at the end) during the…

Comedy Central has it up on their website.

Ooooh, that would be a great idea.

'But we opted against reviewing it.'

I am of the belief that Comedy Central has the absolute worst promos. Just recently, they've ruined a bunch of killer punchlines in Broad City and reduced Inside Amy Schumer to some LCD show.