It being Doug Stanhope I think was in reference to a story from 2012. If it was Doug Stanhope, then Jen Kirkman's comments ("He is probably at Cosby-level at this point. He is lauded as a genius. He is basically a French filmmaker at this point") wouldn't make sense. I got the feeling that it actually was Louis, but…

To quote Isaac Jaffe of Sports Night: It took two people to write that song?

Would an episode of COPS count?

*tumbleweed drifts by like so many readers, indifferent and in a hurry to leave*

I totally forgot that this got non-canceled and for a second thought Newswire accidentally posted something from 2013-4.

Despite being lukewarm on the book, I thought it lent itself well to a movie adaptation. Ridley Scott hasn't made anything I've been interested in in quite some time, but I think he fits well. The parts of the book I didn't like (the one-dimensionality of the characters, especially the ancillary ones; the dialogue;…

If you need that done for you, then you aren't watching the show. Seriously. We know zero about the DA's sex life. Ani and her sister (funny that you seem to only focus on her sexual side, they've talked plenty about her aspirations; I mean, I know that she's an artist even though she's a totally ancillary character)…

I haven't listened to tons of CBB, but Todd (or maybe just Lauren Lapkus in general) seems to elicit more laughter from Scott than most other characters.

ha, if you're going to reduce all of the women on the show a select few cherry-picked aspects, then you could easily do the same for the men. Here:

Not for nothing, but Frank's wife was in this episode as well and is not a prostitute. Also, the chaperone, who was brief but strong-willed and took zero of Ray's bullshit. Plus Stan's wife or whoever that was. Plus also Ray's ex-wife, who also took zero of Ray's bullshit.

This made me actually lol alone in my office.

Amen. Zizek also, and seems to be the worst offender nowadays. His concepts aren't super difficult to grasp but he completely overloads them with nonsense.

Yep. I mean, I'm sure we were all guilty of using unnecessarily big words and fluffed up writing when we were like in 7th-12th grade. It's almost impossible to not do when you're just starting out because all the things you've read are above your abilities and have influenced your writing. Then you grow up and get…

I've read so much of it, and the frustrating part (or, one of them) is how bad these people are at writing. 'Obfuscation' is for some reason seen as some badge of intelligence or something, like a purposeful barrier between intellectuals and non-. It's so pervasive and reads to me like high school-caliber writing but…

I don't disagree. But if anyone in the comedy community has 'earned' the right to (which I don't think anyone has, btw), it's Seinfeld.

Seinfeld's show was so popular that he's a pretty much a billionaire. If anyone has 'earned' the right to be an asshole, it's him, especially when you consider that being sort of an asshole is why he was so popular in the first place, no?

If they're under 55 tweets, they're not worth my time.

Hopefully it goes smoother than Patton Oswalt’s Epix special late last year, which prompted an angry Twitter rant from the comedian when it didn’t hit the website on time.

Ha, that was in the Pixels review as well? I'm sure I've seen it dozens of times here.

The difference being that Freak & Geeks had an amazing cast and was good while The Comedians had Billy Crystal and was utter dogshit.