Benched was a great little comedy, but then they offed it after only one season.

I don't believe it, personally. He might not drink now, but he definitely used to. I think there's an appearance on the Tom Green Show where him and Tom do shots together.

Yes, you did! I'm assuming that you got the reissue since it came out in 2012, however, you can check over at discogs. Any version of it is easily over $125 these days. If yours is the blue reissue, it's roughly $250 now.

Same here. I've been following news of their second album for like 12 years. I remember getting excited in like 2006 because they said a new album was 'imminent'. Same in 2011.

Not only that, but their original LP had to be altered when it was reissued on vinyl a few years back. Which means if you want to own the original vinyl, you have to get an original pressing, which is like $200 these days. I'm a big record collector and this is one of my favorite albums ever, so it suuccckkks.

I think ObliqueStrategy (excellent username, btw) is referring to the pre-emptive suing that Thicke/Pharrell did. From wiki:

Because he's Chuck Klosterman and he fucking sucks.

Also, Bowie did a shit-ton of drugs, which undermines Gene's point.

I actually came here because I saw this news in my facebook mini-feed and thought, 'better head on over to the AVC to get my fix of Gene Simmons-bashing'. The self-hate is real, folks.

I really liked this when I saw it randomly on Netflix, but I have to ask this. He says What you don’t see is always scarier than what you do, but you see the villain/home invader in Hush almost immediately and he takes off his mask pretty early on and then he's there for most of the movie. I mean, I get his point that…

I WANT BILLY CRYSTAL ON CRAIG FERGUSON, APOLOGIZING!

That's definitely one of my favorite clips. Every time the announcer says 'helicopterridessss' and they lose it is gold. So many good moments.

haha, same here! Whether it's a band's show at the merch table or like comiccon or something, I still won't bother anyone for pictures/an autograph. Buy stuff, maybe say 'thank you' in a genuine way, then leave the person the hell alone; that's usually how I do it.

The gross one that I keep seeing is 'they signed up for this when they became a celebrity!'. It's like, right, they signed up for harassment and stalking when they arbitrarily (and subjectively) passed this nebulous threshold of becoming 'a celebrity'. Or, people could just not be assholes and just leave everyone…

he only did “what every other fan would have done

That, the 'terlets' thing, and the way he mocks Crystal's pronunciation of 'Lamarrrr Guidry' makes me laugh every time I listen to it.

Best Show fans! A request: do you have any favorite clips on youtube (or even old episodes on the wfmu archive)? I've been burning through some of my favorite old clips recently after getting back into the show. Some of them are little clips (can we post links here? let's find out), like this Gervais clip, some are…

Just listened to it this morning, there was a weird energy for sure with JLD, but I didn't think it was that bad. They only spent like 2 minutes even discussing Seinfeld (beyond her getting a few Chronicles scripts), which could be a plus or minus depending on how much you've heard her talk about Seinfeld. As a huge…

I don't actually watch this show, but there was the big controversy over the winter about her supposedly stealing jokes and I remember her saying something about taking a lie detector test on her show. Did that ever happen/is it still supposed to this season? Just curious as that sounded like a pretty dumb idea.

Look at his face. . .that kind of undercurrent of sadness.