The loss of home video/DVD sales and rentals is a big deal for the lower- or mid-budged rom coms and such like we saw in the late ‘90s. I remember Matt Damon talking about that on Hot Ones and I thought it was a really good point. If there’s no market to recoup the cost of the film, studios will focus even more on the…

Wow. I’m surprised, but I suppose not totally. It just kinda feels like the art is taking a loss, but maybe I’m overreacting.

Why not “Leaping Leaches?”

Cool!

So cool you got to see them in that iteration! Conan’s got big energy, so the band keeping the room alive and popping seems like a must-have.

I get the playlist for seating—that’s what they do at concerts before and between between acts. But it sucks that the band stops. Seems like it’d be harder to keep getting great musicians to sit in if you’re not letting them play through the breaks. Maybe you were there for a weird one or where they had to reset the…

I suspect they might have done that anyway, but it’s almost guaranteed now, isn’t it?

Sounds like a weird experience. Thanks for sharing that; I never would have guessed it!

Doesn’t the house band usually perform through the commercial breaks for the audience? I think that’s an underappreciated benefit they’re losing on top of everything else. Live music does something to the atmosphere of a place that recordings don’t - musicians interact with the sound of the room and the energy of the a…

I’d rather have AI be optional. I understand the whole “if you don’t like it, leave” thing, but I can still say it’d be nice.

I was a UFO kid in the ‘90s. Here’s one type of breakdown to expect if there’s any disclosure in breaking down the disclosure parameters as reported here:

5. We are them.

Eric Andre’s show goes hard. Knoxville goes hard. They go hard in different ways. I wouldn’t be surprised if CTE came up in Knoxville’s defense considering his incredible misread of the production culture.

Bobby in Dallas is a great setup. Bobby tells his dad he’s got tickets for a game so they can hang out, and Hank thinks “well maybe we did something right.” Bobby proceeds to take his dad to a BBQ place where his girlfriend works, and Hank learns he gets along well with her - better than Bobby, in fact - only to feel…

You’re totally right about choosing what to watch.

Man I just hope we don’t get so much Dune content that we’ve had enough of it before the next film. One series does not doe that by any stretch, but I don’t want to see this go the way of Star Wars and Marvel where there’s so much to watch that there’s not a lot left to the imagination (and too many opportunities to…

He’s mad about it because he loves comedy and he sees it as a hinderance to comedy. Maybe not his own comedy, but what others do.

That’s a great little manifesto of a letter.

I’m curious to see what better research bears out. 

Out of all of it listed above, his lateness is the thing that surprises me most. I don’t know how he and Kevin Hart would get along at all if that’s legitimate. Next most surprising would be the money thing just because it sounds like a bad business practice.