Sticks & Stones was the last special.  It won three Emmys and a Grammy and was nominated for several more.

Getting kind of a “Fincher making Mank” vibe from it.

“In general, we’re both conditioned and naturally inclined to feel protective towards animals and kids; there’s kind of a feedback loop of “harming kids/animals is most unforgivable, and helping them is a true indicator of virtue”

It means don’t try to grow up too fast.  Things are fine in the rivers and the lakes you know and if you try to go off into uncharted waters you could fall off a waterfall.  The characters in the song “both teenagers” go running into crime and womanizing at a young age and hit pitfalls.

“For further insult, Ruffin brought up the still-sore fact that TLC lost the Grammy for Best Duo Or Group that year to Hootie And The Blowfish, for the decidedly not “Waterfalls,” “Let Her Cry.” “That group only had one song and that wasn’t it!,””

The problem is he doesn’t see this as pandering, he sees it as “bold truth telling.”

Late-period Lenny Bruce was kind of persecuted though... like, he was literally arrested for saying things on stage.

I played 1 through 4. The first one had you fighting on an island populated by literal monsters created by a mad scientist.  The third one had you fighting a bunch of generic drug cartel guys on a fictional island.  The fourth one is basically the third one but with elephants.  I think you’re essentially a werewolf in…

Where did people get this idea that these open world first person shooters were supposed to be trenchant political statements and why do they keep being disappointed when they aren’t?

The reason not to send a billion dollars for the Iron Dome is that Israel is a very rich country now and does not need U.S. foreign aid.  

Not good enough, he’s a Sephardic Jew, having him play an Ashkenazi Jew is racism.

Harvey Keitel is certainly guilty of Italianoface

Amy Sherman-Palladino is Jewish on her father’s side and does consider herself Jewish, matriarchy be damned.

You didn’t know someone with the last name “Ginsberg” was Jewish?

The Neil Diamond Jazz Singer actually also has blackface in it... just not as much.

“There’s a difference between the role Catholicism plays in the world and the role Jews and Judaism play. One is the richest most powerful church on earth and has been for centuries.”

Or they could, you know, just use phones.  Lots of people have them.

They should just take a new picture with a different baby (babies all kind of look the same anyway), and that should buy them thirty more years.

No, but I do think it’s ironically good.

I doubt a football stadium is ever a good venue for comedy, and a football stadium hyped up for “the biggest game of the year” in particular is not going to be having it.