It’s not even that I mind paying for something I don’t watch. There’s a ton of stuff on the streaming services that I’ll never watch. It’s just that I know that sports will eventually make up a really significant part of the cost of the service. A lot more than the few pennies of my fee that goes to pay for some…

I used to watch a lot of Hulu when it still had ads. I think I would never have upgraded if not for the fact that watching the same ad three or four times during a show, sometimes back to back, was making me crazy. 

One thing I hate is that so many of the streaming services are adding live sports to their offerings. Not that I particularly have anything against sports, but I almost never watch them, and I know that they’ve always been one of the major drivers in increasing the cost of cable. If amazon or Hulu is showing the nfl…

They also have the quiz program, where the most important thing is that you never mention The Event.

From what I know of Kanye, a thoughtful critique of Israeli policy in Gaza is not terribly likely any time soon. But if you want to hear some “We all know who’s really pulling the strings” type stuff, he’s got you. 

Most of those were south of here. Bakersfield area and whatnot. The number of people who live in the far northern part of the state is pretty small. Places like Del Norte County went solidly red, but only contributed like 6000 votes to Trump’s total. In Shasta County, he won 60% of the vote, which translated to 60,000…

And that’s why a modern civil war wouldn’t split along clean regional lines like the last one mostly did. It would primarily be urban vs rural, with a handful of exceptions. I have no idea what the exact premise of this movie is, but if there are discrete swathes of the country fighting against each other, it’s not…

https://www.theonion.com/christ-article-a-video-1819595653

Oops. I guess wherever I thought I read that they never had him back actually said that Michaels never had him back. 

It would be completely unmemorable if Bergen hadn’t lost it. But the combination of her inability to maintain her composure and Radner’s absolutely commitment is perfect. 

Bergen is responsible for one of the best flubs in all SNL history.

It’s so weird to me that the “Five-timer’s Club” went from being the premise for a sketch to an actual thing they make a big deal about. The whole joke was that marking a host’s fifth appearance is kind of ridiculous!

No, Carlin hosted the first episode and never came back. 

I’m not watching a fucking video.

Extremely wealthy ones. 

I work in a hotel. Whenever I go to a guest room during the afternoon/early evening, if the guests aren’t watching Fox News they’re watching Shark Tank. I’m glad I’m not the only one to have noticed this.

I tried to come up with a better joke than that, but no can do.

Also, to be clear, even teenage me wouldn’t have laughed at that joke if it was a real situation. To make a joke about an actual woman with an actual black eye would have been beyond the pale even back then. A hypothetical woman, or a woman who we knew had gotten a black eye through some sort of accident, sure. But…

I was going to say that if a friend of mine had said something like that when I was in my teens or maybe my early twenties I would have laughed my ass off. From a professional comedian in 2023, it’s a lot less impressive.

So this was all a ploy to Gin up publicity and Juice profits?