Depends what you mean by "a thing." A mainstream star? Not in the foreseeable future, after Mulaney tanked. A force to be reckoned with among comedy nerds? Absolutely.

adding that she was “cold, robotic, dead.”

That opening sentence is incredible, maybe the first good sentence the post-Murdoch New York Post has ever produced.

BECAUSE THEAH TEA FAHKIN SUCKED. THE ONLY THING BAWSTON SHOULD BE KNOWN FOAH IS BEANS. BEANS AHH AWESOME.

… yes, I know, I'm playing along

Though if we go back to her Katy Hudson years, Katy Perry / Hudson release a gospel album like 15 years before Kanye did.

Judging by that video still, I don't think talking to Dame Judi Dench is a step down for anybody.

That is an infuriatingly good description

Conan has spoken at length before about how he and one of the other early Simpsons writers (Jeff Martin maybe?) consider the '60s Batman to be the greatest TV show of all time, largely because of West's ability to sell those lines. In a way it kind of set the stage for the deadpan absurdity of Airplane! and others.

the sale also makes us a little sad that there’s not more Spaceballs merchandise out in the world.

Facehuggers are

Two independent forms of ignorance in one sentence, nice.

I like him too. He's an interesting choice for a show like this. 90% of his material isn't really political, and probably wouldn't go over very well with the people who first heard about him through his gun control routine (which is seemingly most of his audience these days).

I'd feel super patronized if people consistently tried to treat me like a senator and I was a blobfish.

Old McCain yells at clod

The point of that bit wasn't to excuse its use, it was to say that there's not really a non-shitty way of saying it. Whether that's right or wrong, it's very strongly steeped in an awareness of how hurtful the word is. Maher's use of it immediately assumed his audience - whether it was the nice white liberals in the…

This has gotta be the biggest news about Russians stealing something today

It's hilarious that this is somehow still a focal point on the AV Club (or at least the commentariat). She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world and it's still brought up, nearly two years later.

It's Mitch McConnells all the way down

"Whether the aging heartthrob absorbs onscreen abuse purely for our perverse amusement or out of some deeper masochistic impulse is a question for the psychiatrists he doesn’t believe in" is a pretty beautifully dismissive sentence, nice job Dowd.