I feel like this is, in some small way, the universe apologising to music fans for the last 30 days of terrible news.

Conan himself called it his favourite piece from his time at Late Night. I like to think that the Civil War Re-enactor remote he did on his current show (https://www.youtube.com/wat… ) was him trying to recapture that magic (and succeeding, IMO).

I woke up a while ago (1 p.m. where I am) from a long working night, and I saw him trending on Twitter. I thought "oh, that's great, people are buying the new album and talking about it." I only found out just now, when I checked the AV Club. My heart stopped for a second. Welling up as I write this.

To paraphrase Nick Kroll as Fabrice Fabrice, this is as if Sean O'Neal farted vomit.

I remember LMFAO appearing on an earlier edition of this list, and while their outright crappiness is debatable, they certainly did make it big.

Each year, this site seems to pick one show with a relatively small but rabid fan base to shut out completely at the end-of-year awards. Last year it was Review, which they've thankfully corrected this time around. So, all I can say is wait a year.

You da real MVP.

Oh, okay. Didn't know that. I've somehow managed to avoid the entire Grantland/post-Grantland family of podcasts. Any other big-name gets?

Me too. With our shared love of Dire Straits, James Bond and (literal) fat cats, I'm sure we'd be best friends.

I just listened to the complete Foam Corner playlist (https://www.youtube.com/pla… and in the earlier editions, when Scott wasn't so used to the format, the curious blend of love and contempt he had for Harris and his material is such a joy to hear.

I'd argue that Lorne Michaels on WTF was a bigger (or at least a more surprising) get. Obama has done SNL, Leno, Letterman, Fallon, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Between Two Ferns… he was going to have to do a big podcast some time, and WTF is the natural choice.

…in collaboration with Matt Gourley, I hope.

This is exactly why I was so happy to learn that Blazing Saddles was the highest-grossing film in the year it was released.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

I can no longer hear the piano intro to Imagine without mentally filling in "some-BODY once told me the world is gonna roll me…", and for that I am eternally grateful.

**…rectally**

Old grey mare she ain't what she used to be…

Leaving aside his turd of a sitcom, though, most of what he's done (writing on SNL, stand-up, his stuff on Kroll Show and Comedy Bang Bang) has been great and now that the Mulaney tumour has been excised from his career, hopefully he can rebuild.

You can never rePLACE me, Sherman Potter
You can never rePLACE me, I'm Henry Blake
You can never rePLACE me, Sherman Potter…
Happy birthday to you!

I've always associated it with its homophone Merman (as in Ethel), so he's always seemed like the quintessential New York Broadway diva to me.