I feel like he and Benny Schwaz are in a league of their own when it comes to quick-witted banter with Scott

Coming from the PhD / academia world, I find the notion of "brilliant scientists don't like immature humor" to be way off base. In my experience the more high profile the person, the sillier their humor. Maybe Kumail and Martin just didn't read the room well.

Totally seeing them on Saturday!

I worked til midnight, then finally watched Jurassic World. Found it to be joyless and bland. Probably like SNL.

I wouldn't say it seems likely that Jay acted alone — though of course he's involved somehow. But as you mention, armchair theorizing is not the same as building a legal case. And I'm glad to live in a country where "uncomfortable" doesn't matter in legal terms. A court saw the defense as lacking, so it's great that…

I felt that quite a bit after listening to Serial. A few months ago though, when actual court transcripts started coming out, I became a bit less outraged. The prosecutors come across as fairly well-reasoned, and openly discuss the circumstantial nature of the evidence to the jury. Their main argument has to do with…

I like that way of thinking about it

Because who better to evaluate the same evidence than a jury 16 years later? Peers?!

I can't recall a single song, but I swear to god they were no better than that

When I saw Gnomeo and Juliet the year it came out, I never could have dreamed it would make $200M. It's not that the premise couldn't be good, but they didn't even try. Half the songs were literally just the original Elton John song with one word changed.

It's funny to listen to standup from the early 90's and hear Bush Sr.'s foreign policy trashed as reckless stiff-arming. Compared to G.W., he seems like Gandhi. I hope Jeb doesn't do for GW what GW did for Sr.

I have newfound respect for Iron Man 3. Never would have dreamed that was a real stunt.

Fun fact: Guy Fieri and RHCP are two of Jon Daly's favorite targets on Comedy Bang Bang. I'm starting to think there's some cosmic connection between the two.

Slow clap for "shake (or stir)"

Maybe I live in a bubble, but I feel like 9/10 movies I see in theatres — and nearly all that get huge acclaim among the sort of people who would watch a Michael Moore doc — are rated R. Who is this rating hurting? (Also, the MPAA are clearly an arbitrary, archaic institution.)

Did this quote not used to be in the article?

Real talk: when Minority Report was in theatres, I was maybe 13, and that scene of the drowning Pre-cog scared the shit out of me. I refused to leave the theatre, but it did give me nightmares for about three weeks.

I'm largely with you. I watched The Babadook in the wake of all that praise, and was thoroughly surprised by how uninteresting it was. That might be symptomatic of my own movie watching preferences though. I rarely watch modern horror flicks, which means I don't have the fatigue of "Yet Another Found Footage Movie"…

The snark levels seem weirdly high here. I'm fine with not liking Sudeikis, but why pre-judge this just on the basis of where it's set? Some of the most life affirming comedies have involved terrible, real-life situations — it's one of those things that make me proud to be human. Assuming for a minute that Comedy…

Fuck Trump, etc, etc, but I primarily hate the idea of him hosting SNL because it's going to be terribly unfunny. But if I signed a petition for every week SNL was going to be unfunny, I'd be signing a lot of petitions.