I would totally get on board with that if it was taxpayer-funded so the costs would be distributed around.

I was the same exact way. It had to come from the inside, and from a position of confidence. And it happened at a particularly low-stress time in my life where I was finally doing something for a living that I really enjoyed and had the free time to dedicate to exercise and eating right. That's why even though I…

I agree that a lot of the gap comes down to maternity/childcare issues, but I don't know if there's an easy fix. Paid maternity leave, on-site childcare, etc. cost money, and it's easy to demand companies pay people who aren't working or hire on-site childcare, but a lot of employers would not be able to afford it. …

It depends on the relationship. If you are not a family member or close friend then no, I don't think you should ever say something, it's not your place. If you are VERY close to the person and they are facing imminent health problems (not just overweight), I think it's appropriate to try and get them to take…

No, it does NOT "take[] a little nudge." There is NOTHING you would be telling him he doesn't know; take it from someone who used to be very overweight, those "nudges" do more harm than good. It will more likely depress him and make him MORE resistant to changing his lifestyle because of it.

You're afraid you'll be fired from your on-air TV show job?

I remember plenty of jokes about Alec Baldwin being overweight when he was on 30 Rock. Yes, women leads face more judgment about their weight on TV, but I really don't think men leads have an "extraordinary" degree of freedom to gain weight. They have only slightly more freedom, too, IF they have already become…

And you didn't call them out on it publicly because.....?

Genetically gifted is an understatement.

You're kind of shifting the goalposts here. You went from saying the woman is shown as not deserving of pleasure to saying the expressions of pleasure are artificial, which is a completely different point. I'm going to actually turn it around and argue that in mainstream porn, it's the women onscreen whose pleasure…

The headline is severely inaccurate. The researchers were measuring opposition to affirmative action, not "inclusive workplace policies.":

Absolutely wrong. He was NOT sentenced. He was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation PRIOR to sentencing, then fled before he could be sentenced because he thought the judge might have changed his mind on the plea bargain. Which the judge was entitled to do, which Polanski apologists either ignore or are just…

Closing college graduates out of yet another job market isn't the answer though. Yes, they're fighting for scraps, and you're trying to convince parents that they should take those scraps away from them? Yes, it sucks, but the job market is amazingly bad, and will continue to be amazingly bad indefinitely I think. …

While I am repulsed by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the nativist right, I've got to say the pro-immigration left (on which spectrum I fall) is close behind in annoying me sometimes, particularly the disturbing implication I see frequently that to atone for historical injustices we should start throwing other…

Ugh, I do not understand the obsession with football, especially high school football. Maybe that's all the town has because that's what they put all their energy into? Makes me glad my commie liberal NYC high school didn't have a team; considering I was literally the biggest kid in my school I would have probably…

"The report conveniently neglects to mention what's happening to the immigrant women who're being forced out of a relatively well-paid field that often doesn't require documentation: how can they compete?"

Isn't she still in the club? I mean, that's the whole point of a Roast, to show who's in the cool kid's clique.

Roger Moore was 45 when he started playing Bond, and 58 in his last role, though it was definitely showing near the end.

Alright, as a mental exercise I tried thinking of what you could make fun of Sarah Silverman for other than age (yes, she's not old, I know), and I'm kind of stumped. I saw part of this roast and I've seen portions of others, and the jokes overwhelmingly fall into a few categories whether the target is a male or a…

Personally, as a man, I never really understood it either. That being said, I have severe self-image issues with my own weight, but that's not because I am not as thin and muscular as the picture people, it's because in the cities I have lived in the vast majority of the women inside my targeted dating demographic —…