Yeah—I think it’s easily the kind of thing that more than one group of comedy writers sitting around throwing out ideas could have come up with. Game show parodies are standard fare for SNL, considering there are only so many game shows that require you to draw something (e.g. ONE) it kind of would HAVE to be this…

In contrast, I give you the greatest restaurant review ever written, published in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/din…

I’m sorry, that was in 2010?? TWO THOUSAND AND TEN? As in five entire years ago? My wounds are as fresh as if it were yesterday.

Yeah, it’s kind of true. I’ve definitely had more than one moment of standing in my kitchen leaving a note on the fridge, thinking “but if I actually think there’s a chance I might die, why the HELL am I going?” I guess sex beats death as an evolutionary influence.

I actually do take a quick screengrab of my Uber notification as soon as I’m assigned a driver, to capture the plate number and picture and I usually send them a text so the number is in my phone. I do it with the same level of fear with which I take a photo of my coat check number when I go to an event, or text a…

As my first editor used to tell me, “No one ever writes the headline ‘1200 Planes Landed Safely At LaGuardia Airport Today.’” Of course those are the only rides you hear about. There’s nothing to say about the thousands of totally uneventful rides that take place in a dozen major cities every day. I have plenty of…

Yeah...I would guess (for whatever it’s worth) that it’s just that same age-old question of whether you want to work within the system or outside it. Joss Whedon opted to make a movie with a female superhero that got made by a major studio and got major support in its release. My guess would be there are things that…

On a small level I can relate to this. I’m a progressive, liberal, thoughtful, feminist person (etc., etc., etc.) and I work in the social media space. And sometimes, things I tweet about things we do get misconstrued. I know that SOUNDS like just an excuse, but it isn’t. You have 140 characters or less, people don’t…

The reason no one likes it when brides say “Wear whatever you want!” is because those brides are lying. Even if they don’t think they are. The last time this happened to a bridal party I was in, we all begged her for some kind of direction, and she sent around a selection of dresses she thought would be nice in…

Awww, reading your comments reminds me of something that my best friend said when she was getting married. It caused a lot of friction because there were one of two people that certainly *could* have logically been asked that weren’t, but she said very plainly that while they were great friends, they wouldn’t be great…

I started singing “Too Many Cooks” the moment I read the title of this article and nothing I read subsequently got it out of my head, so THANKS JOLIE.

That was my parents’ policy too, and when I was a sophomore in high school, I tested it. Came back from a concert in the city with a bunch of people drunk (or, you know “drunk” on the two beers each we’d managed to flirt away from some guys) and our one friend who had been held back a year and could drive was going to…

Please. They’re all going to J.G. Melon’s for burgers afterwards.

Helen is this child’s first grade teacher, according to another commenter. But I agree, six is a little young to watch teenager murder each other for sport.

I think there’s certainly some truth to that, yes. I wasn’t even thinking so much about day to day behavior as broader career arcs, although I see that’s not clear from what I said. I work in media, and I’ve seen a lot of women try to “break in” by accepting admin positions or receptionist gigs or super low-level…

I know, I was trying to edit and it wouldn’t let me. His family is Jewish, but I’d forgotten he was raised differently. I deleted the entire thing but apparently Kinja wanted us to have a misunderstanding, so, sorry about that.

Nick Loeb has like, an embarrassing amount of family money. He’s not been successful at any venture of his own, but he’s very, very wealthy. This has nothing to do with a check and everything to do with control and coercion.

His religion is “Jewish,” not that I’m proud of that at the moment, and Judaism takes a much more complex view of both abortion and egg donation than the kind of Christianity most pro-lifers are affiliated with. Specifically, though, The Talmud records in a number of instances that until the 40th day, an embryo is not…

Every time I see this picture I just think “hee hee a RealDoll is marrying Allison Williams who is also kind of a RealDoll” and then i giggle. But yeah, it’s Ricky Van Veen, longtime MayerFriend.