Incredibly, there’s another skid mark reference in the show.

It is restrained, yes. He plays an American naif in Ireland, but it’s not overdone, and every character in the show is well-realized. If you’ve seen Broadchurch, it’s sort of an Irish-and-American version of that. It’s well worth the watch.

Hah. Good eye.

The funny thing is, it’s such an otherwise minor detail, but the time is glowing and on display - meant to be seen, as opposed to some analog clock in the background. And yet, for what? He’s serious enough to start prep that early? Okay.

I think the big difference is that it doesn’t matter what the topic is, it can be clipped and warped to make someone look bad and the clickbait postings that result can be monetized. Doesn’t have to comport with a specific political perspective. And as far as comedy goes there’s definitely plenty of “if this person…

She acknowledges in the special that she’s actually had a steady boyfriend for 10+ years, but just goes along with it.

While I think she was specifically referring to the various weight jokes lobbed against her over the years, she was asked once if the jokes hurt, and she apparently responded, “Every time.” It doesn’t make the jokes any less tired or predictable, but I’ve always liked her thick skin.

I agree, and it looks better on him overall that he was upset, at least in an ‘I can make fun of my family, but you can’t make fun of my family’ sort of way. That Kraft was ‘honoured’ to be mentioned in such a way is ... weird.

It’s 3:10 in the morning? What kind of breakfast shift from hell do they run there?

I mean, you don’t make a bad point, but an artist being of a similar age doesn’t mean his music skews laterally like that at least necessarily. I remember Drake as being the wheelchair kid from the Degrassi reboot that only younger people than myself watched. (Not a judgment, and just a quick anecdote: I went to the…

Drake has been around since what, the early/mid aughts? His first song that really blew up was around the time Lebron was drafted in the NBA. So yeah, you’re in his demographic.

I agree, and while I really like Jost, it’s kind of fun to see the Scarlett Johansson-married-Head-writer-of-SNL seem humanly relatable. It’s like when Barack Obama couldn’t get his daughters to pet the Thanksgiving Day turkeys (there were two that year). Leader of the Free World, still a boring, mortifying Dad.

Canadian here, and of an age (38) where I would have never been of Drake’s demographic, which is to say I don’t care for his music, but am not really in a place to criticize it (I do, however, really like Kendrick). I’m also unfamiliar with the allegations against Drake, so no comment there, either.

“A rapper with a ghostwriter? What the fuck happened?”

Their take on the good cop/bad cop routine on w/ Bob & David was maybe the funniest take on an age-old premise I’ve ever seen. Not many sketches get the ‘instant twist’ laugh of Odenkirk’s bad cop pausing and asking, “Wait, what? He said that?”

I agree that most of the jokes were pretty softball, but I don’t think he quite fell on his face. He just kept pausing for too-long reactions from the audience, which led to plenty of awkward silences. Norm could pull that sort of thing off, and in terms of goading the audience for not laughing, you kind of get just…

Kate McKinnon is... fine. I always felt like she got laughs because people decided “Kate McKinnon is funny and whatever she does, we laugh”.

I’m surprised no one’s mentioned The Wonder Years, but it’s a very similar show, in a good way. I think whatever snark it may get thrown is largely due to Big Bang, but the shows couldn’t be more different.

Kutcher and Kunis stepped down from that organization shortly after the backlash, I think.

Ah, I see. Yeah, that’ll do it.