Look, I was on board with you when I thought these were just jokes in bad taste. But holy shit, adults having sex with 3-year-olds is not an untapped mine of hilarity.

There’s something to be commended about Disney’s apparent courage to enforce its values, even when it’s at the risk of disrupting the license to print money that is Guardians Vol. 3.

Yes, “already”. They pre-taped the whole series!

In what seems like an impossible coincidence, somebody has just liked a comment I posted last September accusing the AV Club of “selling out to Big Bacon”.

Let’s wait and see what the gag actually is. I wouldn’t put it past Cohen to do something tasteless, but Palin, calling attention to herself while trying to villainize the evil left, is not a credible source.

I had that with another article today. A quite possibly deliberate (and if so, clever) way of forcing you to see the ads. 

pawns of that demon devil Money

This article is a remarkable intersection of my genuinely strong affection for each of Green Day, the Washington Post and Onion media.

I agree 100% with your comments, though still enjoyed the movie despite it. The core characters are well cast, it looks gorgeous, it sounds great. That’s enough that it’s easy for me to forgive story issues.

I had an English teacher in high school, who one day told us we were watching a movie, and explicitly made a point not to tell us anything about it. He went off on a bit of a riff about how “that’s not how movies are meant to be watched”. The movie we watched: Catch-22. Other than having heard the phrase “catch 22"…

“artificial intelligence technologies are still in their infancy, decades away from developing the ability to hate” 

This article/video could have been four words:

There is definitely a choir-preaching vibe with a lot of late-night comedy. A lot of it is very funny, and is meaningfully biting satire, but it’s such an easy audience. There’s almost a Trump rally-vibe, where any laugh-line about the Trump’s administration gets huge laughs and cheers. What’s the point of making good…

I wasn’t looking at The Wasp’s driver’s license, I was just going by the action clips and publicity snapshots, in which the two ladies bear a more than passing resemblance.

I know the plot has some people concerned about the messaging of the movie, but with the talent involved we have every reason to expect that it will be a fundamentally good and entertaining movie. I can pretty easily look the other way on a movie having a dubious moral message, if it’s well made and tells its story in…

That’s Evangeline Lilly? I have been thinking for months that it was Tricia Helfer. 

I can’t get that mad about the Fallon interview. It’s been a Tonight Show tradition going back decades to have presidential candidates show up and be personable and goofy. And the Tonight Show isn’t 60 Minutes; it doesn’t purport to get to the bottom of anything. The interviews are about as far from “hard hitting” as…

I’m sure it’s not new (I just mean to suggest it seems like it’s becoming more common / mainstream), though your QVC example seems not totally analogous. That’s pure, direct product advertising, without any veneer of it being endorsed or supported by someone that we follow as an entertainer. That’s the context I’m…

Isn’t (wasn’t) Jimmy pretty much the only late night host who hadn’t gone aggressively political? (Maybe Conan, too?) In any event, speaking truth to power is not exactly Jimmy’s thing.

Ad reads with meta-commentary and snarky insincerity actually seem to be coming into favor, if podcasts are any indication (Pod Save America being the prime example, and quite possibly the trendsetter, but I’ve heard it elsewhere lately as well).