I haven't watched Nightly Show in a while but the bit where he was Hillary Clinton's spokesman at the verge of a nervous breakdown at the thought that Bernie might gain momentum like Obama did was pretty good.

She didn't want it, though.

The one where he and Williams were giving advice to college students in the wake of the campus rape scandals was killer.

I think Jordan Klepper is somewhere on the cusp of breaking out. He seems to have settled on "gleefully oblivious avatar of white male privilege" as his persona and that's a really good, timely one to go with. When the news broke out about the drunk idiot who accidentally shot someone in a movie theater, my IMMEDIATE…

I think part of it is that he's still very much in the role of outsider, and he's played it up more recently. John Oliver does that too, but he's older and by the time Last Week Tonight started, he'd been here for years. I'm interested to see what happens with Noah once he gets past the wide-eyed "I'm new here" phase,…

The pizza rat rant was good ("gravity pizza, featuring rat") but that's about it. Roy Wood Jr. and Desi Lydic were really good additions but Chieng isn't so hot.

That's how I feel too, and I t hink that's fine. I love listening to a new Weird Al album start to finish but then I could usually just discard half the tracks and have most of the rest be "it's cool if I hear these a couple times a year" and that's it. Usually the only ones I'm happy to listen to regularly are a…

I'd be inclined to agree with that, yes.

I think Jordan stays in his lane a lot, but I'm not sure that should really be a disqualifying thing, particularly when he hasn't been nominated yet. It's one thing when it's, say, Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies, where it's a good performance that you've seen before from a guy who's already been honored for that…

The frustrating thing with Michael B. is that that Best Actor field is so mediocre. In a better year I wouldn't think twice about him not gaining any traction, but this year feels like DiCaprio followed by a whole lot of unremarkable, middlebrow biopic performances.

Yeah, Jamm would be my Parks and Rec answer as well. He just didn't work as a villain for me; he was too irredeemably, cartoonishly over-the-top awful.

Yeah, that's me too. The only Bridge of Spies nomination that I'd say I was invested in was Mark Rylance for Best Supporting Actor, and he got it.

I thought the middle stretch was great, and I enjoyed Rooney Mara's arc on the whole, but on the whole I thought the plot was really boring (if I never hear the name "Harge" again it will still be too soon). I mean, if Carol had replaced, I dunno, Bridge of Spies in the Best Picture field I wouldn't think twice about…

The 2002 version where he was an entitled prick was pretty good. That's where it ends, though.

The Human League, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination"

let's see how many I can remember seeing in theaters start to finish during 2015! I'm joining you in the copout tie thing because I love both movies with all my heart in entirely different ways.

That's a worthy challenger and also now I'm mourning Better Off Ted again.

I'll take that bet. Liza Lapira has the most reliable track record of being on shows that don't make it past two seasons that I've ever seen.

"Jesus Was a Crossmaker" by Judee Sill.

okay, did a man in a Pavement shirt run over your dog or something