He then delivered a short, funny, mostly-true story about a real chimp snapping at him during the goodnights, peppered with deadpan asides about primates’ obvious hatred “that humans have faces”

R.I.P.

Tom Scharpling: I’m sure it’s not a popular show in England.

In which the Daleks are defeated by a drunk blonde woman with an airhorn.

If you want to be precise about it, the copyright laws didn’t “change” and It’s a Wonderful Life wasn’t “thrown back into copyright”, as you wrongly claim. What happened was that Republic Pictures used the existing Supreme Court ruling in Stewart v. Abend to enforce its claim to the copyright. Then NBC entered into an…

So there’s a divide between people my age, more or less, and younger folk.

“Ma lips bleeding, Burt!  Merry Christmas!”

Yeah! It’s not Megan Fox’s fault that her thumbs look like big toes!

Hoping he recovers fully so he can get back to overacting with other African-Americans:

the story of Assata Shakur, the ultra-militant Black revolutionary (and godmother of Tupac) who was convicted of being an accomplice to the murder of a New Jersey state trooper—and who eventually escaped and later fled to Cuba

I guess that means we’re not getting season 3 of Atlanta any time soon, if ever.

The sleep deprivation of Daily Show correspondent Nancy Walls:

As blogger Kevin Drum said, in a different context, this is “a remarkable exercise in avoiding the obvious conclusion.”

Yeah, me too. I liked that Michael Cudahy hand-scribed a brief message on the inside edge of vinyl, near the label.

Um, Bill who?

Thanks! Do you like Christmas as well?

I love David Cross as much as, if not more than, every other alt-comedy nerd around, but ... this is just weird. I can’t think of a comedian who isn’t 1) dead, 2) dying, or 3) in disgrace or jail that deserves a documentary podcast to him- or herself.

On Twitter, he recently noted that DC Comics gave him “carte blanche” to do what he wanted with the movie, saying one of the things he wanted the company to agree to before he signed on was that “no character was protected by DC.”

And don’t miss Agadmator’s analysis of the final game. Actually, don’t miss any of Agadamator’s analyses. He’s great. Almost as good as Suren.

Because apparently I have to do everything around here myself: