I think he's trying to support the viewpoint that celebrities shouldn't sing about relevant issues, because they're rich and vapid. Which is a rather conservative viewpoint for someone who thinks "I bet they voted for Bush twice!" is a sick burn.

He kind of had me, and then he lost me with "I listened to them when I was like 12, and then I started listening to real punk." Dude, shut up.

I love how she smacks him in the face after that and it's clear that he digs it.

Considering that he went to rehab the same year this was recorded, I'm pretty sure he knew exactly what he meant when he said that. Most functioning addicts still manage to have some level of self-awareness.

The worst thing for American Pie for me, besides its ubiquitousness, is that it's essentially a pop-rock song complaining about how awful pop-rock music is. It plays into that bullshit romanticizing of small town culture, and how life will never be any better than when you were a teenager, and blah blah blah jesus…

I don't understand people who say their favorite singer is Billy Joel. That's like saying your hobby is breathing. No thought, no insight, nothing goes into it. You've simply chosen something that's so familiar to you that you can't honestly say whether you enjoy it or not.

No, he didn't, that's what I meant, that he can write black characters that don't sound like awful stereotypes, but chooses not to a lot of the time for whatever reason.

Both are champions of PETA, and both hate Kentucky Fried Chicken with the passion of a thousand burning suns. Either that, or Tommy Lee introduced them.

Despite it being a garbage pile overall, one thing I liked about the last season of American Horror Story is how Nan was played by an actor with Down Syndrome, but it never played into the plot. I got the impression that Ryan Murphy just liked the actor and wanted to work with her again, but didn't see the need to…

Self-aware performances like Stiller's and Gervais's aside, what makes these particularly hard to watch is that you know virtually all these actors went into the roles thinking they'd be walking away with handfuls of awards. They just worked so hard, you know? And maybe spent an hour or so with an actual mentally…

including an Internet-savvy black teenager who for some reason loves to speak in a “yas massa” Southern slave patois;
Stephen King is the author I've loved the longest in my life, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why he insists on writing black characters that talk like cartoon stereotypes. Mike Hanlon in "It,"…

Here's my impersonation of a typical episode of Ghost Hunters:

I don't mind Ricky Gervais as long as he isn't talking about atheism.

You make a good point, but I always look for opportunities to recommend David Rakoff to people. He does a nice skewering of the play's pompous notion that artists are above having to hold down regular jobs while they're trying to achieve success. He concluded that it was possible to say a lot of negative things about…

It's one of my favorite movies, but I wouldn't try to convince anyone that it's exciting. Even I don't enjoy the narrated "oh hey, I managed to find and fall in love with the one replicant designed with a normal human lifespan" happy ending version.

I implore you to seek out David Rakoff's essay about why he hated Rent. Brilliant writing.

If you're not already, follow Sarah Thyre on Twitter. She does do that from time to time, but is generally funnier, and also seems like she has more interests beyond cracking on celebrities and how many cocktails she's had on a given day.

I hate and I love going to the Museum of Modern Art. I love it because it has some of my favorite paintings on display, and I hate it because there's just some stuff there that turns me into one of those stodgy "What is this? You call this art"? types. There's a painting there that is literally a beige canvas, with a…

I got that for $1 at a book fair last year, but haven't read it yet. It seems weird to say, being a woman myself, but I've gotten real weary of Twitter-based female comedians like Oxford and Jenny Johnson. They all have that shticky mean girl thing going on, and find as many opportunities as possible to mention how…

Was going to say, those shows should be free, for the most part.