Not a rumor: back in the late 80s and early 90s a whole lot of now-famous (ahem) "grunge" musicians actually worked at Muzak, usually sitting there with headphones listening to tracks all day for audio defects, etc.

You're doing it for the cred, but it's also the doorway into being someone who performs at UCB. You're not guaranteed a spot on an improv team or anything without going through their system and ponying up the cash, but they won't even give you a shot if you don't.

Not necessarily. NDAs are almost mandatory now, since any low-level employee could potentially be writing a tell-all blog.

This is kind of a tangent and sorry for that, but I think the fact that the Muppets are considered "cool guests" at the Montreal Comedy Festival is really dismaying. If the budget is so tight, and if you're really trying to showcase relevant comedic talent, is it really necessary to license extremely expensive…

Instead of creating this character of "Ben", I think Adam Scott just should have showed up as "Party Down's Adam Scott." Because the entire character is basically just coasting on the goodwill of how much we all love Adam Scott on Party Down.

Comedy isn't "inherently based on conflict." Plot, characters and storytelling aren't even inherently necessary to crafting humor, though they're certainly useful tools.

Their whole MO was trashing the direction rock went in from around 67 or 68, the overblown prog and all that, and going back to short and super-catchy pop songs. Those covers are important because they're connecting this new, unique proto-punk style to a type of music that was seen as really uncool and outdated in the…

Wasn't there already a sitcom about a sassy private schoolteacher called "Rita" starring one Ms Rita Rudner? There probably wasn't but just by typing those words I've been able to recall completely-imaginary full episodes of it in all of its crappy video, overused laugh tracked glory.

I don't know why I never bothered to do this little bit of research before, and I guess it's totally implied and I should have picked it up, but Vera is Goulet's wife—!

True, you can start and stop Netflix and Hulu+ and (I presume) Amazon Prime whenever you want, having only one active at a time and rotating through them when you're tired of what they have to offer. Seems like a decent way for a consumer to enjoy all of the services and a better business model for them than for us to…

In NY in the 90s there actually was a "Milk Bar" from Clockwork Orange, don't know if it was exactly a replica or not, but it was certainly a place where you could meet 18 year old girls from Long Island with dyed-black, braided mohawks and lots of stories about backstage antics on tour with Ministry.

Alec Baldwin was so channelling Christopher Walken with that whole speech. Seriously, mannerisms and everything.

That's a pretty simplistic way of looking at things, not to mention a little immature (as is expecting anyone else to cater to your little arbitrary and hero-worshipping scale.) If you're looking for Mr. Show Version 2, SCTV ain't it. But it is a direct inspiration for most funny people working today and it spawned…

For Mr. Show fans: you can take in all of Mr. Show in a weekend marathon and then you have the rest of your life to watch more sketch comedy. So don't even start making this an either or type thing. Not that you were but I can sense these things coming..

I'll be the first to acknowledge that early Coldplay is pretty good. But there's about a million bands out there, and a whole hell of a lot of them are also pretty good, and I can listen to any of them without having to defend why I have an iTunes folder full of Coldplay. 

That guy and that girl comprise about 47% of the state of Florida.

The hotel room's in Capital City, which doesn't seem to be that far from Springfield… Interesting interpretation though.

Ask your parents about drive-in banks.

I don't think it has much to do with talent, as much as it's a selfish way to get attention for your method-slash-antics. Which, yeah, is kind of asshole behavior, but that's hardly the only example of self-serving, assholish behavior in the entertainment business.

I hate to say it, but while you're right in terms of what's morally right and wrong, I think copyright law is on Glee's side. Okay, he put in some hard work, but he's not a novice musician and he should have known that a tradeoff for the millions of easy youtube hits he got for subverting a popular song that he don't…