I would have just combined them and called it a tie. RML's genius lies in the fact that you can't make an isolated comparison between its humour and that of R&S without touching on the ways in which it's more like The Simpsons, and vice-versa. It's so obviously influenced by both, but it stands up on its own merits…

Yeah, that's like picking The Beatles over Todd Rundgren! Who needs a thing when you can have the thing that followed, worshipped and could never have imaginably existed in a million years without that first thing, right?

If Hunter S. Thompson had as much power as I'm sure he would have liked to, reporting would be an even bigger mess than it is today. Was this line of reasoning is basically doing, in a clever disguise, is promoting self-indulgence, immaturity and posturing as noble behavior. It's the same stupidity that infected…

Objectivity doesn't need to die. People need to die.

Oh yeah, sure. Open the floodgates. Bring on the Left's answer to Fox News. And make sure to include as many references to weed as possible. Has no one considered that maybe a medium like Journalism needs to work in a way that compliments its actual goals? You know, like, evolve? Use different techniques? Not have…

Wow, Jon Stewart would fucking hate this. Has Canteen Pez-MiniMoog ever seen an interview with Jon Stewart in her life?

I think I may be one of a very select group of people who recognized the Simpsons sign gag "Where The Elite Meet To Have Their Spirits Broken" as the anti-humour stake through the heart of this riff on the first viewing.

Uhh…..I don't feel like scrolling any further down….has anyone else mentioned how much this is reminiscent of the final scene in The Room?

It's amazing - he's almost as quotable as The Simpsons now.

You mean…..the culmination of the momentum that's been building for 70 minutes straight?

"No, I'm actually misinformed enough to believe what I'm saying, which is even more pathetic."

Closer To My Ass!

Ehhh….not so much when it's just David. The article has a point. His voice only ever sounds truly POWERFUL -in either an emotional or sonic sense- when Richard Wright is harmonizing with him. Which, on the earlier material, is very frequently.

All I wanna know is who is that BAAAAAAAABE!!!!! at the top right of that picture???

1. Tune-Yards - Nikki-Nack
2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
3. Neil Cicirega - Mouth Silence
4. "Weird" Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
5. Kimbra - The Golden Echo
6. Name A Year - Let's Get Frail Together
7. Born In Fumes - We Are An Actual Thing
8. Outreagun - Don't You Just Love How Our Name Makes No Fucking Sense?
9. LocJah -…

Oh, don't worry, plenty of us have lives and careers outside of these comments - we're just too afraid of losing all our cred in one fell swoop the second we start over-zealously jumping on this otherwise-golden opportunity to promote ourselves and our work to people we already know appreciate us. (*trembling, sweaty…

*says a rosary* Forgive me, Father, but you have to admit, there are STILL times when doing that IS hilarious….

Your Mom predates streaming.

Now I HAVE to know what the context of that statement was.

5) Dancing like a chimp on steroids while watching a pack of Skittles explode in the microwave.
6) Deriving sexual pleasure from sitting on an electric toothbrush.
7) Running random clips of Billy On The Street through Auto-Tune, then overdubbing one of those "guitars" you learned to make in preschool out of a kleenex…