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  • Excellent Book and Review

    I agree with so many of the points this reviewer has made and sadly, not enough people have read this amazingly accurate piece of literature. When reading ''Then We Came To the End'', I was also reminded a bit of the beginning of J.Martin Troost's, ''The Sex Lives of Cannibals,'' before he takes off for the Island of the I.Kiribati (sp?). There is ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by thewritegirl on September 2, 2009

  • The continuously apologetic Liz

    I enjoy 30 Rock, but I'm starting to find tiresome the way Liz is constantly putting herself down and encouraging her staff to ridicule and demean her. Yes, I know, it's comedy, but I decided against getting the DVD set of the show for my teenage daughter for Christmas because of the demeaning way Liz allows herself to be treated. Recently I ...
    Posted to Culturebox by msd on May 6, 2009

  • It's About Time!

    In some ways, I am disappointed to see Richter return as Conan's sidekick. Sure, Conan can be funny, but he's never been enough of a draw to make watch him regularly. But, if Andy will be on the couch beside him again, I might just start watching the Tonight Show now, especially since Letterman just isn't that funny anymore. I never found Leno at ...
    Posted to Television by Bryant Turnage on March 31, 2009

  • Cramer vs Jon Stewart

    Cramer seems to have forgotten that he did have a rant in, I believe, August of 2007 about the unfolding subprime crisis, and that people should ''look out the window'' and see what was going on. Stewart didn't play that clip. He brought down Crossfire, and now he's targeting CNBC. He got extra irritated, in my opinion, when Rick Santelli didn't ...
    Posted to Television by mathpol on March 14, 2009

  • Re: "I can't get no respect."

    Re: Jessica's thoughts on Tina Fey, Rodney Dangerfield is the first person I thought of, too--it seems pretty clear that slagging on yourself has a grand history in comedy. This is not to say gender's not in play here--just that we might do well to think about it in comedic context. I don't know Dangerfield's act that well, but that line in ...
    Posted to XX Factor by CHR on January 12, 2009

  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High has an abortion in it

    A comedy which has a modern abortion. And the abortion does not dominate the storyline, and the rest of the movie works well. Go see it again. It even has Sean Penn in it.
    Posted to The Movie Club by LifeOfIdeas on January 9, 2009

  • Sarah Palin on SNL just not funny

    I didn't think Sarah Palin on SNL was funny. Isn't that why she is supposed to be on the show? She didn't do anything. I'm still not convinced that she can do anything. It was like watching the Katie Couric interview all over again. The SNL crew asked Palin to do a script and someone else ended up doing it for her --possibly because Palin couldn't ...
    Posted to Television by sheissofat on October 20, 2008

  • What Malarky. HD DVD Format Best Ever --

    The Corporations and the Government want to keep the making and sharing and watching of videos all to themselves, because it is a form of their overweening and jealous power over our United States Citizenry. DVD Formats, and High Definition DVD Formats, are by far SUPERIOR to the new Blu-Ray Format, which locks you out of reading and writing ...
    Posted to DVD Extras by MichaelBernard2 on October 1, 2008

  • All is forgiven, because it's funny...

    The first time I saw Family Guy, I found it nearly unwatchable. It was just so offensive. I kept thinking ''How can they DO that! That's SO awful!'' How can rape, for example, be funny? How can vomiting on the bodies of dead children (as Peter did in one memorable episode) be funny? But the show is funny. Very funny. Humour is, almost by ...
    Posted to Television by visitor48 on September 15, 2008

  • A post-"No Country" comedy

    I emphasize with your review, I would have been just as negative if I discussed the movie right after seeing it, at a screening. After seeing the trailer, I thought the Coens' would yet again follow one of their critically successful thrillers with a zany, nonsensical, off-the-wall, immediately critically panned, but destine-to-be-cult-classic ...
    Posted to Movies by drew kennedy on September 12, 2008
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