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Rainn Wilson Follows Angus T. Jones's Lead, Calls 'The Office' "Filth"

by | November 28th, 2012

Two and a Half Men's half man Angus T. Jones made headlines this week when he encouraged fans to stop watching Two and a Half Men and called the show "filth" in a testimonial for some weird religious cult. You'd think the Angus T. Jones controversy would be a cautionary tale for the stars of other network sitcoms and would make them be more careful about what they say, but that's apparently not the case. The Office's Rainn Wilson released this video via his Facebook yesterday afternoon, in which he also calls his show filth and tells people not to watch it, Thursday nights at 9 on NBC. [...]

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Is IFC's 'Bullet in the Face' the Most Violent TV Comedy Ever?

by | June 1st, 2012

With all the talk of Comedy Bang Bang and Bunk, it seems like IFC's other new comedy series has been somewhat ignored. I mean, I hadn't even really heard about it until now, while the ads for those other two shows are hard to miss. But there might be a reason for that: Bullet in the Face is apparently really, really violent. And IFC has decided to run the entire thing across two nights instead of weekly as a series. Here's Deadline's summary: It stars Canadian actor Max Williams as Gunter Vogler, a brutally psychopathic, deliriously misogynistic German assassin-turned-cop. The character is utterly without conscience or filter, shooting [...]

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More Shocking Things Modern Family Could Make Lily Do Than Say Fuck

by | January 18th, 2012

So a bunch of anti-cursing folks are real gosh-darned P.O.'d that Lily's gonna be using the F-word on tonight's episode of Modern Family (bleeped out, of course. This isn't Showtime). As a longtime supporter of Lily's darker side, I embrace this development. After all, there are a lot of worse things the writers could make her do on-air. Like…

- light Stella on fire

- steal all the characters' cell phones and hoard them under her bed, only taking them out late at night to arrange them in a glowing circle around her as she conducts Wiccan ritual chants

- secretly follow Luke around everywhere, intermittently moaning things [...]

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Louis C.K. Brings the Sexy, Reads Blogs, Sticks it to the Mets (and Talks about Tosh-Gate)

by | July 17th, 2012

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Louis C.K. reads blogs! Splitsider is a blog, maybe he reads it – maybe he's one of the pseudonymed commenters. I do like that he ended with a very, almost 90s joke in the style of men are from Mars, women are from Venus. The moral here is reading blogs is great, the Mets stink, and let's kill some Jews.

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Lena Dunham Addresses Girls Racial Criticism Like A Good Liberal Arts Grad

by | May 7th, 2012

When the Girls backlash was at its peak (all the way back in April), it was hard for Lena Dunham, the show's creator/writer/director/star, to address the show's controversies with the level of sincerity and thoroughness the issue demanded. Instead, we got this eventually deleted tweet from Girls writer Lesley Arfin:

“What really bothered me most about Precious was that there was no representation of ME”

Which was glib and made the problem worse. Now that things have cooled down, and her show has gotten picked up for another season, Lena, herself, was able to address the issue directly, in a conversation with NPR's Fresh Air:

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Yes, Daniel Tosh Made Terrible Jokes

by | July 11th, 2012

We haven't covered this Daniel Tosh rape joke thing because, frankly, neither Jesse nor I felt much like diving into it. It feels like the same old shit, and there's not a ton worth saying about it, so we decided to just ignore it and not give him or his dumb, gross jokes any more attention than they've already received. There's too much good comedy worth celebrating to dwell in that familiar outrage. But if you want a rundown of the whole situation, here's a pretty good one.

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So Louis C.K. Is a Women-Denigrating Pig Now, According to Greta Van Susteren

by | March 12th, 2012

Following a series of events that most comedy fans will agree is absolute bullshit, Louis C.K. has withdrawn from his role hosting the Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner this June. It appears that C.K. is trying to avoid the ridiculous circus of controversy caused by Fox News' Greta Van Susteren's proposed boycott of the event, in which she takes issue with C.K.'s jokes about Sarah Palin and calls him a "pig" who "denigrates women."

Sure, he denigrates Sarah Palin to no end. But she's one politician, not some representative of all womankind. As Michael Ian Black writes in a blog [...]

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