The Comedian

I hate Stankonia, but a lot of that is because I consider ATLiens to be the greatest album of recorded music ever produced, and Aquemini to be extremely good as well, and then when I copped Stankonia...well it started OK but somehow devolved into some kind of concession to the execrable rap scenes of Miami and New Orleans...

Finally escalate the anti-Cena promos. I've enjoyed this Cena heel turn for the most part, except that all his opponents so far, even Punk, have been kid gloves with their promos. If this angle ends without me hearing the words "Alex Riley" and a reference to killing Cryme Tyme's merch during someone's anti-Cena promo, then it's a failure.

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one that was weirded out a bit that Pamela didn't age up Bobby's voice at all...

Y'all had to realize something huge was eventually coming for Seth...he didn't do all those jobs to Cody and Punk for nothing...

Thank you. My take on the Cena heel turn? Fans: Why can't we get more old-fashioned hateable heels instead of "cool" heels? Cena: Becomes a completely hateable old-school heel, with a year-long angle building to what will be a satisfying payoff when he finally loses Fans: Cena's heel turn sucks!

At least now I know why they call that gimmick "Furface". I'd only ever seen the latter iteration with the red tights, g-string, chain mail vest, star mask, and black durag, looking like Captain S&Merica or some shit... Also funny to note that he brought back some of those mannerisms for The Zodiac, particularly the super-dramatic Mongolian chop...

I don't care if it's a work or not because the initial outcry was fucking stupid anyway. "Oh no, WWE has told a 53-year-old millionaire that he doesn't have to come into work every day any more! ...after giving him a World Title match main event in a PLE as a send-off! ...knowing that he could easily get another big bag from the competition if he so chose! ...or that he could simply sign a Legends deal, come back sporadically, and semi-retire into the convention circuit! ...what a goddamn tragedy!"

Wes is at his best when the twee is just a way of presentation of interesting, likeable characters. I've said before that I consider The Royal Tenenbaums to be the greatest movie of the 21st century thus far, and Moonrise Kingdom is pretty high on my list as well. But when the twee is all the film is about, like say The Life Aquatic, you end up with a pretty film without much substance...

I believe that's one of the backmasked lines in "Revolution 9" that helped fuel the whole "Paul is dead" phenomenon... actually might have been "turn me on dead man" but still ...

So are all the sequels gonna have Beatles references in their name?

Don't sleep on that Texas Death Match between Chris Hyatte and Dusty the Fat Bitter Cat...

I wonder if stacking the NDA (New Dangerous Alliance) like this leads to a Brock return. Regardless of how anyone feels about that, at least it would be the proper way to use Brock at this point, in the Andre role of monster baby-face that you bring in when the heels are overwhelming you...

The true name of the play is the Brotherly Shove...

SEE Mad Dog Connelly hit me with a trash can at 4:33~!!!

I don't know, but I did see somewhere (one of Tom Green's WCW Deep Cuts maybe?) that Hogan tried to get WCW to bring Yokozuna in right after Warrior so he could get that win back too, but by that time Yokozuna was too heavy to get the ok to compete from any State Athletic Commission, so poor Hulkster has to live with never avenging that L... Man is Hogan an ambulatory sack of shit ...

The most ironic thing about Seth Rollins to me is that, his WWE tribalism aside, he's pretty much a perfect fit for the AEW main event style. Meltzer would probably drool over a 30-minute Rollins-Ospreay MOVES~!!!fest...

Naw, it makes sense from Vince's perspective. He did faux hardcore during the Attitude era when he thought he had to, but he always hated the real bloody stuff because he wanted wrestling to be mainstream and he felt hardcore dragged it back to the low class carny era. Ambrose/Mox, meanwhile, is so hardcore-obsessed that he's getting spiked bats stuck in his back and going to work indie death matches even as a highly-paid multi-time World Champion. I guarantee that within a few minutes of Ambrose first pitching ideas to Vince, McMahon probably rolled his eyes and thought, "I wanna make this guy Roddy Piper and instead he wants to be fucking Raven." Meanwhile Seth is the biggest company suck-up in the WWE. So yeah, I'm not surprised Vince went the way he did.

None of these releases strike me as odd. The two biggest names are Kai and Strowman. Kai is injury-prone and mainly just acted as a cheerleader for better workers. Strowman is a bum. He gets brought back as part of the post-Vince amnesty, and right away he cuts a Twitter promo whining about vanilla midgets like he's Kevin Nash in 1998 (2025 Nash has of course moved on to making the same argument about women.) And did the guy ever make any kind of effort to freshen up his look or gimmick, beyond maybe changing the shade of his wifebeater or the pocket location on his faux cargo pant wrestling tights? He seems like the kind of guy who thinks a long beard is his personality...

Bad News Brown, pre-teens. As I've said before, he was Stone Cold about ten years ahead of his time...

Norm McDonald was conservative and he understood comedy better than anyone. Actually, he said stand-up was a craft, not an art, because art is subjective, whereas the goal of stand-up is not subjectively, but to get everyone in a group to react in unison. One thing Norm criticized, which is a problem with most modern liberal comics, is the tendency to chase applause rather than laughter. Laughter should always be the goal of the comedian, not ,"cheer me because you agree with my politics." Checking this WWE roast, it is pretty bad. Not because it's offensive: that's what roasts are. They're "refuge in audacity" humor, as TV Tropes calls it. It's "I can't believe they went there!" humor. The problem with this one was two-fold. One, good roasts limit themselves to participants. By signing up for a roast, you're agreeing to take as well as give. This roast mocked a lot of non-participants. Two, it just wasn't funny. It was a bunch of cheap-ass grade school-level jokes. Certainly no one with the chops of a Girardo or Gottfried.

Happy for you man. I lucked out with the first DEAN~! show being a half hour drive from me. Now it's your turn...

Hey, speaking of Weezer, here's a thought: is "Buddy Holly" the all-time king of bad song/good video? Obviously, the "Happy Days"-themed video is cool as hell. Hell, doing the Fonzie dance at the end of the video became a meme amongst my friends for a bit. It's so good it tricks you into thinking the song ain't half bad. And then years later, I'm putting together my 90's rock playlist on Spotify and of course "Buddy Holly" goes on there. However, whenever it actually comes up I find that it's an instant skip. Why? It's a garbage song. I mean, right off the bat it hits you with "white bread guy ironically uses Hip-Hop slang", which was always shite. The rest of it is standard "Hey girl please be a dork from the wrong era with me", only without one iota of the charm of, say, "Teenage Dirtbag". But man that video hit enough nostalgia bits to fool me for a couple decades...

You make The Amateur sound like Taken meets Blue Ruin and actually that sounds like a pretty good idea for a movie if nothing else...

Rick Rude?

I'll say this much: