No other television show has boasted such a high degree of talent than Saturday Night Live.  Many big names in comedy over the past four decades have made a name for themselves through the show.  On the other end of the spectrum, many comic actors have been hired for the show and were unsuccessful at [...]

Assuming you haven’t turned on the TV since February or been to the theater in the last couple of years, you might not be aware of it, but there’s an Avengers movie coming out tomorrow.  With Joss Whedon directing and a slew of successful solo superhero films preceding it, expectations are high, and nerds like myself are [...]

It’s 2012.  Our cell phones are more intelligent than us, we can download more hours of pornography than there are hours in our lives, and flying cars are right around the corner (maybe).  And yet video games still have the same flaws they’ve had for years.  Flaws that should have been fixed long ago, like… [...]

Every musician has to evolve.  If the music you put out in 2012 is the exact same crap as you put in 1982, then you’re either an unoriginal, talentless hack, or AC/DC.  It’s expected that your art grows and matures as you grow and mature as well. Some musicians, however, take that idea to the [...]

Ever get Déjà Vu when you’re listening to the radio?  Kind of like you’ve heard the music somewhere before, but you can’t put your finger on it?  Usually, that’s because you have heard the music before and the song you’re listening to is sampling it.  “Sampling” is when you take a piece of one song [...]

Sometimes a picture says a thousand words; sometimes a word says a thousand letters.  There are a few instances in the English language where a word is not constructed for the sake of communication so much as to break a world record, for spectacle’s sake.  In that way, the English language is much like the [...]

Many comedians dabble in music for fun, and very few are serious musicians.  Often a single on a spoken-word comedy album is all the music you’ll get from a comedian.  This list is the Top 10 (11, really) Original Songs by Comedians, not funny covers or parodies of other specific songs.  Okay, smart apples, quit saying Eddie Murphy’s Party All the Time; [...]

The world is a big ol’ place, populated by billions of people and thousands of cultures.  It’s not anyone’s place to judge them, no matter how strange or disgusting some of them might seem to you.  Yes, some Asian cultures eat dogs and cats.  Get over it.  Yes, in certain parts of Africa people regularly [...]

Palindromes are the most symmetrical words and phrases you’ll ever encounter.  Also, the most amusing, when you think of the nonsense and ambiguous meanings that can come from trying to achieve perfect syntactical harmony.  Here are ten for those who like to read things front to back (and then back to front again). Not on [...]

Nothing turns an otherwise educated and logical human being into a drooling moron faster than a lottery ticket.  The recent Mega Millions jackpot, which reached $640,000,000 before finally being hit, featured 1:179,000,000 odds of winning, which did not stop everybody in the universe from scrambling to buy as many tickets as possible because HEY YA [...]