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Perennials:

• I'm going through The Larry Sanders Show for T.V. Club Classic. Episode recaps post on Tuesday afternoons.
• The Reasonable Discussions podcast posts every two weeks on Wednesdays.
• I edit our weekly podcast-review feature, Podmass, which posts every Friday. I review Comedy Bang Bang and The Pod F. Tompkast for it as well as some others occasionally.

T.V. Club Advent Calendar: The Simpsons, "'Tis The Fifteenth Season" • The A.V. Club, 12/16/11

Our T.V. Club section did something new this year: a sort of "Advent calendar" where we wrote about a different Christmas special every day from December 1 to 25. I picked one of The Simpsons many Christmas episodes, but I wanted to do something unexpected, so I chose an excellent late-period episode.

2011: The year in band names • The A.V. Club, 12/9/11

My annual look at the funniest, most ridiculous, terrible, and otherwise noteworthy band names returns in all of its glory. Is the world ready for Salem Bitch Trials?

Wendi McLendon-Covey • The A.V. Club, 9/21/11

"After the [Bridesmaids] première... everybody had something else they were going to, and I had nothing—and that’s just laziness. I asked my team, 'What have we got going on?' 'Well, nothing yet, but we’re just feeling really positive.' 'Huh, okay, well, I’m feeling positive I won’t ever be seeing you again. I feel positive that you’re lazy a-holes.' So we said our goodbyes, and that was pretty good. That was the best move I’ve made in a long time."

Jonah Hill • The A.V. Club, 9/21/11

"So I’m not the person you’d expect to be starring in a drama with Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman, based on my previous work. But I like feeling like the underdog. I like when people, after they see the movie, are surprised that they enjoyed my performance [Laughs.] as a dramatic actor."