I tend to view Letterman and Leno in phases of their career:
Leno was the funnier stand-up comedian in his pre-hosting days. He was a very funny stand-up who told stories instead of lame jokes.
Letterman on NBC was the superior host. He was funny, sarcastic, and still trying.
Letterman’s first few years on CBS? He was still really funny and trying…and still better than Leno.
Letterman after his quintuple bypass-retirement? Terrible. He stopped trying, never left the studio, and went through the motions. Leno was superior at this point.
Overall? Letterman at NBC was the tops. Leno was better in the end of their runs, but only because Dave quit years before he left.
Er, no; like a great many people, I’m not an immigrant; I was born here. My parents? Likewise. But their parents? Also born here. Okay, but…
…hang on, let me interrupt what could be a long chat; can I prove I’m a dentist by simply declaring that my father is a dentist? No, I’m not saying that he is; but that’s irrelevant, so long as his father was a dentist. Granted, his father wasn’t, so this sort of falls apart; only it doesn’t, because: enough generations back, suddenly I’m a dentist! And so is my father, and my grandfather!
Wait, that’s insane; we’re not that just because someone else was.
There’s an uncomfortable number of people who belong to the “Believe the victims” camp and would never watch a Woody Allen flick, for example, but still give Michael Jackson’s music a complete pass based purely on happy nostalgia.
Gilbert Gottfried is fucking hilarious. His audio book version of “50 Shades of Grey” is particularly humorous.
Classic rock (including Sabbath, Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac- or any variation thereof including solo artists - among others) are overplayed, overrated, and suck in general.
The best song from the Rolling Stones is “She’s So Cold.”
For the Beatles, it’s either “Penny Lane” or “The Ballad of John and Yoko.”
I’m weird about this. If the scone is cool, it’s cream first and jam on top because that spreads more easily that way, but if it’s warm it’s jam first and then cream because otherwise the cream liquefies and the jam slides off into your lap.
Weird again - for me, it’s sugar first, then tea, then milk.
I would agree but see the point about children and pets above.
I definitely agree with this one! I LOVED The Last Jedi and thought the decisions the filmmakers made in it were bold and something the series sorely needed
I get that you are trying to make an analogy, but really? Being a Dentist requires acquiring a body of knowledge through education, experience, and a professional designation. It’s just not a reasonable model for comparing to the designation of immigrant.
I’m neither a dentist nor an immigrant — just as I’m not left-handed, and I’m also not Catholic, and I’m also not a Civil War veteran, and so on for quite a long list of other designations. And my father, as it happens, is also none of those. And his father was also none of those. And his father, likewise.
Now, my father and my grandfather and so on — they’re all related to someone who was each of those things. But I don’t much care that some of those things sure are different from others; what matters to me, what I want to emphasize, is that I don’t happen to be any of those — just as my father wasn’t, and his father wasn’t, and his father wasn’t; plenty of us in this nation happen not to be any of those (or the child of someone who was, or the grandchild of someone who was).
Return of the Jedi was a damn good film. It certainly has its place alongside Ep. IV and Ep. V as part of one of the greatest film trilogies of all time.