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Some jokes have unmistakable historic value despite sucking.

This Halloween nothing scares me more than the prospect of Donald Trump winning a uniquely insane, uniquely awful presidential race.

There are many wonderful reasons to despise Donald Trump, most notably his unrelenting cruelty toward anyone who displeases him.

You will NOT believe how young the Traveliing Wilburys and the cast of Cheers were!

Donald Trump is a terrible liar, in that his lies are so obviously false and a great liar in that he has convinced the masses that his lies are true.

A viral “photo” from Hurricane Helen of a sobbing little girl with a puppy that’s clearly AI underscores just how easy it is to fool rubes who are defiantly unintelligent when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. And everything else.

Donald Trump likes to call people dumb in a way that betrays that he's a real ding-dong without much going on upstairs.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

We were going to share some neat trivia about actress Mena Suvari but since you don’t even know who she is we’re not even going to bother.

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.

A week devoted to terrible Saturday Night Live hosts kicks off with a mortified look at Milton Berle’s notorious episode.

My World Of Flops returns with a bleakly comic post-mortem on the biggest political debacle of the millennium (excuse me, WILLenium), Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 Presidential campaign

Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University made a part-narrative/part documentary film about how Jesus chose Trump to be president that’s pretty fucked up.

It’s like Snakes on a Plane but with money! And Kelsey Grammer devouring scenery shamelessly as Darius Emmanuel Grouch III, AKA The Rumble AKA The Colonel

Saturday Night Live taped a live special at Mardi Gras in 1977.

It did not go well.

They made a sequel to The Mask without Jim Carrey. It did not go well.

John Travolta continues to scrape the bottom with the deathly dull 2019 racing Trading Paint.

With Shania Twain for some reason?

This Nicolas Cage vehicle is g-g-g-rounded until all of the g-g-g-ghosts!

Nicolas Cage has made a LOT of movies. Some of them are pretty crummy, like the overwrought 2019 Southern Gothic melodrama Grand Isle.

In a real change of pace, John Travolta, late in his career, that was not good.

Nicolas Cage. A jaguar and a killer on the loose. A boat. All the ingredients for a goofy good time.

Holy shit is the 2019 H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space a terrifying and terrific masterpiece of cosmic horror.

My journey through the much buzzed-about 2016 drama Vinyl begins with a look at its heavy-handed and underwhelming Martin Scorsese-directed pilot.

The second season of Red Dwarf ends on a high note with the audacious “Queeg” and “Parallel Universe.”

My journey through the forgettable police procedural Backstrom continues with a look at its underwhelming second episode.

The sequel to Creep took the series in a darkly comic, self-referential and very fun direction.

Mark Duplass plays a creep looking for a friend to murder in the nifty 2014 found footage horror film Creep.

I finally experienced the malevolent magic of Sharknado, the movie about a tornado full of shame. I will never be the same.

Our patron-funded journey through the films of Sam Peckinpah hits another high point with a loving exploration of 1978’s Convoy, a smash hit CB trucker sex comedy based on a novelty song that’s pure fun.