[oblomov]

Good article. Cooke and Williamson are my two favorite writers left at NR.

[Rummyfan]

Oliver wrapped up the first season of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight – its semi-self-effacing slogan: “Just like the nightly news. Only weeklier” – and took a little time off to bask in the lavish, ubiquitous praise that America’s arbiters of taste have thrown his way, and, in good time, to figure out how best to capitalize on the suggestion that Oliver had finally managed to take the popular comedian-is-upset-by-the-news genre and do something substantial with it.

What, only comedians are allowed to get upset by the news? I'm upset by the news every day!

[Rummyfan]

In my experience, there are two basic types of British immigrant. On the one hand, there are deliberate exiles who adore their new country and were drawn here by its virtues.

Christopher Hitchens. Or even Craig Ferguson.

On the other, there are wanderers who came here for a job but who do not quite seem to like or “get” the place, and whose broadcasts are in consequence tinged with a certain disdain.

Piers Morgan...