You’re right, Conserva-nerds. That show from 1966 about how to face the challenges of the future, a white guy from Iowa must co-operate with a Russian, a black woman, a Japanese guy, and the mixed race child of a human and a space alien was never intended to be political. And the ship, named after an active duty Navy vessel with a half-female crew at a time when women didn’t serve aboard ship, that was just apolitical speculative world building!

1. Comedy shop talk. Feel free to ignore if that isn’t your thing (not that anyone on Twitter needs to be told that they can ignore this whole shit bucket) You can still learn shit twenty years in. I was bummed that, after four years, I was still 15 minutes from a fourth album 2. I was at @ComedyMagicClub and Alan Havey and Angel Gaines we’re talking and I re-learned something I had somehow let slip away from me. Angel said that her rule was to always, no matter what, have fun up there, and Alan said “if you ever think you’re talking too slow...”

1. Brody Stevens Story

There was a charity show at the Laugh Factory for the charity of a major Hollywood agency. The audience was all agents who were forced to go there by their work on a Tuesday night... 2. Industry crowds are notoriously bad anyway. They watch comedy all day and they’re numb to it. Also these people were here by force and it was a week night. Six amazing comics who you have heard of bombed hard one after the other...