Yeah his facial expressions and speech patterns are the typical "how to speak in public" formula. He's still not as bad to me as Ira Glass, which is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard. Hipster fingernails on a chalkboard, that also talk down to you.

Gah... Ira Glass writes in that same, stuttering, talking-down-to-the-audience voice that he narrates with. I hate that guy.
What's worse, ever since he became popular, more and more NPR hosts are popping up that have adopted his ridiculous pattern of speech.
God I hate that guy.

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>> ^jmzero:
How many bands flounder on their next album after their "first big hit"? How many comedians end up seeming like a "bad impression of themselves 5 years ago"? How many authors seem to just coast later in their career?

Quite a few probably, but then artistic endeavors aren't like making widgets in a factory, after your "first big hit" you don't just pump out a thousand more of those and you're set. I'm sure even successful bands may put out a second album that was maybe a lot like the first one, which some people liked and others thought was boring, then they try a different direction in their third album and the old school fans hate it but people who didn't listen to them before pick it up.

>> ^jmzero:


How many directors go back to a great work a decade later and take a big dump on it? Only one that I can think of.


Really? I can think of a whole trilogy.

http://videosift.com/video/Tracy-Goes-On-Anti-Gay-Rant-CNN-Talks-To-Audience-Member

>> ^Sagemind:

What's the deal with Tracy Morgan?

I love her reaction once she hears it's going to be on WBEZ.

Ira Glass would approve.

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