Right-wing freak-show and pretend information spurter Fox “News” went a-trolling the underbelly of the US today, as it requested its many, many insane commenters in the “Fox Forum” to send in “funny” questions for Middle-East Peace Envoy and cool, jazz trumpeter “Barack Obama”. Needless to say, moonshine went un-stilled, trailer parks fell silent and necks went un-reddened for an hour or several as the dark side of the red states came out to play. Then Wonkette noticed.

In a deliberate nod to the Malaysian New Wave, this week’s episode features Ken Layne seated at a rather portentous angle, demonstrating from the start the serious nature of “the conversation” between himself and Choire Sicha. Again, the traditional narrative is broken apart with the free-wheeling nature of the dialogue – Sicha rolls on the floor like a child overdosing on hormone replacement therapy, while Layne revels in multiple layers of absurdism by conducting his “half” of “the conversation” from a stable. Is there an underlying point to be garnered by the use of a “stable” in these rather unstable times? Layne’s “location” is referred to in several instances, but, like Rene Clair’s “Ballet Mecanique” (1924), we are left to make the connection ourselves.