Netflix’s ‘Paddleton’ shows how desperately we need the words to describe our more-than-friendships

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Spoilers for Netflix’s Paddleton lie ahead.

I ship Ray Romano and Mark Duplass. Exactly how I ship them is where things get complicated. 

The marketing for Netflix’s new tragicomedy Paddleton paints the picture of an uninspired buddy comedy. View the trailer and you’ll recognize its narrative: Two friends, one with terminal cancer, embark on a road trip. Their advertised journey promises hijinks and tearful goodbyes, all likely forgettable. It’s seemingly an obvious pass.

What lies beneath the terrible promotion and equally terrible title is one of the most heartbreaking and nuanced on-screen relationships I have ever seen — the exact nature of which I struggled to pin down. Read more…

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Ray Romano plays adorably awkward guessing game with his son

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To be fair, this is way less embarrassing than the time Ray Romano pulled his other son Matt up on stage on Jimmy Kimmel Live in order to try and find him a girlfriend.

It’s still enjoyably awkward, though.

In the clip above, Romano and his son Greg — who happens to work on The Late Late Show — take turns fielding questions about their private lives from a cheery James Corden. The idea is they’re supposed to guess what the other person will write, so they match on answers.

In the end they only manage to score a single point in the whole game, but that just makes it all the more entertaining. Read more…

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Ray Romano hits back at Jon Hamm’s impression of him

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It’s hard to hate on Mad Men’s Jon Hamm.

But comedian Ray Romano took exception to Hamm’s impression of him on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday.

“He’s handsome and he’s funny, that son of a bitch,” Romano joked. 

You’re damn right. Maybe we should be angry at Hamm, despite all of his positive, redeeming qualities and impressive acting skills. Read more…

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