It was a season of vanishing, of a silence like raw stupidity, like the unbearable ticking silence of a teacher expecting an answer from a kid everyone knew couldn't even say his own name right.
Matthew Maher stands out among the supporting players for his complacently doltish Acaste, preening himself on his own stupidity like a cat licking its fur after lapping up a saucer of milk.
He earned his considerable mint by discovering a way to monetise consumer stupidity, like a prospector of the permanently baffled, by a) putting the word 'Beats' on some adequate headphones, b) selling them for the price of a weekend in Skiathos, and then c) flogging the brand to a company itself supported essentially by the same business model.
The section hit the jackpot when the representatives didn't even need his questions to show off their stupidity, like this segment with New York's Yvette Clark where she demonstrates she doesn't understand how time travel works and doesn't know when slavery ended in New York.
So to even entertain stupidity like that, tell him to go try to get his story off somebody else".
Whether this is the result of impenetrable stupidity, dodo-like foresight, monumental incompetence, the cynical realisation that they will be booted out in 2015 anyway so might as well inflict as much damage as possible or a combination of all the above, I have not yet decided.
"What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance, naivete and stupidity the likes of which I have never seen," said McCain, one of the authors of a now partially overturned law that restricted political spending by corporations and other outside groups.
To paraphrase Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like it," sweet are the uses of Donald Trump's stupidities, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
"He doesn't like stupidity or laziness," he reflects.
