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And if you thought Bill Maher interviewing Woody Allen was the worst thing you’d read about comedy today … www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
In his interview with Woody Allen, Bill Maher calling Bob Hope a “cheap phone it in whore-mongering douche bag” is some 70mm IMAX-level projection.
my favorite song of theirs
Thank you. I can't defend the last 30 years of Bob's work (except maybe his "Muppet Show" appearance), but one reason he lasted so long phoning-it-in is because he could adapt and listen to his audience.
Yes, if you're a reactionary Woody Allen defender, that's not the area where he needs help.
In his interview with Woody Allen, Bill Maher calling Bob Hope a “cheap phone it in whore-mongering douche bag” is some 70mm IMAX-level projection.
I’ve never been a true Jerry Lewis fan, but he did this bit almost every year on the MDA telethon with the Singing Cedars all-male choir, and it always killed me. www.tiktok.com/@aesopiar20m...
The problem? Thrift stores google the prices of all their merchandise, making it less likely an amazing deal slips through the cracks. The plan? A chain of thrift stores staffed entirely by convicted pedophiles who have been legally banned from using the internet
*sigh*
as to all the speculation this weekend, all i can say is that it's nice to see prayer making a comeback on the left.
it's up there with "dr. strangelove," a perfect comedy.
one of the most quotable movies ever. zhukov: "jesus christ, did coco chanel take a shit on your head?"
let's go!
I agree, but that’s not a counterpoint to what I said.
so, you're telling me there's a woody allen-influenced movie called "after the hunt" and it has nothing to do with the painting "after the hunt" that harpo and chico stole in "animal crackers?" hardest possible pass from this comedy nerd.
masterpiece!
*to SEE a new one" i meant.
I still don't get why that boom ever happened like it did, and why nobody seems tired of horror. I like horror, but I don't need to a new one every month.
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
still talking and still never not funny - congrats in the tour!
really? bc every time you see them they look like a crack, fit, in shape team of highly trained professionals.
Rosebud was his sled!
really? bc every time you see them they look like a crack, fit, in shape team of highly trained professionals.
Big congrats on the engagement news to Taylor Swift and Kevin James!
thank you, matt!
wrong ben schwartz. you want @rejectedjokes.bsky.social
I have a new piece up @thenation.com on Billy Wilder, the Holocaust, survivor's guilt, and confronting the limits of Zionism. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
i can't decide if i don't believe cracker barrel is the *only* place he would ever stop for food on a road trip or if i don't believe he gaf at all about this.
i could not live with this level of purity politics.
Idk, I mean, no one should be in the epstein files. there's no good reason to be in the epstein files, only bad ones.
thank you, corey!
I'm mad that they got rid of the cracker and the barrel and my grandfather is still mad they put shoes and a shirt on the cracker in 1970.
"When you talk to the average American, or to your non-Jewish wife, you feel disappointment, you sense their apprehension that the state, which always looked brilliant and sophisticated, is sinking into some kind of fanatical aggression, a cycle of an eye for an eye.” –Wilder on the Siege of Beirut.
better!
not woke, go broke.
"You will be hearing from Galactus." Finally, a Fantastic Four movie that captures Kirby's vision. www.instagram.com/reel/DNATR-o...
I'm still mad they took the rabbi off the Cheesecake Factory logo.
This’ll be like "The Boys" where they'll have a confirmed tattooed immigrant drug dealer he can kill on camera.
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"sweetheart?" what a mug. i hope you told him to scram, and how!
I take it as a sign of Trump's respect for the dignity of the office of the president that he no longer answers every joke about him personally, and instead has the vice-president do it.
I still think taking the hood off the cracker in 1948 was the right move.
I'm mad that they got rid of the cracker and the barrel and my grandfather is still mad they put shoes and a shirt on the cracker in 1970.
thank you, sam!
thank you!
thank you!
And thank you – it was a pleasure reading your book on Wilder.
Thank you, Mr. Dante!
thank you!
i'd love to see their 3-5 movies from the 1930s worth seeing list.
judy garland followed up "wizard of oz" with "babes in arms." an absurd level of trivia, i know.
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Natasha Lyonne out firing her agents rn
What's behind Trump's war on mail-in ballots--my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Thank you, Jonathan!
I’m Boyfriend
I didn't even know about this - thanks!
it all happened too quickly and came together too well to be anyone in the trump admistration.
yup. he wants to be a putin, an autocrat. bc trump doesn't care about democracy or rule of law, he sees putin as a natural ally not an enemy.
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
Coming from you, that's much appreciated! Thank you!
And thank you, with much gratitude, to my editor, @chrislehmann.bsky.social.
thank you, daisy!
And thank you @jonathancoe.bsky.social, @noahisenberg.bsky.social, @gkevinlally.bsky.social, and @pbdiamond.bsky.social for your interview time and insights into Wilder's life and work.
I have a new piece up @thenation.com on Billy Wilder, the Holocaust, survivor's guilt, and confronting the limits of Zionism. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thank you, Noah! Yes, I have a new piece up @thenation.com on Billy Wilder, the Holocaust, survivor's guilt, and confronting the limits of Zionism.
I absolutely LOVE that LAST NIGHT IN SOHO is Terence Stamp's last film. It's a great film, made by a director who admired him, a cast that felt lucky to work with him, for an audience that cherished getting to see him again. Few actors get that kind of swan song. And to share it w/Diana Rigg? Poetry
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I've been waiting for a Scott Rudin follow-up on that for years.
"Mr. Hunt, should you choose to accept this mission –" Ethan Hunt: "Yeah, I'll pass."
“scheduling conflicts” — “i’m sorry mr. president, but i’m doing ‘mission: impossible’ press in bulgaria that week.”
lol this is how much trump has devalued the presidency. people.com/tom-cruise-t...
it's time to quit calling a meeting with the president of the united states a diplomatic win for putin or anyone else, as trump will meet with any dictator anywhere. he could be meeting with xi or kid rock, there's no difference now. www.bbc.com/news/article...
and newsom's press conference is about his redistricting campaign, it's a show of force to intimidate democrats about the 2026 midterms. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
it's time to quit calling a meeting with the president of the united states a diplomatic win for putin or anyone else, as trump will meet with any dictator anywhere. he could be meeting with xi or kid rock, there's no difference now. www.bbc.com/news/article...
lol
Gene Simmons: “Mr. President, this is my wife, Shannon Tweed.” Trump: “Oh, we’ve met.”
i still need to check of "the post" on that list.
Gene Simmons: “Mr. President, this is my wife, Shannon Tweed.” Trump: “Oh, we’ve met.”
Yup, imo, that's the point Streep and Kidman are making. People often say his movies are "about toxic masculinity." I mean, duh. Of course he's aware of what these guys are, but it's still focused on the guy first. Streep and Kidman can carry movies, so why settle for that?
yeah, or assuming that they're ignorant, that streep and kidman clearly haven't seen his movies if they're saying that.
he wouldn't, but i remain excited.
yup. if a tankie went off about how scorsese isn't stalinist enough they would argue that the mafia is actually an ethnic workers collective that occasionally needs to purge (ie, whack) capitalists. he doesn't need to be an intersectional hero ffs, he's a great director doing what he's doing.
she didn't call him sexist or misogynist. nicole kidman made a similar comment about him. those two actors are going to want more to do in a movie than what lorraine bracco got in "goodfellas" or lily gladstone got in "killers." the actual quote from streep is here: the-talks.com/interview/me...
not exactly what she said, but it can be true that scorsese doesn't center his movies on women enough for meryl streep to want to be in them and that he's a great director anyway.
the johnny weismuller section lol
Ok, there's a lot of ppl mad about this tweet, but most presidents have Nobel "for your consideration" ad campaigns built into their contracts whether their administration is any good or not.
Dude, if Henry Kissinger has a Nobel, there is no disqualifying factor.
For Your Consideration:
lol Bugs Balls -- wish I'd thought of that!
