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Who’s the weirdest person on Cameo you could pay to read ck’s actual quotes for a PSA

Found a piece on silent era art title cards and it mentions that pastels were preferred. These would be soft pastels (oil pastels weren’t invented) You can grab grayscale pastels cheaply and easily. I want to give art titles a shot! Maybe it’s a chance atva new career in this growing field

note that there is not a single word in here about Charlie Kirk

Good thread! I will continue to panic the exact right amount.

I’m trying to avoid all the comedy controversy and sitting back to watch the new Woody Allen interview with … Bari Weiss.

Update. Apparently deer are rapacious bloody-toothed bird-devouring killers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

This person doxxed themselves, so I can at least say thanks! 🙏

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

the last song performed on Jimmy Kimmel's show was "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down"

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Blurry, through the screen photo of Professor Fate, the stray we are befriending

Frog: Ahhhh this is nice. Hey, this bath’s got bubbles! Just gonna sit here a while-

The TV networks that are willing to hastily cancel anyone who dares speak are owned by major conglomerates. These companies control so much of our media and can turn it off whenever they see fit, with or without cause. Now is a good reminder to make back ups of downloads & preserve anything you can.

The marigolds are looking pretty this evening 🌱

This is like that big joke in 2016 that Subway Jared was going to vote for trump except this is real.

My face when Fallon is the only one remaining

going to do something less frustrating than reading the news, like try to beat a Hollow Knight boss

a real “oh my fucking god, well maybe that was a little too hard” moment

“Nexstar’s reach would grow to 80% of U.S. television households — more than double the FCC’s current 39% cap.” www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Everything is so fucking grim so let me share one piece of good news: Outshine has a mango with Tajín flavor, and it’s spicy and delicious.

Honestly, I'm not rejecting a single so-called "Freedom of Speech Absolutist" who is capable of saying that when the President of the United States and the head of the FCC pressure companies to punish speech, that's the bridge too far. Welcome, Karl Rove. Welcome, Tucker. You there, Massie & Paul?

Can’t wait for everyone to see Park Chan-wook’s NO OTHER CHOICE, a bonafide crowd pleaser that begs to be experienced with a packed house. It’ll be positioned as the next PARASITE but, for my money, it’s really the next OFFICE KILLER — pitch black humor and all.

meanwhile, tonight on Jimmy Fallon: Dean Cain lip syncs “Shut Up and Dance”

I can say unequivocally, that I will never reveal the source of my ANTIFA funding, because… I mean… 🤷‍♂️

Nobody who works in comedy at ABC should come into work tomorrow. If your employment is contingent upon government approval and your job can be halted due to deliberate bad-faith misreadings by secondary companies fearful about their own government approval, you should find that worrisome.

uh, is there a vast image out of spiritus mundi troubling my sight? just me? anyone else?

Welp, so much for the "Antifa After Dark" show I was going to pitch to ABC as a Kimmel replacement.

Just saying that the fact that these wealthy corporate media CEOs are bending over one by one for Trump like playing cards for the Red Queen is maybe a sign that our massive wealth inequality was a cause for and is now becoming a conduit for fascism

Minor/positive health update. 💪 🐈‍⬛ www.instagram.com/reel/DOuYVQq...

Would you want to vote for my dog in this dog photo contest? You just like the photo on FB to vote (the winners get to be in their dog calendar next year). To be clear there is no substantial benefit to anyone for doing this, not even the dog. Anyway here's the link www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

thinking about the last sinclair-ABC fight, when ted koppel read the names of soldiers killed in iraq on nightline and sinclair objected [from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightli...

Don't forget, Bill Maher had dinner with Trump and they got along great. We're going to be okay, folks.

Just did this. Very easy to leave a comment.

Nakedly and openly batshit crazy. Jesus fucking hell these people are insane.

oh man this is so painful it plays out like an SNL sketch

Super glad comedy podcasters banded together last election to make comedy legal again.

someone's obviously still smarting from the "isn't it past your jailtime?" joke

Consider this my Ezra Klein diss track.👀

Australian here, only now just learning the Jimmies Kimmel and Fallon are in fact different people

See also: the Kennedy Center

One of the many shitty things about monopolies is it makes it super duper fucking easy to pivot to state media

We’re kinda at that place where The Onion may need to start hiring these guys and make some sort of TV show, maybe after hours, say, 10:30 pm. Call it, After 10 PM All Comedy/Satire Revue. Something catchy like that.

The best thing Kimmel could do right now is do what the Right does when it is deplatformed: replatform yourself on another service, go live, and dunk on the administration harder than ABC would ever have allowed him to. Go full South Park on them. Do an hour on Patel lying under oath about Epstein.

There are a whole lot of media and television executives currently operating with conviction that the potential consequences of the present will outweigh the accountability of the future. And no matter what happens, they cannot be allowed to be correct.

Seriously. Kimmel today isn't as bland as Jimmy Fallon, but he's no George Carlin either. What a time to be surviving whatever this all is

Sometimes I wish I could apologize to John Singleton for thinking the parts of HIGHER LEARNING about the alienated kid who gets seduced by white supremacists then shoots up a campus was kind of over the top back in 1995.

Remember when trans people complained about some of Chappelle's jokes and then he got a multi-million dollar deal to make more Netflix specials? Now THAT was cancel culture!

fallon’s monologue tonight: “so, what’s in the news today?” *followed by eight minutes of celebrity birthday jokes* www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.

This is not what Jerry Lester and Dagmar would have wanted, not at all.

I feel like I'm gonna explode

Right now Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels are so thankful that they suck so much.

The current fiber craft chenille craze is certainly a decision, yep yep yep Can’t rip without damage, gathers dust and pet hair… yep, a choice

A dark mirror: just looked up what Robert Redford movies I’ve seen

Cold War joke: two guys are standing up on a Moscow bus. First guy says "Are you in a position of influence in the Communist party?" Second guy says "No." "KGB?" "No." "Russian Armed forces?" "No." "Any connection to the government whatsoever?" "No." "Thank you, comrade. Now please get off my toe."

A Russian joke: two guys are standing up on a Moscow bus. First guy says "Are you in a position of influence in the communist party?" Second guy says "No." "KGB?" "No." "Russian Armed forces?" "No." "Any connection to the government whatsoever?" "No." "Thank you, comrade. Now please get off my toe."

I'll try pointing out the hypocrisy by The Free Speech Defenders only 400 more times before I call it quits

It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.

When the CEOs are bringing gold plated trinkets to the President and Zuckerberg’s heard on a hot mic colluding to make up some investment numbers at a bullshit kiss ass dinner, you realize this is a full blown oligarchy where profits are all that matter

Great tweet today, oh, hold on, this is from two months ago

Extremely curious what the behind-the-scenes conversations are like right now with the SNL team over at 30 Rock ...

Boycott all Disney products.

The last survivor will be Fallon, speaking his blistering truth* to the third lead from NBC’s NEE hit drama Chicago Insurance Adjusters *playing a few free-spirited rounds of Celebrity Uno XTREME

"Redford typically played men who were obsessive, arrogant, uncompromising, or just hard to reach, but rarely a person who was just flat-out bad at something. Redford had always been on this path, even if he didn’t yet know it." www.vulture.com/article/robe...

Meanwhile, Americans hate all of this in massive and still growing numbers.

See, I think Lorne is the original slick operator who is very much going to do whatever it takes to stay on the air. I agree that he haaaaaaaates SNL in its current form, but we haven't seen this season yet. I suspect we are in for a very toothless season at the bare minimum.

needed a new car battery but had to get one of the terminals repaired first and the dudes at the shop said $3000 worth of shit needs to get fixed in the near future...............

Woke is bullshit. It's horseshit. It exists as a false affront to assholes who just want to asshole. It's fascism that is the enemy of free and open speech. Fascism is and always was the great shut-up and shut-it-down censor of debate and discussion. Fuck all these corporate whores.

Two months ago, after Colbert was canceled.

Quite the feeling to finish watching Raul Peck's searing and urgent new doc ORWELL: 2+2=5 only to log on and see the news of Kimmel's suspension. ORWELL is supposed to be released in theaters next month, but the way things are going ... well, I hope it still does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGME...

time for fallon to take a bold stance of solidarity with [holds finger to ear] hm

Bob Iger, RAPTUROUSLY thanked by "Andor" writer Dan Gilroy at the Emmys, is on the spot to prove if giving a green light to a TV show about an encroaching authoritarian regime that attempts to hijack all notions of truth means he watched and understood the show, or just likes making money.

Remember the time Putin canceled a puppet show that mocked him and then the creator had to flee the country

The fullness and swiftness with which every single entity of corporate media has completely buckled for this loathsome asswipe and his dipshit minions is pretty fucking depressing, gotta be honest!!!!!

As Hollywood creatives flock to “verticals” during a dry period for jobs in traditional film and television, the Writers Guild of America West is emphasizing that work for these projects can be covered under a union agreement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

A country where you can't joke about the president's political faction by custom is not functionally different from one where you can't joke about the president's political faction by law.

Man, what does the right think is going to happen when Trump dies? If they can't handle the reaction to Kirk's passing, it may well drive them past the point of no return when we're out in the streets dancing and singing over Der Glorious Leader.

Deja vu all over again

lol and still nobody’s gonna watch Fallon

This seems bad

And... what? There but for the grace (and integrity and moral courage) of... David Zaslav goes John Oliver?

Ok just so we’re clear: People getting fired for being racist was un-American cancel culture free speech-impeding wokism People getting fired for not being sad when a racist dies is totally cool

Lionel Hutz in Park Chan-wook’s No, Other Choice!

So Brendan Carr is just standing there in front of the government seal and the flag, as we transition from the cowardly capitulation that's sometimes a part of capitalism into rigid, autocratic control as the right turns a dead bigot into Franz Ferdinand.

Life under dictatorship

SYDNEY!!! Come see 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR! So grateful to SXSW Sydney @sxswsydney.com - tix, more info, etc here www.sxswsydney.com/screen-festi...

So now Jimmy Kimmel is going dark, too? Cool. Super normal.

Cute alert

All right, here we go: an appreciation of Robert Redford's acting, his undeniable beauty, and how he leveraged both to become a legendary figure in cinema. Great photos, selected by the @vulture.com art department! www.vulture.com/article/robe...

In CBO's current projections, the U.S. population in 2035 is 4.5 million people smaller (or 1.2 percent) than it was projected to be in the agency's January projections. Administrative actions are the largest factor decreasing projections of the number of immigrants. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Counterpoint: INHERENT VICE was the best film released that year and grows with every rewatch. It is sly and literate and deeply felt and utterly unconcerned with whether or not you get it.

Folks, I'm telling you this movie is a tonic. If you're a certain type of person, you will believe it was made just for you, at this specific moment in time, like a gift from above.

For @letterboxd.social's WATCHLIST THIS! I wrote about Neo Sora's rebellious teenage dystopian film HAPPYEND.

Patton's gonna be hanging with FFers! DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT Wish I was there

I’m ecstatic to be touring with the ever-effervescent Tim Cavanagh (represented here by the Harry Caray Diet “Holy Cow” Cola); sip the specifics: www.emophilips.com