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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

I know we all inhabit history but I would prefer to be living in an era that gets a few lines in the book and not multiple chapters

As much as I sympathize with Colbert, we do have to acknowledge that he did forget the most basic, foundational rule of comedy: How will this joke, monologue or sketch impact the sale of Paramount to Skydance?

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Wild to see so many institutions abandoning core principles to appease a person who seems to be at imminent risk of being felled by heart failure and/or ribald birthday greetings.

One of the only silver linings of our current era is that some very prominent people are making some very prominent decisions that identify them as collaborators, and we aren't gonna forget that

This Colbert news should scare you.

This is an evergreen, but it's one for a reason: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the former with the same intensity and ruthlessness as we work to prevent the latter.

All the podcast bros & shitty Rogan sycophants suddenly discovering their president was bffs with Epstein despite decades of proof, is really about them trying to get ahead to absolve themselves of how they helped vaporize the US constitution.

I... I just... I just need the good guys to fucking win one for a change.

Well it finally happened- my wife LEFT me because she’s tired of being married to a pathetic loser who spends his day being cyber bullied by teens (not to mention hanging out in the garage meticulously arranging his matryoshka dolls into Jan. 6 poses). She wants a REAL MAN, and who can blame her??

Mr. trouble

Guys please don’t make fun of me - i only made $120k writing this spider man book, and it’s barely enough to cover a year of my daughter’s private school. Plus my cybertruck’s doors fell off and i was told i cant return it. I am DROWNING in debt and this kind of abuse isn’t helping!!

Please stop dragging me!! Now my daughter has seen your posts and even SHE has started making fun of me! I’m old and not as internet savvy as you, this isn’t FAIR

I think what makes losing Colbert especially hard is he seems like one of the most (and possibly few) genuinely decent people on television

I hope Colbert is texting Conan on how to handle the last year on a network after they’ve already fired you

Is late night in financial trouble? Sure. Should you take Paramount’s word that that’s the reason Colbert is going? Give me a break. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a...

Yes, financial — Trump just raised the bribe fee to $60M.

Luigi Mangione is popular in Europe too

wow the full copy of the note is actually even weirder than I expected:

Rest In Peace, Connie Francis. At MST3K, I screened "Rock Rock Rock." Perfect fodder for us, except it was packed with great music, which disqualified it. It had Tuesday Weld lip-synching Connie's voice. And what a voice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDU2...

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 😄

I mean, mergers are financial decisions

They should make ‘Barbie’ dolls

jeff epstein? the enigma who loves his birthday?

Hate to say this out loud but I believe it's true: in this right-wing authoritarian environment, Bill Maher's show will never be cancelled.

Ben Turpin receiving a pie in the face courtesy of a baker in MR FLIP (1909). Often erroneously cited as the first movie pie-ing but pies had been wielded in films since at least 1901. However, the film is fun for its message: Turpin annoys women, they use the tools of their trade to fight back.

This week, Attorney General Pam Bondi floundered through her staggeringly inept mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Bondi has ensnared herself in a dilemma of her own creation, and somehow, she keeps making it worse.

Frabjous day! The Armenian Cucumbers are ready! 🌱

"Cher and her father Mel are both kooks who think they’re the baseline for determining normalcy—like everyone else in the movie, really. All great comedies have this in common, and Clueless is one of them."— I got to write about a movie that I absolutely adore www.rogerebert.com/features/eve...

Same reason I quit musical theater

Oh, rad! Having been spoofed several times on the Hellsite, this is one less thing I have to worry about.

Yes, challenges like the one i have with my cybertruck! Plus, my father-in-law just stuck me with 1700 counterfeit Labubus that i can’t unload. Would you PLEASE have a heart and consider contributing to my kickstarter??? Most expensive tier makes the main character married to whoever you want

My daughter is entering the workforce now in the next couple years and my advice to her has been mainly "if they tell you they're a family... run." I mean, seriously, who the fuck wants to work at a business that's run like a family? Like Leatherface's family? Manson's? Addams'? What family?

Quick Pola Negri film recommendations thread! Negri started her career in her native Poland, became a star in Germany as a Lubitsch leading lady, and was imported to Hollywood. She could do drama, farce, rom-coms, anything, really, and she did it extremely well.

just adding to the chorus here that this is fucking bullshit, and everyone knows this was an unmistakably political decision

We must support comedy that is produced independent of corporate media, which of course has nothing to do with the new audio version of my book, 25 MST3K FILMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER, being available here: dumb-industries.com/25mst3kfilms

The tangible reasons CBS decided to end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" hardly matter. It's all about the optics. And they suck.

GOOD MORNING IT IS A GREAT DAY TO KEEP REPORTING THE NEWS

The great Erin Burnett had me on CNN to talk about NPR. One of the revelations: many of the lawmakers who claim NPR is biased have been guests on NPR, and have been able to tell their own stories in their own words. vimeo.com/1102363466/e...

Dem Threedom boys ate

So is crypto and AI going to consume so much power that it wipes out all of our collective efforts to conserve at a consumer level over the last few decades (habits like keeping AC a little warmer, switching to LEDs, Energy Star appliances)? It's hundreds of terawatt-hours...

"Superman’s most poignant fantasy [is] the idea that modern journalism, in an era when what the truth is has become a matter of tribalism, can still take down a powerful oligarch. Easier to believe a man can fly." @alisonwillmore.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/supe...

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let people have their privacy for goshsakes

Media outlets, I am fucking BEGGING you to stop calling the Epstein birthday book "bawdy." Benny Hill is bawdy. Dirty limerick books are bawdy. This is a bound tribute to a pedophile rapist trafficker; please don't frame it as something frisky and fun?

Next month's theme is Now a Major Motion Picture! I will be looking at silent films that were NOT adapted from novels, short stories or plays. Instead, we will be diving into silents based on comic strips, poetry, fine art, postcards, popular music and more!

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET??? God they are so gross and weird.

Wrote about how restaurants are redoing their menus to get around tariffs, and how for some cuisines that's basically impossible www.eater.com/restaurant-n...

The Smothers Brothers show was replaced by Hee Haw. Are we about to find out what the Hee Haw of today is?

Will continue to believe this man lacks the juice until it is proved otherwise.

This is the fourth physical format I’ve owned this movie on. The only version I don’t have is the 1983 laserdisc. No regrets. Saw it on the big screen when I was 5 and been in love ever since. Truly a deep fried favorite.

I'm told today's Meta settlement coming out of Board's insurance fund (FT first reported), not the pockets of defendants Zuckerberg, Thiel, Andreessen, et al. — who now can avoid taking the stand for a sum that's been described to me as being in the hundreds of millions. It was a $8B investor suit.

what the actual fuck CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ variety.com/2025/tv/news...

David Ellison is a giant piece of shit. Make room in your heart for another billionaire to despise.

Four Action/Thriller Favorites with Kiyoshi Kurosawa 💥 Cloud, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new thriller, is in US theaters now via Sideshow and Janus Films.

I'll say it: Donald Trump is better at drawing things than I am.

Just catching up, but from what I’m seeing it seems like there’s video of Trump and Epstein canoodling with each other at a Coldplay concert?

Scream Factory is celebrating the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD with the news that the long-lost original film elements have been found:

Hardly the biggest takeaway here but it is so perfect that the text of that Trump-Epstein letter reads like the copy for a skeevy 90s boutique cologne ad

What if this is an Adolph situation

apparently now the woke scolds say it's wrong to relish in the joy of keeping secrets with your pal, the world's biggest pedophile

I don't think there should be any question that Colbert is the most brilliant man ever to sit behind a desk at a late night talk show. Seriously, watch this clip. As an extemporaneous speaker, he can't be beat. And the depth of his intellect is undeniable.

It's so interesting to me that I dashed off this column over a decade ago in response to somebody else's article, and it turned into one of the most widely read pieces I've ever done. But that's how it goes!

Scanning to find the secret button to read the rest of an online news article like Gandalf and the dwarves searching for the hidden entrance to the Lonely Mountain

There really aren’t many veggies cuter than the pattypan squash 🌱

Honey what’s wrong you’ve barely touched your Malort sno-cone

Nobody seems to be seeing the silver lining: a much better time slot of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.

It went so wonderfully last night at the Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa that the owner wants me tonight as well, as originally planned.

Oh my God good night everyone I can’t even

Clueless is a great movie and I had a lot of fun writing about it!

Nobody:… Me: You know who I like? Snub Pollard!

When the delivery time on your Doordash order keeps getting pushed back.

I'm surprised and vexed that neither the AP nor the NYT obit mention what I think is Martin Cruz Smith's best suspense novel, along with Gorky Park: ROSE, set in an English coal town in 1872. It was a bestseller, and I recommend it. #RIP

I always thought Nixon was behind the demise of the Woody Woodbury Show so this all seems familiar to me.

Welp, in for my nose-breaking sinus procedure and my insurance deemed anesthesia to be medically unnecessary, so the backup plan is to just get me really, legally high. I am not responsible for anything I post between now and about 4pm PST

Yes. Same with "best"

No🪒Beard grooming in a psychiatric facility! so you feel like you are woman enough to handle your new med side-effects. 🎬From my comedy special, "Old Baby" available to watch on @netflix.com

I sincerely hope Trump decides to not allow the CBS merger to happen anyway, even after they bent over completely. That's what they fucking deserve. You don't appease monsters. They're never going to reward you for capitulation.

Jesus, how humiliating being caught at a Coldplay concert.

Competitive geoguessing. Surprisingly engaging! Uncut competence porn. I’m sure online betting will be on this as soon as it breaks on the Ocho.

Sure the Coldplay couple should have played it cool then but that’s in the past. I say they go to a second concert and play it cool now

The Top 10 Most Popular Films on Letterboxd This Week 🦸‍♂️

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Today in Sentences That Have Never Been Typed Before:

Saw Superman. Loved it. James Gunn never disappoints. Been a good week for superhero movies because mere days ago I watched this all-time banger.

“Writers are so used to being paid late that whenever it does happen, a lot of us don’t even notice. But in my case, Guild staff noticed and called me to initiate a claim. This process taught me to stand up for myself the next time I am paid late because I know that the Guild has my back.”

If only Trump had been accepted into art school

NBC, if you touch one hair on Seth Meyers' head ...

I don’t have a printer myself but my favorite 3D printing application is printing bioplastic watercolor pans. The kind I like are printed from a wood-based filament and they’re great! And nobody forced them into my shopping bag and tried to make me pay

We know that Godzilla Minus One writer-director Takashi Yamazaki is developing a follow-up for as soon as next year, but that’s not the only Godzilla film on the table in Japan. A sequel to SHIN GODZILLA might also be on the table:

Patio Hall Of Fame Album.

One for the Gen Xers

Gutless and pathetic. CBS didn't just lick the boot. They swallowed it all the way up to the knee.

Paying Joe Eszterhas $4 million for anything in 2025 is an objectively hilarious waste of money. MGM is fucking clueless, man.

excuse me what the fuck

In case there’s any doubt in the wake of Superman, James Gunn confirms that the DC Universe’s take on Clayface is a horror film. “Although it’s in the same universe, it’s a complete horror film” Gunn told CBS Mornings: www.tiktok.com/@cbsmornings...

A24 and Peacock's Friday the 13th prequel series CRYSTAL LAKE has just found its Jason Voorhees, played by Chucky actor Callum Vinson!