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

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

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 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.

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

There is a greater-than-zero chance that Dylan Roof will receive a presidential pardon at some point before January 2028. This administration has now breached the frontiers of sociopathic partisanship and moral obliviousness, but still the cretins march on. Anything is possible at this point.

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!

Give a man a fish and you can feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you can wait for him offshore and then blow him apart with a precision-guided missile for trying. We are the world's most soulless cretins, deserving of the deepest contempt from any and every civilized society.

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

Comedy is illegal again

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.

So, Charlie Kirk was not a purveyor of hate, intolerance and disinformation and was instead a paragon of open debate and free speech, which is why anyone who says anything bad about the fellow needs to be identified and targeted so they'll shut up and maybe lose their jobs. Cool. Just checking.

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

Hah hah. Funny! Becauss -- get it -- you could leave the dock of your village to go catch fish and be blown apart by guided missile fired by a nation with whom your country is not actually at war. You'd be dead and no fish for dinner! Hilarious. We are the terrorists. We are the shithole nation.

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.

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

I love how all the so-called critics are shocked that Paul Thomas Anderson can shoot great action sequences because it tells me they're totally unfamiliar with his early work, like Alien vs Predator and Resident Evil: Afterlife, which has always been his true love

Washington Generals preparing for their next matchup with the Harlem Globetrotters

If you choose to be a writer, you will fail. And that's okay. It's the sticking around despite those failures that will define your "career" - whether it be amateur or professional.

The video of a bespttiled Kash Patel raging his way through a legislative hearing, hurling personal insults like belt-fired ammunition is just, wow. Not since Hoover faced a congressional committee in a Chanel frock with opera gloves and four-inch heels has the FBI seemed so unprofessionally helmed.

Just did this. Very easy to leave a comment.

Republicans are acting like they just learned about the concept of death

This seems bad

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

A novelist had a hit in the 70s leading to a huge payday & a splashy book launch. That book failed. He went to 80s Hollywood & wrote for a TV show. Cancelled after 2 seasons. He wrote for another show. Cancelled after 2 seasons. Movies & shows failed. In the 90s he went home & wrote Game of Thrones.

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...

Graphic design is my passion

Just a reminder that I'm a good writer and editor who hits deadlines, if you have any freelance or part-time work you wanna throw at me.

The whole world must. There will either be a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza or there will be another 100 years of bloodletting in the Levant. Netanyahu and his coalition be damned all the way to hell and The Hague.

Take 30 minutes of self care tomorrow. Eat something good as hell and find out what the survey said on #CelebrityFamilyFeud (Thursday 9/18, 8/7c on ABC), when Sheryl Underwood, Kym Whitley, DC Youngfly, Jeanne Sparrow and I take on Lil Rel in a battle for charity and whatnot. #CelebrityFamilyFeud

“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...

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

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

Two months ago, after Colbert was canceled.

I want Kimmel back on the air and my friends to stay employed but this is a fucking shakedown

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.

"We can fight back against the Death Star with alternate side of the street parking rules!"

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

Fire Island's dress code is strict

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.

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.

I miss the pre-social media, pre-blogging days internet too but I really don’t think personal websites are coming back in a big way. Wish they were, don’t think they are. The people who want them have them (waves) and it takes a certain stubbornness to keep one going vs getting a Threads account

Consider this my Ezra Klein diss track.👀

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.

SPOILER FOR HANDMAID’S TALE NOVEL: Thinking a lot lately about the importance of the conclusion, where the framing device is revealed. That idea, that Gilead ended, is so much more important than I realized when I first read the book.

This just sucks, Ben & Jerry's always made activism inextricable from their product

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

Four Favorites with Weapons writer-director Zach Cregger 👀 Weapons is now available on VOD.

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.

I used to work for a sign company and I know exactly how this happened (barring a malicious prank) Non-designers are obsessed with turning things into other things. “I am a dentist! Make it a tooth but also an apple!” (Red bloody tooth logo! Yes, it’s real) “MAKE THE E BREAD!” they screamed

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.

Life under dictatorship

Our podcast fans hate podcasts

Today in sentences that have never been written before:

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

Amtrak cafe car moment: The Orthodox fellow sitting scross the aisle and engaged on his cellphone in an ornate business conversation with a colleague, while simultaneously studying a page in a volume of his Steinsaltz Talmud has my complete admiration. Multitasking of the highest order.

Rejection and failure are a principle part of being a writer. Scripts won't get made, jobs will go to other writers, stories won't make the cut for anthologies, publications will pass on your pitches. Even your favorite writers see failure on the regular. It's why every success is so delicious.

Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford act together is one of the most supreme cinematic delights. I wish they made more (and even better) movies together. What amazing, kind, politically astute dudes.

lol and still nobody’s gonna watch Fallon

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

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

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

I hope we get through this and end up with this man as president, because I feel confident he would punish these awful people and have fun doing it

Watch the trailer for ANACONDA starring Paul Rudd & Jack Black, in theaters on Christmas Day.

1. watching a seed you planted poke its green nose out of the dirt 2. exiting a movie theater into unexpected rain 3. petting a dog that leans hard into your hand 4. listening to the surf at night, or through a morning wall of fog 5. an ice-cold Topo Chico, an edible, & a horny novel before bed

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

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

"The Morning Show," a series that is not consciously a parody (and not consistently a satire), adds a new Joe Rogan-esque (kinda) dude-friendly podcast character this season. Played by Boyd Holbrook, his name is "Bro Hartman." That is my review of Season 4 of "The Morning Show."

One AI belief I have is that "AI art" is not just bad, it's impossible for AI to make art, even bad art. Art is something created to figuratively express what you can't communicate literally. AI doesn't feel--it is only literal input and output--so what it generates definitionally can't be art.

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

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

I feel like I'm gonna explode

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."

Tomorrow I talk to Tracy Letts on the show!

Very much looking forward to the re-normalization of not being a bloodthirsty asshole

News flash: Paul Thomas Anderson made another absolute banger

wife: “did you eat these cookies” Heather: “yes, at 4:03pm on Tuesday, when I was wearing my favorite American flag t-shirt, I opened the cookie jar in the kitchen and consumed three cookies. I have no excuse, my love, and will buy more cookies when I enter my vehicle at 6:10pm tonight”

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.

Movies, now more than ever.

Melinda Snodgrass told me how George cooked up the idea for Wild Cards. They were playing one of the early superhero RPGs and Melinda was a player in it. One night George said out loud "I'm putting so much work into this game. There's got to be away to make money off it." So he invented Wild Cards.

The marigolds are looking pretty this evening 🌱

New York City: a rare chance to see this incredibly stylish film on a big screen

One more note on Robert Redford and his particular type of on-screen hero: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/m...

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

My face when Fallon is the only one remaining

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

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...

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

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

What's great about 1960s movies is that you'll be watching some hard-hitting psychological drama about the grim realities of everyday life and society and it'll have a title like TOO MANY POTATOES or A BUTTERFLY IS A RAINBOW.

As The Long Walk continues to unnerve audiences, director Francis Lawrence shares ten films that influenced his new Stephen King adaptation. See what the director has to say about each selection: boxd.it/OK8m8/detail

Don't look now, but this week, Coby Mayo has started to hit baseballs with his bat. Oriole fans, hold fast to any and all signs of hope for 2026. Cradle these small sparks as the weather turns and let them warm you as they can until pitchers and catchers report.

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!!!!!

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

Nexstar merger won't go through unless Ed Ames apologizes for the tomahawk throw.

So uh donate to your local public radio/TV station. www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

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