John Hodgman

are you offering?

It would be nice to see you at the Bell House next Friday and Saturday, if you're not seeing Todd Glass at Joe's Pub. If you *are* seeing Todd Glass, I get it.

Tickets= bit.ly/JJHOBELL

That is still being constructed...

Why not join me and @jessethorn.bsky.social next weekend for NIGHT COURT? Two all new, all different, SURPRISINGLY INTIMATE nights of comedy at the Bell House. bit.ly/JJHOBELL. And leave your most controversial opinions on a food or show or town or whatever below so we can discuss it on the show.

That’s all my books!

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

I told my smart speaker to play WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES by the Doobie Bros for a particular reason. And now she’s just playing yacht rock songs and my kitchen sounds like “ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION ADS: GREATEST HITS”

Don't be like Stellan! Get your tickets to @sfsketchfest.bsky.social now to see @hodgman.bsky.social and @jessethorn.bsky.social judge your disputes LIVE! www.eventbrite.com/e/judge-john...

Thank you!

The clock is ticking! We're less than one week away from our LIVE show at @sfsketchfest.bsky.social ! Don't miss this chance to see @hodgman.bsky.social @jessethorn.bsky.social & intrepid producer @jennifermarmor.bsky.social in the same location for the first time in 2026! EXCLAMATION POINTS !!!

You just gotta take a deep breathe and tranche it in there

Poster for Riffapalooza at SFSketchfest next week, Thurs. 1/22

What with the nazi invasion of our town and all, I forgot about this fun thing happening in San Francisco next week:

Janet Varney, @hodgman.bsky.social, @frankconniff.bsky.social, @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social, Kevin Murphy, Cole Stratton and me doing funny riffs on some weird short films!

"Wacky comedian John Hodgman is a highlight of SF Sketchfest 2026" — Lily Janiak, Theater Critic at @sfchronicle 

Don't miss @hodgman.bsky.social LIVE in FOUR shows at #SFSketchfest2026!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/comedy/article/john-hodgman-sf-sketchfest-21266441.php

Hello I'm coming to San Francisco to Judge you on Sunday, and there are only a few tickets left. bit.ly/JJHOSF26

We just unlocked a TRANCHE of bargain balcony seats to our live Judge John Hodgman show at @sfsketchfest.bsky.social this weekend. Mostly I just love the word tranche. Please tranche yourself by clicking the link.

bit.ly/JJHOSF26

Is It a Good Idea to Wrap Your Christmas Tree? (Gift Article) A belated ruling on the limits of holiday magic.

MYKOMYDK (Maybe you know, or maybe you don't know) that I judge the readers of the NYT Magazine every week. Here's the latest. If you have a dispute you'd like me to settle, please send it to maximumfun.org/jjho or drop it below!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE deportation agent: “Just to be upfront, the goal is to put as many guns and badges out in the field as possible.”

Secret police shooting women in the face and kidnapping and teargassing schoolchildren not getting any more popular, for some reason

Nation’s weird stepfather announces at dinner that no one appreciates his hard work, then sulks off to the guest room he claimed as his “den” to watch cable news all night while angrily mashing buttons on his phone.

all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude: on such a silent night This is a SECRET SOCIETY

Sometimes I write you a letter, and today it is about Moby Dick, the abyss, and a teen age mariachi band. Plus a mouse riding a lobster. open.substack.com/pub/hodgman/...

It was over years ago. Bit.ly/nosando.

“Several” years ago, I presume at the Lyric, is now almost 18 years ago. So yeah, I gotta get back there.

If you are a SanFran-Oaklandish person, or know someone who is, please know that JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN returns to @sfsketchfest.bsky.social in January, and you can by tickets here please: bit.ly/JJHOSF26

If you are a SanFran-Oaklandish person, or know someone who is, please know that JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN returns to @sfsketchfest.bsky.social in January, and you can by tickets here please: bit.ly/JJHOSF26

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

bsky.app/profile/rude...

A white millennial man said some racist and sexist stuff...and...??? | Shay Stewart-Bouley From the moment that Maine oysterman Graham Platner announced his bid to unseat Republican Susan Collins from her U.S. Senate seat, the political world and Maine have been on fire. Within hours of dro...

My thoughts on Graham Platner and his old Reddit posts.

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to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”

Cover of the Carole King “Fantasy” record album.

There’s been a lot of well-deserved appreciation for Drew Struzan’s iconic theatrical art, but I’d like to also celebrate the art he did for @carolekingofficial.bsky.social’s 1973 album FANTASY. It has such a sublime warmth and personality to it, and it’s the perfect gateway to a great album.