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Senior Writer- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; Author- How to Fight Presidents; Co-Host- Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

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Was working on an outraged think piece until "big pile of shrimp" pulled me back from the edge.

03.02.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"so what's your take?"

"leave me alone"

29.01.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

More important things happening etc but I have read "Giannis Antetokounmpo is ready for a trade" articles once a year every year for the last all of my years.

28.01.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"Lisa Never Wanted To Be Famous" // Cory Wong and Theo Katzman
YouTube video by Cory Wong "Lisa Never Wanted To Be Famous" // Cory Wong and Theo Katzman

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27.01.2026 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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on February 20th, take a trip to the only place where the law means less than it does in present day America

23.01.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 778    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 67

I feel insane.

22.01.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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The next book in the John Dies at the End series is UP FOR PREORDER NOW, in all formats, at all retailers, including SIGNED EDITIONS. There Are No Giant Crabs in this Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs:

Signed hardcovers: parnassusbooks.net/giantcrabs

All other formats: bit.ly/crabscrabscr...

20.01.2026 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 303    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 9

give it 5 years and some tech exec is gonna be like "whoa, what if we made things that actually worked"

20.01.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

13.01.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8978    πŸ” 3399    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 59

One of the in-house security guys at the Pasta Factory likes my vibe but even HE won't let me in the room where the whole floor is medium-cooked lasagna sheets. What HAPPENED to USA?

14.01.2026 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Told the foreman at the Pasta Factory that as a gesture of good faith they could load up their pitching machine with meatballs and pelt me for a while and he says β€œwe don’t do that here you’re thinking of a different kind of place” ???

12.01.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Asking the front desk person at the pasta factory if I can spend a night in the spaghetti room sleeping on the warm spaghetti they’re NOT selling and they don’t know what β€œI’M” talking about?

12.01.2026 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Are We Participating in a Thing That Is Not Even Working?’ Chris Gethard on the end of the middle-class comedy job.

"Are we participating in a thing that's not even working?" Great, sad read about this great, sad industry. www.vulture.com/article/chri...

09.01.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I thought this was a really good episode of two people putting words to concepts that we probably all innately know somewhere deep in our brain folds

07.01.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ford vs Ferrari, now THAT'S a car movie.

05.01.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

We wanted that little fucking egg to hatch so fucking bad.

02.01.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Make permanent records a real thing, give me a list of things that I did, am and like.

21.12.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

For all this talk of how important and precious social security numbers are I feel like mine should be more useful to me.

21.12.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Arcy Drive - 'Louie' (Acoustic) Live from Jenny
YouTube video by Arcy Drive Arcy Drive - 'Louie' (Acoustic) Live from Jenny

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18.12.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listen, we ALL put on Cherry Cherry after the trailer dropped, that’s not on trial here, that's the ONLY normal thing that's happened.

11.12.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First time I saw the trailer I thought β€œWeird to be making a Neil Diamond biopic” but in fact? Things are weirder.

11.12.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

The movie where Hugh Jackman has dumb hair and sings Neil Diamond songs ISN'T a Neil Diamond biopic. Did we all know this?

11.12.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

I PROMISE you you're not prepared for this song.

10.12.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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10.12.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

is A Christmas Story a Christmas movie

05.12.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

is soup a Christmas movie

05.12.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

is Transformers a Christmas movie

05.12.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!!

02.12.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Air Bud Pt. III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Air Bud Pt. III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)

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24.11.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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