Jeff Greenstein

It’s pronounced “o-cass-eck.” Trust me, I know.

Kimmel is back on Tuesday:

DISNEY: "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

Reese Witherspoon unclear how seeds work

Ta-ta Hulu!

So I've learned! Clearly I should have stuck with my first instinct.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

And that's where the met her future husband, former Doors manager Danny Sugerman, who turned her into a cokehead. Compared to all this the North thing is just falling action.

Fawn Hall marrying Oliver North is nowhere near as surprising as her working the checkout counter at Book Soup in Hollywood. I saw her there all the time.

Scarcely a week goes by that I don't think of this chart, a YouGov survey of what Americans think is the size of various minority groups, versus the size they actually are.

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Celebrating 40 Years of the Weirdest, Nerdiest Week in Movie History In 1985, the films 'Real Genius,' 'Weird Science,' and 'My Science Project' were somehow all released within seven days of each other.

It's forty years since My Real Weird Science Project Week! gizmodo.com/celebrating-...

thanks! Film Gear by Christof Bircher. it’s great!

S5E216 - Tom Lehrer 'More of Tom Lehrer' with Jeff Greenstein Emmy-winning writer Jeff Greenstein (Friends, Will & Grace, Parenthood, Desperate Housewives) knows a thing or two about comedy. So it's no surprise that a record t…

And here I am on the That Record Got Me High podcast, waxing about that peerless slice of wax, More of Tom Lehrer: www.thatrecordgotmehigh.com/s5e216-tom-l...

In memory of the mighty Tom Lehrer, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, who departed this poisonous pigeon park yesterday at age 97, here are my brothers and me performing "The Elements."

I have the honor of setting down a few thoughts in words about one of the most important musical figures in my life. May he rest in the knowledge that he gave voice to sentiments many struggle to express.

I was a late-night writer. Colbert’s cancellation hurts American comedy – and sanity | Jill Twiss If our overlords can’t handle being joked about on late-night TV, we don’t need new shows. We need new leaders

Listen one thing I'm a genius about it putting the link to the article in the first tweet. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The thing about jokes is that they require a shared base of knowledge. A shared reality. If I tell a joke about a commercial and you've never seen that commercial, the joke isn't going to go over very well. Losing late night shows is one more step toward losing a shared reality, and that to me is terrifying. There's a moment every New Yorker knows. It happens when you're on the subway and someone does something particularly insane: an 83-year-old white lady raps, or a man in a three-piece suit publicly clips his toenails. And then you catch the eye of someone across the train - they raise their eyebrows and you raise your eyebrows back. And then you feel a little better because someone else saw what you saw and they can confirm that it's something. Late night hosts like Stephen Colbert do that on a larger scale. They're our way of saying "Hey this is crazy right? RIGHT?" In this world of algorithmic bubbles and blatant lies and deepfakes, late night television is a place you can gather at night and say: "Yes, this happened and it's fucking weird"

I wrote about Colbert for the Guardian. It started out talking about the politics, but then it just became a sort of love letter for late night television.

This is great, Jill. Thanks for standing up for jokes.

YouTube video by Grande nuit Shriekback — Hapax Legomena (Y, 1983)

Now try the Shriekback song: youtu.be/YODOLNbWkYg

"Moocher, if you eat so much, how come you're s'damn small?"

Thank you! Not enough people take this movie seriously, nor acknowledge its sweeping influence.

Fifty years ago today: The greatest American comedy movie, and the greatest comedy movie about America.

Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunch Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.

Finally an app I can bitch at techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/j...

You gotta read this — it's the ultimate JJ Abrams story, with an audio treat at the end. Beyond brilliant.

I had a li'l chat with ChatGPT

Jason Isaacs Might Say Too Much The White Lotus made him go viral, but the actor has been stirring up trouble onscreen for decades. What he’s seen behind the scenes is crazier.

This is a tremendously good interview with a tremendously good actor. I read it twice. It's incredible.

It would be far better if they knighted him so he could be Sir Irsay.

On July 10, 2021 I saw Sandra Oh and my reaction was her last name.

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder and Architect of Pop, Dead at 82 Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder and one of pop music's greatest songwriters, has died at 82.

Oh, man — first Sly Stone, then Brian Wilson. Hug your rock icons tonight at bedtime, people.

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