ben schwartz

Bari Weiss is a Jewish married lesbian. If she was liberal, The Free Press would call this a DEI hire.

I mean ... bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Look I think there is a limit to what mockery practically achieves but it fucking rules that the American Himmler had to go on TV to sputter about how he’s not actually under five feet tall

Bari Weiss is a Jewish married lesbian. If she was liberal, The Free Press would call this a DEI hire.

“I voted for a Riyadh payday and they asked Tim Dillon. Trump is dead to me!”

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

thanks!

they still do it

huh -- both takes on those songs are the same thing, turning what they were into soaring romantic anthems.

Louis C.K. Defends Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival: “Feels Like a Good Opportunity” "The fact that that’s opening up and starting to bud, I wanna see it, I wanna be part of it. I think that’s a positive thing," he said on the latest episode of 'Real Time.'

“I told the Crown Prince, I’ve committed crimes in the United States. I’ve held women against their will and sexually abused them. And he said, ‘Yes, ok, but what crimes did you commit?'” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l...

You'll get there, Josh. Don't give up on the dream!

I knew it. I told my wife, "15 minute standing ovation in Venice -- that's a ten minute standing ovation movie at best."

nope, that’s another ben. thanks!

thank you!

thanks, bill!

NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. Please take this down, advocating violence is the worst possible response.

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The image is a scene in screenplay format of the moment when Dracula knocks at Cap'n Crunch's door asking to be let in ...

Count Chocula is and has always been a vampire, a prince of milk chocolate darkness. Cap'n Crunch, tho, was once a good man, a trusting man with a soul. Kinda tragic thinking of him in those last moments.

He's the only comic who could go to Riyadh and not sell out.

The image shows Captain crunch on a Halloween themed box of Captain crunch cereal. The Demeter was the ship that brought Dracula to England. It’s crew mysteriously vanished before it could reach its destination.

Hey guys, I found out what happened to the captain of the Demeter!

The image shows Captain crunch on a Halloween themed box of Captain crunch cereal. The Demeter was the ship that brought Dracula to England. It’s crew mysteriously vanished before it could reach its destination.

Hey guys, I found out what happened to the captain of the Demeter!

my guess: goonorrhea

😂

my guess: goonorrhea

it hits me esp. hard when ppl this funny die. life gets a little heavier without them. rip, kaleb.

Kaleb Horton, 2017

“I’ve seen so much more F Troop than a normal person should see.”

—Kaleb Horton

there's so much of kaleb in these two paragraphs.

devastating. i'm so sorry for your loss, marie.

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

How the Kimmel Controversy Echoes Disney’s Dirty China Deal Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner berated the company’s capitulation before authoritarian MAGA threats, but in many ways, he set the example.

Iger did the right thing with Kimmel and MAGA, because when Disney caves to autocrats, we have to live with it for a long time. My new piece for @thenation.com on Disney, Scorsese, "Kundun," Eisner, and the pop culture erasure of Tibet.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...