Andy Cobb

Amazing

You’re goddamn right

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

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Headline from Variety with a quote from Dave Chappelle while performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival “It’s easier to talk in Saudi Arabia than it is in America”

Imagine saying this with zero irony.

Blessings to any future interlocutor who dares Bill Burr to name one negative thing about Saudi Arabia.

I think a lot of us heard "oh well, whatever, nevermind" and took it the wrong way.

Colbert should break out his phone in the opening monologue and show everyone how to cancel Disney+ #wgastrong

Hell yeah. ✊✊✊

The WGA has, of course, great power to affect this. The power to call for a strike on ABC/Disney work, for instance. Leadership seems content to make impotent statements like this instead. It’s pathetic.

Really not lost on me that a lot of the people cheerleading the authoritarian regime are themselves failed comedians

Fret not friend, surely @jaketapper.bsky.social is working night and day to cover this relatively important story!

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

“How do you find a martyr?” asks Peter. “You do not ‘find’ one, Mr Vollmer,” the figure replies. “You ‘choose’ one. You take one of no value, and you make him into a symbol. You wrap him in a flag, and you make his death work for you. Find a man who is of no value while he’s alive, but who can serve you when he is dead.”

The evil that men do lives after them

She’s a real one, and could have been our nominee, and I will never stop bitching about it.

“Assassination?” Dude had a podcast.

Strange bedfellows indeed, but yeah.

@jaketapper.bsky.social looking forward to your reporting on the health of a sitting president.

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Headline quote from telegraph interview with Michael Palin: I don't think you could make Life of Brian now. Everything is adversarial.

Old entertainers need to stop saying this shit. Firstly it's boring grumpiness. Two, It's not true and thirdly, if it's true it also doesn't make sense. How do you "not make" something that already exists

This is so fucking baller

100%

“I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like” says the guy who looks like he fell out of a radioactive scoop of raisins

Bit of a stretch but I like your moxie.

Hey, thank *you*

I’m not familiar, is Polis MAHA?

Illinois, Colorado governors announce state-level coalition to resist Trump policies Governors Safeguarding Democracy, or GSD, will be overseen by governors and supported by a network of senior staff designated by each state leader.

Good news: he’s on it. abcnews.go.com/US/governors...

Lots of cognitive dissonance cheering on a billionaire, but strange bedfellows, etc.

I admit I don't follow this world too much -- I pay attention to the main fascists not the pseudo intellectual fascists.

But here's Curtis Yarvin, who JD Vance is reportedly a "disciple" of, arguing for the institution of slavery. He tries to dress it up in bullshit, but its slavery.

“Gangbangers in Baltimore?” Is “welfare mothers” passe now?

Am I wrong that it’s considered disrespectful to call people “Oriental” and that term should be used for inanimate objects? So nothing untoward about an Oriental store? I dunno man, that’s about all I remember from my college of Wooster degree. 🤘