Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Uh

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

ah to possess the business acumen of Jeff Bezos

what else can you possibly say but

And I thought I would have to watch the puppy bowl to see crap at halftime.

In my best @nytpitchbot.bsky.social voice: Whether it's Trump hiring a foreign asset to be his director of national intelligence or Bari Weiss hiring an Epstein confidant to be a CBS News contributor, there are bad hiring choices being made on on both sides

My neighbor Randy saw his shadow today so it looks like we’ll be experiencing six more weeks of drunken front yard kung fu

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

incredible

I don’t want to ruin anyone’s pristine image of Greg Bovino, but www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

was reminded that I did a joint interview with Catherine O'Hara and Cecily Strong in the midst of the pandemic. a small but great insight from O'Hara about why she loved playing characters who were oblivious to how they came across to other people. www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/a...

Don Lemon has been released without bail, and his next court appearance is Feb. 9

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢

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Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

what a whirlwind of a performer. RIP, Catherine O'Hara

C’mon, Thomas Chatterton Williams

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year; annual profit down 46%." — Mel Brooks (abridged)

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

surely some public comments from the president would defuse this

some exciting new categories this year

Oscar nominee KPOP Demon Hunters

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