For the "title" Ryan is mentioning, the only other contenders (in relation to comedy) are Lorne Michaels and James L. Brooks. Regardless, Burrows' influence was huge and absorbed to the point that many, many things have been influenced by him without people realizing it. RIP, Mr. Burrows.

In this clip, @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social is very, very funny, but even still my favourite part is the "Catholic virgins" so thoroughly-- and so physically!-- loving every second of it. It's just a joy to watch. Comedians dream about audience members like these. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKl7...

Jay Leno calling Joe Rogan "the new Johnny Carson" pretty effectively demonstrates why Carson never wanted Leno to inherit his show in the first place. / It also feels designed to rage-bait Letterman into a response. I doubt Dave will take kindly to that comparison...

Not sure what I think of this yet, but it does feel like Sony/Marvel can't help themselves when it comes to overloading its projects with villains and allies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gAl...

He's not dozing, to be fair: he's just such a fathead that no amount of muscular strength can resist the gravity working against it.

My city's fire department just had a truck down at the elementary school halfway down the block, and it was just there for a small class of very wee ones (5yrs, maybe?) to see and learn about the big, shiny truck. Absolutely adorable, and I so wish stuff like that ever happened when I was that age.

Okay, so ONLY MURDERS is going to have Tennant, Whittaker, Broadbent, Ayoade, Saunders, Horgan, Horrocks, Coughlan, Freeman, Beard and Jacobi?!?! Sounds like it's running headlong into last season's problem: too huge a cast. deadline.com/2026/06/only...

There's genius to this, but Beshear would definitely take a big political hit if he wants to run for House or Senate after he's term-limited out as Gov next year. It also assumes Massie would go along for the ride, which (I suspect) he wouldn't. But I like the thinking...

Thanks to @gregjenner.bsky.social, I was recently made aware of the comedian @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social. His THIEF OF JOY is very, very good. And, besides being very funny on his own terms, some of Mr. Soresi's mannerisms remind me so much of Jeremy Hotz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB9e...

Here we go again: just because Orange Skull says something, or his minions seem to confirm it, doesn't make it true. Every damned news organization should know this by now.

Gill is very much taking, ahem, a wide stance. / how's that for an old reference?

Just clicked on Bluesky's "Katy Perry" link and was immediately reminded of what Twatter used to be like: a cascade of, at best, faintly-literate smarm, smug churlishness and snarling douchebaggery. But, at least here, there's much less Naziism. Well, significantly less.

The one upside, I guess, to this news is that the Ellisons can probably fire Bari Weiss now. They got what they wanted. www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/m...

Joanna Page reminds of the line about Luis in one of the ANT-MAN movies: basically, once you put a dime in the jukebox, you've got to let the song play...

If Democrats were in any way competent at campaigning, they'd put the line "I love the inflation" in every campaign ad or message until the end of time. Tie it around his neck like a cowbell. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

It'll be interesting to see how ABC handles the reactions to Orange Skull's presence at the Knicks game tonight. Keep in mind, of the big three networks, only ABC has even marginally defied Cheetolini so far (c.f., Jimmy Kimmel). Here's hoping they just run with whatever happens...

Like Google, YouTube has become bloody useless for searches, though forcing Google to use the "web" search rather than its AI to finally find the things you're looking for. YT can't be fixed, though: it's just a cascade of mostly unwanted, irrelevant crap. Fucking enshittification...

Somehow, I forgot this in my post about Tony's passing: but yes, he made the role of librarian/archivist cool and noble (and to more than a few, sexy). He did for librarians what Harrison Ford did for archaeologists.

In many ways, this is a noble gesture-- but you can immediately sense this isn't going to hold, as Weiss & co. continue to do to CBS News and 60 MINUTES what the Supremes have done to the Voting Rights Act. The die, in Shakie's phrase, is cast.

Cut to Bari Weiss muttering, "Challenge. Accepted."

Gawddamnit... Anthony Head was always terrific to watch: a versatile charmer, the sort of Brit who could make both young and middle-aged women swoon into schoolgirl silliness. A shame so many productions aside from BUFFY gave him very little to do. RIP. / and he was also very nice on Twatter.

You know what'd be funny? If Scott Pelley immediately got hired by... John Oliver's show. Oliver would definitely know how to use him and it'd be a nice little poniard into the Ellisons' WBD buyout plans.

You know what Hunter Biden had than none of the Cheetolini spawn have had? A relatively-reputable DoJ doing its gawd-damned f*cking job. / oh, and a father who cared...

A beautiful brown-and-black stray cat has been around our house for several years now, passing through and whatnot, but always EXTREMELY guarded and fearful. But she had become less automatically afraid. Today, she came right up to me and let me pet her-- for about 20 minutes. That's real beauty.

C'mon, Ted, count your (our) blessings: eight days without his face and infinitely-infuriating voice is about as close to a nice thing as we can get these days.

We can all pretty much guess who the remaining 60 MINUTES staff will believe-- and the rest of the legitimate journalism community as well. You have to expect there will be some degree of revolt within the CBS ranks. Now we wait to see what that revolt will be.

At this rate, 60 MINUTES will probably lose all of its main reporters by year's end. And claiming to fire Pelley "for cause" may prove very costly for CBS if Pelley sues for wrongful termination.

The whole "rude" (etc.) response is the same highschoolers and their families have faced relentlessly for nearly 30 years in regard to school slaughters. Somehow, evidently, it always wins. And if you think back to Rubio vs. the Parkland kids, the inevitability of the BS winning is depressing.

Like Hudson Williams, I'm good with calling Connor Storrie an honourary Canadian. Let's just formalize the trade: the US gets to keep Ted Cruz; Canada gets to "keep" Connor Storrie. Sound good? www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Good on Scott Pelley for being so "rude."

Well, finished it and SPIDER-NOIR is just eminently forgettable. Pacing issues were the worst offender, but the scripts weren't great, some of the acting (esp. from Cage and Megawatt) was dreadful, and eight episodes was WAY too much to slog through. And I won't remember any of it next week.

Have persisted with SPIDER NOIR despite my initial ambivalence towards it and, while that ambivalence remains, it has been nice to see Andrew Robinson in something new again. Funny thing is, now he looks curiously like Jim Broadbent...

In a way, it's not surprising that significant directors like Aronofsky and Gareth Edwards are championing AI, but it's still bloody depressing. It's cultural and creative Vichyism, to be sure, but it's just so obvious they're going to regret that very soon, but only once the damage is truly done.

Just caught up on the first 4 eps of TASKMASTER (AU) and it remains true-- the AU and NZ versions not only come up with better tasks, but they write them clearly and competently, which the UK show definitely does not. The latter may seem a small thing, but to my mind it makes a HUGE difference.

AI, like this guy it created, can't tell if it's coming or going.

I know there's most probably no overt conspiracy to make Democrats saddle themselves with GOP-ish infiltrators, but after Gabbard, Sinema, Fetterman and (seemingly) Platner, but damned if it doesn't reek of... something.

And, I should add to below, that Conan is wonderfully pointed about so many things, both topical (AI, the DOJ, presidential lawsuits) and essential (modesty, humility, collectivity). This is a speech WORTH listening to.

Leave it to Conan to do a Harvard commencement that's genuinely enjoyable. Both staff and students seem very happy. (I genuinely have no idea who, if anyone, spoke at my commencement. All I remember is how miserable and hot it was, and everyone dying for the thing to end.) youtu.be/yHBasrew8yY

Was disappointed by the first episode of SPIDER NOIR. Despite some fine flair for visuals, everything else seems very, uh, off-- esp. with the rushed pacing with scenes and dialogue delivery. It also feels much less "noir" than a 2000s-2010s impression of noir. Not a promising start.

Except it's not entirely male/incels: there's a shocking, downright depressing, amount of it amongst women, even amongst minorities you'd imagine would be appalled by this. The NYT risibly tried washing this as "white economic anxiety" a decade ago, but the rot goes much wider than that.

After Milli, Morris and MC have since dropped out, I'm now hoping Flo Rida is being shamed in his dreams by the ghost of Esther Rolle.

True. I will never use AI in my writing, or any aspect of it,* because I want my writing to be MINE. * such as research, typing/processing, etc.

The most potentially interesting thing about all this, though, is that Orange Skull now has FOUR Republican senators with nothing left to lose anymore: Cornyn, Kennedy, McConnell and Tillis. Maybe they'll finally star--- Oh, who am I kidding? Lapdogs still gonna lapdog.

I bet John Cornyn's really glad that he sucked up to Cheetolini so completely over the last decade. I'm sure he'll reconsider that position now... / and, yes, I'd love if this somehow turned TX blue, but TX does love electing the most vile people imaginable...

Brits-- and Labour especially-- would do well to remember what happened when the UK cozied up to a intellectually-deficient, super-right-wing US president with batshit ambitions in a Middle Eastern country beginning with IRA. / 20+ years on, and Blair still hasn't learned a gawd-damned thing...

Nearly 25 years on, and somehow this is even funnier now. My favourite bit: Richie's reaction in the background as Triumph is talking to Heather Locklear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajA...

A pretty fair demonstration of why political analysts tend so very, very often to be so very, very wrong.

To be fair, the UK is much, much, much more used to deporting people than it is with referenda. Just ask Canada. Or Australia. Or...

Says everything about AI/etc. search mechanisms that when I clicked on Peter Ustinov's name on Prime, one of the first results listed was... THE WIRE.