One of the joys of making television is having to do writers rooms on location in places like an abandoned Sunday school classroom in Yonkers.

It's honestly helpful of Saudi Arabia to provide me with a list of people never to hire or work with again.

11th anniversary of POKING A DEAD FROG. If you haven’t yet read it, and like comedy, maybe you’ll enjoy! To celebrate, I'll be posting some excerpts and images from the book. This excerpt is from the interview with Mel Brooks www.amazon.com/Poking-Dead-...

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg

This is great. Mike is doing something no one else is doing in comedy and it's pretty wonderful.

Turns out a grand jury will not necessarily indict a ham sandwich www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

I have had it up to here with my three children, Jennifer, Jason, and Leigh.

Why was I not told about Freaky Tales? That movie was a goddamn delight.

I'm living in hell. No one will tell me what updog is.

"Rock, me Amadeus" - Mozart introducing himself to Dwayne Johnson using his middle name

I'll tell you what. If Google reader hadn't died, I'd be better off.

A Google search for the phrase, "Actually, Jay Leno was right about" yields no results.

Unionized PAs would be huge. I’m in. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Carole Lombard by Eugene Robert Richee at her home, 1934. (Thread)

As a public service to a specific kind of fellow nerd, I would like to share my discovery that the book store at the Center for Fiction in Ft. Greene has a large selection of Fitzcarraldo Editions paperbacks. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"Oh, but the brand is bigger than any writer! The name 'The Washington Post' will mean something no matter what we put inside!" Newsweek had a brand once.

Caring for stationery in hot weather, a brief guide: - pop pencils in a jar of cool water to prevent wilting - lie erasers somewhere dark, under a damp cloth - vintage stamps will curl, pop into an envelope & under a book - paperclips warping? Refrigerate. - bury wax crayons, note location

Excited to see Lena Dunham's long-awaited followup to "Camping"!

In light of the Thomas Partey news, worth remembering what kind of people root for Arsenal

Needed this reminder today.

Happy Bobby Bonilla day to all who celebrate.

I don't get what's so confusing about wanting a Mank Cave (a room entirely devoted to the movie Mank) and frankly I feel like the producers of House Hunters went out of their way to portray me in a negative light

I had a fun time pulling an all-nighter with Jesse Eisenberg and Meredith Scardino while they magically speed-wrote a musical: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"4" like "for" or "4" like "four"? Either way I have questions.

I've loaded 15.9 tons. Almost there. Can't wait to see what I get.

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

if you really don’t like thinking about or trying to figure out a story’s structure, you probably don’t like…writing? which is fine? you can go do literally anything else?

i'm not sure but i think the point of having the new york times solemnize your vows in the record is to establish that you have passed beyond shame

it doesn't work on jellyfish stings either so at some point you have to conclude there was just a very successful fetishist with a public health column

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

This looks like a good TV show.

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

A great point, but why would you address it to an elephant?

What do I do

I don't know what kind of synesthesia this is, but a great violinist sews feathers onto a mythical beast with every draw of their bow.

"Body horror" is redundant

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

i don't really have any patience for the "buildings are clothes" argument. people insist that since cars are clothes, buildings must be as well. the important difference is that a car provides you with a belt to wear. that's an outfit. to insist a house is an outfit is absurd to the point of farce

The WGA should give White Lotus season 3 a special award for demonstrating the importance of writers' rooms.

I did not expecto this: FROM NBC PR: "Daniel Radcliffe has joined the cast of NBC’s untitled Tracy Morgan comedy pilot. Radcliffe plays Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who moves into Reggie’s (Tracy Morgan) mansion to film an immersive documentary about the former star running back."

Excited for Hollywood's biggest night! (March 2nd, "Young Guns II" star Jon Bon Jovi's birthday!)

It's going to be poop again, isn't it?

Weird how much the NBA has changed, 20 years ago shot distribution looked like two squirrels chasing each other but now it just looks like my parents fighting?

If you marry one of them, your father will condone you. If you marry the other one, your father will disown you.

In a parallel universe, “Studio 60” is celebrating its anniversary tonight and the big question is whether Harriet Hayes can take time away from her job in the Trump Administration to attend. (It’s okay, though! She means well!)

No offense to 90% of the people on Earth, but Elon Musk's whole deal suggests that the urge to procreate may be directly correlated with sucking.

This would be a good pick-up line for a rich guy who likes getting spit on.