Well!! Where to start...
I was gonna do a "TIL" on John Lithgow's amazing career.
...then he signed up for fucking Dumbledore on the fucking Harry Potter reboot TV series.
Kinda glad I dragged my feet on that now.
Come on, man. Come on.
This isn't like Lewis Carroll where he's long-long dead. JK Rowling is running around causing active legislative harm in the world.
Come the fuck ON, man.
Robert Downy Junior had to clean up his act with drugs before he could be Iron Man, and he wasn't even a fucking bigot.
Why does the bigot get the pass, and not the addict?
Addicts are sick, not evil. Rowling is evil. Gleefully evil.
Check out her Twitter/X responses to the original Harry Potter kids when they stood up for trans people.
That's some wicked witch shit! WTF!?
And! Nick Frost is Hagrid in New-Harry-Potter.
WTF!?!?
Same speech.
Gwen Stefani has come out as MAGA, and I'm the last person on Earth who got the memo, and apparently, she always was closet right-wing (and white supremist!!), and has been telling us in clues all along, but her PR people covered her ass masterfully.
The Trump administration wishes they had Gwen Stefani's PR people.
Bari Weiss published the Twitter Files, took Harlan Crow money for an anti-woke school, produced and published a podcast victim-crying for JK Rowling, platformed every anti-trans alt-right piece of shit you ever heard of on her shitty podcast, but somehow, she was still passing as liberal. Enough so your "centrist" "friends" could use her as a shield.
Well! The shield is down!! And the mask is off!
🙄
There!! Enough of that just-asking-questions shit from your "centrists" "friends".
They're alt-fucking-right, and that's that.
And while we're on pseudo-centrists.
Rogan pitched in his lot with Trump, so any Rogan fans out there, you helped do this.
If you paid for Rogan on Spotify, you got your hands dirty.
Any arguments with where you stand on the philosophical spectrum are over and done with.
I walk away with that trophy too. Yay me.
Dawkins (you know he had to show up again), Coyne, Boghossian, Pinker, and Krauss are still sucking hard.
Yep, they're putting out a book called "The War On Science" and...is it about the brutal punishing cuts to science Trump and Elon are dishing out?
Nope!! Woke!!
Cuts to cancer research that are totally going to kill people aren't the problem.
It's transes, and DEI, and pink haired feminists.
Dawkins and his pals are all in on the right-wing grievance grift, and they're never coming back.
Never.
They CAN never turn back now. They've burned the bridges back.
This is it for them. They're on the MAGA train until they croak.
Enjoy those twilight years on the Empire/Sith side, fellas.
😒
In the "Soska Sisters suck now" post, I said...
Oh, and this isn't all me theorizing with a cork board, I did due diligence on the company's founder, and he's a right-wing podcaster.
I skimmed his channel, and his guests are the usual gang of idiots.
So, who are the usual idiots?
Critical Drinker; he's a Scottish guy who ripped off Red Letter Media's style, but pumps it full of anti-trans and misogynists hate.
He's writing a comic for the same company as Soskas. Because of course.
HeelsvsBabyface; he's a bald bearded guy who looks like every guy at the welding shop who knows the web address to scary dark web shit that'll give you trauma nightmares.
To give you a sample of the kind of piece of shit he is; he put a fucking helmet on Snow White, and gave her palsy drool.
One of his other videos; "DEI destroyer of merit".
Yeah, Trump's cabinet picks are top fucking flight. Fuckin' moron. 🙄
Star Wars Theory, who used to be politically neutral, and had good observations on Star Wars, and made a neat little Darth Vader fan-film....and then he snapped and went alt-right, and joined this awful little club.
Eric July, who shat forth Rippaverse, and whose Youtube is as gross as HeelsvsBabyface, and who has him on as the Ed McMahon to his Johhny Carson.
So where do the celebs come in?
Well, these idiots cycle around on each other's shows, and it's all the same show, but for celeb guests....
Mark Millar, creator of Kick-Ass; he's ripped his mask off.
The director of the Kick-Ass movie in the commentary track said how much he hated the comics, and how Big Daddy in the comics was a right-wing racist piece of shit he had no sympathy for.
So Nick Cage made him loveable, and like Adam West.
Guess Millar sided with his version of Big Daddy.
Like how Scott Adams was really Dogbert all along.
The CHUD-osphere sucks his dick pretty damned hard.
They all almost unanimously say he's "the savior of comics!". Let 'em fucking die then. 🙄
Mike Baron, who wrote for Punisher, because of course.
You Google for his YT you immediately get "How do you fight the leftist media?".
Boom, idiot.
And, he's got a fedora, because of course.
And, he's a Rippavwerse writer now, because of course.
Oh, and lest you think Rippaverse is an existential cultural threat, they're getting sued left and right for undelivered and overpriced books.
Because fascists can't not grift.
Anyway!
That's all of that caught up.
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Kevin Sorbo is still my pick for the dumbest of all political celebrities.
Gwen Stefani always kind of annoyed me, so I'm not really paying attention to her. I wonder how many of her fans know she's four years away from being 60.
Brian Wilson and Sly Stone both died this week, so celebrities who have made GOOD art are in increasingly short supply.
Regarding your libertarian/free speech post yesterday...you're probably already aware that right wingers, CHUDs, whoever you want to call them, are throwing Carlin's old "why I don't vote" thingy from "Jammin' In New York" 33 years ago, around as if it were right wing messaging, they're throwing that bit around and quoting it as if it were something for themselves. Pretty cherry-picky, eh?
Second to last sentence there was some poorly worded shit but it's true, right wingers are definitely cherry picking Carlin, I see this on Reddit all the time
I've seen CHUDs co-opting Carlin for awhile. It kicked into high gear after he died. A shame his "I don't vote" rant didn't make Trumpers stay the fuck home. Nope, it was disgruntled Dems, and swing voter idiots. Cuz you could waft a stray cat fart at a swing voter, and they'd vote for the fucking Xenomorph Queen, and think that was proper retribution.
Good lord
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1lc1lm4/when_did_rob_schneider_lose_his_mind/
1. "I don't say this lightly" I dunno, seems like he says it pretty damned easily to me. Conservative whacko celebs are all mouth; they leave the violence to suburban nitwits.
2. Dunno if I said it before here, but one of the newer basic cable channels is almost 24/7 SNL reruns, and looking back at Dennis Miller, he was always an unfunny conservative assbag. I can see how teenage me didn't see it, but I'm gobsmacked that 30-something boomers didn't see it after all the Vietnam, Watergate, etc, of it all that had just fucking happened. Maybe I need to write "So, SNL...".
I fell for Miller as a teen because it was the 90s and I was young and stupid and thought that he was right because he was loud and used FUCK a lot. Today I probably wouldn't be able to make it through ten minutes of that shit.
The old SNLs I would like to get ahold of are stuff like when Steven Seagal hosted or the stuff from 1980 when the show was tanking
Oh! You'd never guess the rare celeb who turned back to the good side! Lisa Whelchel! Remember when we commented on her being a Christian-fundie whacko WAY back in the day? She's got a show taking tours of the display rooms of toy-hoarders. I assumed she was still crazy, so I got curious, and Googled for news. She's still a Jesus-believer, but she fell out with her former fundie-wacko church, and is sane again. Relatively speaking.
I thought Nancy McKeon was the only one of that show who still had a career.
The Lisa Whelchel bit that was brought to my attention was a post titled "Lisa Whelchel is creeeepy very creeeepy" and the content of it was some blog thing she posted about going ape shit disciplining her teenage daughter for...I can't remember, stealing a candy bar or some shit? I can't remember what she did but it was weird and over the top and made me think of Candace Cameron.
On a more disconcerting note, I've read that David Spade and Dana Carvey are both Trumpers? I've heard Sandler and Schneider both are but I barely like anything those guys ever did.
I watched "Carlin At Carnegie" and "Carlin On Campus". They were okay but not as edgy as I was expecting. Do you like that old stuff of his like that or just the latter day stuff? I'm going to try to re-do a lot of his stuff.
I also picked up season 1 of SNL on DVD used for about $15 and watched the very first episode, the one Carlin hosted.
He seems a bit awkward with his timing and I guess it's common knowledge that he was stoned or coked or something when he hosted, he said in an interview he has no memory of it and that they didn't invite him back for any anniversary shows.
The first show was weird as hell--most sketches are like a minute and a half, "Weekend Update" is split in half, the two musical guests perform within the first 20 minutes, Carlin doesn't appear in any sketches, and the big centerpiece is 10 minutes of unfunny Muppets crap.
Here's his big scene in Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night." He's played by Matthew Rhys from "The Americans," who nails the voice and look but I don't know whose idea it was to make Carlin into a sneering prima donna (the depiction of Michael O'Donoghue, SNL's first head writer, is probably far more accurate.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzzRGLM7ow
The guy playing Chevy Chase is the Riddler from "Gotham," which I didn't really watch, but which marks the second time someone has played Chevy in recent memory, the other being "A Futile And Stupid Gesture." Chevy hated the movie BTW.
I like Carlin's later edgier stuff best, but I like his older stuff fine. In interviews from that "softer" era, he's still clearly a radical pinko in his opinions. For some reason, he wasn't bringing it all on stage for some reason. OTOH, I told you before, he was on Carol Burnett way back when he had the short hair and the ascot, and even though it was G-rated, he was going after the FBI, and mocking conservative parents wanting to ban books. That edgy side was always there struggling to get out.
*Watches the clip* Ouch. Yeah, O'Donoghue was vicious. Carlin had done the sketch thing and the dance number bit on G-rated variety shows enough that he was traumatized, and still had sneering flashbacks about it. I could see him not wanting to do a skit. Especially with a costume.
Okay, I don't think they covered that in "Live From New York" about why Carlin didn't do sketches. I noticed he reused the "football vs. baseball" bit from his SNL monologue in one of the specials. I don't know if that bit in the movie made sense--"ponytailed vulture feeding off the corpse of Lenny Bruce?" Did he even have the ponytail yet?
Now I've watched the second and third 1975 SNLs...Paul Simon hosted the second one, and it's a lame Muppets bit, a film where he plays basketball against some actual basketball star, one minute of Weekend Update, and LIKE SEVENTY MINUTES OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES. Simon does four songs, Simon and Garfunkel do two, Randy Newman does one, and some lady I've never heard of does one. The hell? Where were the fucking sketches?
Third one had Rob Reiner, with Andy Kaufman already recycling his Mighty Mouse bit. Kaufman's Mighty Mouse bit is the funniest bit so far, but I'd already seen it a whole bunch of times.
Chevy Chase reportedly told Jason Reitman he should be "ashamed of himself." They altered history so that Chevy fights Belushi backstage instead of Bill Murray because he wasn't around yet. Err...
Sounds like none of the movies get the history of SNL just right. The book "Wild And Crazy Guys" does a pretty good job. I know there some bigger more definitive book than that.
Still chipping away at the Poe-sequel review. "A Strange Discovery" is arm wrestling me every step of the way. It's the weirdest of the four, and is hard to boil down.
Cracked it. Two down, two to go!!
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