“You have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or you shouldn’t be playing. You shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.” –President Donald Trump When I was in high school, the Vietnam War was raging and many of us were pissed off. So many lives were lost in a fight over […]
Three quick items… I completely agree with Joe Adalian, TV reporter and Vulture editor, who tweeted: “That Andy Lack had no use for Ronan Farrow but spent tens of millions on Megyn Kelly is an indictment of both Lack’s judgement and the generally misplaced priorities of cable news.” He’s referring to Lack, the head of […]
It seems like we go through this every year. The White House Correspondents Association hires a topical comedian to headline their annual event in Washington, and afterwards, the usual humorless blowhards come out of the woodwork to decry that comedian’s material as being too harsh for such an august occasion. The haters already have their […]
Before tonight’s nerd prom in Washington, here’s a montage of various comedians at the White House Correspondents Association dinner making cracks about C-SPAN over the decades…
I just caught up with comedian Michelle Wolf’s HBO special, “Nice Lady.” I wasn’t familiar with her before — not being a regular viewer of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” — but she had me laughing out loud several times. She’s going to be the entertainment at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner this […]
In the last week, a couple of conservative loudmouths have gotten some backlash after making comments about David Hogg, one of the survivors of the Parkland high school shooting who has become an outspoken advocate for gun law reform. First it was Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham who mocked Hogg for “whining” about not […]