Showtime is airing “The Fourth Estate,” a documentary series by Liz Garbus that follows reporters and editors at the New York Times as they cover the first year of the Trump administration. She was given remarkable access at the Times’ headquarters in New York and at the Washington bureau, so that in some scenes, she […]
Quite a few people have been calling the tweet that got Roseanne Barr’s show cancelled “a joke.” Nope! It was not a joke, nor was it intended to be funny. It was merely another in a string of racist remarks she’s made. Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time Roseanne told […]
I have a few thoughts about Michelle Wolf’s new Netflix series, “The Break.” Let’s start with my usual disclaimer that reviewing most TV or radio shows based on their first episode is not a reliable predictor of how they’ll do or what they’ll become. Sometimes it takes a while for its creative team to discover […]
Seven items off the top of my head today… On Friday, I took my daughter to the terrific “Destination: Moon” exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center and realized that most of the people around me were not alive when men first stepped onto the lunar surface. Then, from three feet away, I saw the […]
From his Comedy Central show last night, let’s watch Jim Jefferies take on all the people who insist they need an emotional support animal just because they want their pet around…
I enjoy Amber Ruffin’s work on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” in which he gives her the spotlight to go off on comedic — but very pointed — rants like this one from Thursday night, in which she took on a recent episode of “Roseanne” and several incidents in which white people called the cops […]