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mattwilstein.bsky.social
Senior editor at The Daily Beast and host of The Last Laugh podcast: https://pod.link/1456474041 | [email protected]
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Turns out it doesn’t feel great when the deputy director of the FBI knows who you are.

It’s Rosebud Baker day on The Last Laugh podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/2Dx8...

I'll never get over just how much Lorne Michaels likes Shane Gillis.

No Bill Hader in the SNL50 digital short about anxiety is a tough break

My running list of all the insane celebrity cameos on SNL50… www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/snl...

Now they’re just fucking with us.

Even if you don’t watch the show English Teacher, hope you'll read this. This is about more than 1 show, 1 guy. FX just renewed a show from a man facing allegations of assault. I have a LOT of questions about the implications not just for FX but for the whole industry www.salon.com/2025/02/12/f...

Now we’re talkin’

I already said it, but this runs counter to every message FX has ever attempted to send as an artistic and corporate entity. Even accepting that it's a helpful "Corporations Are Not Your FRIENDS" reminder, this is... very disadvantageous for FX.

From survivor Jon Ebeling, on the renewal of FX's English Teacher, starring and created by Brian Jordan Alvarez, the subject of a December Vulture story about alleged assault and unprofessional conduct by Alvarez:

“I just don’t understand how FX could think that he would be a safe person to have on a set.” www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/eng...

Writer Tim Robinson, who would go on to create his own hit Netflix show I Think You Should Leave, is quoted saying at the time, “Lorne has lost his f---ing mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head.” www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/new...

New podcast episode this week with an absolute comedy legend www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/sei...

If you wanna know how pissed off Canadians are over the tariffs (and Trump threatening to make Canada the 51st state), they are out here booing a woman in a wheelchair.

ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age...

Feel like she’d been holding onto this one for a while now… www.thedailybeast.com/larry-davids...

RFK before Congress: I am not anti-vaccine. RFK out in the world: “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get him vaccinated.’” @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on today’s hearing: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Please subscribe to this very wholesome and funny YouTube channel run by my former colleague's 8-year-old son, who is currently going through chemotherapy ahead of a life-saving stem cell transplant. If we can get him to 1K subscribers, he said he'll chug mustard! www.youtube.com/@ihavebigmoney

“I’m torn, because I truly respect the genre, and so many things exist within it. But then, after two seasons of relentlessly promoting a rom-com, you’re going to get slightly disillusioned with it.” www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ros...

Tomorrow's guest on The Last Laugh podcast #iykyk pod.link/1456474041

This all makes so much more sense now. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/why...

Last minute plea for Tig Notaro as Bishop Budde on SNL

Nailed it.

Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.

The SNL controversy to end all SNL controversies. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/snl...

This is extremely disgusting, even for Megyn Kelly. www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kelly-...

If you need something to bring you back to life this week I highly recommend this conversation between Jon Stewart and @aoc.bsky.social on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4kzO...

“Not only was it beautiful, it took courage to stand up there and say something simple... And even better, it made Trump super uncomfortable because, here’s the thing: Sermons aren’t a debate. Trump just had to sit there and listen to it.” www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colb...

👏👏👏 @helennnholmes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/m...

“Elon Musk definitely knows about my impression of him. And he definitely does not like it.” — @jadomian.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...

The many faces of my impressive guest this week on The Last Laugh podcast, @jadomian.bsky.social

He gets it. www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-...

Been waiting for @jenafriedman.bsky.social to pop up here — and welcome to my comedian starter pack! go.bsky.app/Rb1L6QZ

Conan O’Brien joked that he was “looking forward to the headlines” that would read, “Conan O’Brien Fires Sona on Podcast Where She Talks About Losing Her Home.” www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/con...

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“Do better next time.” — Dave Chappelle to Donald Trump on SNL (not holding my breath)

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Damn, that’s cold @benstiller.redhour.com

i don't know, i like the washington post's new motto

TIL Elon Musk once had to publicly deny rumors that he was dating Cameron Diaz www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/cam...

“Also Steven Seagal.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eh0...

“I don’t think we can live solely in a place where every joke premise is, ‘Can you believe this fucking guy?’ We did that already.” — @roywoodjr.bsky.social on where late-night TV needs to go during Trump’s second term www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/roy...

You’d think perpetually hair on fire Megyn (with a y) would want a lesbian firefighter around.

He "got stuck" watching Seth Meyers? I guess Musk wouldn't let him have the remote.

“The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren’t white enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, is disgusting but it’s not surprising.” — @jimmykimmel.com www.thedailybeast.com/kimmel-fight...

There are some pretty disturbing stories about Lorne Michaels’ management style in that @newyorker.com profile today... www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/how...

In this exclusive clip from his new special, @roywoodjr.bsky.social points the finger directly at the type of dehumanizing technology that was supposed to make things easier but has only driven us further apart. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/roy...