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The fun thing is that, to the extent this segment gets us any “60 Minutes” fans as new viewers, there’s a joke maybe four minutes into tonight’s show that will shake them off.

submitted 33 minutes ago • 2 comments

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

submitted 13 hours ago • 40 comments

We’re back with a new show tonight at 11:05pm! Five mins late cause we just found out apparently John went to Scotland with 60 Minutes last summer? And we did NOT sign a permission slip for that. So he's obviously in big, big trouble. But once we’re done giving him a talking to, the show will begin.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Christian Marclay’s “The Calendar” and it’s just 365 days of people in movies saying full dates aloud.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Feeling bad for @crmonks.bsky.social because I cannot begin to imagine how many “five bullets on what I did last week” submissions McSweeney’s is fielding right now.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Interesting fact: One thing that's generally overlooked in cost-benefit analyses of government spending is benefits.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

If you read the original Zakaria piece, it's more nuanced, which makes it worse in some ways. It's still very credulous, but its big idea is, "They're about to do something that'll wreak havoc on everyone's lives, but at least it'll clarify a longstanding policy debate." wapo.st/4bb9gKM

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Any time the Pope is in the news I remember my favorite open-mic moment on live TV ever, the moment a Fox News employee (erroneously, it turned out) shouted news of the Pope’s death.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

(Literally unable to see the title “Conclave” and not mentally hear it sung to the tune of “Convoy”.)

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I think it’s good we don’t use that word nowadays but also — anyone who was around in 2008 remembers that the big public discourse around usage of that word began with Sarah Palin and was disingenuously used at the time by Fox News types to go, “See? Both sides engage in hate speech!”

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Looking forward to the Bezos-ordered spinoff that asks, “what if Blofeld is the good guy though?”

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

SIGOURNEY BEAVER

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Here’s last night’s story about the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term as well as some very upsetting statements about omelettes. You’ll see. youtu.be/cw0F8G4-dMw

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

A small bit of show news is that we’re back to posting these on Monday mornings again.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

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!)

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

On the occasion of the season 12 premiere of @lastweektonight.com, please enjoy this photo of the first time @johnoliver.bsky.social toured our studio, which at the time had a… different occupant.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Reminded again today of when George Carlin was cast as the gay best friend in “Prince of Tides”, which makes sense, because it’s not like that movie’s director knew any middle-aged gay actors.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Usually if you say things like this you get a visit from the authorities and I guess the nice thing in this case is, it’s a short trip.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Even if you grant the first half of this, the second half doesn't follow from it. If the premise is "this White House thrives on shows of conflict and drama," then a photo op stocked entirely with sycophants would actually deprive them of that.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

There is something brain-breaking about discovering that you worked in an industry during its “Golden Age” and knowing that the big difference between then and now is, people had staff jobs with health care.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Always read Mo Ryan, but especially read this.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment