Last fall my mother, who worries about me constantly, got it into her head that I was freezing in New York. Her solution? An electric blanket: “Early Christmas present for both of you,” the email that unexpectedly popped up in my inbox said. “A super soft electric blanket for your bed. Just turn it on […]
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What I learned from cooking like Snoop Dogg
With a gin and juice in one hand and a joint in the other, I was ready to start cooking like Snoop Dogg. Okay, I’m totally kidding about the weed part — the only pot I needed to focus on was the one containing melted milk chocolate on the stove in front of me. I […]
John Oliver digs beneath the most ‘famous alligators in Trump’s swamp,’ finds lots more ‘swamp creatures’
John Oliver began his look at President Trump’s swampy administration by grimacing at Trump’s Razzie-winning cameo in the 1991 film Ghosts Can’t Do It. “That kissy face is the single most disgusting thing that’s ever been in a movie, and I’m very much including The Human Centipede,” he said on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. Oliver […]
Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw accepts Pete Davidson’s apology on SNL, gets in a few digs of his own
On Saturday Night Live last week, newly single Pete Davidson gave some arch “first impressions” of various candidates in Tuesday’s election, including a poorly received jab at new Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a retired lieutenant commander who lost his right eye in Afghanistan. “If any good came of this, maybe it was that for one […]
SNL understands the white hot rage you feel watching couples choose a home on House Hunters
Who among us has not experienced pure, unmitigated fury at the sight of a couple on House Hunters choosing a home for utterly irrational reasons that have little to no connection to their stated desires or reality? Saturday Night Live understands. Host Liev Schreiber and Leslie Jones appear as just such a couple, seriously considering […]