The Boy and the Heron only has a $100 million budget, which while outrageous for a Japanese film (it’s the most expensive film ever produced in the country) is pretty modest by American standards.

For comparison, films like The Marvels and Indiana Jones that managed to take the #1 spot at the box office but still are…

Because Michael Che thinks the funniest things in the world are ironic racism and non-ironic misogyny.

I was informed by this website that a movie only making $39 million in its opening weekend meant it’s a flop. God knows what that means for The Boy and the Heron.

It’s good to hear that, if you were in charge, Michael Che would have been protected from . . . a joke he wrote.  I agree with you that there’s just too much humor in this world, and we should instead make sure to determine (with percentages, no less) whether jokes have “bigoted intent” before we laugh at them.

The fact that she was struggling not to laugh is the thing that makes you think she might be a real person, which adds to the discomfort.  If she was super stern and serious, you’d know she was an actress, since there’s no reason why a real person who was easily offended would agree to appear in the bit.  It’s way…

The best troll is Hattie Davis being fictitious 

FYI, putting an advert between numbered list items resets the number sequence, so now you have:

The Meet Me in St. Louis sketch was dire. When will SNL realize that movies shot before 1953 were in the Academy ratio? It’s such a simple thing to get right.

Eilish was charming and touching in both musical performances. The joke swap is reliably funny. The skits were mostly just kind of pleasant. My favorite mode of McKinnon is where she’s playing barely controlled manic insanity and except for the elf there wasn’t much of that. Except for the Meet Me in St. Louis bit,…

That joke where Michael made Colin go for a fist bump at the end was perhaps the most savage thing I’ve seen someone inflict on another without using an actual slur or straight up physical violence.

Che making Jost say racist shit will forever be one of my favorite things SNL has ever done, and this year was his best yet. But Jost did score big with the being attracted to white women joke and “Y’all need Jesus!”

Lithium and Magic Anti-Asshole Pills. There. There’s your prescription. Take it and please shut the fuck up.

crazy to think this has been on since i was a teenager and i’ll turn 40 during this last season.

Still hurts a day later. Obviously, what an amazing breadth of work heleft behind, but if you were a big 99 fan in particular, he’ll always be our Captain Dad.

Nine-Nine!

What a terrible loss at such a young age. Is there anything this actor couldn’t do? Deadpan humor of B99, pathos in Men of a Certain Age, heroic Henry V Shakespeare in the park. Pembleton! The lights are dimmed tonight in Hollywood. 

Or. He just doesn’t want to be around a creep who can’t wait to vote for a brain-dead bigoted wannabe dictator a third time?

He really wants to focus on his leatherworking business, David Pierce Hide. 

Here’s someone with probably a $40-$50m net worth who has lived a life of endless luxury since the 90s. Its 30 years later, he’s aged, and not the “hotter younger” brother of Frasier, but an old man too. He can only either get a “hey this isn’t terrible but wow that guy looks old” or very badly embarrass himself for…

Admittedly knowing very little about him, he strikes me as the kind of person who would prefer to do work that interests him over money he doesn’t need. Given that he was making about $1M per episode, I’m gonna guess he doesn’t need anymore money.