“Timberlake in the long term, as his inaction in the face of Jackson’s massively outsized punishment continues to cast a long shadow over his work even two decades on”

“Guys, remember Dennis Perkins and his peerless reviews?”

Not familiar with Shane Gillis, but Elon legitimately is a comedy legend.

I wouldn’t even consider this a lack of journalistic standards, just a lack of basic coherent thought. He says multiple times that the guy had the warhead, and then says “Don’t worry though. There’s no warhead attached.”

“Most of her wins came at the expense of other artists fans saw as more deserving, particularly Black artists: Fearless beat out Beyoncé’s I Am…”

Especially since fake surprise and faux modesty are basically the expected default for receiving an award. It may be dumb (and occasionally obnoxious), but it’s hardly a sin Taylor Swift in uniquely responsible for.

“since Carron Phillips shit the bed”

“The chain announced today that sales for its new Sidekicks menu category are blowing up and have contributed to a strong start to 2024.”

He’d be a pretty good Jeremy Hawke, though.

By Matt Schimkowitz and Drew Gillis

I assume it’s meant to be useful in a descriptive sense - i.e. to confirm someone’s identity, just like height or eye color.  And in most cases, it probably is useful in that sense.

Metaphysical Sex Essentialists is going to be my new band name.

Tina is definitely asking the right person that question (not that I don’t love Carrie Fisher).

Chase was definitely a full-fledged movie star, although for a shorter window than Murphy. Definitely during that Caddyshack/Vacation/Fletch/Spies Like Us/Three Amigos run, with a few years before and after.

I thought it started out strong, but it seemed to run out of gas pretty quickly (4 or 5 episodes). Really good ensemble cast, though.

I always thought less of Ice Cube after I found out that he was a pimp.

I mean, he’s been the host (multiple times, I think), since all the trans stuff started, so I’m not sure why him popping up for 5 seconds at the end of the show is suddenly a big deal.

Yeah, I’ve been frustrated by that for a while, as well. Along with the reasons you mention, the main thing that bothers me is how lazily the writing always is for those skits. It’s as if they count on the audience being sufficiently wowed by Celebrity XYZ, so they don’t need to write any actual jokes.

“Investigative journalism”? We’re not talking about Woodward and Bernstein here, dipshit.