And don’t miss Kate McKinnon as Betsy DeVos on Weekend Update!
Launch*Still* not made in America: Jimmy Kimmel finds Trump Store selling imported merchandise
Jimmy Kimmel ordered a bunch of stuff from trumpstore.com and it turns out, a lot of it isn’t even made in America.
LaunchWhen local media struggles, so does our democracy
“In the latter stages of Cerna’s broadcast career, all three local network television affiliates have changed hands to corporate owners devoid of institutional knowledge of the region — with a fixation on profit that eliminates most in-depth journalism, let alone regular, focused community-affairs programming.”
LaunchWeekend Update delivers SNL’s biggest hits this week, with surprise guest appearance from Vanessa Bayer
Highlights from the fifteenth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season included two excellent mini-sketches on the Weekend Update segment, plus another Celebrity Family Feud and “This is Us” parody.
LaunchThe best Super Bowl commercials of 2018
Watch the five best spots that aired during the fifty-second Super Bowl’s commercial breaks.
LaunchWill Ferrell returns as George W. Bush in January 27th SNL cold open
Watch highlights from the twelfth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season, including Will Ferrell’s return as George W. Bush in the cold open.
LaunchSNL breaks the fourth wall with Jessica Chastain’s “Does it even matter anymore?”
Watch highlights from the eleventh episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season.
LaunchSNL returns; Bill Murray plays Steve Bannon in cold open
Highlights from the tenth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season: Mika Brzezinski (Kate McKinnon) and Joe Scarborough interview Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff
LaunchThe United States of America is decadent and depraved
“We cannot blame everything on Donald Trump, much though we might want to,” writes James Traub. “In the decadent stage of the Roman Empire, or of Louis XVI’s France, or the dying days of the Habsburg Empire so brilliantly captured in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, decadence seeped downward from the rulers to the ruled. But in a democracy, the process operates reciprocally. A decadent elite licenses degraded behavior, and a debased public chooses its worst leaders. Then our Nero panders to our worst attributes — and we reward him for doing so.”
LaunchThe White House press briefing, always a spin zone, is now approaching uselessness
“There is a big difference between not getting information and the press using the entire briefing time to ask the same two or three questions over and over and being upset that the answers don’t change no matter how many times they ask it.”
LaunchObama had the most popular tweets of the year, not Trump
Recode’s Kurt Wagner: “Twitter came out on Tuesday with its annual list of the most popular tweets, moments and hashtags of 2017. As expected, a U.S. president was responsible for many of the most “Liked” and retweeted posts of the year. Perhaps unexpectedly, that president was Barack Obama, not Donald Trump.”
LaunchChance the Rapper sings SNL ode to Obama: “Come back, Barack”
Watch highlights from the fifth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season, including “Come Back, Barack!”
LaunchNotable sketches from the fourth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season
Saturday Night Live aired the fourth episode of its forty-third season last night. Here are a collection of notable sketches.
LaunchHarvey Weinstein and Steve Bannon: The troubled business relationship revealed
“In the week since bombshell allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein became public, the Breitbart website has been all over the scandal as an opportunity to showcase liberal hypocrisy in Hollywood. One thing missing from its coverage, though, is the role that its executive chairman Steve Bannon once played for Weinstein,” writes Eriq Gardner.
LaunchEminem rips Donald Trump in BET Hip Hop Awards Freestyle Cypher
BET has an announcement for America: “Eminem is back! And he’s in classic bar-for-bar form blasting at Donald Trump from his Detroit home.”
LaunchSNL returns with another cold open starring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump
The cold open: Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) speaks with Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Melissa Villaseñor) of San Juan, Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) and Senator Chuck Schumer (Alex Moffat).
LaunchGamer culture is so toxic that “being candid in public is dangerous” for developers
Part of the problem is just the social media problem: we are all stuck in the same room and the dumbest, nastiest people are loudest.
LaunchKJR’s Mitch Levy caught in prostitution sting
Yesterday, The Seattle Times reported that Bellevue police had conducted a prostitution sting in Bellevue, opening up their own temporary brothel. Over one hundred men
LaunchAlec Baldwin brings back his Trump impression to satirize Phoenix rally
A special summer must-see SNL sketch: “Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) holds a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, and addresses the criticism over his response to Charlottesville.”
LaunchWhy Trump loves Arizona
Arizona had prepared Trump’s path in more spiritual ways that long predated that transformative 2015 rally. With an economy built on real-estate deals, and some
LaunchTrump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them.
When the mob of white men marched in Charlottesville carrying flaming torches Friday night shouting “Heil Trump” as the curtain-raiser for a day of violent
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