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Mangy Foreign Rat Jon Oliver: Nuts to Jay Leno, Comedy Is All About Political Partisanship
Jay Leno was one of the most successful comedians in world history. He never even touched his Tonight Show salary, living entirely on his comedy show income, which he continued doing well past the Tonight Show gig. He made the brilliant calculation to never do a comedy show for broadcast, figuring, correctly, that his act was worth tens of millions of dollars over a lifetime, whereas releasing a DVD would net him maybe $100,000. He made so much money from his road gigs that it was nothing to him to give up $10 million per year of his NBC salary to keep his entire staff on without any firings or salary reductions. I'm a mid-tier fan of Leno's comedy. I never had any interest in his Tonight Show stuff, but as an actual working comedian, there are few in history who have made the fortune he has just standing on stage, one man one mic, telling jokes he wrote. How snotty and overly fond of oneself do you have to be to proclaim that Jay Leno has nothing of value to say about comedy?
John Oliver doesn't care about Jay Leno's opinions. The "Last Week Tonight" host, 48, responded to Leno, 75, recently criticizing late-night TV hosts for alienating half their audience with one-sided political jabs. "I'm going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno," Oliver told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Tuesday.
He literally never insulted viewers. He's a coward who only placates and flatters his leftwing audience. He insults non-viewers.
The British comedian also defended sometimes upsetting viewers with jokes on his show.
... "I guess I don't think it's a question of what you should do because I don't think comedy is prescriptive in that way," he added. "It's just what people want. I think our show clearly comes from a point of view, but most of those long stories we do are not party political. They're about systemic issues.""Systemic issues" like racism and transphobia. Totally not "party political." In addition, 90% of his "stories" end in an explicit activist call to action. John Oliver's gimmick was to rouse the audience to join in some stupid hastag or internet trend to push certain political outcomes. But not "party political" at all!
These are his examples of stories he does that might upset liberals? He knocks air traffic controllers (almost certainly in a story attacking Trump for defunding the FAA or some nonsense) and he wants us to believe his braindead liberal clapping seals are really "upset" by jokes about air traffic controllers? Hey, if you really want to be edgy and rile up your viewers, tell jokes about airplane food. Have you tasted it?! It's not very good at all! Zing! Got 'em!
Oliver, who has hosted "Last Week Tonight" since 2014, pointed out that he doesn't only discuss divisive political issues on the HBO show. The British comedian defended sometimes upsetting viewers with jokes on his show. "Our last few shows were about gang databases, AI slop, juvenile justice, med spas, air traffic control," he said. "I'm not saying that these don't have a point of view in them. Of course they do. But I hope a lot of them actually reach across people's political persuasions."
LOL. We just want people to agree that liberal panic issues are real stories -- global warming, "white supremacy," Israel's "genocide," Trump's "authoritarianism," six year olds unable to receive "gender affirming care" -- while agreeing that things conservatives care about like uncontrolled immigration and unpunished violent crime are "fake issues" that Republicans make up to divide us and push their racist agenda.
"You want people to at least be able to agree on the problem," Oliver added, "even if you disagree on what the solution to it is."
... Oliver said after Colbert's show was axed that the decision was "terrible news for the world of comedy."What a surprising opinion that is sure to upset many of John Oliver's viewers. I wanted to update the Howard Stern story: Many people are reporting he's been "cancelled." He hasn't been. There is merely reported to be talk that Sirius doesn't want to pay him any longer, and Stern is meanwhile claiming he may retire. I now realize that all of this talk is happening around a contract renegotiation. As a longtime fan of James Bond since the Roger Moore years (wait, how can I possibly be 28 years old?!), I remember well the dance that Roger Moore and Cubby Broccoli would do every couple of years. Moore would say "I'm thinking of turning in my Walther PPK" and Cubby Broccoli would say he's ready to go in a new direction and leak to the media that he had screentested actors to replace Bond. (Like... American actor James Brolin?! In the scene, he and First Tier Bond Girl Maude Adams play out a key scene from From Russia With Love. Adams would impress them so much that they'd just cast her, for the second time, as a Bond girl, this time in Octopussy.) And then they'd come to terms. Broccoli would give Moore a raise and he would sign on to do another Bond film. (And he agreed to do one more Bond film too many.) I just wanted to point this out because people are psyched that Starn is being cancelled. He may be. But Sirius might just be saying they don't want to sign him to get Stern to reduce his demands. And they may be the ones who leaked his current (alleged) ratings of 125,000, down from 20 million. I do think he might well end up being cancelled because there just may be no number that the perverted narcissist Howard Stern is prepared to swallow his pride and accept, which Sirius could also agree to. But he might not be. Unfortunately. Other news going around that is, sadly, Fake News is the claim that The View has been cancelled.
May, 2024. Howard Stern conducts one of the most shameful and cringiest interviews in the history of American media.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 6, 2025
As a barely functioning Biden sat there listening, Stern spent an hour spewing pure sycophantic propaganda. He recited all the fake stories that Biden has told… pic.twitter.com/soUUMurraP
Jimmy Kimmel says “repulsive” liberal voices drive people away from Democrat Party but somehow fails to admit he's one of them. pic.twitter.com/5jVqseri9D
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 10, 2025
In case you missed it: Jimmy Kimmel says he got Italian citizenship as a backup plan to escape President Trump.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 9, 2025
The final boss of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
pic.twitter.com/tKFgFVRAtz
One more stupid thing: The producers of The Office (US version) have a new show. It's about a local newsroom. No, it's not about how stupid "journalists" are.* It's about how vital they are. Pass.
The only way this show works is if there’s a Ron Swanson type character that throws cold water on the self-importance of journalists, the way Swanson mocked bureaucrats. And I didn’t see any of that. https://t.co/4KoNK7yScw
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 7, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:17 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:18 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged at August 11, 2025 04:19 PM (z6okN)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:20 PM (z6okN)
Posted by: Dido, not Dildo. Dido. at August 11, 2025 04:20 PM (9GE2E)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:21 PM (VE6XX)
Called 'em
*waits for treat*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:17 PM (kkTda)
*unwraps slice of cheese*
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 11, 2025 04:21 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:21 PM (ynpvh)
Welcome to ASHQ, Howard Stern, or is this John Oliver?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 04:22 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: crabby appleton at August 11, 2025 04:22 PM (JcXec)
Called 'em
*waits for treat*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:17 PM (kkTda)
*unwraps slice of cheese*
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 11, 2025 04:21 PM (PiwSw)
One of the cats is quite picky...won't eat real cheese, but likes American Cheese.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:22 PM (ynpvh)
Don't watch Jon Oliver or Jimmy Kimmel. Never listened to Howard Stern. Still living a happy, contented life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:23 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: crabby appleton at August 11, 2025 04:22 PM (JcXec)
Isn't he a film director? Oh, that's John Woo...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: crabby appleton at August 11, 2025 04:22 PM (JcXec)
Exactly... I've honestly never heard of him...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:23 PM (VE6XX)
His HBO show is propaganda. He takes one subject and then makes sure the non progressive is depicted as The Worst, and then makes sure progressive response is hammered into the audience.
It’s truly 2 minutes (+ another 40 or so) of hate.
Character assassination. That’s it.
Deport him.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2025 04:24 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2025 04:24 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 11, 2025 04:25 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2025 04:25 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 04:25 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Josephistan at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (y9ksN)
Character assassination. That’s it.
Deport him.
I like where your head is at
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (2sMLA)
Posted by: Kratwurst at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (SRAJ/)
He has a place on the ocean in Newport and is big part of the local classic cars community. Very approachable and will talk with anyone. Never seen a hint of arrogance or diva qualities.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Guy a little fuzzy on the facts at August 11, 2025 04:26 PM (vFG9F)
Also Jay Leno hired Stuttering John away from Howard to piss him off because they were having a Feud.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2025 04:27 PM (FCrpy)
I can imagine never tiring of being a Scold. Not my thing...but I can see how some might enjoy it.
But being an idiot, I could not tolerate. I would have to change that.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:27 PM (z6okN)
His HBO show is propaganda. He takes one subject and then makes sure the non progressive is depicted as The Worst, and then makes sure progressive response is hammered into the audience.
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Hell, I used to see this on the local news during COVID. The lockdown social-distance maskers were in white coats or had academic books on the shelves behind them while the skeptics wore overalls and had buffalo-horn hats.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:27 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:27 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:27 PM (zZu0s)
George Carlin was as left wing as they get, probably. But he knew how to poke fun from any direction.
At some point though, the authoritarians took themselves way too seriously. No humor allowed!!! THAT’s NOT FUNNY!!
Humor is dead
Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 04:27 PM (ERdKS)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:28 PM (z6okN)
They want us to talk about Epstein, so let’s do that: how many times did Kimmel go to the island?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2025 04:28 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:28 PM (gYnrv)
My favorite is when he said Venezuela being a failed state had nothing to do with socialism, it was misinformation.
Posted by: Leupold at August 11, 2025 04:28 PM (4pwAx)
Getting citizenship ( except through marriage ) also requires a fairly high degree of fluency ( CEFR rating of B1 )
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 11, 2025 04:28 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2025 04:28 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 04:29 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Cousin Oliver, Robbie Rist at August 11, 2025 04:29 PM (G5+As)
I had the sock on from the last thread re: Harvard Scientist.
As soon as I posted, there was a Nood.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:29 PM (z6okN)
Posted by: Docotr "Bones" McCoy at August 11, 2025 04:29 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2025 04:30 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Uncle Roger at August 11, 2025 04:30 PM (ZnrCl)
Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (scfxi)
His stuff is worldview centric. And he's a Progressive*. And that is the religion to which the left (Dems) adheres. So, it's not about Party, it's about Religion, and all the people who are correct with the religion he espouses are all (at least nominally) on the left.
It's easy when you realize some large portion of them really believe in this carp.
Posted by: GWB at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (pkAbL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025
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I'd read, probably here, the story that he gave up part or most of his NBC salary to keep his show staff from taking a cut in pay, but not that he made so much from his stand-up that he didn't need that salary at all.
After he left Tonight, he took a recurring role on Tim Allen's conservative sitcom Last Man Standing. Just to keep his hand in? Or because Tim is an old buddy? Or both?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)
I hereby label this the "Magnet Approach ™ " to entertainment.
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (dIske)
American progs are scared of an authortiarian government arresting them for their opposing opinions, so they leave for Europe, where authoritarian governments arrest people for having opposing opinions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (kkTda)
How did that work out, dummy?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Open Channel D
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Me also, preferred his kind of comedy to the sort of "play it safe", paint by numbers boomer lane Leno was in.
Very clear though, Letterman was an asshole his whole life and he stopped being really funny in the 90's.
Leno seems a standup guy, even though he himself is an old school liberal Democrat. He at least has manners.
I met him in a closed off event where it was only "non-famous" people around him, and he couldn't have been more gracious to "flyover country" type people.
Posted by: Leupold at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)
Well, Hollywood people despise cops and they do shows about them all the time.
John Oliver is a ridiculous little Limey twat, one of many talent bereft show biz people who have a show because of their noxious political beliefs. He wouldn't last 3 minutes at an open mike night if he tried Leno's style of comedy.
Posted by: UGAdawg at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (iqHxn)
Mr. Bean, maybe? Does Charlie Chaplin still count?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 04:32 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:32 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 11, 2025 04:32 PM (7TMnw)
Boo boo. Just trying to a factual record as neither John Bolton ( Whom I don't care for ) or Avi Loeb are probably gay, but it's nice you can take over for poster n's ? Confederate / Yankee Fifths routine
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Guiseppe, On The Outside at August 11, 2025 04:33 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)
Benny Hill was one for me. Monty Python as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2025 04:34 PM (w6EFb)
Ricky Gervais
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:34 PM (VE6XX)
That montage of pre election mockery to Trump's 'complicated business ' is always worth a watch
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 11, 2025 04:34 PM (/6GbT)
I also hear Tina Fey is developing a new show based on 30 Rock.
Find a new thing people, stop chicken f***ing past glory.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 04:34 PM (sk6bp)
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 11, 2025 04:34 PM (ScFGB)
I really don't want to spend time in jail for snapping a neck. John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, John Stewart......these smarmy arrogant pricks deserve getting smacked upside the head. But yeah, keep on promoting your violent uncivilized ways and see what happens. These people need to be mocked into irrelevance and obscurity.
Posted by: JROD at August 11, 2025 04:34 PM (IlL6s)
I mean, what kind of comedian thinks it's their job to make people laugh?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (prbfg)
Leftist sycophant audience: Aarrggh clap-clap, aarrgh clap-clap.
Editor's note: those are trained seal laughs & claps
Posted by: Candidus at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (uFbcA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM
I think it was because they are both classic car guys and are both part of that community.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (0N4FZ)
1) 1970. Damn. Those colors. Fuck.
2) it is interesting to hear an actual live studio audience and you realize you probably have not heard one in you adult life.
3) Ed McMahon was tall? And hungover.
4) I just 'like' Johnny. He might well have been a prick, but he was charismatic as hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (4vd8A)
And that's true of his peers as well.
Hell the only recent late night host that was funny is Craig Ferguson and he's also the LEAST political of all of them...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2025 04:36 PM (xsZ/U)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 11, 2025 04:36 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:31 PM (zZu0s)
I thought he was just transitioning. Dude looks like Cher with all that bad plastic surgery.
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 11, 2025 04:37 PM (ScFGB)
Posted by: fd at August 11, 2025 04:37 PM (vFG9F)
Mr. Bean, maybe? Does Charlie Chaplin still count?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 04:32 PM (wBaIH)
___________________________________
Sean Lock was pretty funny because he just didn't care. Gervais (the same...doesn't care)...James Acaster (is bizarre, but can be funny when he goes on cooking shows and destroys the place and points out stupid things chefs do)
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 04:37 PM (dIske)
It’s basically a Loyalty Test; here are your marching orders. “Believe This” or Else. A lot of this shit is just spooks on the payroll.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 04:37 PM (ERdKS)
But I get why you'd do it in an action movie.
Why the hell would you do it in a comedy?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (TdCYS)
That's why they came to America, ate dirt, and built this country.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: UK Yucks at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (G5+As)
John Oliver has gotten by on his English accent for way to long.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (TdCYS)
Wait... Dick thornburg?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)
I would pay to avoid seeing John Oliver.
Posted by: PTSD giver at August 11, 2025 04:39 PM (8RDQ+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 11, 2025 04:39 PM (NpP1j)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (sk6bp)
Posted by: Jon Stewart show audience member at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (gb+eN)
Then Trump won on 2016 and it seemed every major comedy person was hit with horrible TDS. I think Fallon was the least so, but I didn't 'get' his younger comedy at all. So it was either Gunsmoke reruns, or just read the ONT to wind down when I was up that late.
My dad watched Jay's car show sometimes. It was okay but Leno let his liberal side out more doing that show and I'm not really a car person so for me it was just ok, if there was nothing better on.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (Cyxyd)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Old Yeller at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:39 PM
Eat it, Harvey!
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)
________________________
Best campaign slogan ever: "Dick Thornburg before he dicks you."
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (dIske)
he made so much from his stand-up that he didn't need that salary at all.
How much do tickets cost?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (ERdKS)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 11, 2025 04:41 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: steevy at August 11, 2025 04:41 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:38 PM (TdCYS)
Wait... Dick thornburg?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)
Yes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 11, 2025 04:41 PM (coKkX)
Compare say Mr Bean with the second season of Blackadder - the guy has some range...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:41 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (TdCYS)
Hey, he was there putting his life and his talent on the line.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:41 PM (zZu0s)
My take on people that do daily shows and are successful for years have a knack for never wearing out their welcome. Carson, Leno, and Limbaugh were the masters of the skill.
While harpy bitches like Oliver, Griffin, Lemon, or Madow seem to think the whole point of their "shows" is to exhaust their audiences with their endless propaganda and faux genius at destroying their perceived enemies. Or in more scatological terms, what they do is a lot like them coming to your house, storming in, and then shitting on the floor before leaving immediately afterwards.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 11, 2025 04:42 PM (9vYpt)
John Olliver, he said without hesitation.
I just stared at him. The British comedian, John Oliver? That John Oliver? Yes. He has a very interesting take on our society.
I said, if I said former comedian Joe Rogan was my source for information, what would be your response?
He said, again, without hesitation, Joe Rogan is a far-right meathead who doesn't know anything.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 11, 2025 04:42 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: dantesed at August 11, 2025 04:42 PM (Oy/m2)
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Well, yeah.
-98% of liberals
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 11, 2025 04:42 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (wBaIH)
I saw the show live in Burbank many times; often took out of town people there to see it, the perfect one hour long tourist experience. Even got on stage and traded jokes with him once... He warmed up his own crowd! Really a nice guy, as opposed to that freak Letterman.
I also share Leno's love for cars, and look forward to seeing him this weekend in Pebble Beach for the Concours d'Elegance. I've talked to him many times and he is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world about certain cars, say steam cars, or cars with aircraft engines, or restoration techniques, or the history of McLaren. His "Jay's Garage" YouTube channel is amazing.
Posted by: scottst at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (o2Uf5)
Of course to the modern left right of Stalin is "far right wing" so...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (t0Rmr)
*looks at all the FBI shows over the past 20 years...*
Posted by: man at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (tubbA)
At least there are some things you guys can agree on.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (z6okN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (kkTda)
My favorite is when he said Venezuela being a failed state had nothing to do with socialism, it was misinformation.
I thought John Oliver was Rachel Maddow's gayer english half brother?
Posted by: Nelly at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (cHLus)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)
It's hard to select just 3 words to capture how loathsome Oliver is:
talent-void,
cuck,
snaggle toothed,
weakling
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (3wi/L)
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He was a fighter pilot during WWII. They must've lured him up to get him into the cockpit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (NpP1j)
I have been meaning to watch the Episode with Tim Allen and his RS200.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (z6okN)
The US is constantly being dragged into Foreign affairs, because of idiotic 'Dual Citizens' who go back to their original country, and start trouble.
We need to outlaw Dual Citizenship again... if you want to be an Italian Citizen? FINE, GO FUCKING LIVE THERE... but stop living, and worse, VOTING here.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (mP0Kj)
So I agreed to watch it and pointed out to the guy I saw the same idea on a reddit forum two weeks before and reddit did it better.
And it was some stupid political "joke" that wasn't funny to begin with.
The guy was so crestfallen...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:45 PM (t0Rmr)
No. Never paid for HBO. Had no desire to watch the same movies again and again...
Posted by: man at August 11, 2025 04:45 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 04:45 PM (sAmhv)
Cary Grant is famously misremembered as saying, "Judy, Judy, Judy!". Like "Play it again, Sam" he never said it.
There's an audio of him speaking at some "Ladies Auxillary" type shindig (he was a big hit on that circuit), where he got to goofing around and said it. Full Cary Grant voice doing "Judy, Judy, Judy!" dramatically.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)
Nice.
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025
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I think it was because they are both classic car guys and are both part of that community.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2025
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I know Leno is a *big* car buff, and that Tim's character on the show is to a degree. Didn't know he was one in real life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (/OoVe)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
That's probably true. I'd never thought of that before.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)
That's interesting, especially since Kimmel and Silverman were in a long-term relationship before Jimmy broke up with her and marrying someone else. And then having a kid.
I wonder what his wife thinks about this state of affairs.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (HZw3B)
My favorite is when he said Venezuela being a failed state had nothing to do with socialism, it was misinformation.
Out: No True Scotsman
In: No True Socialist
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (t0Rmr)
Easier Solution:
Allow the Fed Gov't to decide which Country has Tax Authority over those people.
They will renounce foreign citizineship.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (z6okN)
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As I've seen noted, progressives and leftists don't see their political views as "political."
They see them as "common sense." There is no "other position" one could reach via reason, logic or facts.
That's how they leap to and justify calling anyone who opposes them as evil and consumed by ill intentions.
Why else would someone oppose common sense positions?
Or: If you differ with a conservative, they may hate your views but they won't hate you.
If you differ with a leftist, they will hate you.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (prbfg)
The US is constantly being dragged into Foreign affairs, because of idiotic 'Dual Citizens' who go back to their original country, and start trouble.
We need to outlaw Dual Citizenship again... if you want to be an Italian Citizen? FINE, GO FUCKING LIVE THERE... but stop living, and worse, VOTING here.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Romeo13 Johnson is right!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 11, 2025 04:47 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 11, 2025 04:47 PM (IifOV)
4) I just 'like' Johnny. He might well have been a prick, but he was charismatic as hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 04:35 PM (zZu0s)
Johnny was an extreme leftist like Letterman. He just kept it under wraps because that wouldn't have played well then.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 11, 2025 04:47 PM (CDKoa)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 11, 2025 04:47 PM (NpP1j)
https://tinyurl.com/2bdrvbd4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 04:47 PM (2GCMq)
>>Nice.
It's going to clock in behind Superman which is going to tick Feige off.
Which is nice.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (sk6bp)
Posted by: publius
Same with "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (sk6bp)
Black Adder Goes Forth has the Greatest Ending of any show, The show was funny as hell but that ending was heart breaking.
Tony Robinson after Black Adder did Time Team, where they do archeological dig around the UK, some of the stuff they found was really amazing and the Specials they did on WW1 and the Gigantic Flame Thrower was really good and a must watch, They found some remains of a Soldier during that dig.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (FCrpy)
They see them as "common sense." There is no "other position" one could reach via reason, logic or facts.
And they will argue that positions they themselves held a few years ago are racist or homophobic and anyone that holds them is an evil NAZI.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Mainah at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (LFd6j)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Jon Stewart show audience member at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM
OK, now I know who this guy is. I saw some videos on youtube of him doing exactly that with some cute female guests and the audience laughing and clapping for some bizarre reason.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: man at August 11, 2025 04:49 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Octochicken at August 11, 2025 04:49 PM (oCS0o)
you mean next week? or did it slip this past week already? I saw a site saying it's in third after Weapons and Freakier Friday but I know Disney lies.
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:49 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 11, 2025 04:50 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Jon Stewart show audience member at August 11, 2025 04:40 PM (PiwSw)
Heck with that. I wanna break his cigarette box!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 11, 2025 04:50 PM (CDKoa)
All the nice things get broken sooner or later.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 04:50 PM (0I+GC)
Yes, but she's a woman, so you can see his hands were tied. he was a complete shitweasel and bashed her constantly. He owes her an apology and owes us a muzzle. Go away.
Leno would be the late night host with no balls to address current events in any meaningful way. Just deliver a nothing-burger of an anecdote that vaguely touches on the issues of today while still proclaiming that ultimately everything is still great, and that would always keep his boomer audience complacent.
Leno only wants comedians to avoid politics because it's his politics that are a joke. Leno who was all over the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
Anyone who has a platform to speak on and isn’t *actively using it* in any way they can to speak out against this insanity is actively complicit in it. It’s *that bad*. Unbelievable. *Fuck* Leno for this.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2025 04:51 PM (JCZqz)
did anyone see the season 6 episode of Peep Show where Mark tries his hand as a history tour leader? Funny Sherlock Holmes stuff in that. (He wants to do "real history" and doesn't want to play to the cheap seats with Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper stuff.)
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:51 PM (KRtlO)
There's an audio of him speaking at some "Ladies Auxillary" type shindig (he was a big hit on that circuit), where he got to goofing around and said it. Full Cary Grant voice doing "Judy, Judy, Judy!" dramatically.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2025
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My favorite CG story: When he was retired from films and silver-haired, he attended some event in NYC, and gave his name to the woman at the desk. She blinked up at him. "You don't look like Cary Grant!"
"That's all right," CG said, "no one does."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Mainah at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (LFd6j)
______________________________
Me too. Nothing was better than when the staff got the giggles and couldn't talk (which happened all the time). Plus, he really didn't take it as seriously as most hosts. Hell, his sidekick was a wise cracking, gay robot.
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Martin Tell
Jamie Oliver? Didn't know he cooks in the nude.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)
Remember folks there is nothing at all funny about a president using an intern as his personal humidor.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (FCrpy)
A little history of 18 USC 241 (Conspiracy to oppress Constitutional rights) This law was passed first in 1870 to stop (Democrat) legislatures from passing Jim Crow laws to take gun rights away from former slaves. It has not been used much since crazy leftists took over the DOJ. It has been upheld as Constitutional by the SCOTUS. It absolutely applies to state legislatures and the second amendment. It carries a potential D34th P3n4lty if a victim dies as a result of the conspiracy.
I wrote Harmeet Dhillon a letter earlier this year reminding her of all of the above.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (Da7Vv)
and he was an engineering major!!
anyway I saw Leno live when I was a kid. his show was great! always liked him a lot.
John Oliver is not funny, and not a comedian in anyway
don't you have to do comedy to be a comedian?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (Pv3Rg)
69,182 YouTube Channels have over 1 Million Subscribers (or more) in 2025.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (pIfcn)
>>you mean next week?
It's overall BO is a hundred million behind Superman, Superman is holding steady and FF is dropping like a stone.
On its current track, Superman will make more than FF and JPR domestically.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 04:53 PM (sk6bp)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2025 04:51 PM (JCZqz)
Yeah... Just want I want lectures from comedians...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:53 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:53 PM (gYnrv)
Anyone who has a platform to speak on and isn’t *actively using it* in any way they can to speak out against this insanity is actively complicit in it
I still hope we'll see prison time for the clot shot brigade in the infotainment industry...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:53 PM (t0Rmr)
-- Cary Grant movies and Archie Leach movies ("Archie Leach" being his real name).
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: scottst at August 11, 2025 04:43 PM (o2Uf5)
Adam Carolla says that Jay Leno is exactly like the guy you see on TV.
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (ScFGB)
I guess its a good thing for him the local warlords in Haiti won't eat redheads because they don't have a soul...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 11, 2025
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Robert Morley too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Bombadil at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 11, 2025 04:54 PM (2WIwB)
Yeah, and?
Leno covered OJ. Recall the dancing Itos?
Posted by: man at August 11, 2025 04:55 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:55 PM (KRtlO)
with his mouth
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 11, 2025 04:55 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Mainah at August 11, 2025 04:48 PM (LFd6j)
______________________________
Me too. Nothing was better than when the staff got the giggles and couldn't talk (which happened all the time). Plus, he really didn't take it as seriously as most hosts. Hell, his sidekick was a wise cracking, gay robot.
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 04:52 PM (dIske)
He love America talked about why he did so he had to go.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2025 04:56 PM (FCrpy)
gotcha. I was asking about, and hoping four, FF to actually fall behind Superman in the daily box office.
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:56 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:56 PM (77rzZ)
-- Cary Grant movies and Archie Leach movies ("Archie Leach" being his real name).
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025
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He said once that of all the roles he played, the one most like him in everyday life was his misanthropic beach bum Walter in Father Goose. I'd heard he was proudest of None But the Lonely Heart, where he played a Cockney who was much like himself growing up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:57 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: mrp at August 11, 2025 04:57 PM (rj6Yv)
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime"
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So you're thinking flamethrowers?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 11, 2025 04:57 PM (NpP1j)
Posted by: dantesed at August 11, 2025 04:57 PM (Oy/m2)
I overheard some scooter trash bad-mouthing him once. Maybe wouldn't give his autograph or something.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 04:57 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Open Channel D at August 11, 2025 04:57 PM (gYnrv)
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime"
WTF does that even mean ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:58 PM (VE6XX)
Some rich guy has a car museum in Newport. The curator of the museum and Leno put out a bunch of videos as they drive some of the cars around town and mansions. He clearly knows a lot about cars.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2025 04:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 11, 2025 04:59 PM (FCrpy)
The US is constantly being dragged into Foreign affairs, because of idiotic 'Dual Citizens' who go back to their original country, and start trouble.
We need to outlaw Dual Citizenship again... if you want to be an Italian Citizen? FINE, GO FUCKING LIVE THERE... but stop living, and worse, VOTING here.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2025 04:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Dual citizenship is always a lie. Do you support two football teams? Can you vote in both places? Just how many citizenships can you have? There are no good answers to these questions.
Posted by: scottst at August 11, 2025 04:59 PM (o2Uf5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres leaving for the beauty and freedom of the UK comes to mind. Enjoy ex-pats while you wallow in your Trump hatred.
Posted by: Cheri at August 11, 2025 04:59 PM (oiNtH)
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Terrific BBQ!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 11, 2025 04:59 PM (NpP1j)
Posted by: zombie at August 11, 2025 04:59 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: pudinhead at August 11, 2025 05:00 PM (W3T6M)
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime"
WTF does that even mean ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:58 PM (VE6XX)
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The same thing as "we can't drill our way out of oil shortages."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 11, 2025 05:00 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:00 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:00 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)
Does that mean that he votes in US elections?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:01 PM (77rzZ)
>>WTF does that even mean ?
It means, suck it up prole, lean back and think of what's best for the democrat party.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 05:01 PM (sk6bp)
1. Supposedly American comedies and romcoms don't sell well overseas, because foreigners don't get or like our humor. (which is why Hollywood's push for international blockbusters and woke killed off the comedies.) So let's import John Oliver, a Brit, and Trevor Noah, a South African, to do comedy for Americans. Sounds business plan. (To be fair, Craig Ferguson worked, but he wisely never took the job seriously, and entertained first.)
2) Gutfeld was brilliant on Jimmy Fallon's show. Kept it off kilter the whole time he was on (jumping into his arms, then the crazy story about their meet cute at an illegal speakeasy when they were wasted, then how his getting fired and having his mom on were the best things for his career. Very fun and non political.) It was a great first impression for people who have been conditioned to believe Greg is a Nazi. Well done.
3) John Oliver isn't worthy of wiping dog poop off Johnny Carson's shoes, and Carson managed to survive and thrive among the most politically divisive eras of his time. He explained why on 60 Minutes: it's not his job to politicize or tell people what to think.
https://www.youtube.com
Posted by: LizLem at August 11, 2025 05:01 PM (Eng1Z)
BELOVED, maaan.
Posted by: Bombadil
You know who else has a garage?
Gabriel Iglesias. Fluffy.
Righteous VW Bug and Van collection.
Oh, and he's a friend of Jay Leno.
https://tinyurl.com/yc33xmhf
Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025 05:01 PM (rqka2)
Apparently, Cary Grant did utter the line, "Susan, Susan, Susan" in a movie.
Apparently "Judy, Judy, Judy" came from Larry Storch doing a CG impression.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (77W69)
You People will enjoy this:
1986, Chris Elliott as "Jay Leno" on Letterman. And then Jay Leno goes on Letterman a few weeks later:
https://is.gd/3sKiE9
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (xWfc4)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (sk6bp)
The one American actor who could have convincingly been cast as Bond, during one of the regular once-a-decade calls for the franchise, was Titanic-era Billy Zane, but that time has long passed...
Posted by: BuddyPC at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (Ml42q)
It's the teeth.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 11, 2025 05:01 PM (63Dwl)
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In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," his rant about Americans and bosoms is hysterical.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (omVj0)
Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres leaving for the beauty and freedom of the UK comes to mind.
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Thought they left for Ireland. Which is just as bad, and full of Irish to boot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (kkTda)
It's a lie offered in lieu of results. A lie that people used to gladly believe, but now people are tired of lies. Hope it lasts.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: toby928 at August 11, 2025 05:02 PM (EkcIs)
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 11, 2025 05:03 PM (Pv3Rg)
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime"
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So he wants the Judge Dredd option?
Posted by: WisRich at August 11, 2025 05:03 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 05:03 PM (t0Rmr)
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime"
WTF does that even mean ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 04:58 PM (VE6XX)
It mean I'sa gonna git me a new TV tonight!
Posted by: La'Quan Tyreetious Hopkins at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 11, 2025 05:03 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Good!...What's SEPTA
Posted by: WisRich at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (G0vdT)
It's the teeth.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
And Bernard Fox - Dr. Bombay
Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (rqka2)
Did the Fallon audience laugh louder at Gutfeld than the Gutfeld audience does? Low bar.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/26hg6ozg
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:00 PM (omVj0)
I haven't seen that one, I'll have to check it out.
I always loved his turn in Affair to Remember, and it was more poignant knowing he filmed it right after his own love affair with Sophia Loren, whom he desperately wanted to marry, ended, and she ditched him to marry her wealthy husband. He poured all his feelings into the role, and it's so powerful.
Posted by: LizLem at August 11, 2025 05:05 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 11, 2025 05:05 PM (KNWrR)
Nice.
Posted by: ace at August 11, 2025 04:46 PM (KRtlO)
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They could have lost 50% less by casting dwarves.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (PZZ/j)
Posted by: Cheri at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Rusty Nail
......................................
Richard Thornburg? The former Governor of Pennsylvania?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: rickb223
I loved how he would always show up fresh from some exotic adventure with a hot babe (or babes) on his arm.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)
youtube.com/watch?v=tnaL_KyjQxA
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (0I+GC)
Oh, and my grandchildren are dual citizens too. They can flee to Japan if the Dems take over again.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (wBaIH)
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime"
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Hey Brian...you know what happens once you arrest all of the people whose moral code is so screwed up that they're open to committing crime and active in doing so?
Yes Brian, that's right--crime drops like a rock. So I guess that was a pretty stupid assertion of yours, eh?
Posted by: Crusader at August 11, 2025 05:07 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2025 05:07 PM (nwgUR)
Mr. Bean, maybe? Does Charlie Chaplin still count?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 04:32 PM
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Catherine Tate had some legit hilarious bits. Some of them borderline "based."
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 11, 2025 05:07 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: mrp at August 11, 2025 05:07 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Wasn't he also Attorney General at one point?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 11, 2025 05:07 PM (lEo4j)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:04 PM (0I+GC)
Touche. But the comments from the left melting down that Fallon's show had booked him were schadenfreudelicious. It was a smart move for both shows.
Posted by: LizLem at August 11, 2025 05:08 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Encourage them to keep up with their language skills.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2025 05:08 PM (nwgUR)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 05:09 PM (wBaIH)
Mr. Bean, maybe? Does Charlie Chaplin still count?
John Cleese?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 11, 2025 05:09 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:09 PM (0I+GC)
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Thought they left for Ireland. Which is just as bad, and full of Irish to boot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Half right - Rosie did leave for Ireland and Ellen for the Cotswold in England. A blight on both countries.
Posted by: Cheri at August 11, 2025 05:09 PM (oiNtH)
This before she became the 57th person known by the Clintons to commit suicide, in her case after becoming the first person in the history of the Australian Outback to be hit by a bus.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at August 11, 2025 05:09 PM (Da7Vv)
youtube.com/watch?v=tnaL_KyjQxA
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (0I+GC)
That's awful.
Posted by: Yoko Ono at August 11, 2025 05:09 PM (PiwSw)
American me are dying like flies from coronary thrombosis while their women are sitting under hair dryers eating bonbons all day while arranging for every second Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 11, 2025 05:10 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025
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Dramatic actor too -- played a villain on U.N.C.L.E.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:10 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:10 PM (0I+GC)
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OK, is he going to sell them batteries or build a nuke plant?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 11, 2025 05:10 PM (nwgUR)
To be correct, partisanship can be a subset of comedy.
Say that the small cabal that conspired to imprison hundreds of J6 people - hundreds of consecutive four year sentences for the cabal (deprivation of civil rights), and they suicided in their cells. That would be a comedy for one, a tragedy for the other, but objectively, hilarious.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 11, 2025 05:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: mrp at August 11, 2025 05:11 PM (rj6Yv)
I always loved his turn in Affair to Remember, and it was more poignant knowing he filmed it right after his own love affair with Sophia Loren, whom he desperately wanted to marry, ended, and she ditched him to marry her wealthy husband. He poured all his feelings into the role, and it's so powerful.
Posted by: LizLem at August 11, 2025
***
https://tinyurl.com/yfxaz4kn
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:11 PM (omVj0)
Chris Elliott was hilarious to my teenage self.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 11, 2025 05:11 PM (xWfc4)
Posted by: Cheri at August 11, 2025 05:12 PM (oiNtH)
In his time, side-splitting.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:10 PM
His time ended the moment the end credits for A Fish Called Wanda hit the screen. He was never funny or relevant again.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 05:13 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:13 PM (77rzZ)
funny shows
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 05:13 PM (2GCMq)
Oliver said after Colbert's show was axed that the decision was "terrible news for the world of comedy."
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I thought it was kind of funny. Unlike Colbert himself.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 11, 2025 05:14 PM (QwK6F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 11, 2025 05:14 PM (A6aHg)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:14 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: dantesed at August 11, 2025 05:14 PM (Oy/m2)
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Oliver did not mention Biden's dementia one single time. I just read an article saying exactly that.
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 05:14 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bulg
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Not sure. He worked in the Ready admin in some capacity. Might have been AG.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 05:15 PM (sAmhv)
Eddie Izzard's standup early career standup is phenomenal, especially his take on history. I felt bad that none of his attempts to break unto Hollywood panned out.
Cake or death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg
Star Wars Cantina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
Posted by: LizLem at August 11, 2025 05:15 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: John Bigboote at August 11, 2025 05:15 PM (9dJX4)
Did her bus accident cause her to cruelly lie to her closest loved ones about her medical condition? Is that typical in bus accidents? Asking because I am curious.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 05:16 PM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Orson at August 11, 2025 05:16 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 11, 2025 05:16 PM (A6aHg)
Posted by: dantesed
Whoever the stacked blonde was. I get her mixed up with the black actress who was briefly on Dynasty.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)
Oh, and my grandchildren are dual citizens too. They can flee to Japan if the Dems take over again.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 05:06 PM (wBaIH)
I'm not sure how being a gang member (native or imported) makes sense as a comparison but ok.
I am guessing DIL became a US citizen by becoming DIL, and Japan and the US mutually do not require someone to choose. It's not a bad thing to have an escape route in the event of a commie takeover, but it the difficulty I've had with something like that is, if *this* place crashes, there really isn't any other place like it.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 11, 2025 05:17 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Orson
I think he was a willing LSD guinea pig back when Allen Dulles was playing around with the stuff. I don't think he was on it very long.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)
Dear God
Posted by: Gonzotx at August 11, 2025 05:18 PM (nGraA)
Posted by: dantesed
Whoever the stacked blonde was. I get her mixed up with the black actress who was briefly on Dynasty.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025
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Dyan Cannon was Cary's last wife, and the one who gave him a child, actress Jennifer Grant.
The LSD story, I've heard, was from very late in his life, when he experimented with it under medical supervision -- before it became illegal, I think -- and found it therapeutic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:18 PM (omVj0)
It's all lame night comedy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2025 05:18 PM (9bq/n)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:18 PM (0I+GC)
That's the kind of shit that makes Youtube great: there's someone out there who thought of collecting clips of Yvonne Craig putting her hands on her hips and making a video from it.
Who thinks like that?
But it's great people do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 11, 2025 05:19 PM (A6aHg)
2, Rosie O'Donnell is an idiot who has a general expertise in being wrong about everything
3, Rosie O'Donnell is mentally ill and hysterical
4, Rosie O'Donnell routinely makes hysterical claims WITHOUT EVIDENCE to feed her obsessive hatred of Trump
Posted by: Eeyore at August 11, 2025 05:19 PM (s0JqF)
I believe it was inevitable that the sad, broken Bill Dautrive would become a morbidly obese shut-in after the lockdowns of 2020. Ditto Hank's reverence during his visit to the George W. Bush Library.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 11, 2025 05:19 PM (p9rFX)
Leno had Kathy Lee Gifford on. She talked about how they built her son a stage. She said “what kind of kid doesn’t want to perform on a stage” Leno said “the straight ones.” He edited out the joke.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 11, 2025 05:20 PM (D/T9Y)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:20 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:20 PM (0I+GC)
3, Rosie O'Donnell is mentally ill and hysterical
4, Rosie O'Donnell routinely makes hysterical claims WITHOUT EVIDENCE to feed her obsessive hatred of Trump
Harsh. But fair.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 11, 2025 05:20 PM (0sNs1)
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Was it acquired by Gannett? Because, that's what happened to all of the (100) others that were.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 05:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 11, 2025 05:21 PM (zBBwI)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 05:22 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2025 05:22 PM (9bq/n)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 11, 2025 05:22 PM (D/T9Y)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 11, 2025 05:25 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 11, 2025 05:25 PM (wBaIH)
He was an MP in the Navy and started doing local shows. He's a white guy who's developed a huge Black following. What's fun is that they give him permission to go places, and does he.
The zeitgiest is swinging away from poiltical correctness which is why I think he's going to break out.
He ad-libbed at the end, and someone asked about his time in the Navy. He had some great MP stories
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 11, 2025 05:26 PM (uaGCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 11, 2025 05:21 PM (zBBwI)
Damn that makes me feel old. Makes sense, but damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 05:27 PM (zZu0s)
The Lizzo colouring book was still there for $3 Canadian.
She was a vegetarian for 7 years! Screw it. If it's still there next time, I'm buying the damn thing, some colouring pencils and I'll start hoping CBD starts accepting user submissions.
And I'll be able to regale the Horde with useful Lizzo trivia at opportune times.
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Posted by: Ignoramus at August 11, 2025 05:26 PM (uaGCR)
He was pretty good on laugh in
Posted by: Oglebay at August 11, 2025 05:28 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 05:54 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Coldwarvet at August 11, 2025 06:00 PM (hOgDa)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 11, 2025 06:09 PM (kYF0p)
He goes for the most right-wing government he can find.
Posted by: MikeN at August 11, 2025 06:29 PM (HVZOH)
As for Oliver, well, you can just tell about him, too.
Posted by: Concord at August 11, 2025 06:46 PM (GfoPU)
And miracle of miracle, after 40 years of admiring his work, I have zero idea what his politics are - although I suspect he leans to the right.
Plus he seems like a damn nice guy.
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at August 11, 2025 07:00 PM (FUliT)
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