Doug Baxter is close to figuring out what the Clinton Foundation is really up to. He’s still connecting the dots, but so far it seems that the Clintons have been funneling billions of dollars to research institutions around the country in order to figure out a way for women to have sex with each other. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the fallout since Trump defended white supremacists and Neo-Nazis earlier this week and how his supporters and those in his administration have either responded to his comments only privately or completely distanced themselves (notably, Meyers points out that Ivanka […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Weekend Update special, where Colin Jost and Michael Che welcome SNL alum and UVA graduate Tina Fey to offer her take on the latest news surrounding the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last weekend, Trump’s response, and the Neo-Nazi rallies that are reportedly set to happen this weekend. “I […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Donald Trump’s decision earlier this week to give an impromptu Charlottesville press conference where, instead of finally condemning white supremacists by name, he doubled down on defending them and said that there were “very fine people” in that group. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a great clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel covers Trump’s bizarre decision yesterday not only to backtrack on his comments condemning the white supremacists in Charlottesville over the weekend but actually double down on defending them. This leads to a rapid-fire recap of the countless ways Trump has screwed up since […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers recaps the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend that resulted in a protester getting killed and Trump taking two whole days filled with public pressure to condemn his Nazi supporters by name despite having what Meyers calls “a permanent hard-on for condemnation.” “It shouldn’t […]
Continue ReadingSummerhall, Edinburgh
The political comic mixes debate about Britain’s future with confessional memoir in an odd hybrid that solicits contributions from the crowd
Mark Thomas has called this latest fringe outing The Show that Gambles on the Future, which you’d peg as a reference to Britain’s Brexit vote. It isn’t, or not explicitly. The campaigning comic’s new set (he alternates these days between standup and solo theatre shows) is an interactive affair, soliciting audience proposals for what the near-future holds. Thomas then reads out these written submissions, joking about some, canvassing support for others, and peeling off to perform standup about growing up in south London at the heel of a terrifying dad.
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Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver responds to the weekend’s terrible news that a protester was killed during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as well as Trump’s equally terrible response condemning the violence “on many sides” and refusing to call out the Nazis by name. “It seems Trump’s […]
Continue ReadingAssembly Rooms, Edinburgh
The former first minister of Scotland and ex-MP promises a political kiss and tell, but while a convivial host, fails to deliver the goods
When the former first minister of Scotland and now ex-MP Alex Salmond announced this last-minute fringe run, it sold out faster than you can say “independence in Europe”. Perhaps punters were seduced by the promise of (as the title runs) “Alex Salmond … Unleashed”. He’s been promising to kiss and tell, hinting on the Today programme at a story involving – of all things – sado-masochism and Kirsty Wark. Sure enough, the show begins (after a rousing reception from the crowd) with Salmond theatrically removing his tie. He’s buttoned up no more, and we buckle up for juicy gossip from behind the scenes of Scottish and UK politics.
But that’s not what we get. Instead, Unleashed is an hour of music, clubbable chat with a special guest, and some reflections on Scotland’s historical ties to Europe. (Each show will have a different theme.) Today’s visitor, greeted with surprise by the crowd, is the “Brexit bulldog”, David Davis – to whom we have to be nice, Salmond instructs us, because they’re pals. If we hadn’t been told, we’d guess from the chummy conversation that follows. Two old guys, two upholstered leather armchairs: think gentleman’s club and you wouldn’t be wide of the mark.
Continue ReadingAfter being suspended from the show for the second half of last season, it appears that writer Katie Rich has returned to Saturday Night Live. The Chicago Sun-Times noticed during the credits of last night’s Weekend Update special that Rich was listed in the credits as one of the episode’s 12 writers – the first time […]
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