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Tag: Jimmy Kimmel

  • Anything good on TV tonight?

    Cancel yer own damn self! Would someone please put this blog on hiatus? Wouldn’t mind the time off (Blaska is a slave-driver). More importantly, we could use the big bump in numbers Jimmy Kimmel will get tonight. They’ll have to take a nuclear energy plant out of mothballs just to feed Nielsen’s audience meters. A…

  • New breed of speech police are braying

    Watch what you post! A case could be made that canceling Jimmy Kimmel was a network TV business decision. By taunting conservatives night after night, “Jimmy Kimmel was canceling himself,” columnist Kimberley Strassel observes, “until [Trump’s FCC chairman] crashed into the scene.” Thus emboldened, newly triggered Republicans are forming ad hoc ministries of truth. Like…

  • No one is laughing, Jimmy Kimmel

    Charlie Kirk’s Great Sorting Out. Aside from part-time jobs at the porcelain factory in Sun Prairie and an iron foundry in Oshkosh, Blaska made his living (such as it was) on the back of the First Amendment.  So it was disheartening to hear this morning my old friend Mizz Vicki barking over the AM airwaves…

  • Women are no longer victims but will they demand affirmative action?

    To forgive is divine We confess, the Indentured Servants tuned the Stately Manor’s 12-inch, b&w Philco to the 90th Academy Awards show Sunday night. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, my Deplorable friends. Consonant with today’s victim-as-hero mentality, we blame our parents. [UPDATE: Apparently, most of you held fast and boycotted the telecast. A record low…