By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | July 14, 2024
The Daily Show was set to film at the Republican National Convention this week, but for very obvious and completely understandable reasons, it has pulled the plug on that plan. The show will now film in New York, where it will be safe to do smarmy, both sides bullsh*t that we can all fight about later. USA! (LateNighter)
Can Deadpool & Wolverine get Marvel back on track? (Lainey Gossip)
Harrison Butker is salty about Serena Williams dissing him. Poor wittle guy. (Celebitchy)
The right-wing raw milk trend is going as well as expected. (Wonkette)
For her newsletter, Kayleigh wrote about the 1997 Time profile where Ellen DeGeneres came out, both on- and off-screen. (Substack)
Goldman Sachs: AI is overhyped, wildly expensive, and unreliable. (404 Media)
I would pay cash money to see Tom Cruise sitting in a movie theater going, “Dude, bro, is that a tornado? Wait, what, dude— two tornadoes?! So many twisters, bro.” (Deadline)
Because this weekend wasn’t a big enough trainwreck of never-ending news, Kate Middleton went to Wimbledon. (Rolling Stone)
From Andrew: I… don’t think this accomplished what Katy Perry wanted it to. (Twitter)
Charlize Theron loved Furiosa if anyone’s curious. (THR)
David Arquette is on a mission to make people like clowns again. Godspeed, bud! (Page Six)
Cannonball Read is celebrating Private-Eye July with a favorite detective comment diversion. “What literary detective would you like to have dinner with, vacation with, work with, date or marry, be related to, or track you down when you commit a crime?” (Cannonball Read 16)
Not for nothing, AOC has been backing Biden all week and rebuking the doomers calling for him to drop out. That did not stop in light of recent events:
If you’re a “senior Democrat” that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 15, 2024
This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire. https://t.co/5oKQeMrOI0