Whitney Cummings Puts a Ridiculous New Twist on Defending Her Riyadh Performance

Here’s a new one: Whitney Cummings defends her participation in the Riyadh Comedy Festival by accusing critics of hypocrisy and calling them racist. Oh? It’s basically the Louis CK/Bill Burr defense, only with a racist twist! (AV Club)

I’ll be hosting Pajiba Love this week while Mike takes a much-needed vacation (seriously, dude never misses a day). If there were some Bernie news out there, I’d cover it to spite him (out of love), but you’ll have to settle for Graham Platner, the oyster farmer who is not only kicking Susan Collins’ ass in the latest polling, but is also polling ahead of our establishment governor, Janet Mills, in the primary. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop on Platner, but he just might be the real deal. (Newsweek)

Look, y’all: If Alec and Stephen Baldwin can get over their political differences and crash a car into a tree in the Hamptons together, maybe there is hope for the rest of us! (No one was hurt) (TMZ)

There is an oft-repeated phrase on this season of The Amazing Race, and it has to stop! (That said, I am loving Jag and Jas, who are tremendously good people on top of being great players. (Reality Blurred)

Friend of the site Matt has a theory on why Disney plunged millions of dollars into another TRON movie, probably knowing that it wasn’t going to recoup its investment in theaters. (Commentary Track)

Lainey is dark today for Canadian Thanksgiving, but show them some thanks by clicking on the link anyway. (LaineyGossip)

Kaiser only has five articles up on the Royals today — she must be taking it easy. But here is Lady Gaga being spotted shooting a scene for The Devil Wears Prada 2. (Celebitchy)

I guess Pam Bondi thought she could get in on the joke over on SNL. Nah, lady. That ain’t gonna fly. (DailyDot)

I agree with Vince’s top three choices for best Paul Thomas Anderson films, but I absolutely will not accept that Magnolia is last! (The Content Report)

Speaking of Paul Thomas Anderson, another three-named individual, Brett Easton Ellis, had the audacity to suggest that One Battle After Another is “not a very good movie.” Shut it, Ellis. (The Mary Sue)

As part of Cannonball Read’s celebration of Liz Gotauco’s book debut, F*cked Up Fairy Tales, katie71483 asked her about becoming TikTok famous and some of the surprises in her research. “I was very surprised to discover the large swath of dirty folk and fairy tales. One of the tales in my book…has an extremely vulgar punchline involving ejaculation.” Join Cannonball Read this Saturday on Zoom to hear more about fairy tales that are not for kids. (Cannonball Read 17)