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Donald Trump is sick of fielding questions about Jeffrey Epstein. But his efforts to quash lingering interest in the case of the late sex offender by downplaying it as some kind of “hoax” perpetrated by political enemies including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have failed to satisfy Maga diehards who want the White House to release bombshell materials implicating powerful elites in Epstein’s crimes, or evidence that he was killed in his jail cell in 2019 to protect those same people.

It’s a crisis of the administration’s own making.

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has revealed that he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The news arrives in the same week that former President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced his own prostate cancer diagnosis. Now, at the age of 67, Adams shares in a recent video that he is struggling with the same disease.

In a video uploaded to X as a part of his Coffee with Scott Adams online series, the Dilbert creator says he has been grappling with terminal prostate cancer for a period of time. As noted in Biden's case, Adams' cancer has spread to his bones and the Dilbert creator said the following about his prognosis: "It is 100% not curable."

Coffee With Scott Adams 5/19/25 https://t.co/miG4jySdsD— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 19, 2025

"I don't have any good days," Adams continued, expressing how much pain he's been in on a daily basis. The cartoonist...

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Scott Adams gained fame by skewering corporate life with his popular syndicated comic strip, Dilbert, which ran in US newspapers from 1989 to 2023.

The 67-year-old now earns his living as a social media influencer and political commentator, and this week, he shared some shocking news with his massive fan base:

Adams says he has been given just months to live after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams during an interview on CNN. (CNN) Scott Adams says he does not expect to live out the summer

On a recent livestream, Adams revealed that he’s battling the same “aggressive” form of prostate cancer with which Joe Biden was recently diagnosed.

“My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer,” Adams told his followers, adding:

“Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse.”

Adams went...

Well, there’s something haunting about hearing a voice that quivers, falters, and trembles—especially when it belongs to a high-profile figure. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s (Rfk) voice, once strong and commanding, now carries a rasp, a tremor that’s impossible to ignore. But behind this unsettling change lies a much deeper story—a story not of weakness but of resilience, a story of a rare neurological condition that affects far more people than we might think.

Rfk Jr. | Credit Instagram @Rfk Jr Podcast

For those who have listened closely to Kennedy Jr. during his public appearances, it’s hard not to notice the strained, often shaky quality of his voice. To some, it might sound like a passing oddity; to others, it’s a reminder of the struggles that Rfk Jr. continues to face. It’s not just a sign of aging or fatigue, but a medical condition called spasmodic dysphonia.

Rumble has secured a “rocket pack” that will set it up for the next phase of its growth. The streaming hub known for its focus on free speech and its right-wing leanings has hauled in a $775 million strategic investment from Tether, the digital assets company behind the world’s most-traded cryptocurrency.

Approximately one-third ($250 million) of the investment will go toward Rumble’s operations. The 11-year-old, publicly traded company has been hunting for assets since it enjoyed a breakout moment on Election Day. That’s when right-wing pundits on Rumble, including Dan Bongino and Steven Crowder, drove the platform to its biggest single-day viewership ever.

In the ensuing weeks, Rumble’s stock price surged, and rumors began to swirl regarding the platform’s potential appeals for more funding. Forbes noted that Rumble had used up the majority of its $300 million backing from its 2022 Spac merger. Some of that money was used...

Since “comedy is now legal on Twitter,” can we get Nancy a complimentary blue check?

Every alt-right influencer, CEO, comedian and politician has a pronouns joke — or, it would be more accurate to say, every alt-right influencer, CEO, comedian and politician has the same pronouns joke:

“My pronouns are prosecute/Fauci.” “My pronouns are vote/Trump.” Or, during the time of year when Starbucks’ holiday-themed cups create a national emergency in the right-wing media, “My pronouns are merry/Christmas.”

It’s the same joke, endlessly repeated and usually quote tweeted by billionaire demagogue Elon Musk during his daily 18-hour Twitter scroll.

Thankfully, there is a fan page on Twitter devoted to Ernie Bushmiller’s syndicated comic strip Nancy that can teach Musk and his friends how to make a smart, funny and original joke about pronouns — or, at least, it can teach Musk how to repost the strip, probably with...

Nicole Shanahan — the running mate to independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — is warning about a supposed luciferian influence on the national government.

Shanahan is a billionaire anti-vaxxer who, like Rfk Jr., is no stranger to conspiracy theories. But Shanahan has recently embraced language common to the QAnon crowd, as well as to some Christian nationalists, to describe supernatural forces at play in our politics.

The recent dog-whistling started in late May at the Libertarian Party convention. In a written address to the gathering that Shanahan posted to X,...

Since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, advertisers have grappled with his ownership of the social media company. Within months of his acquisition of Twitter, researchers found that slurs against Black Americans and other minority groups increased on the platform. The billionaire’s own comments on race and reinstatement of extremist figures have spooked top advertisers and caused many to abandon Twitter.

The billionaire plans to lure advertisers back during a speaking engagement at Mma Global’s Possible marketing conference in Miami on April 18. However, a private email thread, obtained by Semafor,...

April is going to be a star-packed month on Global’s “Saturday Night Live”.

The sketch show is returning on April 1 with three back-to-back new episodes each week, and kicking off with “Abbott Elementary” star Quinta Brunson hosting.

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Lil Yachty will be the musical guest for the April 1 episode.

April shows!!! pic.twitter.com/6uXWIDLGLT

— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) March 27, 2023

The following week, on April 8, former cast member Molly Shannon will be returning to Studio 8H to host the show, with the Jonas Brothers as musical guests.

Read More: ‘SNL’ Hilariously Roasts ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Scott Adams Over Racist Tirade

On April 15, “Ghosted” star Ana de Armas will host for the first time, with Karol G making her first appearance as musical guest on “SNL”.

Tune-in to “Saturday Night Live”, Saturdays at 11:30 p.

Labour action is brewing behind-the-scenes at “Saturday Night Live”.

According to Variety, the post-production editors on the sketch show have voted to strike during the upcoming April 1 episode, unless an agreement is struck with NBCUniversal.

Read More: ‘SNL’ Hilariously Roasts ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Scott Adams Over Racist Tirade

Between 12 and 20 editors work on the show and have reportedly vowed to disrupt the show if bargaining sessions remained stalled.

On 4/1, our crew will have either a contract or a picket line at #SNL. pic.twitter.com/LmizNyKamG

— Mpeg (Editors Guild) (@MPEG700) March 9, 2023

The workers, who organized as part of IATSE Local 700 with the Motion Picture Editors Guild, first voiced their intention to negotiate a new contract in October.

Bargaining has taken place, but has apparently stalled over several points, including on the issue of health benefits.

Members of the editing team also asking for high pay rates, which are currently well below industry standards.

Everything seems like it’s going great at Fox Corporation, except for the fact that everything seems like it isn’t.

While speaking at an investor conference Thursday, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch praised his family’s decision to sell off a large swath of cable and studio assets to Walt Disney Co. in 2019, a move that left Fox significantly smaller and focused largely on live TV, mainly news and sports. He even brought up a reference to the 1979 comedy “Monty Python’s Life of Brian,” in which a small combatant unencumbered with armor or muscle is able to survive a colosseum fight after his larger opponent suffers a heart attack.

“We are the little guy,” said Murdoch. “We are going to be the one that survives.”

Many interested observers may not be so sure.

Fox Corp. expects to go to court in April to defend itself in a $1.6 billion defamation...

“Dilbert” is being dumped from dozens of newspapers throughout North America after the comic strip’s creator, Scott Adams, went on a racist rant during a recent podcast when the Trump-supporting cartoonist cited a poll in which 53 per cent of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s Ok to be white,” which led Adams to define Black people as “a hate group.”

He continued by declaring, “I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people, just get the f**k away … because there is no fixing this.”

After numerous newspapers announced they were getting rid of “Dilbert”, Adams double down by complaining about being “cancelled… because I gave some advice everyone agreed with.”

Dilbert has been cancelled from all newspapers,...

Scott Adams has been in the news recently for being dumped from thousands of newspapers over a series of racist statements — and who better to talk about the debacle than the man himself? Not that man, obviously, but the cartoon one Adams draws. Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had Dilbert on to explain his creator’s actions.

First-year cast member Michael Longfellow plays the character in a costume that is so real, it’s a little frightening. In the comic strip’s simplistic aesthetic, Dilbert is drawn with no distinction between his forehead and hair. So naturally, in the real world,...

The centerpiece of “Saturday Night Live’s” March 4 “Weekend Update” segment was a skewering of “Dilbert” comic creator Scott Adams, who went on a racist rant last month that spurred dozens of newspapers to drop his long-running syndicated cartoon strip.

Michael Che, co-anchor of “Update” with Colin Jost, interviewed the cubicle-dweller himself, the cartoon character Dilbert, in an effort to understand how Adams could have gone so off the rails in suggesting that white people are under threat from Black people.

Over the course of a controversial YouTube video posted Feb. 22, Adams described how he purposely moved to a community with no Black residents and urged white viewers to “get the hell away from Black people.” He also called the Black community a “hate group.”

On “Weekend Update,” Che chided Jost about Adams: “So he lives in your community, huh?”

The portrayal of the pupil-less Dilbert character fell to “SNL” featured player Michael Longfellow,...

Dilbert himself made an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” this week after the comic strip was pulled from many papers around the country thanks to a racist rant from its creator, Scott Adams. And, according to Dilbert, Adams’ racism was “a total shock” to “the all-white writing staff.”

In case you missed it, on Wednesday, Adams shared a video ranting about a recent Rasmussen poll that determined only a narrow majority of Black Americans agreed with the phrase, “It’s Ok to be white.” Adams argued that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not Ok with white people … that’s a hate group.”

“And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people … because there is no fixing this,” he said, before noting that he specifically moved to an...

Recently, Dilbert creator Scott Adams had his comic strip dropped by its distributor, Andrews McMeel Syndication, and newspapers across the country when he went on a racist rant on his Real Coffee with Scott Adams program.

Adams, who’s morphed into a right-wing conspiracy theorist in recent years, was responding to a poll from Rasmussen Reports about the phrase, “It’s okay to be white,” which has been tied to the white supremacist movement. The cartoonist took issue with how only 53% of Black respondents agreed with the saying, prompting him...

Hasan Minhaj began his week of guest hosting “The Daily Show” on Monday night with a prediction: if a wealth tax existed, people like J.K. Rowling might be more conscious of what they say.

Minhaj’s suggestion came while discussing Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, who recently went on a tirade against Black people on his podcast. As a result, the “Dilbert” comic has been pulled from papers across the country, and Adams has been dropped by his publisher. And really, Minhaj is amazed that Adams caused this headache for himself when he could just “be happy” that he “got rich off doodles.”

“I’ve noticed one thing about a certain type of rich person. When they don’t have problems of their own, they have to just make up problems just to make their lives interesting,” Minhaj joked. “Right? They’re just like, sitting at...

Hasan Minhaj opened his first episode as guest host on The Daily Show Monday with a brutal roast of Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who was dropped from hundreds of newspapers over his racist rant.

“This is the American dream, baby!” declared Minhaj, a former correspondent on the show. “I worked here for five years just so I could substitute teach for a week.”

The host of Netflix’s Patriot Act started off by pointing out the obvious: Despite the war in Ukraine, the Ohio train derailment, or the devastation left by the earthquake in Turkey,...

Hundreds of newspapers — including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and the entire USA Today network — have dropped the syndicated comic Dilbert following racist remarks made by the strip’s cartoonist Scott Adams.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer were among the first to drop the office place-based comic Saturday, with editor Chris Quinn writing in a letter to readers, “Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry...

The syndicator of Dilbert said that they are dropping the comic strip following racist remarks made by its creator, Scott Adams.

The publisher of Adams’ non-Dilbert books also has terminated an upcoming project, according to The Wall Street Journal. Adams wrote on Twitter that the publisher also canceled his backlist.

“Still no disagreement about my point of view. My book agent canceled me too,” Adams wrote.

But newspapers across the country dropped the Dilbert comic after Adams, on his YouTube show, in which he referred to Black Americans a “hate group.” “The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” Adams had been talking about a Rasmussen poll on the use of phrase, “It’s Ok to be white.” According to the poll, 26 of Black Americans disagreed with that statement and another 21 percent said that they were not sure about the statement.

Twitter has fired at least 200 more employees, or 10% of its already dramatically scaled-down workforce, according to press reports, as owner-ceo Elon Musk continues to slash costs to make his $44 billion acquisition viable.

The purchase of Twitter last year remains one of oddest business stories in recent times, and the fallout is too. His sudden, high-priced bid was a surprise, then he almost immediately reneged on the deal and was sued. He capitulated when his chances of a court victory seemed dim. Since then, he’s alienated and subsequently tried to woo back worried advertisers and tried several launches of troubled Twitter Blue in the hope of generating additional revenue and fired thousands of employees from a staff that stood at 7,500 before he bought it. Musk had threatened to eliminate two-thirds of all Twitter jobs, now he’s gone beyond that.

The cuts are said to traverse advertising, app support, product managers,...

Andrews McMeel Universal, the distributor of Scott Adams‘ Dilbert comic strip, announced Sunday that it was cutting ties with the cartoonist after he referred to people who are Black as members of a “hate group” that white people should “get away” from on his YouTube show Real Coffee with Scott Adams.

Here’s Scott Adams’ racist rant, in case you didn’t already see it. pic.twitter.com/x6NcQRO1U5

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) February 25, 2023

The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and other major newspapers across the U.S. have publicly stated that they would no longer publish the comic strip.

Adams began by commenting on the results of a poll run by Rasmussen Reports that asked, “Do you agree or disagree with this statement, ‘It’s Ok to be white’?”

The poll found that 72% agreed, including 53% who are Black. About 26% of Black responders disagreed...

Woody Harrelson has caused controversy by making an anti-vax joke during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.

Appearing on last night’s episode (25 February), the True Detective star, 61, told a long and rambling story about the “craziest script” he’s ever read.

He took about six minutes to get to the punchline, after getting distracted talking about smoking weed, his love of drinking and what kind of tree he was sitting against when he read the script.

Eventually, he concluded: “So the movie goes like this. The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes.

“And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.”

The actor told an awkwardly quiet crowd: “I threw the script away.

Workplace comic strip Dilbert is being pulled from newspapers across the country this week, following creator Scott Adams' statements on his YouTube channel. In comments reacting to a Rasmussen Reports poll in which 53% of black surveyees agreed with the statement, "It's okay to be white," Adams stated that, "if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people ... that's a hate group." Adams continued "the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people ... because there's no fixing this, this can't be fixed."

As reported by The Washington Post, newspapers across the country are pulling Dilbert from their pages following Adams' vlog episode 'AI Goes Woke, I Accidentally Joined A Hate Group, Trump, Policing Schools.' The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and hundreds of papers under the USA Today network are ceasing publication of the comic strip,...

Woody Harrelson has caused controversy by making an anti-vax joke during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.

Appearing on last night’s episode (25 February), the True Detective star, 61, told a long and rambling story about the “craziest script” he’s ever read.

He took about six minutes to get to the punchline, after getting distracted talking about smoking weed, his love of drinking and what kind of tree he was sitting against when he read the script.

Eventually, he concluded: “So the movie goes like this. The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes.

“And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.”

The actor told an awkwardly quiet crowd: “I threw the script away.

Woody Harrelson is under fire for referencing his controversial stance on vaccination and the Covid-19 pandemic in his opening monologue of the Feb. 25 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

The actor, who took to the stage for his fifth time as “SNL” host, proceeded to ramble off a story that all hinged around the “craziest script” he’s ever read. After several minutes of getting distracted talking about smoking weed, drinking and what kind of tree he was sitting under, the actor describes the aforementioned script.

“So the movie goes like this,” Harrelson explains. “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.”

“I threw the script away,...

Newspapers across the country are pulling the “Dilbert” cartoon after a podcast racial rant from creator and author Scott Adams.

Adams said on his his Coffee with Scott Adams online video program that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” labeling Blacks as a “hate group.”

The Dilbert cartoon is a satire on office politics and has been around for more than three decades. It has spawned a media empire featuring dozens of books, a video game, an animated television series, and thousands of coffee cups and related merchandise. In 1997, Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award, its highest honor.

Update: On Saturday, Adams suffered a major blow.

Boom! This action by the @Usatoday Network means that racist Scott Adam’s “Dilbert” comic strip will no longer appear in more than 200 newspapers across the country.

On Monday, Fox News host Dan Bongino opened his daily podcast on a topic that seemed like old news: Covid-19 vaccines. He brought them up after first complaining that fellow conservatives had gotten “bogged down” in the story about classified documents seized from President Biden‘s Delaware home and former Washington, D.C., office, “because the left are absolute experts at misdirection,” he said.

Instead, Bongino wanted to focus on what he sees as a growing sense of distrust among those who had received vaccines and boosters. “I’m sensing an enormous cultural shift here,...

In the '90s, cartoonists trolled readers like never before, as the makers of comic strips such as Garfield, The Family Circus, and Dilbert took place in the now infamous comic strip switcheroo. The likes of Jim Davis, Lincoln Pierce, Bill Hinds, and more iconic newspaper strip creators tackled other notable comics without informing the public that the change had happened. As a result, some of the most bizarre and hilarious versions of popular comic strips were published.

Newspaper comic strips have become a staple of the print industry, as daily periodicals have published cartoonist's works in the medium for more than 100 years. Today, some syndicated comic strips, such as Jim Davis' Garfield, the late Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, and Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, are printed in thousands of newspapers every week. However, in the 1990s, a large group of comic strip creators opted to prank readers with the comic strip switcheroo,...

The Republican spin machine seems to have encountered a jam.

Following the release late Tuesday night of a 54-page document outlining the Justice Department’s findings in the Aug. 8 raid on Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence, the former president and his supporters are struggling to make their stories make sense.

The court filing was a response to Trump’s attempt to claim that the more than 100 classified documents seized during the raid were subject to executive privilege, and thus could not be reviewed by the DOJ. The filing included...

A GoFundMe page to raise money for the children of slain “Law & Order: Organized Crime” production assistant Johnny Pizarro II, has, as of press time, raised over 17,000 towards the 250,000 goal.

Family lawyer Chrissy Grigoropoulos set up the fundraiser and notes, “all proceeds will be donated to Johnny’s children as well as toward his funeral and memorial expenses.”

Pizarro was enforcing “no parking” signs outside the Brooklyn filming location when he was fatally shot on Tuesday morning.

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James Gunn Shuts Down Scott Adams Over Highland Park Shooting ‘Kill Your Own Son’ Tweet

“On July 19, 2022, we lost a father, son, brother and uncle and a beloved person in the Bushwick, Brooklyn community,” the message on the GoFundMe page reads. “Johnny Alberto Pizarro II, was taken from his family and children too soon. An unknown individual took him away from his children in the most senseless way possible, while...

On Tuesday, Arizona Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (R) spoke in Congress during a debate over gun legislation and, accidentally, said she would do whatever it takes to “protect” her own grandchildren, including killing them.

“I have five grandchildren,” she said. “I would do anything, anything, to protect my five grandchildren, including, as a last resort, shooting them, if I had to, to protect the lives of my grandchildren.”

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James Gunn Shuts Down Scott Adams Over Highland Park Shooting ‘Kill Your Own Son’ Tweet

She appears to have left something out of her intended remarks – she certainly denies that she intended to suggest that she would shoot her grandchildren. Likely what she meant was in the case of some imaginary, extremely unlikely threat that she would need to shoot. After all, the overwhelming evidence is that almost none of America’s episodes of gun violence or mass shootings have been...

James Gunn on Wednesday shut down comic Scott Adams’ shocking tweet that urged parents with violent teenagers to “watch people die” or “kill your son” by pointing out he was a violent teen addict who managed to turn his life around.

“Hey Scott Adams: As someone who was himself a violent teenager addicted to drugs & entered recovery with the help & love of his family, as well as someone who has seen dozens of other young men stay sober & become fruitful members of society, these are not the only two options,” Gunn tweeted.

Adams’ original tweet was in response to the arrest of Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo III, who killed seven people and injured more than three dozen on July 4.

“The Highland shooting and every Fentanyl overdose death among the young are teaching us the same lesson, and we refuse to learn it, the “Dilbert” comic artist tweeted on July 6. “It’s difficult,...

The Accidental President Intervention Media Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: James Fletcher Writer: James Fletcher Cast: Jerry Springer, Piers Morgan, Van Jones, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Adams, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Schmidt Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 10/3/20 Opens: October 16, 2020, streaming October 27, 2020 Let’s take a […]

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“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams made a fearful prediction about the 2020 presidential election on Twitter on Wednesday, telling his Republican followers that if Joe Biden is elected to the White House, “there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.”

“Republicans will be hunted,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet, later adding, “Police will stand down.”

The comic strip creator has been outspoken about his political views both on Twitter and on his blog, where he previously endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016 and accused the Hillary Clinton campaign of stoking “violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me.”

Also Read: 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Says His Upn Show Was Canceled Because He Was White

As actor James Urbaniak noted in response to Adams’ tweets, the threat of violence against Republican voters in response to Democratic electoral victories is a recurring theme in Adams’ political commentary.

Scott Adams, creator of the popular “Dilbert” cartoon, claimed in a tweet Sunday that his short-lived television series on Upn was canceled because he was white.

“I lost my TV show for being white when Upn decided it would focus on an African-American audience. That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.),” Adams wrote in response to one of several replies to a 2017 tweet from The Hollywood Reporter that touted Lena Dunham for selling her show “Girls” to HBO with nothing but a “page-and-a-half-long pitch, without a character nor a plot” when she was 23.

Ahmed Best, who created, wrote, directed and produced his own TV show, “This Can’t Be My Life,” also responded the tweet about Dunham, suggesting that her white privilege may have helped her get a leg up over creators of color who rarely get so lucky.

Jake Tapper talks to CNN viewers all week, but Sunday is when he knows he can have a longer conversation.

In July of 2016, David Brown, the police chief of Dallas, came to Tapper’s weekend program, “State of the Union” for an exchange about five police officers killed during an act of domestic terrorism. Their interview took place over three segments and nearly 40 minutes.

“One of the gifts of the Sunday show is that you can really talk for an extensive period of time with somebody and do a very long interview,” says Tapper, who engaged in his own sizable discussion with Variety earlier this week. “You don’t have to do 30 guests for three minutes each. You can do one, and I think that the best shows we’ve done are when we really give somebody the time.”

Tapper has been at the helm of “State of the Union” for five years,...

Given that today’s “funnies” aren’t found in the papers so much as they are Twitter threads and listicles, a cartoon like Scott Adams’ workplace satire Dilbert probably isn’t something you’re still following. And, if Miles Wray’s new piece for The Awl is any indication, this is a very good thing. Sure, we knew that…

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As the New Year arrives, we salute a few favourite TV episodes depicting this momentous time of year...

New Year is a time for reflection on the past and resolution for the future, an opportunity to consider what you’ve achieved and what you’re yet to work on. It’s also a time to stay up well past midnight, partying the night away with friends and family, potentially embarrassing yourself in the process. That dichotomy ensures that the New Year is fertile ground for television, and the finest comedies and dramatic series use the moment to allow for contemplation amidst the alcoholic excesses. Here are twenty New Year episodes that offer an entertaining take on the aeons-old celebration - from emotional character pieces to geeky genre takes and old-fashioned barrages of seasonal comedy.

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I’m a fossil. I know it. Proof positive: I read the daily newspaper. Not on a pad or tablet or my computer, I go out and actually buy the blamed thing. I read it during breakfast. Yes, I still get a certain percentage of my news from the computer and/or Jon Stewart and The Daily Show but I like having the physical newspaper, just as I prefer actual books to an e-reader. If I don’t get to read the paper, I get cranky. Or crankier.

I think I got that from my father, Joel W. Ostrander Sr. He was always the first up in the morning but, during my high school years, I was up second. We’d both be at breakfast and we would read the newspaper. I’d get the sections he was done with; that’s where I learned to be possessive about my newspaper.

Stephen Amell calls out Russian homophobia, The X Factor cancelled, Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow continue public fight

Congratulations to Ben McKenzie, who has been cast as the young Commissioner Gordon in the Fox drama Gotham. The show won’t feature Batman, but will have a young Bruce Wayne.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana has put hundreds of HIV patients in limbo after a decision to reject all third party checks to help pay premiums for the Affordable Care Act, including checks from the Ryan White Program, which is transitioning patients from Medicare to the Affordable Care Act. Bcbs says it’s just acting on direction from the government o avoid fraud, but the feds say that said guidance was never meant to apply to the Ryan White Care Program. As someone who benefited briefly from the Ryan White Program while I was unemployed, this hits close to home.

The Platonic ideal of the comic is precisely balanced between art and words, each as exquisite and precise and lovely as the other. And there might actually be one or two comics that come within spitting distance of that, but not much more: it’s an ideal because it really doesn’t happen. Every comic, like every work of art in any medium, has its strengths and weaknesses, and what good cartoonists do is to work to their strengths.

Scott Meyer’s strength is his writing: he’s witty, writes great dialogue, and has a enviable eye for the situations in his own life that can be turned into comics. His art is serviceable but a bit bland: he rotoscopes (or “traces”) over photographs, reusing the same poses (and, one suspects, the same art) repeatedly, and this means his cast is inherently limited and their poses equally limited. (It’s...

June 3: Game-show host Chuck Barris ("The Gong Show") is 83. Singer Ian Hunter is 73. Singer Eddie Holman is 66. Bassist Too Slim of Riders in the Sky is 64. Singer Suzi Quatro is 62. Singer Deniece Williams is 61. Singer Dan Hill is 58. Actor Scott Valentine ("Family Ties") is 54. Guitarist Kerry King of Slayer is 48. Singer Mike Gordon of Phish is 47. Newsman Anderson Cooper is 45. Country singer Jamie O'Neal is 44. Singers Ariel and Gabriel Hernandez of No Mercy are 41. Actor Vik Sahay ("Chuck") is 41. Actress Lalaine Dupree ("Lizzie McGuire") is 25.

June 4: Actor Bruce Dern is 76. Singer-actress Michelle Phillips (The Mamas and The Papas) is 68. Bassist Danny Brown of The Fixx is 61. Actor Parker Stevenson is 60. Singer El DeBarge is 51. Singer Al B. Sure! is 44. Actor Scott Wolf ("Party of Five") is 44. Ron Huebel ("What to Expect When You're Expecting") is 43. Comedian Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live") is 43. Actor Noah Wyle ("ER") is 41. Bassist...

Let's upgrade the corporate killjoy.

"It Just Sucked the life force out of my body," says Scott Adams of his old cubicle at Pacific Bell. Luckily for him, that ennui inspired the megahit Dilbert comic strip. But for the rest of America's 40 million cube dwellers, there's little to love about the walled-in work space, whose average size has plummeted to just 75 square feet. Big-name design firms such as Knoll and Herman Miller are already working to modernize the '60s classic, adding features that emphasize comfort and collaboration. So we tapped their top minds -- and chose a few of our own -- to imagine a better one. After all, says James Ludwig, head of design at Steelcase, "my work space should reflect the way I work."

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Plant life Those who work near plants -- and,...

Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a Wtf Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But there's no reason to let this stuff go to waste: I can still share it with you, for your amusement, and start the new week with a clean slate. Herewith this week's leftover links, in no particular order: Duke Nukem Forever "Slaps" Up Controversy On Its Portrayal Of Women How to Make a Girl Cooperate After You've Abducted Her [re Duke Nukem Forever] 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Compares Women Asking for Equal Pay to Children Demanding Candy Scott Adams (Dilbert), deleted post Ethical Quandary for Social Sites...

Wonder Woman has been through a lot lately. J. Michael Straczynski — the writer best known for the universally-beloved Spider-Man: One More Day — signed on in the last half of 2010 for a storyline that completely revamped the Amazon princess’ origins. But after the success of Superman: Earth One, the original graphic novel that saw Jms completely break out of his comfort zone by revamping the Last Son of Krypton’s origins, he decided to focus on the sequel and leave Wonder Woman to Phil Hester. But now Hester is leaving, too, unable to resist the temptation of working on the hotly-anticipated 2012 relaunch of Marville for the other guys.

But Diana of Themyscira is in good hands with Dave Sim, the self-publishing legend and creative force behind the eight million-page Cerebus the Aardvark saga, writing and drawing her monthly adventures starting with April’s issue #401. And if that weren’t enough, cartoonist Scott Adams of Dilbert fame,...

A week after posting — and subsequently deleting — a blog post about “men’s rights,” Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams continues to be criticized for comparing society’s treatment of women to the coddling of children and mentally handicapped persons, while lamenting the unfair treatment of men. In his lengthy post (which you can read here), Adams writes:

“The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner.

Michael Bolton got voted off Dancing With the Stars the other night. I know, tragedy. But he’s being a little petty about a comment from out judge Bruno Tonioli, who called Bolton’s jive the worst he’d seen in eleven seasons. Bolton wants an apology, but the producers say it would be silly of them to force an apology from a judge for being judgmental. Plus, could you imagine what Simon Cowell would have do if this were precedent?

I’ve never paid a lot of attention to Dave Navarro, at least not after Rockstar: Inxs. But he seems like a good guy – he supports PETA, and he’s written an open letter to gay, bi and transgender teens that shows him to be fond of humans as well as animals. Count me in as a fan of the man, Dave Navarro.

Scott Adams is the master of...

It’s often a bitch to explain new media. None of this stuff makes much sense if you don’t use it—and if you resist it. It’s as irritating as it is opaque. Technology in the way it reduces and simplifies is, let’s face it, vulgar. I usually explain Newser by saying, in more highfalutin language, there’s all this free stuff out there, it’s crazy not to use it (key the harrumphing of the traditional news community, who believe I’m a bastardizer, opportunist, and thief). I wish I could explain it better. I’m grateful that Scott Adams—Dilbert’s creator—does. One can only hope for a dedicated user like Adams who is, he said Tuesday in a blog post, “psychologically addicted” to Newser, feeling a need to check it “twenty times a day,” for reasons that seem to confound him. “Wtf,” he declares.

It's a dire genre – witness Bill Murray's nadir in Garfield 2 – but with Dilbert in production, what next? Your suggestions, please

Films based on TV shows are one thing. Films based on video games are another. But films based on newspaper comic strips are unquestionably the worst thing in the entire world. There's literally nothing worse than a film based on a newspaper comic strip. Literally.

They're the sort of thing that can decimate legends. The only thing stopping Garfield from being the lowest point of Bill Murray's career is the sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. And even though it was only 13 minutes long, 1985's Rupert and the Frog Song was enough to single-handedly transform Paul McCartney from an incomparable musical genius to a mulleted thumbs-aloft twit. Unequivocally speaking, only a fool would make a film out of a newspaper comic strip.

And that's partly why it's...