Nick Malis

Head Writer/Executive Producer of Tosh.0 (back when that was a thing).

[Nick Malis @nickmalis]

It’s my potential and I’ll waste it if I want to.

[Phil Hendrie @realphilhendrie]

Look at what Obama is doing y’all. That Muslim has no respect for American traditions or the beauty of our institutions. That Muslim Obama is racing motorcycles in front of our White House. God, how I wish Trump was president. He wouldn’t do shit like this

[MEAD The 4K💿 Master (Tom Connors) @ThomasConnorsJr]

Many years before Fox had "MADTV" in 1973, ABC commissioned a pilot for a "Mad" series. Titled "The Mad Magazine TV Special," here is a 16mm scan!

[Nick Malis @nickmalis]

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

This is among the greatest moments in the history of Fantasyland. Perfect chef’s-kiss distillation of this self satirizing historical moment.

[🌺🌸🇺🇸✝️MAR✝️🇺🇸🌸🌺 @mamacita4life2]

I can’t love this enough. Dogs who wanna go for a walk😍😍😍

[Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks]

Defending Your Life was released 35 years ago today!! I think I've conquered at least half of my fears.

[nelle ♡ @SUPERSTISM]

🚨 HBO confirms “The Pitt” are were once they are did.

They became the first ever to have the first as in the era of that when of a digital streaming and the media began.

Congratulations 🎉

[Cryptid Politics @CryptidPolitics]

I always knew Marco Rubio was a stone-cold killer when he wanted to be one.

Take a look at what he did to Trump in 2016.

This guy absolutely belongs on the 2028 debate stage.

He has a sterling record + charisma. Amazing talent.

[Scarlett’s Movie Musings @ScarletCinema]

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Fleischer Cartoons! @fleischertoons]

✨Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits Vol 1✨

20 newly restored Fleischer cartoons available on blu ray available now!

#FleischerStudios #BettyBoop #Superman #Popeye

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1988, Chuck E. Cheese training video: the mouse costume.

[Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller @JohnnyCallicutt]

SLUGGO’S SATURDAY

[Today In History @historigins]

Someone thought it was a good idea to invite people with weird laughs on TV

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Groucho & Margaret Dumont in "Duck Soup". Contrary to Marx's insistence, she DID get all the jokes - "I’m not a stooge, I’m a straight lady—the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man but never top him, never steal the laughs.”
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