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Michael Ian BlackThe Atlantic |
The closest I’ve ever come to being a lawyer was playing the bowling alley manager for a bowling-alley-owning lawyer on the TV show Ed, so I may not...
He’s a b-tchy little queen. Such a b-tchy little queen. The make-up, the cattiness, the whining, and, especially, the resentment of successful...
This is getting ridiculous. Six weeks ago, the former Senate Majority Leader was wheeled into a hospital. Since then, aside from a single smiling...
He is now, as I have seen repeated online, Schrodinger’s Turtle. A man both alive and dead because nobody of integrity has yet peered inside the...
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Do you remember the uproar when President Barack Obama accepted a shiny $50,000 gold coin from the Sultan of Brunei? Critics said he was “selling...
Give algae the Nobel Peace Prize! Algae did not pay me to write this column but after I’m finished, I think you’ll agree that algae owes me some...
Everybody loves Nate Bargatze. Hell, I love Nate Bargatze. The clean-cut comic has built an empire on his dumb, everyman persona. He’s currently the...
I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but it now appears that the only Trump administration figure who acted with anything resembling a...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. This is how dumb...
CBS Broadcast Center squats atop an entire city block of midtown Manhattan. It is an aircraft carrier of a building, a labyrinth of weird hallways,...
This week’s election results affirmed that the most corrupt, unpopular, and sleepiest president of the modern age somehow retains an unbreakable...
According to White House official and understudy for Bond henchman #3, Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump has left “secret instructions” to...
Maybe we were a little premature on the whole “No Kings” thing. An actual monarch showed up in the US this week, and it went great? He gave a...
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. Mea culpa, mea...
Give Kash Patel a break. If you had to routinely trek over to the White House to kiss the president’s McDonald’s-encrusted a-- —and that’s...
The Daily Beast has sent me to Italy to cover the Trump vs. Pope fracas, so today I report from the shores of Lake Como, where the talk of the town is...
Even under the best of circumstances, Trump is almost dead. I’m speaking actuarially. He’s old, obese, can’t stay awake in meetings, and his...
Four weeks ago, our brave military launched—on my orders—Operation Epic Fury. How incredible is that name? Epic Fury. Sounds like a Mad Max movie....
This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. Anxious liberals...
The commies have taken West Palm. This week, the tony South Florida enclave and home to Mar-a-Lago held a special election for a vacant state House...
Mom, the white supremacists are fighting again! This week’s MAGA temper tantrum began with the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent—a former Green...
We’re starting to see a few miserly mea culpas emerging from the loose-knit collection of podcast influencers who went to bat for Trump in 2024: Joe...
The problem isn’t the $124,000 Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense spent on ice cream machines last September. Or the $15.1 million they spent on...
Bro, this Iran attack is based. So epic. Such fury. Secretary of Half-Completed Pull-Ups, Pete Hegseth, freaking killed it as his press conference...
“Candace Owens is an evil, twisted human being.” —Ben Shapiro, February 24, 2026. (The same Candace Owens he hired for his publication, The...
No, Barack Obama did not just reveal the existence of E.T. As The Daily Beast’s (self-appointed) UFO beat reporter, I took special notice when the...
I also have mixed emotions about my nation at the Olympics right now, Hunter Hess. A few days ago, the freestyle skier offered some tepid criticism of...
I waited until the last minute to purchase my Halloween costume and wouldn’t you know it? By the time I got to my local Spirit Halloween (which,...
As an actor myself (very famous), I’m unnerved by the introduction of Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress” attracting attention for its lifelike “...