Becky Scott
By Becky Scott
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The Schmooze Jill Soloway Trashes Popular SNL Character ‘Pat’ As ‘Hateful’ ‘Anti-Trans Propaganda’
Unfortunately for your sense of nostalgia but fortunately for the progress of humanity, humor does not exist in a vacuum. It ages like the rest of us and sometimes it ages out of being funny. On a Television Critics Association panel, Jill Soloway brought up a fitting example of this phenomenon in Pat, the androgynous…
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The Schmooze Ta-Nehisi Coates: You Can’t Compare Nazi Germany To The Southern Confederacy
Eminent thinker and journalist, recipient of multitudinous accolades, and a man whose writing will always be better than your own, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has finally weighed in on HBO’s controversial new series “Confederate.” “Confederate” will tell the story of a United States of America in which the Southern Confederacy won the Civil War and slavery has…
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The Schmooze ‘Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later’ Withstands The Test Of Time
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it — but also if it ain’t broke and Netflix offers you millions of dollars to make another one, accept that money and do the best you can. I like to think that this was David Wain’s philosophy when he decided to make both a prequel series and then…
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Fast Forward Mark Wahlberg Is Practically Fluent In Hebrew Dirty Talk
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound? And more importantly, if a man learns a language and doesn’t know how to talk dirty in that language, does he really speak it? Not according to Mark Wahlberg. The actor showed off his penchant for…
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The Schmooze Jewish Former Host Of MTV’s ‘Spring Break’ Does Searing Parody Of Stephen Miller In New Video
Where does one go after making a career out of narrating the makeout sessions of drunk teenagers? Pauly Shore, the former host of MTV’s “Spring Break”, is proving to America that hosting wet t-shirt contests on a Mexican beach for underage youths was not the pinnacle, nor the end, for him. The comedian recently released…
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The Schmooze Meet The Man Behind The Iconic Soundtrack To ‘Wet Hot American Summer’
You’ve probably heard Craig Wedren’s music, and I’m not just talking about his tenure as frontman of the 1980s post-hardcore band Shudder to Think. He’s the mastermind behind the music of David Wain’s comic empire. Wedren has been working with the comedian since the nascent beginnings of their careers and no song of his, perhaps,…
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The Schmooze Larry King Wants To Ask O.J. Simpson How The Food Was In Prison
O.J. Simpson is almost a free man and that means one thing above all – the media hounds are once again free to pursue him relentlessly. Whoever snags that first precious interview with the man who “didn’t do it,” will be plentifully rewarded with great ratings and the pleasure of sitting across from someone who…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Live-Tweeted Her Traumatic Experience At JFK And It’s Hella Relatable
Celebrities –- they’re just like us! They stress about work, they deal with heartbreak, and they’re not immune to the trauma that seems to walk hand-in-hand with flying nowadays. Yesterday, Lena Dunham live tweeted her trash fire of a flight. The flight was delayed by four hours, leaving the usually busy celebrity with time to…
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