Simply, a republican campaigning for another republican will never get the attention/takes/reactions than a republican campaigning for a democrat.
Aside from that Trump was able to project that he’s brought “little Marco” to heel, he’s a subordinate or w/e
Columbo with a (X) Doubt button
Is there a name for the feeling when you have a brand new bottle of shampoo or ketchup or toothpaste and you can’t imagine it ever running out and the spout is pristine and not crusty
The movie got 2%.
The career did considerably better.
A black-and-white photo of Courtney Thorne-Smith with the caption: He called it box office poison to her face on national television she was still working three decades later
Whimsy & Weird Facts post: In October 1997, Courtney Thorne-Smith sat on the couch of Late Night with Conan O'Brien and smiled for forty-five minutes while Norm Macdonald methodically dismantled the movie she had come to promote. She kept smiling. That is the whole story. It just takes a minute to understand why it matters. She was there to promote Chairman of the Board, a comedy starring Carrot Top that she had made after leaving Melrose Place. The plan was straightforward: talk to Conan, say something charming, plug the film, move on. Standard late-night arithmetic. Norm Macdonald was the other guest. Norm Macdonald was many things in 1997 recently fired from Saturday Night Live, beloved by comedians, constitutionally incapable of performing enthusiasm he did not feel. He was not the guest you wanted sitting next to you when the movie you were promoting was a Carrot Top vehicle. Conan asked Norm if he had seen Chairman of the Board. He had not. He had an opinion regardless. "I bet it's good because well, no, wait," Norm said. "I know it's not gonna be good, 'cause Carrot Top's in it." The audience gasped. Then laughed. Thorne-Smith, sitting right there, kept smiling. Conan, perhapsthoping to redirect asked what Norm On thought the movie should be called instead. Norm did not hesitate. ace on national "Box Office Poison." The audience came apart! conan buried his head in his hands. Thorne-Smith's smile held. It held through the laughter and through the silence after the laughter and T through whatever Conan said next trying to recover the segment. She did not break. She did not storm off. She did not give the room the thing it was half-waiting for. She sat there and took it and kept smiling, and when it was over she went home.
Chairman of the Board was released on March 27, 1998. It currently holds a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It made very little money. It became, exactly as predicted, a punchline one of the more thoroughly documented failures of late 1990s cinema. Norm Macdonald was correct. He was correct in real time, on national television, sitting next to the person most affected by his correctness, and he said so anyway because that was entirely consistent with who Norm Macdonald was. The clip circulated. It became one of the most replayed moments in late-night history, studied and reshared for decades as an example of Norm doing the thing Norm did telling the truth without apparent concern for the social cost of telling it. What the clip does not show is what happened after. Thorne-Smith had already joined Ally McBeal before the Conan appearance. She played Georgia Thomas across three seasons of a show that became a cultural phenomenon critically acclaimed, widely watched, the kind of television that defines a moment. People who had never heard of Chairman of the Board knew her from Ally McBeal. People who had heard of Chairman of the Board mostly forgot about it because she gave them something else to associate her with instead. She did not make a statement about the Norm interview. She did not give a corrective profile to a sympathetic magazine. She did not turn the public humiliation into a personal brand. She went back to work. According to Jim ran from 2001 to 2009. Eight seasons. She was there for all of them, playing the lead opposite Jim Belushi, doing the unglamorous work of a long-running network sitcom that critics mostly ignored and audiences showed up for anyway. Two and a Half Men followed in ar recurring role. Other projects filled the years between. Not a superstar trajectory. Not a comeback narrative with a tidy arc. Just consistent, professional, uninterrupted work across three decades, in an industry that is specifically designed to make that difficult.
Not a superstar trajectory. Not a comeback narrative with a tidy arc. Just consistent, professional, uninterrupted work across three decades, in an industry that is specifically designed to make that difficult. Norm Macdonald died in September 2021. He had been privately battling cancer for nearly a decade. The tributes were enormous from comedians, from people who had been on the receiving end of his honesty, from people who understood that what looked like cruelty was usually something more complicated. He said true things in rooms where true things were uncomfortable. He did it on television, in front of audiences, with the people he was being honest about sitting right next to him. The Conan clip was replayed again during the tributes. It always is. Thorne-Smith, for her part, has spoken about the incident over the years without apparent bitterness. She understood what she had walked into. She understood, as she sat there smiling, that fighting it would make it worse and leaving would make it worse and the only move available to her was to stay and smile and wait for it to be over. She was right about that. It was a correct read of the room, executed without visible effort, under conditions that would have rattled most people. If you have ever had to sit still and smile while something was said about you that you could not argue with, in front of people who were watching to see how you would handle it you already know what that couch felt like. The clip made Norm Macdonald more famous. It did not make Courtney Thorne-Smith less employed. She is still, working, nearly three decades after the night. someone called her movie Box Office Poison to her face on national television and she smiled and thanked him for being on the show. The movie got a 2%. The career did considerably better.
I find this sloppost about the time Norm Macdonald roasted Courtney Thorne-Smith on Conan so funny
I have not read the book so don’t come at me
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I liked project hail mary fine but annoyed that Rocky basically spoke like a doge meme. makes this check out though
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It’s fun to check your junk folder once in a while
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this stuff makes me feel so old
the meltening
In OBAA there's a line that references Tom Cruise. so we are meant to believe this film takes place in a world where Tom Cruise exists and Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro do not, or that it just never comes up that these two characters look just like famous movie stars
Man she was fantastic
An NHTSA.gov ad with a smiling baby in a carseat and the text: "Make sure Mr. Chuckles is in the right seat."
The same ad with the text changed from "Chuckles" to "Chucky" and the head of the killer doll from the "Child's Play" franchise photoshopped onto the baby.
I see this billboard every day and without fail my mind does this:
Am I going to be the only 40+ man at the Amber Mark show on Friday
whenever a pollster asks me about something I say “I don’t know” because I don’t want to bias the results
*deer wandering everywhere
there is now protein water as I understand it so all bets are off
not directly Osaka, but it's very close to Nara (quick train ride), which has the wandering everywhere and mochi pounding en.japantravel.com/nara/mochi-p...
If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.
Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.
well, I shan’t be buying any more crude oil any time soon
A Methodist minister and a feed salesman
you can’t even say the world is a vampire anymore
A Facebook marketplace post selling a tie featuring the 3d dancing baby from Ally McBeal.
Description of the item: Vintage OOGA-CHUKA Big Baby Necktie. by Ralph Marlin Never Worn
For sale: OOGA-CHUKA Big Baby Necktie, never worn.
Ugh when the building was for sale recently I thought it’d be perfect for a low-key wine bar. Didn’t know that was once a potentiality
working out in jeans like rfk jr
Skeleton on floor visible behind produce display
At Fresh Thyme they just pushed the Halloween skeleton off the back of the entrance-area display and left it there
