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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 1d

Ma’am you actually just say dumb things and people yell at you

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

Actual lol at this quote from Riyadh Comedy Festival participant Whitney Cummings
(source: archive.is/202311151840...)

Whitney Cummings likes to think of herself as a comedy “martyr,” one of many modern comedians who are willing to “sacrifice themselves just to make sure the First Amendment is still intact.”

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 2d

So glad that I’m unplugging from movie discourse to just watch scary stuff for the rest of the month right as the bad takes on OBAA are starting to emerge

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 2d

Ok I’m all for banning S*ngal but if the “clanker” discourse is real this whole place needs a wedgie

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 2d

What’s going on with this place now. Went back to Twitter for cigarettes

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 4d

All right enough about the blood money comedians. Let’s talk GOOD comedians. I saw @davidjroth.bsky.social link to this special once and it had me dying. youtu.be/g9NT46SGqFY?...

Humble Offering | Stand Up Comedy | Eli Yudin Full Special

YouTube video by Cracked Comedy Club

youtu.be

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 9d

Tech companies are revolutionizing the world of elder abuse

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10d

First look at the AI Stan Lee Hologram at LA Comic Con 🚮

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 9d

What will you see? One of the sweetest, funniest dudes on the planet

Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like this description does it a disservice. It’s still a smart-dumb show with fun sci-fi, it just focuses more on being a family sitcom. Anyway, good show

Polygon @polygon.com · 9d

Solar Opposites can be best described as Rick and Morty without the heady influence of Dan Harmon.

This criminally overlooked sci-fi sitcom is finally streaming on Netflix

Solar Opposites can be best described as Rick and Morty without the heady influence of Dan Harmon.

www.polygon.com

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 10d

Ahh I see now, they were busy planning trips to Riyadh

Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 20d

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 16d

It's bleak out there. But we're gonna do some good this week.

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Give what you can. Tell everyone you know.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 13d

This is a national psychosis

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 13d

I am gonna have a brain hemorrhage

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 13d

Well of course he’s looking out for Argentina, he’s gonna have to hide out there someday

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 16d

Mfer eating people wearing Sambas

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 16d

Just gonna give conservatives a heads up that if they actually make statues like this on campuses they are gonna exist solely for college students to do bits