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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 7d

It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was “playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers”

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 19d

should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land

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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 19d

“It is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,”  @willdigravio.bsky.social writes of ‘The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.

We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:

For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...

Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time

Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.

www.pastemagazine.com

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.

We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:

For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...

Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time

Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.

www.pastemagazine.com

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · Jul 29

Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.

Long Lead @longlead.com · Jul 29

After the twin disasters of the massacre in Myanmar and the 2016 election, social media undergoes a reckoning in the halls of Congress… until a novel virus uncorks a global pandemic and a contagion of hoaxes, conspiracies, and lies online.

Episode six cover of LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET with a person getting their nose swabbed to check for COVID-19 with a blue screen overlaid

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · Jul 18

Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · Jul 21

The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...

Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power

The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.

www.pastemagazine.com

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · Jul 21

The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...

Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power

The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.

www.pastemagazine.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Jul 19

“For the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

'Great Enough to Blow Any City Off the Map’: On Site at the First Nuclear Explosion

The men who set off the nuclear age tell the tale in their own words.

www.politico.com

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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · Jul 15

“The layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in “Anchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · Jul 8

My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

The Best (and Worst) Moments in Late Night Television This Year (So Far)

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this!
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs

The Video Essay About The Show: Trailer

YouTube video by Jason Mittell

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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · Jun 23

Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.

The Sign of a Truly Confident Late-Night Host? Guest Hosts.

Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · Jun 23

🛜⚠️ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesday—subscribe now:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · Jun 20

This @parkermolloy.com interview with @juddlegum.bsky.social is solid gold. What he's built at @popular.info is incredible. That he's doing it without a paywall is really a tremendous service to news consumers. Here's why he made that choice:

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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · Jun 19

When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.

Pass Psych Tonight: How One Professor Made Late Night a Learning Tool

When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.

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Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 4

A little snippet from one of my reflections in our first editorial. Watch the fragment by @willdigravio.bsky.social at fragments.video

Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 3

"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Will’s intentions, a showcase of how various videographic techniques were being deployed to achieve them" @willdigravio.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/16/p...

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 3

"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Will’s intentions, a showcase of how various videographic techniques were being deployed to achieve them" @willdigravio.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/16/p...

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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 2

In this week’s late night TV recap, John Mulaney looks up at the lights after getting whupped by three 14-year-old boys, while John Oliver and Nathan Fielder look to the skies to fix our aviation nightmares. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

Late Night Last Week: John Mulaney Loses Fight to Teens, as Oliver and Nathan Fielder Look to the Skies

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

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Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social · May 28

Our Summer 2025 issue is here! On the cover: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940).

The issue includes a review of the new found footage epic, HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT, and an interview with its director, Alexander Horwath.

More at our website: www.cineaste.com

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · May 28

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · May 25

As #TheRehearsal ends in the US and debuts in the UK, I was happy to contribute some of my thoughts to this compelling column by Micha Frazer-Carroll:

Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is truly uncomfortable, but we need more TV like this

Truth is a slippery concept in Fielder’s experimental TV show, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. But whether what we are seeing on screen is real or not, the series makes for a bizarre and fascinating crit...

www.the-independent.com

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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · May 23

This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to the night of July 5, 1982 and an early guest appearance by Pee-wee Herman on 'Late Night with David Letterman' that became a classic.

Pee-wee Herman Takes Letterman for a Drive in the Country

This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to the night of July 5, 1982 and an early guest appearance by Pee-wee Herman on 'Late Night with David Letterman' that became a classic.

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