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How Many Female Writers Are There On Late Night Shows?
Statette compiled this depressing infographic about the number of women working as writers on late night comedy shows. Not surprisingly, the show with the highest percentage of female writers is also the only one hosted by a woman, Chelsea Handler. More »
Crushable Quotable: Apparently that was real pot Zach Galifianakis Smoked on ‘Bill Maher’
There’s been a lot of back-and-forth about Zach Galifianakis’ Real Time with Bill Maher weed stunt. Bill himself claimed that the joint was filled with cloves and not real pot, but the other guest on the show that night, Republican strategist Margaret Hoover has a different story to tell. She claims Zach did, in fact, light up a real, live illegal-drug-laden joint:
“If you’ve been to a rock concert, you know that pot makes these big, billowy white clouds, and it didn’t do that. So I wasn’t sure if it was real or not. And nobody was sure if it was real or not… It was defnitely not cloves. I asked Zach afterwards, he said it was THC-free marijuana.”
Brad Pitt on Bill Maher (videos)
I had wanted to post the video clips of Brad Pitt’s interview on Bill Maher’s show sooner but it was hard to find any that weren’t being removed almost immediately! So far these two seem to be sticking around, so let’s hope they don’t get pulled down.
The first clip:
Brad comes out to thunderous applause after Bill shows the trailer for Inglourious Basterds, which is no surprise is it? I like that Bill talks briefly to Brad about… More »