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Sean L. McCarthy

@seanlmccarthy.bsky.social

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You can't say I couldn't have played R2-D2 in Star Wars. Comedy journalist for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and Decider. FKA @thecomicscomic on social media for olds. https://fromthecomicscomic.wordpress.com/ https://buttondown.email/piffany

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 12h

If I could go back to October 2013 when we were both wondering why we were at a small comedy festival in Edmonton and tell Tim Meadows how things would turn around for him a dozen years later

Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 16h

The original “Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker” sketch at The Second City in Chicago in ‘90 with Chris Farley, Jill Talley, Bob Odenkirk, Holly Wortell and Tim Meadows. Killed every single night. Tim is on “Colbert” tonight by the way.

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 22h

An amazing album from an amazing artist. RIP D’Angelo music.apple.com/us/album/bla...

Black Messiah by D’Angelo and The Vanguard on Apple Music

Album · 2014 · 12 Songs

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

Give him the ol’ “an” comeback. That’ll show him!

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

Hate-streaming the album counts just as much as regular streams. This never could’ve happened solely on radio airplay.

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

I put my first chat with Maron from 2001 on my old website just to ensure it’s still somewhere thecomicscomic.com/2001/11/08/m...

Marc Maron and his Jerusalem Syndrome – The Comic's Comic

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

I remember even in 1999-2000, all of the talk from the chains’ C-suites was about not hitting profit margins. Not profit. Not news. But how big the margins needed to be.

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

New @lastweektonight.com on Bari Weiss, David Ellison, and billionaire opinion usurping journalistic judgment www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-...

John Oliver Sounds Alarm on Billionaire’s CBS News Takeover

The “Last Week Tonight” host urged viewers to keep an eye on the network.

www.thedailybeast.com

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats Marc!

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

The law firm ad was the first to pay off

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

Even the Sally reveal, designed to launch a gabillion hot takes, just kinda came and went

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

Everything about this is lackluster, which makes it very 2025

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

Feels like SNL is writing all of this season’s sketches in reverse. OK, we’ve got the KPop Demon Hunters singers, how do we shoehorn them in? Tina Fey says she can play Kristi Noem? Perfect! Our cold open will now write itself!?

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

my page 1 bylines from the Mariners walk-off ALDS win at Safeco Field in Seattle in 2000, and then the ALCS loss to the Yankees

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 4d

As a former Seattle resident during the glory years who covered the team’s 2000 playoff run for the paper in Kitsap, I’m delighted for them right now

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

If you're not anti-fascist, then you're pro-fascist

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6d

Haha I’m a lifetime member. Joined in 2017. Here’s a pic from a drive in 2020. Join me & tell fascists to eat our collective ass: www.dsausa.org

Comedian, London UK
Rob Delaney joined DSA

I joined DSA because I'm angry that workers live hand to
mouth and
and go bankrupt from medical debt while billionaires, aided by the government they've bought, stoke division and steal from me and you. Enough. (Also I love my fellow man; that's you)"
Join today at dsausa.org/join

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

But Alex Garland told us Texas was going to be on the good side of Civil War

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

Forgive me, but is this supposed to be a good look for ARod's makeup line?

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d

That Luke Mones is also a young working comic only reminds us how short Luke Null’s term was

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

We wanted meritocracy.
We got morontocracy.

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

So Ezra’s just gonna keep talking through it

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

That Vladdy soaring dive at the plate should be hung as a poster by morning

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

How much of our disinformation disaster might be blamed on people still relying on media brands that have become zombies through enshittification, takeovers, and AI

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7d

People, just stop reading zombie newsweek. It's a hollowed-out brand that posts whatever.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 7d

poll:
is sponsored by company with a vested interest in results and which is clearly using survey as a promotional tool

writeup:
does not link to toplines
no info on question wording
no methods info
confuses "percentage" and "percentage point"

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 7d

Since most of my family has left the North Shore, it has been so long since I traveled Route One and would be so sad to see how much has been lost

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 8d

Lots of people girl bossing too close to the sun. Many such cases.