Jeremy Strong would like you to know he totally doesn’t take himself seriously, you guys. For real.

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They caught Scrim! My favorite part of this story is that they used a cat-trapping service called “Trap Dat Cat” which is the most New Orleans name for a cat-trapping service. “WHO DAT CAT TRAP?”

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The chase is over. Scrim is back. Early Tuesday morning, the four-legged celebrity trapped himself in a cat trap, where he retired his fugitive ways. Zeus’ Rescues owner Michelle Cheramie said she already has a plan for him that includes a lot of land. For more, click the link in our bio.

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Our method acting king, Jeremy Strong, he’s totally in on the joke, you guys. He knows you think he takes himself waaaaaaay too seriously and drives all his fellow actors up the wall with his intensity and preparation. And that’s why he had some fun with that Dunkin Donuts Super Bowl commercial he was in on Sunday: he wanted everyone to know that he’s laughing with us and that this whole thing about him being a pretentious, humorless actor is simply ridiculous.

“I wanted to poke fun at this idea of me as this sententious, self-serious actor,” Strong says. “It was my response to the idea that I ‘don’t get the joke.’”

See? Tell us more about how you did that, Jeremy:

I had this image of Marty Sheen from “Apocalypse Now” coming out of the mud. And first I thought I’d be steeped in tea, because that seemed highbrow, and then that became coffee.

I also had a memory of my dad. I grew up in Boston, and he used to send me into Dunkin’ Donuts to get one cream, two sugars. At some point that reminded me of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about Paul Revere’s midnight ride. And I thought, one creamer by land, two sugars by sea.

I got there and they had prepared a porcelain white bathtub, which I felt was all wrong. I wanted it to be something cylindrical so that I could come out vertically. If I was in a bathtub, it would seem like I was in repose. Anyway, I found this didgeridoo music that I put on my iPad, and started setting up the room. I asked for tons of bags of coffee. I had a notebook full of notes about the Penobscot Expedition, and the Boston Tea Party, and Griffin’s Wharf, and statistics and dates, because you never know what’s going to come up in improvisation. And then I started writing things on the whiteboard, and they were just filming it. God knows what the coffee sludge was made from. They prepared it in a way that I didn’t have to get in it. But of course, I did anyway. It’s all really silly. The world is so dark now, and the work that I’ve been doing for a long time has weighed so heavily on me, it was nice to have a little burst of levity.

SEE? JUST A TOTALLY NORMAL, EVERYDAY ACTING GUY. (Honestly, this is one of the most amazing interviews I’ve ever read.)

It only makes sense that the most-watched Super Bowl ever would also have the most-watched halftime show ever. Sorry, Drake.

This is interesting: while Tracker might be the most-watched show on TV right now, High Potential is the most streamed, by a million more viewers than Tracker.

Next year, every single show, news, and sports event on Nielsen’s most-watched list will be available on a streaming service or in a bundle. This is how broadcast and cable TV dies.

I haven’t cut the cord, choosing instead the outrageously expensive option of keeping cable and all of the streamers — I KNOW, IT’S STUPID. For a long time, it was a sports question: many sports events that my husband watched just weren’t on streamers. That’s obviously changed. Now the only thing that keeps me paying for cable is that MSNBC isn’t available to stream without a cable package — but when MSNBC is spun off from NBC later this year, I assume that will change. And so will my cable bills.

Liz Lemon Rebecca Kutler is the new president of MSNBC.

Lorne Michaels convinced Dave Chappelle to cut a non-binary joke from his 2022 SNL monologue, and honestly, Chappelle should thank him.

It looks like Jenn Tran and Sasha Farber might really be a couple … or they’re just trolling all of us for more attention.

The fight between tWitch’s family and his widow Allison Holker and her tell-all memoir is heating up. They gave an interview to Gayle King in which they claim tWitch felt “silenced” in his marriage, and are looking to sue.

That video of Jewish celebrities wearing a “Fuck Kanye” t-shirt is entirely AI-generated. And at least one of them is pissed about it — not because she’s opposed to the anti-Semitic message itself, but at the danger that A.I. poses in the dissemination of disinformation and flat-out lies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is out here embarrassing his son.

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PolUGHtics

Hey, you know how President Sharpie is pretending that he renamed the Gulf of Mexico, “Gulf of America”? And everyone is like ~eyeroll~? Well, almost everyone? Because Apple and Google Maps have changed it to “Gulf of America” on their maps even though there’s literally no basis to do so other than President Toddler said so? Yeah, so the Associated Press was like, “We’re not going to call it that.” And so the White House kicked them out of a press conference in the Oval Office with the guy who’s really running things. Totally normal, good times that are not in violation of the First Amendment at all.

Yeah, so Elon Musk and his son, X, held a press conference in the Oval Office while President Feeble limply looked on. There, Musk — without an ounce of irony — railed against unelected influences in American politics.

He also made up a bunch of shit about where he’s found corruption within the government, and Morning Joe, attempting to lose the few viewers they had left, celebrated Musk’s “transparency.” As Anderson Cooper would say, “Don’t be a dick,” Joe.

Oh, hey: the FCC is investigating Comcast and NBC Universal for their DEI practices, even though they are a private company. So that’s awesome.

Shonda Rhimes has resigned from the Kennedy Center Board and Ben Folds has resigned from the National Symphony Orchestra.

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Mark Your Calendars

  • The Handmaid’s Tale returns on Hulu on April 8.

  • The Wheel of Time returns on Prime Video on March 13.

  • G20 will premiere on Prime Video on April 10.

  • Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue debuts on MGM+ on March 2.

  • I’ll Be Home for National Margarita Day will debut on Lifetime on February 19. Yes, this is real.

  • Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas debuts on Paramount+ on March 4.

  • Recipes for Love and Murder returns on Acorn TV on March 3.

  • Heretic begins streaming on Max on March 7.

  • The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox premieres on Netflix on April 8.

  • Full Swing returns on Netflix on February 25.

  • Sakamoto Days premieres on Netflix in July.

WATCH THIS

Masked Singer: Somehow we’re up to season 13 of this nonsense. Season premiere. 7 p.m., Fox

Inside the NFL: Fittingly, a recap of the Super Bowl for the season finale. 7 p.m., The CW

Summer House: Season nine premiere. 8 p.m., Bravo

Harlem Ice: This docuseries follows the girls of Figure Skating in Harlem as they train and compete. Season premiere. Disney+

The Simpsons: “The Past and the Furious”: Lisa travels back in time and inadvertently sets Mr. Burns on his path to become a ruthless tycoon. Premiere. Disney+

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Leo Woodall, Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Jon Hamm, Emily Spivey
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Edward Norton, Chris Distefano, MJ Lenderman
  • The Daily Show: Colman Domingo, host Jordan Klepper
  • Watch What Happens Live: Lindsay Hubbard, Ciara Miller

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(new)		 The Price is Right at Night
(new)		 Raid the Cage
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CW Wild Cards
(new)		 Inside the NFL
(new)		 Local
FOX The Masked Singer
(new)		 The Floor
(new)		 News/Local
NBC Chicago Med
(repeat)		 Chicago Fire
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