Oh, I have some thoughts on Amber Ruffin being cancelled as the comedian at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner FOR SURE

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How I’m feeling this morning year:

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The RAGE I felt when I learned Amber Ruffin’s appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had been canceled. And as soon as I heard the news, without having read a single thing about it, I knew exactly what had happened: the WHCA demanded that Ruffin make fun of both sides of the political spectrum equally, and she refused, beacuse fuck that noise.

Here’s the thing: one of the most brilliant and evil things the right has accomplished over the past 40 years was convincing the mainstream media that they had a “liberal bias” and that they needed to cover both sides equally — all the while building their own right-wing propaganda machine at Fox News. Over the years, the media has internalized this nonsense, despite the fact that currently there is only one side of the political spectrum that is violating the Constitution, threatening judges, stripping people of their fundamental rights, disappearing people, and literally destroying the government. This is not a “both sides” are equally bad moment, and by the press pretending it is only further erodes our democracy. I know this is just one performance by one comedian in a room full of press dorks eating rubbery chicken and that some people might not think it’s all that serious, but when the institutions refuse to stand up for anything, we all fall.

Ruffin and Seth Meyers responded to the controversy perfectly on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night.

“When bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fairly and respectfully,” Ruffin joked. “When you watch The Sound of Music, you have to root for the singing children and the other people.”

“You mean the Nazis?” Meyers asked.

“Calling that is so one-sided! … The reason we have a free press is so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners. That’s what it says in the First Amendment!”

Preach.

The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

— Steve Hofstetter (@stevehofstetter.bsky.social) 2025-03-29T21:37:13.991Z

It's messed up that the White House Correspondents Association cancelled Amber Ruffin, but that shouldn't distract us from all the fine work they do in their ongoing crusade against journalism.

— Frank Conniff (@frankconniff.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T02:23:23.566Z

The rationale is somehow even more pathetic than the cancellation of Amber Ruffin as host.In a moment of pervasive and cowardly po-faced capitulation from the institutions we naively counted on to save us, "the next generation of journalists" is a rose-colored hypothetical best not counted upon.

— Daniel Fienberg (@thefienprint.bsky.social) 2025-03-29T18:53:47.648Z

If you’re a journalist or lawmaker still planning to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner after WHCA cancelled Amber Ruffin to placate a petty tyrant, you need to dig deep and ask yourself why you’re really still going because it sure as hell isn’t to celebrate the First Amendment.

— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T02:37:01.615Z

Meanwhile, the White House is out here trying to dictate the seating arrangement in the press briefing room, taking that power away from the White House Correspondents Association:

“The White House should abandon this wrong-headed effort and show the American people they’re not afraid to explain their policies and field questions from an independent media free from government control,” the WHCA told its members Monday. “But if the White House pushes forward, it will become even more clear that the administration is seeking to cynically seize control of the system through which the independent press organizes itself, so that it is easier to exact punishment on outlets over their coverage.”

YEAH. THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T GIVE IN TO BULLIES, YOU NIMRODS.

Carrie Coon revealed that her character in The White Lotus was supposed to mention her non-binary child but that Mike White edited out the scene following President Makeup’s reelection — not out of deference, but because “he scene was so small and the topic so big that it wasn’t the right way to engage in that conversation.”

Happy 62nd anniversary, General Hospital!

Live with Kelly and Mark! left their Upper West Side studio after 37 years in today’s episode, but you’ll have to wait until next week to see the new digs. One sweet note: Mark and Kelly literally have the show and the studio to thank for their marriage.

Hold up: Cynthia Erivo is playing FIVE different characters in the upcoming season of Poker Face! That’s so many characters!

Will Kelly Clarkson be the new Hoda Kotb? Maybe! (Or Clarkson’s people are putting it out there to make it happen.)

Does Sandra Oh suggesting she might return to Grey’s Anatomy signal that the show is ending? MAYBE.

Personally, being humiliated on one Bachelor show would be enough for me.

The Bridgerton fans are lunatics.

Jon Lovitz wants to bring The Critic back.

Busy Philipps is out here teasing us with a Dawson’s Creek reunion.

Max now looks more like HBO.

Mark Cuevas, a season one Love is Blind contestant, dumped his WIFE on Instagram.

JUSTICE FOR PHILLY JUSTICE.

Co-Executive Producer of Days Of Our Lives Janet Drucker has announced her retirement from the soap after more than four decades.

Was Carolyn Wiger cut from Survivor‘s upcoming 50th season to punish her for being on The Traitors?

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is sorry it didn’t explicitly support Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal after he was beaten and detained in the West Bank.

Coyote Vs. Acme WILL see the light of day after all!

Oh no, Paul Rodriguez!

Some good news: Dave Coulier is cancer-free.

#MeToo

First of all, the creators of Adolescence have made it clear that it is not based on a singular case, but instead on their concern about the increase in knife crime in the UK and the radicalization of young boys. But second of all, leave it to fragile men to be so fucking fragile.

Bri Stern, one of Andrew Tate’s girlfriends, has filed a criminal complaint against him, saying that he nearly choked her to unconsciousness during sex, and hit her. Tate is denying the allegations, and his lawyer is comparing her injuries to a child’s “tummy ache.” I know everyone deserves legal representation, but imagine being Andrew Tate’s lawyer.

An undisclosed male photographer is suing Sean Combs, accusing him of demanding oral sex in exchange for career advancement.

Joe Gatto has put himself in in-patient care at a treatment facility following sexual assault and harassment allegations. And his dog shelter, Gatto Pups and Friends, has rebranded.

This story of ESPN’s Pat McAfee casually slandering an 18-year-old college student is beyond infuriating and I hope she wins every penny in a very big lawsuit.

Kim Delaney and her husband were both arrested for assault against each other.

Of course Joe Rogan is Team Baldoini, even while he gets the facts wrong.

Please do not kiss your co-stars on talk shows without their consent. And do not tickle your co-stars on talk shows without their consent.

Michelle Williams notes that working with intimacy coordinators took some adjustment, but that ultimately, it’s worthwhile because it may not be about you:

“It’s just a shock — it’s a change. I’ve been doing this for a long time and it’s something to get used to,” Williams said. “But whether or not you feel like you need an intimacy coordinator, your scene partner — of which you have many — might really value it. They might need privacy around a sensitivity that they have. That is valid and that is the kind of care that an intimacy coordinator can offer. So if it’s not for you, just think it might actually be for somebody else. That makes it extremely worthwhile.”

And that’s ultimately it, right? The (usually) older male actors who are the ones who most complain about the inclusion of intimacy coordinators are only thinking about themselves, and lack the empathy or ability to imagine themselves in their scene partners’ shoes. It’s not always about you!

Scott Rudin would like to come back now, please.

Over in South Korea, popular actor Kim Soo-Hyun is denying allegations from deceased actress Kim Sae-ron’s family that he groomed her when she was a teen. 

GO OFF, HELEN MIRREN.

SHOCKING but not: Gender balanced movies are more profitable than those that mostly cast and hire men.

Renewals

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

  • Bad Thoughts will premiere on Netflix on May 13.
  • Black Mirror returns on Netflix on April 10.
  • Rick and Morty returns on Adult Swim on May 25.
  • TMZ Presents: The Menendez Brothers: The Prison Interview will air on Fox on April 7.
  • The Eternaut debuts on Netflix on April 30.
  • RoboForce: The Animated Series premieres on Tubi on April 12.

R.I.P.

Richard Chamberlin, Multiple Golden Globe-winning actor in Dr. Kildare, Shōgun and The Thorn Birds and many others

Sian Barbara Allen, Actress who appeared in The Waltons, Columbo, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-0, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D. and The Incredible Hulk, and You’ll Like My Mother, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, Scream Pretty Peggy and many others

Denis Arndt, Character actor who appeared in Murder, She Wrote, CSI, S.W.A.T., Supernatural, Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Fight, How to Get Away With Murder, L.A. Law, Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Mr. Mercedes, and Basic Instinct among others

Mary Schmucker a.k.a. “Mama Mary,” Star of Breaking Amish and Return to Amish

Bruce Glover, Actor who appeared in Diamonds Are Forever, Walking Tall, Chinatown, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Car 54, Where Are You?, Route 66, Perry Mason, My Favorite Martian, The Rat Patrol, Mod Squad and Gunsmoke among many others; and father of actor Crispin Glover

Richard Norton, Martial arts expert who trained many stars, acted alongside Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Cynthia Rothrock, fight expert on Walker Texas Ranger, The Condemned, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dark Phoenix, and the Suicide Squad

Young Scooter, Atlanta-based rapper

Linda Williams, Feminist scholar who contributed much to feminist film theory and wrote extensively about pornography

WATCH THIS

Greenland: Wait, is this movie about a family trying to make their way to bunkers in Greenland during an apocalyptic event why that idiot wants to take over the country? Did he watch this 2020 Gerard Butler movie and think it was real? 7:30 p.m., HBO Signature

LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story: A look at the career of Liza Minelli and I swear if they don’t spend a sizeable amount of this documentary on her role on Arrested Development … well, I don’t know what I’ll do, but I’ll be disappointed.  8 p.m., PBS

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