In a very 2000s-y twist, starting this week, Jon Stewart is returning to his old haunts at The Daily Show every Monday night following Apple TV+'s cancelation of his short-lived show, The Problems With Jon Stewart. I admittedly didn't watch Stewart's Apple TV+-facilitated resurrection, though I glimpsed samplings of him confronting transphobic government officials on the show via social media. After two short seasons, the show was canceled in the fall. And ahead of his (second) Daily Show debut,... Читать дальше...
As anticipated, Sunday night’s Super Bowl was an overstimulating American capitalist fever dream where the jock and cheerleader got their happy ending, ads pushed the advent of AI, Usher provided a sonic medley of nostalgia kernels atop impeccable dance moves, and Beyoncé announced a new album via a not-funny Verizon commercial. Admittedly, I did not initially clock the album announcement hidden in the ad, and even when Twitter confirmed the gimmick about 30 minutes later, I wasn’t particularly excited. Читать дальше...
A good meme is like lightning in the bottle—timing and context (or, sometimes, lack of context) are everything, and the wrong person joining in on the fun can ruin it all. Case in point: Joe Biden’s official Twitter account posting the Dark Brandon meme with the caption, “Just like we drew it up,” on Sunday night. This was intended as a cheeky response to the Chiefs’ Super Bowl comeback and the right’s obsession with casting Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship as a liberal psy op. But the... Читать дальше...
I’m delighted to share the news that Jezebel is joining the ranks of society’s most illustrious tastemakers: Reese Witherspoon and Levar Burton. That’s right y’all, we’re getting into the book club game, and I, Nora Biette-Timmons, will be your host. We’re launching this exclusively as part of our new subscription package, and I can’t wait to do one of my favorite things (talk about books) with some of the internet’s smartest people (Jezebel readers). We’ll be focusing on recently released fiction... Читать дальше...
We here at Jezebel are thrilled to be back, but as with any successful resurrection, we need to make some changes in order to keep surviving. Less than a month after we started publishing again, Google restricted our ad serving sitewide for weeks due to "sexual content” (which made it next to impossible for the site to make money). And it wasn’t just the stories that had “sex,” “crotch,” or “pussy” in the headline, it was a story about porn actors alleging abuse on set and this one about two dozen women who say they were coerced into porn. Читать дальше...
This year’s Super Bowl was unique in that it was very much #ForTheGirls thanks to Taylor Swift’s high-profile relationship with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce—which we’ve all been following via Amber Alert-like updates since they were first reported to be “quietly hanging out” in the fall. And consequently, the terminally online right wing was even able to make a culture war out of the biggest sporting event of the year: For weeks, ring wingers have been pushing theories that Swift and Kelce’s relationship... Читать дальше...
