Not since The China Syndrome, a film about a nuclear power plant accident released a week before a nuclear power plant accident, has a movie's release been more timely than Gus Van Sant's Milk. For the last two weeks, gays across America have taken to the streets protesting antigay ballot...

Tuesday night I was returning from the airport to Manhattan in a cab driven by a Hatian cab driver just at 11pm when the election was called for Obama. He began screaming, honking the horn, and yelling out the window "O-BA-MA!!!" He said, "Man, you don't know what this means...

"These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett, and desperate measures must be taken." - Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, on deciding to become a murderous cannibal.

Back in 1998 while performing at Atlanta's Punchline, two weeks after the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky story broke, I...

Admit it: a large portion of the American electorate is just stupid. Any country that elected George W. Bush twice has a serious intellectual deficit, but many Americans can't find Iraq on a map, can't identify a Supreme Court justice, and don't know an earmark from the Erie Canal. They...

Discussing Alaska Governor and now Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, my mother remarked, "Well, we know how John McCain likes younger women. I wonder if he'll get tired of her, like he did his first wife, and then pick Katie Holmes."

McCain has chosen the anti-Cheney: a charming dame...

Text of new Obama attack ad against John McCain, released exclusively to 23/6:

BLACK SCREEN

NARRATOR: He's the oldest celebrity ever in the whole world.

FADE IN ON

(Image of Kate Hepburn and Henry Fonda from On Golden Pond, the scene where Hepburn is embracing the Alzheimer's addled Fonda on...

Dear Ms. Crowley,

I heard your replay of the spoof of the McCain mom and child ad, written and performed by my friend and colleague Laurie Kilmartin, who created it for 23/6. You gave yourself credit for it, and yet you did not write...

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is channeling his inner Jiminy Cricket and making his mea culpa tour after years of lying to us gullible folks. Already he has been labeled a "disgruntled former employee."

I only hear the word "disgruntled" in combination with the words...

Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued. New York WNBC's anchor Sue Simmons, who I have watched since puberty and always seen as a paragon of professionalism, screamed "What the fuck are you doing?" in an on-air promo.

Dear Mr. Blitzer, Mr. Hannity, Mr. Colmes, Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Ingraham, Mr. King, Mr. Hume, and anyone else paying attention:

Since I travel for work and spend more hours in hotel rooms than a $5 hooker, I know the reason windows in hotels don't open anymore--so people like me...