“Because when you’re doing stand-up and you’re like, ‘Well I had corona,’ everybody’s going to be more interested.”
He only wishes the experience had been more eventful so that the jokes would have higher stakes. trib.al/MxeKspP
Quinn also reflects on the first few years of his career: "Comedians were so nice to me. I was a nobody and they were regulars at these clubs and they were just like, wow. And the crowd was like, no laughs." me.trib.al/MxeKspP
He continues: "Jay Mohr once said that I was a dog whistle and that only comedians could hear."
The SNL alum also opens up about the future of stand-up and the time Bill Cosby hit on his girlfriend (yikes!).
EXCLUSIVE: Editors and reporters at the staunchly pro-Trump conservative outlet Breitbart News privately clashed over whether President Trump was to blame for last week’s deadly Capitol riot, according to internal messages reviewed by The Daily Beast trib.al/uTp0QJW
“I am just not feeling charitable AT ALL,” international news editor Frances Martel posted to Slack the morning after the rioting that left five people dead, including a police officer. “Destroy Trump.” trib.al/uTp0QJW
Other staffers attempted to excuse or dismiss the severity of the MAGA mob and Trump‘s role in encouraging their violent actions trib.al/uTp0QJW
EXCLUSIVE: Employees of PETA are revolting against the organization’s plan to “speak up for animal issues while honoring MLK Day,” emails obtained by The Daily Beast show. And PETA President Ingrid Newkirk isn’t taking it well. trib.al/hGurtds
The controversy began when Newkirk—in an email to every PETA employee in the country—attempted to address internal staffer concerns, calling them “extremely saddening” trib.al/hGurtds
In the nearly 800-word email, sent under the subject line “Please absorb this,” Newkirk went on to claim that “using race as a reason to be quiet is actually racist” trib.al/hGurtds
“I was really struck by the people I talked to who were not necessarily crazed QAnon people... but kinda just like people you might think of as your neighbors, your grandparents,” Sommer told @TheRickWilson and @MollyJongFasttrib.al/dF4DuGi
Sommer said he was struck by the “huge amount of entitlement” among the MAGA rioters. trib.al/dF4DuGi
EXCLUSIVE: A law firm representing Dominion Voting Systems has sent letters to conservative channels Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News warning them of their intention to pursue legal action over the false election fraud claims made on their airwaves trib.al/AV43xaY
“I think it’s fair to say in January we will be pulling the trigger on multiple litigation matters. The damage that they’ve done has already been enormous,” libel attorney Tom Clare said about the networks airing blatant falsehoods about voter fraud. trib.al/AV43xaY
“The time for a retraction is not now it was weeks ago. I’m certain a retraction does not undo the damage but it’s the right thing regardless of litigation,” Clare added. trib.al/AV43xaY
LISTEN NOW: @SWWCreative, Melania Trump’s one-time confidant and author of “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,” joins @MollyJongFast for the latest episode of @NewAbnormalPodtrib.al/7WVQEGF
.@SWWCreative reveals how Melania threw her to the wolves.
“I should've known better. She is just like her husband,” she said. trib.al/7WVQEGF
So Wolkoff began taping her calls with Melania—calls which formed some of the bedrock for her book, “Melania and Me.” Improbably, Wolkoff and the first lady kept talking, even after Wolkoff was cast out. trib.al/7WVQEGF
BONUS PODCAST: Zerlina Maxwell on how Democrats are losing the Black community, white feminists, and the ways the pandemic proved America is not that exceptional after all trib.al/ODyY54F
Speaking of Trump, Maxwell shares the one thing she can’t quite wrap her head around:
“I look around and I can’t believe that there’s 70-plus million people who are getting duped by somebody who’s not intelligent.” trib.al/ODyY54F
But what does she think of Joe Biden’s Cabinet?
“I mean, we're already doing a lot better than we were just a couple of weeks ago," she says. trib.al/ODyY54F