Very, very excited for you to hear this. Two years in the making with an incredible team, it's the niche sports drama of your dreams: curling teams fighting over a broom that's deemed too powerful.
I doubt you thought coming into 2024 you would fall in love with a few curlers
IT'S LAUNCH DAY! Could not be more stoked to bring you Episodes 1 & 2 of Broomgate: A Curling Scandal. It's been a two-year journey and I can't wait for you to hear this story unfold over the next month. Listen and subscribe here:
Arizona: holds predraft workouts, loses 1st rounder
New Jersey: signs Ilya Kovalchuk to a contract that was legal at the time, loses 1st rounder
Chicago: covers up sexual abuse for a decade, Connor Bedard
The Jeopardy rules used to be that in case of a tie, the tied contestants would win their cash and get to come back. In 2007, Scott Weiss recognized the possibility of a three-way tie, so instead of bidding $2601, he bid $2600 so they could tie and all win their cash. It ruled.
It’s insanely funny Eric Staal wore a Pride jersey a year ago but won’t now because someone else did it and didn’t get in trouble for it.
A true coward’s coward
[Every interview at the Winter Classic ever]
REPORTER: Doesn't this just remind you of being a kid and playing hockey outside in the wintertime?
PLAYER: Yes
I absolutely love Elon's energy in that video. It's the exact same as someone trying comedy for the first time in their life who had been told by 3 friends they should try it and were SO confident they were going to absolutely crush and they are bombing without abandon
Nothing is funnier to me than The Grammys Best Metal Performance award. Every year is either won by Metallica or a live performance of a Black Sabbath song they wrote 50 years ago. This year it was Metallica again for a song no one has ever heard
In advance of the release of my new
@NetflixIsAJoke
Special: ‘Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer’.
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise to (insert aggrieved party name here).
Your feelings were hurt / sense of propriety was outraged / you were offended (delete as
My favourite part of this is Alex’s “aha!” when he realizes what is happening. He loves his job.
Other facts:
1) Scott lost the three-way rematch
2) when asked why he did it, he said that he thought “it would be cool” and that he felt like he got to give away $32,000
The Jays giving up 3 runs to tie a game they were up 8-1 on a bloop single and two of their best players getting hurt at the same time is as Toronto sports as you can get. You can’t even write this shit
@kathbarbadoro
He also has never put ads on the video for “Somebody That I Used to Know” on YouTube and it’s been viewed 1.3B times. At the average of $5,000 per one million views on YouTube, he’s given up roughly $5m just to not have ads play before it
[doing a Christmas ride on Peloton. “Hallelujah” starts playing]
Me: hm this isn’t a Christmas song
Instructor: there might be some empty chairs this Christmas...
Me: wait what
Her: so let’s do a climb to honour them
Me: oh hell no
[Massage therapist puts on a New Age playlist]
Me, fully lifting my head out of the donut and making eye contact: this song was on the tony hawk 3 soundtrack
There have been some very good CJ players, to be fair. Last year’s final was unreal and Ike is a serious player. But this is so cool. It makes me wonder
1) has she not been on because Jeopardy didn’t believe her email address was the real Emma Stone or
2) is her score too weak
@autogynefiles
There were several on Canada’s version of this called Dragon’s Den. One of my fave Dragons of all-time was a guy who owned one(1) restaurant and somehow made it on the show. Went a whole season and invested in 3 companies
Sucks to see
@brockmclaughlin
saying he got the baby yoda tattoo first, I mean I even have the texts from
@boring_as_heck
to prove it was his idea first
Sportsnet: “it’s so crazy that our ratings for hockey keep dropping”
Also Sportsnet: “let’s make people watch Steve D*ngle learn how to play hockey for a second straight year”
Anyway aside from the individual players being absolute dickheads this is still 100% Bettman’s fault. Just an astonishingly poor commissioner in every facet you could imagine and this whole situation is a perfect microcosm for any success the NHL has had being despite him
Oh my god this is the worst dilemma you could put in front of me. Ken Jennings being a scab vs. Mayim not hosting the show. The Sword of Damocles doth dangle above my head
Mayim Bialik is reportedly declining to host the final week of the current season of 'Jeopardy' in solidarity with the WGA. Her cohost, Ken Jennings, will step in for the remaining episodes.
most people who try standup are absolutely positive they are going to bomb, but when you get the odd one that is sure they are going to do well, it's the best thing to watch in the world. simply could not have imagined that being in an arena in front of thousands, thank u Elon
Teachers dealing with the covid variants every single day for the last two months: .................
Canucks dealing with the covid variants for two days: HOW DID WE EVER EVEN LET THEM PLAY HOCKEY WHY DOES NO ONE TREAT THIS DISEASE SERIOUSLY I CANT EVEN BELIEVE WE WOULD ALLOW TH
@KerithBurke
@jjones9
Well my personal opinion is if I am going into a spin class, I would rather my dead relatives not be brought up during the course of the class
But hey, whatever works for you
Kane on this: "That's like entertainment right there. I wasn't really happy when he did it, so it was nice to get a chance to score and do it back to him.
Genuinely thought this would get 10 likes and I could move on with my sunday, now my mentions are just filled with people giving me their opinions on Miley Cyrus without first considering that I absolutely do not give a shit
here's my contribution to the discourse:
i like kendall, i like peloton, this is objectively very funny and if you think that exercise needs to have some sort of very personal, very connective component, you and i are living in different worlds
Tired: Eric Staal is so dumb he forgot he wore a Pride jersey two years ago
Wired: Eric Staal is so dumb he didn’t understand what all the colours meant
#FlaPanthers
Eric Staal post-game, when told there is photographic evidence of him wearing a pride jersey in Montreal:
“I haven’t before. I never have. … I haven’t worn a pride jersey before.”
(Staal wore No. 21 with the Canadiens during the 2020-21 season.)
My favourite part of it was when he claimed he didn’t even know that we had a podcast called that and about the same thing even though we had been written up in the AV Club for it multiple times, had written an article in the Atlantic, and he’s followed Stefan for years lmao
WrestleMania 35: what if we bring John Cena back to interrupt Elias
WrestleMania 36: what if we bring John Cena back to have a match that takes place entirely inside his own psyche
It was a broken composite stick followed by a defenceman getting his stick into a shooting lane and deflecting in the winning goal, scored by a European.
This might be what finally kills Don Cherry
i like how rap diss tracks used to be "i will shoot and kill you for real" and now they're like "what you are doing will not help you in the spotify algorithm" and "i have a suspicion you may be a bad parent"
@ColonelTweeto
hm well here's the thing: a podcast is intellectual property, one me and my partners have worked very hard on and make a living from. It means something, even if you think this is somehow a joke. Anyway you have 13 followers why am i still typing
honestly celebrities shouldn't be allowed to have podcasts. it's the medium of the gremlin, talk about how great your life is going on entertainment tonight like your predecessors you freaks
rest in peace to Gilbert Gottfried who has probably the best sequence in game show history on Hollywood Squares. if you're not an old hag like me who remembers the rules, both contestants needed his square to secure the 5-square win, but he decided to troll both of them
"don't steal, obviously" is such a funny line. Why would you even say that?
Only a bank robber would answer the question, "where do banks keep the money?" with "in the vault. Don't steal from it, obviously"
Anyway he’s done way worse and way larger-scale things to people and so this small part of it genuinely doesn’t matter all that much but hey, at least we’ll have all the memories
As some folks know, I’ve been rewatching Entourage in quarantine and one day I was thinking, “what’s Adrian Grenier up to?” and folks, it brings me no joy to report that this is his latest film. It is somehow the third in the “At Graceland” series
@brockmclaughlin
@jrhennessy
@boring_as_heck
I’ve been close friends with Stefan for 5 years and I see him twice a week every week. I know my guy’s arm when I see it, and that is 100% Stefan’s arm
@amandapalmer
wow I am crying a lot at reading this tweet thank u for sharing it is a good reminder there is lots of love in this world and we just have to remember to find it and let it embrace us just like these very kind people who definitely did this in this very real and true story
Paper straws absolutely suck ass, I wish we decided something else was causing climate change like fossil fuels or the deregulation of environmental policies or hell, even plastic cups I dunno
@jessesingal
@kittypurrzog
It's funny because I hadn't heard of either of you before today, when I learned you essentially stole my podcast, and basically the only thing anyone knows about you is that you're two transphobe pieces of shit?
Cool legacy
From the open mic at the laundromat to the golden globes, it’s important for every standup comedian to remember: it’s always someone else’s fault if you bomb
Golden Globes host Jo Koy just went off-script after one of his jokes bombed: “I got the gig 10 days ago! You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. You’re kidding me, right? Slow down. I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
#GoldenGlobes2024
I went to great lengths as a kid to collect all of these cans despite never liking Star Wars, assuming they would be worth money. Kept the cans for 15 years, moving them ACROSS CANADA and when I eventually checked eBay in like 2013 the whole set was going for $10
Dear
@boring_as_heck
I have kidnapped your precious Kiki. She is obviously safe and sound but if you’d like her return, my ask is simple: no Joey for a year.
You have 24 hours to respond.
Just watched Free Solo and honestly I respect that guy a ton for being very obviously a serial killer but channeling that energy into climbing mountains instead of killing people
I got a spicy chicken sandwich at Wendy’s in America and the chicken patty was so big that every employee came over to look at it before they served it to me
RIP to Yogesh, possibly the worst anecdotalist in Jeopardy history. He was on the show 4 days and his anecdotes were:
I beat James at quizzing in high school
I was the “only carbon-based life form” to beat Brad and Ken
I tried to meet my Jeopardy hero but she recognized me first
The Jeff Foxworthy stuff is not new to comedians. We see older comedians do this all the time, even if they aren't famous. They transcend hack. They haven't engaged with the earth for years. You can't have no day job for 20+ years and engage with people on a regular level
A masterclass in joke writing. Nate switches from "I'm on the wrong side of this controversial topic" to "I'm kinda dumb so maybe my opinion shouldn't be trusted" to "actually I'm smart and we're all on the same side" in 55 seconds. "We're almost done" is singularly perfect.
Had a nice moment in beer league hockey last night. During a scrum:
Guy: fuck you
Me: what are you gonna do about it?
Guy: what are YOU gonna do about it? I could ask you the same question
Me: nothing, probably
Guy: Good, me neither.
Me: Great. Have a good day at work tomorrow