Greg Iwinski

I just want you (and @sepinwall.bsky.social ) to know that I am *happy* to own multiple Blu-Ray copies of Studio 60 if you think it would be a funny bit to send it to me. No better way to evangelize than to have multiple copies of the gospel.

Here's our first episode of The Stepback. It's about Sports Journalism, the rise of the "insider," and the dangers of Embrace Debate.

The first episode of The Stepback with Blake Griffin is out today on Prime and Youtube. The Ringer stopped by the show to take a look / out all the homeschoolers on staff.

Thank you to @sepinwall.bsky.social for actually writing this and talking to me for it, and to @garyjackson.bsky.social for the most concise summation of Sorkin’s ethos I’ve ever seen: “I want to be rude to a blonde woman.”

Solid team. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/blake-griffin-new-late-night-show-john-oliver-interview-1236730443/

I love late night. I love sports. Can’t wait for everyone to see this. Drops in one week (10/20) on Prime and YouTube.

Rosalia’s SNL performances tonight will probably go down as the best of the season.

Boone gotta go. Cashman gotta go. Yankees are stuck in the kind of necrotic statis that belongs in Congress, not Major League Baseball.

Yankees lost, exactly how we knew they would. But the seats were great and the Brits behind me were very nice.

Spent the night cheering for the Yankees / being a guy in front of Dua Lipa and Callum Turner in photos.

the centrists are living in a simulated alternate reality just as much as the trump cultists are

It’s funny… I still haven’t found a white moderate who thought MLK's quotes on white moderates applied to them. Or even one who can name people in that category. Guess they all just disappeared.

Yep. “How do we get Celtics fans from Southie to buy Brunson jerseys?” But the people genuinely asking how to win back the ~27% of America that’s ride or die for Trump are usually doing it because they don’t want to admit their MAGA friends / family are bad people who like Trump’s bad actions.

A’ja Wilson just wakes up and decides to dominate.

They're not sending their best.

The oligarch class is deeply freaked out by how badly Republicans are losing the midterms, not because of 2027 (Trump already a lame duck) but because of the possibility of 2029 featuring a huge Dem Congressional majority. Look for the run-up to the midterms to be an oppo dump on D Senate candidates

Voting ends tomorrow. If you’re a WGA East member who would like your white-hot rage to be poured into a labor forge that will (losing the metaphor here) shape it into a tool to fight our enemies, I will do that. And I’ll work on the metaphors.

For months, the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger faced something recent Hollywood megadeals rarely have: real resistance. Then it all collapsed. Monopoly expert Matt Stoller tells Richard Rushfield who was pushing for the fight to end https://mrf.lu/2SQwL

reminding myself how hard it is to find the last thing on this list

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

Antitrust enforcement right now

In an existential fight, the only thing worse than a coward is a quisling. Congrats @robbonta.bsky.social

lest @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov get any delusions of becoming the next Kamala: the thousands of entertainment workers fucked by this merger will spend the rest of our natural born lives telling people how much of a cowardly loser you are. may you be primaried by someone with an actual spine. get bent

Rob Bonta is the Nico Harrison of Attorney Generals.

Particularly in California, voting for a Democrat is just voting for a Republican who pretends to feel guilty. Rob Bonta is an enabler of fascism. That should be his lead credit for life, just ahead of “craven coward.”

As any good tactician knows, the best time to give in to a bully is days before their self-imposed crippling consequences kick in.

Sure, giving in to corporate blackmail is *usually* a bad idea. But maybe this time it will work!!!!!!!!!! 🤮

Paramount reportedly tried to ram through a bad deal by using a holiday break as leverage. I know this exact move... because I remember it from 3 years ago, when a network CEO screamed at the WGA that strike negotiations were going to make him miss his private plane and his island vacation.

The possibility that the California AG could move toward an agreement without the structural remedies he previously demanded did not sit well with some inside CNN, who are now facing the prospect of working for Ellison. “It’s lipstick on a pig,” a person close to the CNN newsroom said.

CNN, now with a special commentary segment from Mohammed bin Salman!

Went to a diner with @mikedrucker.bsky.social for a birthday breakfast. After breakfast they brought out a slice of cake [which was very kind and I enjoyed]. But *for* breakfast, I had had *a full slice of pie à la mode.* So here’s to double desserts.

Buying a classic Hollywood Studio and threatening to move it out of Hollywood. Unconscionable. Blackmail. Petulant. Shitty. This has to be stopped. deadline.com/2026/09/para...

Tonight's Double Feature: The Runner (2026) Runner (2026)

80 minutes in and The Main Televised Emmys seem to actually be The Actor Awards.

WGA East Members: I’m running for Council to do what I do — go to the mat for late night and defend the dignity of our work. Even if you don’t vote for me, PLEASE VOTE. In a small union, a single vote has a huge impact, and we have so many great candidates running. Voting is open TODAY!

Stiff arming past the craziness of this, I think any grim realist has already assumed for a while that a 51-49 Dem senate is a loss because he’ll flip to GOP before he implodes in his next election.

Among the many ramblings of this episode (Tim’s Huttese, the physical comedy of the prequels, the generational awakening of seeing Ben Solo shirtless) our co-host @timbarnes.bsky.social goes ten toes down that BB-8 is flipping the bird here. Can ANYONE involved even tangentially set him straight?

A real joy to see the Late Show writers’ room get an Emmy. Congrats, friends.

“A few important caveats: both Kimmel and Fallon were in repeats, and both shows still easily topped Comics Unleashed in total viewers. Across their full hourlong telecasts, they also remained ahead in the demo.”

Guess what, ya kriffin' womprats? YubNub is BACK! Three late-night TV writers talking about Star Wars and having the *important* conversations like "is BB-8 giving a thumbs up here, or is he flipping a droid bird?"

ENDORSE!

you know what you need to do this weekend? find yourself a copy of frank ocean's 'nostalgia, ULTRA.' remains on the all time best mixtape list

(2027 correspondents dinner) Trump: then there was the time I used you as decoys to get blown up Correspondents: *unbridled cheers, disrobing*

I don't wanna see your Ai slop images of Trump hiding in an airplane catering cart Show my your poorly Photoshopped images of Trump hiding in an airplane catering cart that you made WITH YOUR OWN TWO HANDS

birds are swimming and straight up not getting wet, that's nuts *SAVE IN DRAFTS DO NOT POST*

Younger people may not believe this, but at one point every millennial was trying to give away a mic, guitar, and drum controller for Guitar Hero.