Is there a problem that, you know, is it the young artists, they're still too terrified to say this?

Yeah, I think they are, and it's great to have such a phenomenal actress like Dame Junie Dench saying this, because yeah, she doesn't care anymore.

And here's the deal.

It's a great reminder that I'm not responsible for your feelings.

There's this weird lack.

We were just talking about it with Selma Blair.

She's like, oh, I had some booze and I had some pills, so I'm not responsible.

because I haven't seen the film, and yet I've heard some people who are very smart, who I respect, say, actually, it's actually quite an act of subversive genius, but people haven't quite recognised it yet.

Do you reckon this film is going to be a bit of a reckoning for Mark Zuckerberg and his sort of carefully cultivated dorky image?

I hope so.

I hope it's a record.

Something has to happen with Facebook.

Sadly, this movie is based on events we've already seen, and we know that nothing happens other than, as per usual, Mark Zuckerberg has to write a tiny check and say, oops, sorry, it won't happen again.

How much stuff is this guy going to get away with? Oh, good job on that actor, too.

Looking like he has no emotions and he might be an android.

What is happening here in Dolly Parton's estate and in the family there that maybe we didn't see before? What was going on there?

Michael, it seems like it's Ed Sheeran who's been cancelled here and Macklemore is getting all sorts of accolades and attention he hasn't really enjoyed for years.

Yeah, I'm ready for Mackle-less.

I'm old enough to remember when One Hit Wonders had the kindness and decency just to go away.

This Macklemore thing, listen, it'll end soon enough.

I looked up tickets to his show.

He wants like $200.

How many times is he going to sing Thrift Shop? He's got the one song.

But is this part of the male condition for Paige to always look miserable? Every time I see this actor, I worry.

And let's not forget, Charles Spencer holds himself out to be a credible journalist and a credible historian.

Yeah, very credible, who's written a very, I guess, boring, run-of-the-mill book.

Oh, Diana and I used to go shopping for socks and it was really...

Sometimes she liked a knee high.

It's just...

Give me the big book.

And Piers Morgan, I don't want to go toe-to-toe with Piers Morgan.

What's your take on this?

A year on, what does, how does America remember Charlie Kirk?

Kirk?It, it's a, a tragic day and it's a, it's a very sad day, but it's also very hopeful just because of the way Charlie went about m- what he did so well, which was debate.

And that's, uh, he's a beacon of hope because I truly think he did launch a million more Charlie Kirks.

Just, there's, there w- wasn't anything fancy.

He just sat down and had a conversation with people and, and they found out that, that he was right.

It's a wonderful thing.

There, there, there's probably gonna be a Charlie Kirk Day in the future that celebrates the people who went online to try to prove Charlie Kirk was horrible, and then they find out, oh, no-

Uh, I remember it vividly.

Explain why.

Well, the books are great, and the films were wonderful, and the cast was wonderful, and everybody can remember that.

So it looks like they're lining up.

It's just like a new version, but it's a shot-for-shot almost remake.

It's like a dream, right? Like, oh, I was in my house, but everything had moved around, and it's just off-putting.

I don't like it.

I don't want a woke Harry Potter.

What do you make of that? And she also claimed that she was offered $40 million not to speak.

Michael, has Jelly Roll bud-lighted himself?

I think he has.

He's really taken it a step too far.

This guy is like a chameleon.

He'll just say whatever he needs to say to fit in whatever.

He's like the Swiss army knife of liars.

It's uncomfortable to watch.

Do we know what her father, Kanye West, thinks about this entire media campaign?

Really?

Yes, absolutely, and I'm, and I'm against the AI as well.

Wh- what, what is the upside? That's the whole thing.

This is like when the government's talking about, and Trump's out there, "Oh, we need these data centers.

We need 'em so bad."

Do you follow me?

I follow you.

Now, if somebody wants to build a data center, they can build it.

[laughs]

... and sits down.

Lizzo, Li- if you look, Lizzo beat Ozempic.

I think the Ozempic tapped out, and Lizzo's like, "I'm just gonna put the weight back on." Look at that.

She's, uh, she's proud.

God bless her.

It's like somebody-

We've never seen him drinking and partying too much.

That would not be my ideal week off, but what did you make of his answer?

That's, I mean, good for Marco Rubio.

That guy, he's very good at what he does.

And this clip should be like in the How to Be a Politician Hall of Fame.

He makes it look so easy.

He's like, oh, my wife will get mad at me, which instantly, oh, he's one of us, he and his wife.

I'd watch college football.

Can I get your reaction?

[laughs]

She's gonna wish she was an astronaut.

They're gonna make it so awkward.

She, she broke the cardinal rule of teasing.

When someone's teasing you, you never let them know it upsets you, or they just never stop.

And now that Trump knows, oh, this could go on for weeks.

Now, the great thing about this is That Katy Perry's with Justin Trudeau now.

So it was just basically a tantrum for the sake of a tantrum.

[laughs]

"Look how great Marvel's doing." Nobody wants to see this.

They're making movies for an audience that does not exist.

This, this is like gross [laughs] negligence that they even green lit this movie.

And then to put poor Milly Alcock out there on the red carpet during Pride Month, and no one gave her any talking points.

No one said, "Hey, try to steer the conversation this way." This, I'm, it, it...

I'm starting to [laughs] think they're just doing this for the insurance money.

[laughs]

[laughs]

That's the new, that's the new pandemic.

I need the vaccine for Tay-Tay fatigue.

I, uh...

the only way I can go to work.

Listen, I think, I think she's gonna make out like a bandit on this.

The more I find out about it, I, I'm gonna guess there's probably a documentary crew.

[laughs]

Um, Michael, this seems a bit much to me, or am I just, you know, missing something here?

I, I think this is the, the perfect recipe to doom your relationship.

Like, like Taylor Swift, I feel bad for, uh, for, for K- Kelce over here.

He's gonna have his heart broken.

She has to break his heart.

That's how she writes records.

She finds guys, she breaks their heart, and then she acts like she's the one who got dumped.

This strikes me as exceedingly bad sportsmanship.

Mm

...

Theo Von, who's incredibly funny and incredibly original, and Marc Maron, like, lives down the road from where the mayor did nothing, uh, to, about the Pacific Palisades fire, and that whole election was a joke.

Yeah, Marc Maron, you might wanna stop looking at what Theo Von's doing and poke your head out the window.

And by the way, it's not 1892.

You can shave that little ridiculous, uh, I-wanna-be-a-cowboy-

... look, or it makes her family look a little bit demented.

E- exactly, right? It's like y- you wonder what happens to these hyper-woke people who think that the world is out to get them and Trump is the worst.

Are you upset about Spencer?

Yeah, I lived in Los Angeles for a little more than 20 years and I wrote in television.

And there's a couple that it just doesn't add up.

No one who is a breathing, functioning, someone with a frontal cortex thinks that this election was on the up and up.

Who wants more Karen Bass? Who looked around the landscape of Los Angeles and went, you know what? I think we need more of this.

I really want to be stepping over human waste and needles, and I like the potholes.

We have more of this.

What's happened here? Yeah.

Uh, what do you-- do you see anything redeeming about this little outfit? Not so little, really.

You know what? I, I guess I have to be happy for Sam Smith that he can, he can go out with, with his head held high and just say, "Look at me." It's like Cruella de Vil and Zach Galifianakis had a baby.

It's like the villain from 101 Dalmatians [laughs] decided to live her life as a man.

He's subverting expectations.

And the good part is-

Yeah

... anybody who's been following this case, we're all losers too, because it was just getting interesting.

She's like, "Oh, he's a, he's a sex pervert." And he's like, "Oh, she's stupid." And right as we're about to get to some, uh, juicy courtroom drama, they, they do this.

So how could they justify keeping him on, given he's got a massive workforce? This isn't a show that's, uh, cheap to produce.

Yeah.

I, I, I don't know who ABC...

Maybe ABC stands for Another Boring Comedian.

Maybe that's their, their new mantra.

But what, like, if they canceled Kimmel, how many people are gonna be disappointed? 5? 15? It's not like there's gonna be a big letter-writing campaign, "Get Jimmy back on the air." And, and, and thoughts and prayers out.

Right now there's an editor that has to put together the, the highlights of every Jimmy Kimmel episode, [laughs] and that poor, that poor soul's got nothing.

Um, but yeah, what, what was your point of view?

Michael, the Veep is a devout Catholic, but it seems to be pretty clear-eyed here on the church and its habit of playing politics.

Yeah, it's kind of inexplicable where the Pope and the church feel like they have to comment on everything that Trump does.

And they're like, oh, we don't like this border idea.

This border's bad.

Well, we'll try getting into the Vatican without a hall pass.

Last time I checked, it's not the easiest thing in the world to do.

And like, how about a thank you? Like the last time I looked around like Iran was trying to get nuclear weapons.

He must think all black men look alike, Michael.

I think it's a nice dynamic.

Yeah, it's wonderful.

And God bless Jessica that she can keep coming back day after day and being proven wrong day after day and then still shows up with a smile on her face and some goofy idea in her head.

And how about Donald Trump? This guy, President Trump, he's...

He's doing the tariffs.

He's doing the American economy.

There's the war in Iran.

I mean, who do they think they are?

I'm not even sure what that is, but apparently it's all about exaggerated physical appearance and hypersexuality.

Yeah, it's crazy.

This is one of those things where I don't want to know what this is.

I could have gone my whole life without knowing that this was a thing.

And I tell you what, Kristi Noem, she's going to have an open and shut divorce case right there.

Her lawyer's gonna be like, your honor, exhibit A, B, and the double Ds.

It's not gonna be good.

William is obviously going to be king one day, and to have Harry completely estranged from his family is a sad state of affairs.

Michael, what took them so long? This was clear to most of us a while back.

Yeah, I don't know.

Where are these kids going to land? They got nowhere to go.

They started in Vancouver and then like, oh, people found out where we were living.

We had to leave.

Then they were in the UK.

They got kicked out of there.

Harsh, Michael, but is it accurate?

Michael, audiences have been criticizing the BBC's woke bias, not only over these Agatha Christie adaptations, but also its news coverage.

yeah the the bbc has real problems i mean they they have gone over the edge but like uh agatha christie's great grandson i'm i'm sure he has no problems with whatever they want to do as long as he gets a paycheck because that's what it's about the almighty dollar right But it's going to make the shows kind of boring because it's always it's the fun of Agatha Christie is trying to figure out who done it.

And in all these ones, it's going to be the white butler.

Right.

You're like, oh, was it the black millionaire brain surgeon? Was it the Middle Eastern? Oh, no.

The white butler did it.

Every time!

She's scoring more magazine covers and walking in shows for some big fashion names.

Thoughts and prayers.

Yeah, thoughts and prayers.

And a big shout out to everybody that was up in first class when she decided to leave.

And they were just like, whew, I thought that flight was going to be rough.

But she's back in business class.

She was complaining.

She said that there was substandard service.

I

What's your reaction to that?

i feel bad for whoopi goldberg this is so cringy you're yeah she could have she could have like bought a ticket she could have hired a jet their service she wanted to be close with jeffrey epstein she wanted in this was her excuse to ask him for a favor and she doesn't say his response he just wrote back two words No, thanks.

So Jeffrey Epstein, who's world famous for like, oh, he likes women.

He likes the ladies.

He likes to party.

And Whoopi Goldberg is like, hey, want to hang out? And he's like, no, thanks.

Oh, Jeffrey Epstein turned her down.

It is a terrible case, but the coverage, Michael, has just been completely out of whack when you consider the coverage of the Epstein files.