“I would never go on vacation with just three straight couples” Tina Fey is so real for this. I’m not religiously watching The Four Seasons but even with a stacked comedic cast, Colman Domingo stands out.

Sarah’s post this morning about Sydney Sweeney at a fro-yo event has activated my pop culture memory like a sleeper agent. As she mentioned, there was the “I love fast food!” early-aughts culture and later there was the “basket of fries” interview. It was a trend in which a very famous actress was speaking to a journalist in a restaurant, so she would order a basket of fries. And talk about the fries. It was meant to be a signal of relatability. Now celebrities very rarely have to worry about eating in an interview because most of them rarely do interviews with journalists anymore. Now, instead of fries, they talk about how much they love reality TV.

Club Chalamet (less of a club, more of a one-woman delusion) has been disbanded and the owner of it has turned her sites (and sights) on Connor Storrie. (Like the ancient Demi Lovato texts state, GET A JOB! STAY AWAY FROM HER.) Now CC tweets under her own account and is shading Timothee for living his life. Yes, he’s all over the Knicks, he’s a New Yorker. And Kylie is right there with them, because they’ve been together for years.

Even though CC is one person, it is very typical of fandom behaviour: they don’t love the object of their affection, they love how that celebrity makes them feel. Oftentimes, that parasocial behaviour morphs into fandoms thinking they “know what’s best” for someone they’ve never met. They try to exert control and when that doesn’t work, they lash out. Timothee is having the time of his life, he’s quite literally exactly where he wants to be.

Like Chelsea Handler, Wanda Sykes turned down the Kevin Hart roast and I liked hearing her thoughts on it because she gets straight to the point: the writing was lazy. Wanda has been working for decades, she’s a veteran stand-up comedian, has done loads of TV and films and she’s not a delicate flower. Her work pushes boundaries and she’s heard and seen it all. What she points out about the Netflix roasts is the low-effort jokes – shocking can be funny but trying to shock can also get really boring. That’s probably the most offensive thing to a true standup. The laziness!

Colman Domingo leaves Watch What Happens Live in NYC, June 9, 2026

 

 

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