Brendan O'Malley

The president is crazy*. We see that every day. But he is the president. He won the election – technically. So, we just have to live with it – having a president who is clinically insane*. There is a diagnosis – narcissistic personality disorder*. It’s a real thing. And he has it. “I alone can fix it,” he told us at the Republican National Convention. Nothing he has said or done since would lead you to any other conclusion. He is a sociopath*, our president. It was never okay. Having a nutcase* in the White House. But somehow he had survived … Read More…

Well, it finally isn’t funny anymore – the grandiosity, the ignorance, the cruelty, the bullying, the racism, the petty insults and incessant stupidity. But especially the non-stop lying. The greatest asset that a president can bring to a crisis is credibility. On Day One of his presidency, Donald Trump chose to pick a fight with the media about the size of his inaugural crowd. On the morning of January 21, 2017, after fewer than 24 hours in office, Trump sent out Sean Spicer to tell the press corps a laughable and easily disprovable lie – that Trump’s crowd was the … Read More…

The world lost a giant this week. Earl Pomerantz was one of a small group of comedy writers responsible for a golden era of sit coms that made tens of millions of Americans laugh week after week after week after week after week when there were about 500 fewer channels for us to watch. One of the true masters of the half-hour form, Earl wrote some of the most beloved episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, and the Cosby Show. I had the privilege of working with Earl for a couple half-seasons on my NBC sit com … Read More…

There were a number of genuinely moving moments during President Trump’s State of the Union Speech Tuesday evening. Rush Limbaugh pretending to be surprised when President Trump announced that he was about to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom was not one of them. A day earlier, Rush had told us that he has advanced lung cancer, and certainly no one should feel anything but compassion for him and his family and hope that he makes it through this difficult period. But Rush famously went out of his way to mock dying victims of AIDS and condemn those who have … Read More…

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