#josh johnson is great

[towlerknows]

Josh Johnson on the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

If you've never seen a full Josh Johnson comedy set, please take the time to watch this one - beginning to end. Josh's comedy is made up of unrelated stories that weave together and connect in the oddest, but funniest places.

He has a lot of great things to say, please take a listen.

[thenotsolittlemisspeculiar]

The Truth of Lāhainā and Why We Need to Give the Land Back 🌺

(Source)

[crawdad-keep-out]

Great game changer, fantastic. Also josh Johnson is always a win.

[caparrucia]

It is hilarious, allow me to make it more so: Josh Johnson's standup bit on it is poetry.

Hey has tumblr heard about the Chase “Infinite Money glitch” debacle from tiktok yet because

[taylortruther]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFvgCf7PdmM/?igsh=ZmZ4bTRic2M4c2tl

You don't HAVE to post this cause I know you get crazies in your inbox, but I'm sending it precisely because I thought of you for that exact reason and I'm a pebbler. I love Josh Johnson. Every time he makes Taylor Swift jokes, they're always in such great taste. He has to be one of us.

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this is absolutely hilarious and so true. it's football, she's blonde, this is the most american thing to happen, what's the problem. 'it's a psyop. AGAINST WHO?'

[randomlyvi]

Season 7 is fire

I already follow and watch Josh Johnson and Gianmarco Soresi on Youtube, so it felt crazy to have them on Game Changer. All three did a great job, but god, I love how every time Josh went up he had face that was so 'oh this again' but still did great. And Gianmarco getting the crowd on his side and pulling for him is hilariously unsurprising.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Nir at The Downballot:

Democrats pulled off an astonishing upset in a special election for the Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday night, as East Petersburg Mayor James Andrew Malone defeated Republican Josh Parsons by a 50-49 margin to flip a district Donald Trump carried by 15 points last year. Those toplines, however, don't tell the complete story of just how ancestrally Republican Pennsylvania's 36th District is. Since taking its present form in Lancaster County 40 years ago, the district has always been held by the GOP, and the county as a whole has gone for a Democrat at the presidential level just once since 1856 (Lyndon Johnson just barely won it in 1964). Local Democrats, however, were undeterred, taking heart—and advice—from their counterparts in Iowa, who flipped a comparably conservative legislative seat in January. That district, though, had gone blue as recently as 2018; the 36th never had. Despite the district's history, one conservative activist, Scott Presler, warned last week that Parsons, a Lancaster County commissioner, was "currently losing this special election" and complained that Republicans "aren't taking special elections seriously."

Presler's tweet caught the attention of none other than Elon Musk, but it doesn't appear that Musk followed up his comments (in full: "!!") with any sort of cash infusion. (Afterwards, Presler lamented, "I asked for help in Pennsylvania & no one helped us," adding, "-482 votes"—Parson's losing margin.)

[...] Separately, Democrat Dan Goughnour easily won a special election for the Pittsburgh-area 35th District in the state House, restoring Democrats' 102-101 majority. Including both of Tuesday's contests, Democratic candidates in 14 special elections across the country are outperforming their district's presidential margins by an average of 10 points. You can keep tabs on all of these races by bookmarking our continually updated tracker.

Great news for Democrats: The Donkeys flipped a deep-red Pennsylvania State Senate seat near Lancaster, PA in a special election.

[aqueerkettleofish]

And another thing.

Most conservative comedy is a response to the existence of comedy that mocks conservatives. It hurt their feelings, so they're lashing out with three intentions: to give Da Base an alternative form of comedy to listen to, to push their propaganda and talking points, and to get revenge.

I remember when Fox tried to start their own version of the Daily Show, and they started out with Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. And it died, because while Da Base was glad the show existed, even they didn't find it funny.

Whereas if you watch the comics they're pissed at-- they don't have an agenda. Politics are a target-rich environment, and the fact of the matter is that, when you're working with the facts, Conservatives lend themselves to mockery a lot more. But, to use the Daily Show and their alums as examples, they mock Everyone. I've heard more jokes about Jews from the mouth of Jon Stewart than from bigots, and I'm from fucking Alabama. Josh Johnson can tell jokes about white people to a crowd full of mayonnaise and we will laugh uproariously, because he's funny, not cruel. And then he'll turn around and tell jokes about black people, and white people can laugh with him, because again.... funny, not cruel. John Oliver spends more time emasculating himself than he does on the entire GOP.

Hell, SNL had Jim Carrey play Joe Biden. And let me tell you, you don't have Jim Carrey play a real person in a comedic role unless you're mocking them. (He's actually a great actor, but he's best known for being a live-action cartoon character.)

[indieyuugure]

Hiya Indie!! A questiom for Indie TMNT that occured to me outta nowhere... what kind of voices do you think they would have? Like, I noticed every iteration have very different "sounds" to all the turtles, so I was wondering!! Any specific VAs in mind, or just general ideas?

I love your art btw!!! Your comic composition and art style are great!!! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

I actually answered a similar question awhile back! Link here

Though, a few of my ideas have changed since then so here’s the new set:

Leonardo: Mark Whitten

Raphael: Clifford Chaplin

Donatello: Josh Brener or Adam McArthur

Michelangelo: Robbie Daymon

Master Splinter: Greg Baldwin

April O’Neil: Ashley Johnson

Casey Jones: Marc Thompson or Jason Ritter

The Shredder: Eric Bauza

Karai: Mae Whitman

These are just samples from various characters these people have voiced before to help give you an idea of what they sound like in my head, so I imagine they would have a different performance playing these characters.

Leonardo talks more naturally than Rengoku, Raph has a light Brooklyn accent, Mikey talks like a surfer dude, April sounds less like a child and more like a woman(kinda like 03 April), and Karai is a little more serious sounding.

In the cases where I put two voices it’s because I like both, so Donnie in my head sounds like a mix of both of the voice actors I chose, as in like a combination of their speech patterns and mannerisms.

Though in the case of Casey Jones, I do like both of the voice actor’s voices, but I have a major bias towards Casey Jones having a heavy Brooklyn accent much like 03 Casey.

I’ll probably change my mind again, but for now this is what I’m happy with! Many of these choices were actually suggested by BasketballCam2 on Deviant Art, so credit to them for finding these!

Good question! :]

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, April 27, 2025

My posts

I have had the Month of a Thousand Paper Cuts (pictured: me) and I am, in fact, having a bad pain day today, BUT! I may be moving forward with SH2 commentary recording. (Commentary upwriting for a video that didn't exist has been slowly moving along.) OBS still hates me but we're gonna do it ugly (it's much less ugly than it was). Fuck it, ball, etc. Ian's next stream will be this Wednesday, 4/30, I think.

(I am still trying to figure out who my unexpected blorbo in the Silent Hill 2 situation is.)

Oh! I should mention! One of my doctors finally said, "Uh, you don't have to make an appointment and go to an allergist, Zyrtec is over the counter now," so I am finally Doing Something about my allergies (hypothesis: year-round, Dust and The Outdoors). This means that I may be able to write about perfume again soon. I was reminded of this by these Fragrantica reviews of Mugler's Alien, of which I have a sample. Previously, I wrote about Mugler's Angel, after my entire house stopped smelling like it.

Reblogs of interest

I follow Shirley Mansion on YouTube, where she posts like it's Instagram (basically, my subscriptions tab is video game playthroughs, Josh Johnson, Watcher, Dua Lipa's thirst traps, and Shirley), and when I tell you she could not give less of a FUCK what the Daily Mail thinks of her looks

Use these blacklists to block AI overviews and AI images in google searches and set yourself free

For National Poetry Month, Patricia Smith’s “Ethel’s Sestina”

Darian Rodriguez Mederos' bubble-wrap painting "The Wait"

The tale of art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi ("he said that none of his forgeries are copies, they’re all original works that the famous artists could have painted")

Emerald (and, separately, diamond) spectacles from 17th century India

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion effects from The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973)

The history of coffee in Islam, or, the best rom-com title I've ever heard

"ranking the best things I have heard surgeons say mid-surgery"

I don't know what's happening here, but it has extreme 1999 vibes.

This is either an albino deer or a magical White Stag, depending on your point of view

Zines: What Pelican Eat

@fialovart: some lovely beetle art

@endivinity: A saguaro dragon

Great will be your reward in whale heaven

Okay but that first dog though

Poll: Have you experienced Naruto

I don't know what y'all have been doing to My (MY) Little Ponies but you need to stop it right now

THERAPY UNICORN

Video

I always look forward to Josh Johnson's Tuesday uploads, but I've watched his new hour-long set about the all-female Blue Origins trip to space (?) three times already. Whenever he starts doing physical comedy with the stool, it's over for me.

A genius Coca-Cola Bear performer

I tagged this "live footage of the week I have had"

How to style a Hawaiian shirt with a suit

"Mic'ing my stompy kitty"

A ghost photoshoot

The sacred texts

Describe your perfect date

reblog if its friday and you made it

take me to snurch (snail church)

Personal tag of the week

Honestly, I don't even know. And when I don't know, I just say "cats."

[archiesinamerica]

movies i wanna see riverdale actors in

(i will fully admit i am not the most familiar with most of the riverdale actors work outside of riverdale. i am working largely off vibes and procrastination.)

kj apa: good lord something gay. he needs to be doing josh o'connor shit (challengers, god's own country, new benoit blanc if lucky) in the sense of finding movies where he can look longingly at another man. i wanna wake up to a story of him robert pattinson emailing the safdie brothers or whatever to get him into a gregg araki movie. he could do fight club. essentially i think he needs to be sweaty, dripping with blood, and have an excuse to do the thing where a leading man stares at his reflection in a bathroom mirror and questions what's he's done with his life. there needs to be some dance number like that mads mikkelsen film for fifi to come out.

lili reinhart: ik she's been in some thrillers but i want to see her in a full on horror film. considering the ethel cain connection i could see her doing something with a preachers daughter vibe maybe? or she's coming back to her small religious town after getting the fuck out at eighteen bc her mom's dead and she has to face the town and then oh no the horrors. she should do a slasher, final girl or maybe play a hitcher 1986 type beat. she could do midsommar or the vvitch. wait actually i wanna see her in a robert eggers film. or a emma seligman film. her facial reactions would've been so good for bottoms and she could've done excellent in something like shiva baby.

camila mendes: i wanna see her do a heist film!! i think she could do something like oceans eight or maybe charade. she could've done la la land and yes i know about música and i think she could do more musical things. i kind of want something like what happened with ayo edebiri to happen to her so she can also be in some luca guadaningo film, i think she could do very well in it. i could see her as a muse for an artist who slowly grows resentful of him and becomes an artist herself, or maybe even phantom thread. i think she could've been jennifer tilly in bound. she would be so good in a noir film too, as a wife covering up the fact she murdered her husband.

madeleine petsch: i kind of want to see her in a holiday hallmark film for comedy points. no but seriously i think she could be on the white lotus. mike white come over i got another talented redhead!!! i'm definitely pulling from a fic but i would love to see her in something where she has to roller skate or do roller derby i think it makes so much sense for her. she could've done jennifer's body or debs. she should be a witch a la hocus pocus or glinda in og wizard of oz movie, or in some kind of fairytale movie like mirror mirror or the company of wolves.

vanessa morgan: she deserves to be a leading lady of something. i kinda want her to be a vampire again bc i think it would be fun, or maybe something like blade? i would not be opposed to getting her on iwtv. i think she could very much be in a rian johnson benoit blanc film, either helping out the investigation, doing the martha/andi thing. i would love to see her in a romance film, maybe even something like lost in translation. i think she could've done the watermelon woman. or maybe a barry jenkins moonlight or celine song past lives sort of deal.

charles melton: he's in may december so hopefully will get recognised more and go on to do great things. i want him in a wes anderson film, i think he could do it, french dispatch or asteroid city type of thing. he should also go for being a romantic lead again, again, he definitely could've done challengers. i think he could've done queer as drew starkey. or a stephen chow comedy, thinking really specifically about that one bit of him pulling out jingle jangle w an OoO face, though he doesn't have the kung fu chops for it. left field but i kinda wanna see him in a shakespeare adaptation just to see how he would handle it. he could also do westerns imo, maybe even something like zachariah? kinda wanna see him in a sean baker film.

cole sprouse: lisa frankenstein. love a film where he keeps his trap shut

[satanslion]

“Art can save you, entertainment will never be your salvation, so if you want a different neighborhood, a different country, a different world, you probably gonna have to Turn the TV Off”

"Art can save your life, but believe me when I tell you that entertainment will never be your salvation. Entertainment, by and large, is escapism, and no one has ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were there."

[veliseraptor]

December Reading Recap

It's not that late in the month! It's still January!

long-ass post cause I read a lot last month; putting it under a read more to save your dashes.

Feast of Souls and Wings of Wrath by C.S. Friedman. I've really enjoyed this series so far, which has been sitting on my shelf forever because it shares an author with the Coldfire Trilogy, which I love. I read a complaint about it that was criticizing the fact that the male characters are less well developed than the female characters, which is, to be fair, kind of true, but also the female characters are pretty great so I'm not really complaining. It's got some gender issues as one might expect from a early 2000s fantasy series, but fewer than I would've feared, and it's interesting enough in terms of the worldbuilding and story it's telling that I've put in the effort to track down the books (which aren't the easiest to find anymore). Looking forward to reading the last one, slightly delayed by my used copy getting lost in the mail.

Super-History: Comic Book Superheroes and American Society, 1938 to the Present by Jeffrey K. Johnson. I don't know why I keep reading books about superhero comics when they keep disappointing me, but for some reason I do keep doing it. Very shallow analysis and I learned absolutely nothing new from this book. I suspect I spent too much on it. Ah well.

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh. Me and novellas have a love-hate relationship - when I like them I really like them but a lot of times they don't work for me. I've had this one on my shelf for quite a while and was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it. A lovely little story with the texture of a fairy or folk tale.

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks. This book was interesting but not quite what I was hoping for - I wanted more of a dissection of the way that the tendency to narrativize everything can be problematic (in the academic sense) but I felt like that ended up being less the focus than I wanted it to be, and that there were fewer examples of the trend than there could have been. I think I found the first chapter the most compelling of the five, personally.

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. I really enjoyed this book while I was reading it and then read a bunch of critical reviews and was like. Hm. Maybe this wasn't that good after all. So I'm not sure what to make of that - either my own taste is bad or I was just enjoying the ride too much at the time to notice. I suspect the latter might be the case. Not that it was bad, but it was certainly a somewhat shallow and obvious metaphor, and I feel like the return of the dragons halfway through the book ultimately weakened the book as a whole.

Bird Box by Josh Malerman. Not my favorite work of horror but I did love that (a) everything remained unexplained all the way through to the end and (b) the sustaining of tension was impeccably done. I powered through this book in a single plane ride, pretty much, because the pacing dragged me through it without wanting to stop.

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. I've had this novella on my shelf for ages too, and while I didn't love it quite as much as I expected to based on the responses I've seen elsewhere, it was a good one, and actually felt well suited to a novella (which is sometimes my issue with them). I'm going to be picking up the sequel, when I get the chance.

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. Apparently this past month was the month of (a) picking up books that'd been sitting unread on my shelf for a while and (b) fantasy books from the early 2000s. I enjoyed this one but wasn't overly impressed by it, on the whole; certainly not enough that I'll be picking up the following in the series, though that's partly because what drew me to this one in the first place was the conceit of the fairy tale retelling. And I will say that, of the fairy tale retellings I've read - and I've read a fair amount - this was one of the better ones.

The Hunter by Tana French. Been a long time since Tana French, and also I always forget how much I like reading mysteries until I read another mystery. Also how much I like Tana French. I really liked this one and I'm glad I finally got around to it.

Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Read this little novel on a recommendation from my father and while it's certainly not my usual fare I'm glad I did. I'm not totally sure what to make of it as a whole but just in terms of the reading experience, and the prose itself, it was a pleasure to read.

The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia. Yet another book that I've been meaning to read for literal years! I don't even remember when I picked it up or why, I think it was sort of an impulse purchase possibly based on a blurb comparison to Neverwhere. I didn't love it but I'm glad I read it just the same - there's definitely something about the texture that reminded me a little of Sergei Lukyanenko's books, which I remember really liking and now kind of want to reread. I wonder how hard those are to find these days.

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho. Definitely one of my favorite books I read last month. Possibly the favorite. I really liked Zen Cho's other work I've read but I think this is my favorite of hers, and definitely comes with a recommendation - also cements that I'm going to be looking for more of her work in the future.

Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley. Yes, another history of comic books and another...well, it wasn't as much of a disappointment as the other one, but I still found it fell short of what I wanted, particularly in the analysis of more modern comics. The skating over of Greg Rucka's run felt particularly egregious to me, personally, and I don't think that's just because I really like it. I did learn some things from it, but on the whole found it less than edifying.

The September House by Carissa Orlando. One of my other favorite books of the month and one of the better works of horror I've read in a while - the profoundly unreliable narrator and the gradual reveal of just how unreliable is very well done. I'm not sure that the twist on the twist worked for me - that it wouldn't have been better with just the twist - but I felt the book was well done enough to earn the benefit of the doubt on that front.

American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber. Better than the last history of American horror I read, but still not particularly outstanding in terms of the actual analysis, and I didn't learn a whole lot that was new from my other readings on the topic.

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. I've not read any Lev Grossman before because I heard pretty mixed things about the Magicians Trilogy, but my sister recommended I give this one a try and I'm glad I did. I'm not deep in Arthuriana, and perhaps someone who was would feel differently (and I'm not totally sure how I feel about the ultimate antagonist choice), but I liked the way that it used lesser known/more obscure knights and I'm always a sucker for a good aftermath-of-a-collapse story. I guess that's the post-apocalypse literature fan still in me despite the fact that I haven't read much of that genre recently.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Vol. 7 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou. I'm so glad that we've hit this point in this novel. I'm especially glad because it's now passed the point where the human translation stopped so I can actually read something that's not a (cleaned up) machine translation. But mostly I'm glad because this is the point of the story where things really get juicy (for me, specifically). As usual, the next volumes can't come out fast enough (but also please, translators, take your time).

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham. I read Midnight in Chernobyl and really liked it, so I was excited to read this one and felt like I was suitably rewarded, despite being loosely familiar with the outlines of the central story. This book went more deeply into the lead up to the Challenger explosion, and how the warning signs were there for many, many years prior to the launch itself. Compellingly written piece of reportage.

Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond by Alexandra Horowitz. I really enjoyed reading the previous book by this author, but I felt this one was a little...I'm not sure. Sentimental? Polemic? About the author's personal feelings rather than a more scientific/information angle? It was more a book of personal essays than anything else and while that might have been fine it wasn't what I was looking for.

Monstress, vol. 9: The Possessed by Marjorie Liu. Every time I read a new volume of this series I feel like I should go back and reread everything that came before. Continues to be That Good, though, and I'm going to be following this one for however long it goes, which still feels like it could either be a while or not that many more volumes. I'm not reading that many graphic novels these days but I'm happy to be keeping up with this one. If I felt like returning to my old vice (single issues) this would definitely be a series I'd follow month by month.

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. The entire time I read this book I kept thinking "The Silence of the Girls did it better" and that really, I feel like, sums it up for me. I just wasn't impressed! It wasn't actively bad, didn't contain anything that really pissed me off, but...just felt thoroughly mediocre, and I came out of it not sure what all the fuss was about. So I guess mark another Greek myth retelling down as a disappointment. (And yet, like comic book history, I keep reading them anyway.)

The Fisherman by John Langan. Two whole horror books I actually really liked this month! I've had this one on my list for approximately forever and I feel like it was worth the long wait for me to finally get around to it. I'm a little sad this author doesn't seem to have published anything else, because I would love to read more by him.

The Remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman. On the flip side, horror that was, while not unpleasurable to read, not particularly good. It was very much the definition of "fine." I don't regret the experience of reading it but I wouldn't recommend it either, and probably won't be picking anything else up by the same author.

Black Sun Light My Way by Jo Spurrier. I'm still excited about this series, currently reading the third one, sort of want to make other people read it but (a) it's not that easy to find and (b) I feel funny recommending it for reasons I can't fully articulate. But I definitely have a new terrible blorbo and a new even worse threesome ship and I'm sure there isn't any fanfic. Thank you so much @mongooseland for introducing me to this one.

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So that's December, in books. Like I said, currently reading North Sun Guide Me Home by Jo Spurrier to finish out that series, and then I'm reading the next volume of QJJ that just came out in translation, and then I'm planning on The Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman to finish out that series, and after that...not totally sure. Might go back to trying to rotate through genres, but probably not. Maybe there's some more early 2000s fantasy that's been on my list for a while that I can read. We'll just have to see.

[hornymotionalcookie]

Easily one of my fav comedians ever

Is Josh Johnson. He's a great storyteller, the most roundabout connections I swear, but there's empathy and thought in his sets along with mad awkwardness, poking fun at self and many moments that make me die laughing and sober up to go "hmm".

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[igotsnothing]

Nonsims Interests ⋆⭒˚.⋆

Thanks for the tag, @eljeebee! ❤️Yours was fun to read!

I wish I had more time to do a lot of stuff- On top of the fact I have a very time-consuming job, I am also a parent and help out my elderly parent.

When I have time...

I watch way too much Drag Race. I've watched all the seasons and am now watching All-Stars.

I'm a news junkie, which isn't a great thing to be now, so I counter the horror and misery with comedy- Laura Ramoso, Bistro Huddy, Matteo Lane, and Josh Johnson save me from doom scrolling.

Reading- my little tower of "To read books" remains tall, which is a sign that I am optimistic that someday I will have time to read uninterruptedly, without someone asking me for the 5867th time where the damned [insert kitchen staple item here] is.

Gaming- the Sims is obviously my go-to because it is open ended (at least the way I play...or don't really play...*ahem*), but I still need to finish BG3 and Elden Ring (no, really), which is stunning-except, what kills me is the absence of a great quest tracker in game and I can't remember what I have to do, where, and with whom, so it's a squirrel-brained disaster.

Ok, tagging the following folks who are nice to this stranger on the internet: @dandylion240, @stargazer-sims, @likelyamused, @ravingsockmonkey. No purchase necessary!