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Samantha Bee Filled Her Writers Room With 'People Who Have Been Underestimated' 

In a recent profile, Full Frontal host Samantha Bee told Rolling Stone that she, unlike many Daily Show viewers, had never expected to take over Jon Stewart’s role—and that her acceptance of TBS’s Full Frontal offer came in part out of her own assumption that she would be passed over. “It didn’t seem like a reality to…

FBI: Clinton, Staff Were 'Extremely Careless' In Handling Emails, Criminal Charges Not Recommended 

In a press conference Tuesday morning, FBI Director James Comey announced what the agency has discovered with regard to Hillary Clinton and her damn emails. Comey said that while the evidence showed Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless in their handling of extremely sensitive, highly classified information,”…

What You're Doing When You Call My Brother "Retarded"

I have never been a violent person, at least not instinctively. Whenever I was teased as a child—I struggled to read for much of elementary school and wore a lot of white jeans, so I was teased a lot—I’d opt for silence or a quick joke, usually at my own expense. I’d level my aggressor with my apparent disinterest or…

Actress Accused of 'Mind-Boggling, Nonsensical Fiction' in Memoir of Gap Year in Zambia

A Scottish actress is trying her hardest to promote a book about living in Zambia for a few months in the late 1990s, an experience she describes as a harrowing, war-torn “nightmare.” It was all going fine until Zambians began reading her account and pointed out that in addition to being a pile of racist and laughably…

If You Pee on Christie Brinkley's Property, She Will Hose You Down and Not Apologize For It

Christie Brinkley hosed down a woman who urinated on her beachfront property, and—in true Christie Brinkley fashion—she refuses to apologize for it. On Saturday night, a 36-year-old woman named Erica Remkus (who claims she was not drunk at the time) found herself needing a bathroom after watching hours of fireworks…

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The Trump Campaign Finally Deleted an Offensive Tweet, and It's Backfiring Terribly 

Over the weekend, gold-tipped mucus plug Donald Trump tweeted a meme of Hillary Clinton that originally appeared on a racist, anti-Semitic message board. This is, to our knowledge, the first offensive tweet Trump has deleted and that his campaign has semi-apologized for. It’s a bold new strategy, acknowledging a…