As long as I’ve worked here, I’ve only had one celebrity take issue with me making fun of them, and that was the late Margot Kidder who wanted to make it very clear she was crazy and not on pills. I am totally looking forward to the second one which is probably going to happen today after SNL co-head writer Michael Che spent all day obsessing over a former Jimmy Kimmel writer for taking issue with a strange clause in SNL’s submission disclaimer.
The funniest thing about the SNL Writing Submission site is it absolves then from stealing your ideas, and then also says if you include a link to your social media it counts for everything you’ve ever posted as well pic.twitter.com/MhnI83Ltf6
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 11, 2019
So the clause that they’re absolved from stealing your submitted ideas is standard boilerplate in case you’re watching and you go “Hey, I submitted a pitch for Donald Trump singing ‘I Fought the Law’ while Robert Mueller breakdances outside his prison cell, I’m going to sue!” The thing about everything on your social media is really fucking weird and unusual, though.
Anyway, Michael Che lost his entire goddamn mind for an entire day about this tweet.
— Seth Simons (@sasimons) June 11, 2019
Yeah, he kept posting to his Instagram Story which is really strange.
I’ll respond to Michael Che through Seth Simons here – then why is the very uncommon disclaimer in your submission fine print? Also your show is worse than it’s ever been, don’t stop me now cold open with trump is a deep low point in the worst era of political comedy https://t.co/Fv0Meu1uON
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 11, 2019
Yeah, they’re doing a bang-up job at SNL right now.
God, that is by far the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen that movie where John Wayne played Genghis Khan. I would not be even a little bit surprised if they were scouring Twitter for ideas if this is the stuff that makes it to air.
proud day over at the allison household pic.twitter.com/SFLOA8jqsg
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 11, 2019
it’s terrible to always be the subject of so much fake news. smh pic.twitter.com/7XQ9KDzrAG
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 11, 2019
for updates on my personal life, check out my morning show at https://t.co/V8mWCqb6Ad pic.twitter.com/GhuFZ3QpLq
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 11, 2019
Keep in mind that basically the only thing Allison has said before Che made all these posts was “SNL’s submission rules are weird.”
ding ding ding pic.twitter.com/4cogYp3V7f
— Seth Simons (@sasimons) June 11, 2019
And of course, the ever-present “I feel like blacklisting people who criticize me is entirely reasonable” makes an appearance after too long.
and, of course, as we all know, say it with me: never say anything negative about a showrunner pic.twitter.com/JH9T9cXooV
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 12, 2019
please sir… PLEASE read my packet pic.twitter.com/XibAX25Q6x
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 12, 2019
normal stuff pic.twitter.com/x7eiKQ3YUv
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 12, 2019
If you’re not familiar with him, Jack Allison got into a bit of a thing on Twitter a few months ago after writer Sarah Watson said that saying you didn’t like a movie on social media could hurt your chances of getting staffed because it could have been written by a friend of a showrunner. Seriously.
Maybe they should stop being such babies about ever hearing criticism, considering how powerful and wealthy they are
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) March 14, 2019
Jose Molina then immediately proved his point.
Me: showrunners are control freak dicks who wield employment as a punishment against much less successful writers because they can’t handle criticism
Showrunners: pic.twitter.com/fYwsUdcHbV— The Grinch (@grinchposting) March 15, 2019
This is likely what Che is talking about.
Michael, I'm going to post a video in the reply to this tweet. Please let me know on your Instagram story (a very cowardly way to argue) if you think anyone on the planet could conceivably consider it good or funny, and if you're proud that it aired on the show you co head write pic.twitter.com/e1e6h3M3VK
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 12, 2019
Allison had the last laugh, because here’s the video he tweeted.
— The Grinch (@grinchposting) June 12, 2019
Based on what we learned about Che I fully expect him to go off about what an asshole I am.
— Seth Simons (@sasimons) June 12, 2019
I know what you’re thinking; why would Michael Che give even the tiniest f**k what you think about him? And I have no idea, but there’s no way that dude doesn’t have multiple Google alerts for his own name. I will personally be devastated by this attention, so please, Michael Che, don’t go on an Instagram Story rant about how mad you about this article. We need you to focus on writing those super funny cold opens that no one thinks are hacky and lame and that totally get laughs from people who aren’t drunken 50-year-old women with “Still With Her” bumper stickers.
Allison’s Struggle Session co-host revealed the damage that Che’s wrath had brought on them.
Please, we don’t want any part of that, Michael.
Is anyone actually capable of following this? Haven’t been this confused since high school calculus.
And you spend your life obsessing over other people’s lives