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J.K. Rowling is celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas with 12 new short stories from the world of Harry Potter:

Starting December 12, new installments will be posted at 8 a.m. ET. and will involve “wonderful writing by J.K. Rowling in Moments from Half-Blood Prince, shiny gold Galleons and even a new potion or two.”

Rowling says at least one of the stories will focus on Potter’s rival, Draco Malfoy.

This is not the first time that Rowling has released new stories since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the Harry Potter series. Most recently, Rowling released a story about Dolores Umbridge for Halloween this year. With 12 new stories in one month’s time, however, this is possibly the most substantial addition to the Harry Potter canon since the book series ended in 2007.

As a fan and someone who loves a good villain, I am always interested in more backstory on characters like Draco Malfoy and Dolores Umbridge. People never think of themselves as villains, so I want to understand how Malfoy sees himself and why he acts the way that he does. Plus, more stories from the mind of J.K. Rowling is always a win for readers everywhere.

(Source: Entertainment Weekly)

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President Obama, a.k.a. the boss-in-chief, decided to give federal employees a holiday present a little early.  He issued an executive order Friday giving them the day after Christmas off. “All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 2014, the day […]

Hahahahahahaha! “John Green Is Not The Zodiac Killer.” http://www.dailydot.com/lol/john-green-zodiac-killer/…

Earlier this week some sleuthing from the folks at Crushable unearthed a clip from Season 3 of 30 Rock that appeared to take a dig at Bill Cosby over the rape allegations that are now piling up against him. Some of the coverage of the clip was couched as “Did they know?” or “Was it on purpose?,” which seemed a little odd because Tina Fey and the staff of 30 Rock are entirely too bright and well-informed for anyone to think they just, like, accidentally stumbled into a hot button issue like that.

Which brings us conveniently to this: Decider dug up an episode of Saturday Night Live from 2005 that features Tina Fey and Amy Poehler making Cosby jokes on Weekend Update after an accuser came forward on the Today show. Here’s Decider’s blockquote of the meat of the bit:

Tina Fey: [doing a Bill Cosby impression] No, Kenan is not coming out because of the Fat Albert, and the money, and the sequels!

Amy Poehler: [also doing a Bill Cosby impression] Of course he can’t talk about the boobies, and the groping, and the pudding pops!

Tina Fey: Because it would upset Mr. Cosby, and his wife, Camiiillle!

[Kenan enters and stands behind Tina and Amy]

Kenan Thompson: Wow, thanks for that. Great job, you guys. I didn’t say any of that, because Kenan Thompson loves to work, Okay? Peace.

So, yeah. It’s safe to say people knew. That answers that question. But it raises another one: If two of the country’s most notable female comedians were discussing it 10 years ago on network television on one of the country’s most notable comedy shows, why did it take a shaky cell phone video of a 2014 standup show in Philly for it to really capture the public’s attention? I’m sure social media is a big part of it, but still, that’s strange.

by Ester Bloom

Aunt Flo has come for a visit. You know what I mean. It’s shark week. I’m surfing the crimson wave, managing a red scare, on the rag. And god am I tired of how much it costs. I just spent $5.50 at my local indie pharmacy for a box of 18 tampons; plus, of course, there’s the additional cost of pads and liners. There’s got to be a better way.

Well, there is, supposedly. On the top shelf at the pharmacy I noticed a box of Instead softcups for $11. (The sample pack online is only $2.50.)

Reusable Softcup is a durable, flexible, reusable cup that can be worn for up to 12 hours and reused throughout one menstrual cycle. Reusable Softcup has all the benefits of disposable Softcup—with the added advantage of just one cup per period.

You can even have intercourse with it in, assuming you like red light specials.

Still, I hesitated.

I’ve heard people swear by Diva cups ($30 at Target), and though I assume they’re the same thing I wasn’t sure enough to plunk down $11 in the hopes that I was right. Seems like the difference is that the Diva cup is reusable in perpetuity, whereas the Instead cups are good for one cycle each. Brokelyn highly recommend switching to some kind of cup for the sake of your wallet:

Assuming the average menstrual cycle uses 12 tampons and four to five pads, that’s roughly $50 per year. By switching to a $25 menstrual cup, you could save $475 over ten years. That’s $1,187.50 over the next 25 years.

Here are some things you could do with that money: buy a 1997 Cadillac Deville, go to Space Camp for grownups, or buy me two of the Marc Jacobs handbag I really want and then take me on an extravagant 16 Handles friend date.

Anyone have any first-hand (ahem) experience they want to share?

There’s more to period innovation than inserts though! First off, there’s magic underwear. No, not the Mormon kind, which you can read about to your heart’s content here. The it’ll-handle-your-period-for-you kind.

I wrote about Thinx once before, because I find the idea fascinating: they’re absorbent — up to 6 tsp, presumably of that pretty blue fluid women pour onto maxipads in commercials — anti-microbial, and stain resistant. I haven’t tried them yet myself, since I’m not usually the kind of person who spends $34 on a single pair of panties; usually I buy underwear in bulk and wears it for years. (Gentlemen, start your engines!)

For the more traditional, there are also period boxes, because as we’ve discussed you can get anything you want shipped to you in a box these days. Women’s Health gives an overview of five such services, which range from $13.75 a month to $30 a month. And there are reusable cloth pads: more expensive at the outset, but they’ll save you money over time.

Then again, of course, if your biggest problem is that you want to spend more money in order to hide the physical evidence that you’re fertile, capitalism has got you covered too. You’re welcome.

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Before Hannibal Buress unwittingly thrust Bill Cosby’s many rape allegations into the mainstream media spotlight, one has to wonder how well known and discussed of a topic this was behind closed doors amongst those involved in the entertainment industry. If this old clip from season three of 30 Rock is any indication, the answer to that question could be “very.”

Jenni Maier of Crushable has recenty been rewatching season three of 30 Rock when she came across what seemed like — at the time, all the way back in 2009 — a total throwaway joke. In an episode titled “The Bubble,” the setup was that after Tracy was threatening to quit over contract negotiations, Jack had a guy named Rick from accounting impersonate Bill Cosby to try to talk some sense into him. You can watch the scene here (or on Netflix, where the entire series is available to stream), but here’s the transcript, via Crushable:

Jack Donaghy: I’ve arranged for one of Tracy’s childhood idols to reach out to him.

Tracy Jordan: Hello?

Jack Donaghy: Tracy, this is Jack, I have someone here who wants to speak with you.

Rick: Tracy, this is Bill Cosby…

Liz Lemon: [whispering] Really? This is your strategy?

Jack Donaghy: [whispering and smiling] I heard him do this at a party!

Rick: …I want you to come back to the TGS for the people who like the jokes and the things.

Tracy Jordan: Bill Cosby, you got a lotta nerve gettin’ on the phone wit’ me after what you did to my Aunt Paulette!

Rick: I think you’re confusing me with someone else.

Tracy Jordan: 1971. Cincinnati. She was a cocktail waitress with the droopy eye!

Rick: I’m the guy… with the pudding…

Tracy Jordan: Don’t try to tell me what to do! Heathcliffe Huxtable, wit’ yo’ light-ass kids! Jack! Why would you make me talk to this man?

30 Rock is well known for their inside jokes, so it’s entirely possible that this was a dig at one of Hollywood’s more potentially nefarious and least talked about secrets. Even more interesting is that Hannibal Buress was a writer on 30 Rock, however this episode aired a year before he came aboard. It makes you wonder if Bill Cosby’s rape allegations were a running joke around the 30 Rock offices or something. It seems too solid of a connection to be a coincidence.

(Crushable via Jezebel)

For the second year in a row, unimaginative parents named their kids Jackson and Sophia, the most popular baby names for 2013 and 2014. That information comes from BabyCenter’s Top 100 Baby Names of 2014 list and survey, which inspires actual human beings to say things like, “Jackson has staying power and is not a one-hit wonder, and Sophia is arguably the Jennifer of its generation. It’s clearly entered the baby name hall of fame.” Clearly.

Most relevant to our pop culture-addled brains is this:

According to BabyCenter, 20% of moms found naming inspiration from TV-show characters and 16% got names from celebrities, leading Murray to call this the year of the “binge-watching baby name.” Cited in the “Netflix effect”:

-House of Cards character names were up since 2013: Garrett (up 16%), Claire (up 14%), Zoe (up 13%), Remy (up 11%), Frank (up 19%) and Francis (up 5%).

-Orange Is the New Black characters were up since 2013: Galina (up 67%), Nicky (up 35%), Piper (up 28%), Larry (up 28%), and Dayanara (up 19%). (Via)

I was born in 1987, the year The Joshua Tree was released, but my parents hate U2, so it’s a total coincidence. Maybe the same is true of the 25% extra Larrys than there were last year. Coincidentally, in 15 years, expect a 25% increase in swirlies given to Larrys. Don’t doubt the “Netflix effect,” though. It’s real. The only thing that halts our binge-watching is having sex, and when you’re already thinking about Piper Chapman and Frank Underwood…

That’s why I’m naming my kid Bojack Kurpman.

Via BabyCenter

Back in September, I posted that HBO was remastering The Wire in HD. The company announced they've completed the process; it'll be on HBO Go this month at full-frame 16x9 HD.

HBO announced today that they had completed the high-definition re-mastering of all five seasons of "The Wire," which will debut in December on HBO Signature and HBO Go, be sold in digital HD (through iTunes, Google Play, etc.) starting January 5, and on Blu-ray starting next summer. As the press release notes, "The entire series has been beautifully re-mastered in 16x9 Full-Frame HD from more than 8,000 reels of original 35mm camera negative, allowing for a tighter fit on widescreen TVs and computer/tablet screens. The original negatives were scanned, edited, dust-busted and color-corrected with great care and attention taken to stay true to the look and feel of the original Standard-Definition 4x3 version."

Well, well. That's a welcome change from what I heard about how the show was shot and how they were going to remaster it (chop the top and bottom off the 4x3 frame). David Simon wrote extensively on how he became involved in the remastering process and came up with something to everyone's satisfaction.

To their great credit, once we alerted HBO production executives to our absolute interest in the matter, they halted the fall HD release and allowed us to engage in detail. And over the past several months, looking at some of what the widescreen format offered, three things became entirely clear: First, there were many scenes in which the shot composition is not impaired by the transfer to 16:9, and there are a notable number of scenes that acquire real benefit from playing wide. An example of a scene that benefits would be, say, from the final episode of season two, when an apostolic semicircle of longshoremen forms around the body of Frank Sobotka. Fine as far as it goes, but the dockworkers are all that much more vulnerable, and that much more isolated by the death of their leader when we have the ability to go wider in that rare crane shot.

But there are other scenes, composed for 4:3, that lose some of their purpose and power, to be sure. An early example that caught my eye is a scene from the pilot episode, carefully composed by Bob, in which Wee Bey delivers to D'Angelo a homily on established Barksdale crew tactics. "Don't talk in the car," D'Angelo reluctantly offers to Wee Bey, who stands below a neon sign that declares, "burgers" while D'Angelo, less certain in his standing and performance within the gang, stands beneath a neon label of "chicken."

That shot composition was purposed, and clever, and it works better in the 4:3 version than when the screen is suddenly widened to pick up additional neon to the left of Bey. In such a case, the new aspect ratio's ability to acquire more of the world actually detracts from the intention of the scene and the composition of the shot. For that reason, we elected in the new version to go tighter on the shot in order to maintain some of the previous composition, albeit while coming closer to our backlit characters than the scene requires. It is, indeed, an arguable trade-off, but one that reveals the cost of taking something made in one construct and recasting it for another format. And this scene isn't unique; there are a good number of similar losses in the transfer, as could be expected.

(thx jeff & @jasonsantamaria/)

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Last night, comedian Amy Schumer took to the stage of the Gotham Awards to praise her Trainwreck co-star Tilda Swinton for her Gotham Actor Tribute, and praise she did offer with an almost 700-word long testimonial about the hauntingly gifted star dust conglomeration and Conan O’Brien doppelgänger.

Here are all of Schumer’s words courtesy of Cosmopolitan.

“Tilda motherf*ckin’ Swinton. Why am I even allowed to say her name? This is ridiculous. I wrote a movie last year, and one of the roles was for my fiercely powerful and elegant boss, and in the character description, I just wrote, “Diana, a goddess, like Tilda Swinton waiting at a baggage claim.” ‘Cause once I saw Tilda at JFK at the baggage claim, and her just standing there was one of the most beautiful, powerful sights I have ever seen. I just plainly stared at her. It looked like she was on an ice slab, just, like, leading soldiers into a battle. She was waiting for her Tumi bag to come around. And I didn’t think in a million years that Tilda would do it, but she did, and she’s an actual angel.

The first time I remember noticing her was in the movie Vanilla Sky. I was, like, Oh sh*t, who is that? What a badass. Just watching her actually makes you feel stronger. She can scare the sh*t out of you and break your heart and give you a boner all at the same time.

Even off-camera, her presence reminds me of a preacher that travels around the country, but instead of touching your forehead, she just looks you in the eye, and you feel somehow saved. And she doesn’t do it for money, and it’s not religion. This was not a good example, I’m realizing. And I just watched the movie Leap of Faith, sorry.

But The Deep End, The Beach, Narnia, Orlando. I’m just listing places that I want to go this year. I love Orlando. She has 53 awards, including an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Michael Clayton, and has 64 nominations. I think the numbers are going up as I’m speaking. Also, have you seen I Am Love? Have you seen that? She speaks Italian with a Russian accent. I’m just trying to get rid of my Long Island one.

This year she appeared in the Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Snowpiercer. Did you see Snowpiercer? Her character was written as a dude, and she was, like, “You know what? Just leave it. Have them call me ‘sir.'” She’s without question one of the greatest actors of our time, but honestly, who gives a sh*t? Have you hung out with her?

She’s the greatest friend you will ever have. She is the coolest. Hanging out with her makes me furious at everyone else I’ve ever met that they are not her. There’s no way to describe what it’s like to spend time with Tilda Swinton, other than, like, saying it’s life changing and heart stopping.

And right now, you’re like, OK, relax Schumer, she’s not going to f*ck you. But, like, F*ck you. She is that awesome. That someone can be that present and selfless, and still someone that you’d want to drink Scotch with till you black out, that is a real lady. [Audience is roaring.]

You shake her hand, and you meet her, and 10 minutes later she’s inviting you to stay with her and the twins and their pet, like, horses or whatever, in their mysterious beach water castle in Scotland. With Tilda you are instant family — the family you wish you had. And you know she’s not blowing smoke up your ass, because there’s literally nothing you can do for her, unless she wants to get booked for a weekend at the Funny Bone in Bloomington, Illinois. And I can hook you up.

When my sister and I bring her up, we take a moment, and cover our hearts, and look up. She’ll say, “I got an email from Tilda,” and we both just kind of take a moment. What I’m saying is she’s so kind, and caring, and egoless, and strong and humble and lovely, and so giving, on and off-camera. Getting to be in scenes with her is the greatest thing in the world, but getting to be her friend is a privilege beyond my wildest dreams, and I love her. She’s everything.”

Some people like to take selfies with celebrities, some people try desperately to get them to record messages for their outgoing messages, but if I ever meet Amy Schumer, I’m going to beg her to write a letter about me to my mom.

By the way, if this is the best thing to happen at The Gotham Awards, than Michael Keaton’s “it feels awfully good to be back home (in Gotham)” line in his acceptance speech gets the silver medal.

Source: Cosmopolitan

Breaking!!!! Earlier this morning, the House of Cards official Twitter account released the following teaser video. SPOILERS AHEAD if you haven’t finished season two, and if you haven’t — really, what are you even waiting for? Get on that ASAP.

The short teaser video shows Frank Underwood, who as you probably know was sworn in as president at the end of last season, ostensibly ascending the stairs of Air Force One along with Claire — but that’s still more than enough tease to get excited about. Frank spent the first two seasons manipulating and clawing his way to the presidency, so what happens now? World domination? Or is this season going to be about him fending off the Doug Stamper scandal (assuming there will be a scandal) — who may or may not be dead right now? February 27th, people. We’ve got less than three months now to find out.

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I SAW THE CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY “BULLSHIT” SALE YESTERDAY AND BOUGHT IT THINKING IT WAS AN EXPANSION PACK.

IT’S LITERALLY BULL SHIT. THEY ARE SENDING COW POOP TO MY HOUSE AND I HAVE NO CLUE HOW I’M GOING TO EXPLAIN IT TO MY PARENTS.

Please for the love of god let this work

God I am so fucked.

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REBLOGGING MYSELF FOR AN IMPORTANT CHRISTMAS REMINDER.

Just after the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and the Native Americans came the first Black Friday with ye olde doorbusters.

And after the feaste, which did consist of water-fowl, and cod and bass and other fishes, and a great many wylde turkeys, the people of Plymouth did retire. And upon awakening they were greeted with many goodly savings, on itemes of considerable necessitie, and just in tyme for the forthcoming holidaye season!

Shoes of sturdy leather were to be had for the low, low sum of a single raccoon's pelt, and milking cow discounts did flood with joye anyone able to parse the true meaning of "half-off." Values on corn, squash, peas, and barley likewise were out of this (New!) worlde; and the people's clamour to purchase a canoe, a novel form of transport that many did consider the hot new gift, was so immense that for some poore souls it did prove injurious.

The canoe came with not one, but two paddles!

President Obama: “Do you guys want to pet him?”
Malia Obama: “NAH!”

Malia and Sasha Obama brought an A+ side-eye game full of teenager contempt to yesterday’s turkey pardon. To put it in terms they’d surely appreciate, the Obama girls “literally can’t even” when it comes to their dad cracking embarrassing jokes.

Here are the four stages of their boredom.

Signups for Holiday Bullshit are still available, but going fast. You can sign up at HolidayBullshit.com.

A lot of people in the coming days will say, “It’s not about race,” or, “The media is trying to make it about race.”

But look at the data from Missouri’s state government: Black residents of Ferguson are twice as likely to be stopped and/or searched as white residents, and they are far more likely to be arrested. But searches of black residents are much less likely to discover contraband than searches of white residents.

Around the country, when compared to white men, African American men are much more likely to be shot by police. They are more likely to be arrested. They are more likely to be convicted. And for the same crime, African American men will on average serve 20% more time in prison than a white man. 

We don’t have a race problem when it comes to policing in the U.S.? The data strongly indicate otherwise.

I think she’s trying to tell Santa something. If only we could crack the code. 

Some shopping commercials are annoying, with most ending up being downright unbearable during the holiday season. That is, unless your ad stars the one and only Anna Kendrick.

I’ll be the first to admit that a commercial clocking in at nearly three minutes typically deserves major eye-rolls, but I really can’t get enough of Kendrick and her charm in this Kate Spade clip. The premise of “woman gets locked out of her apartment” can easily lead to played-out antics as well as over-the-top scenes, but the Into the Woods actress is just…so much fun to watch. For lack of a better word, she really sells it. (Also, that pup and its super serious “Okay, I guess we’re just doing this, then,” face deserve awards, too.)

Via Adweek

Netflix is on a roll this week. After NBC decided not to move forward with The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the online streaming service stepped in to buy the first season of the comedy and ordered a second one to boot.

The series stars Ellie Kemper and  comes from the minds of 30 Rock producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. NBC’s Robert Greenblatt released a statement late Friday afternoon explaining the network has no room for a new comedy in it’s “very drama-heavy mid-season schedule.” From Vulture:

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt stars The Office‘s Ellie Kemper as an adorkable cult member who escapes to start her life over in New York City. She moves in with a struggling actor played by Tituss Burgess and gets a job working for Jane Krakowski, and then presumably has all sorts of wacky adventures.

With the final season of Parks and Rec right around the corner, I’m sure they could’ve done a little finagling to fit the series in their lineup. On the bright side, Netflix has racked another quirky comedy to their growing roster. The entire first season of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will premiere in March 2015.

(Source: Vulture)

Two girls walked by me today, deep in conversation. “There’s no way Adnan did it,” one of them said, and my world got that much smaller.

For however divided FilmDrunk readers might be on TMNT or Interstellar, it’s so comforting to know that nearly all of us are united in our hatred of Kirk Cameron. Now that’s what I call: community. So our community, I imagine, might be delighted to see  a two-and-a-half minute Kirk Cameron video uploaded just yesterday entitled “How to Witness a Gay Person,” featuring leather thongs, prominent lisps, and some Australian dude on meth. It’s part of Cameron’s Way Of The Master series originally broadcast in the mid 2000s, but if you haven’t seen it yet, you should. It’s beautiful.

“How to Witness a Gay Person” takes place with the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge as background, because everyone (from 1987) knows that San Francisco is the capital of the gay community. While it does feature your standard paternalistic Kirk Cameron sermon, most of the video is dedicated to some truly priceless man-on-the-street interviews with the gay community. “Do I sleep around a lot? Well maybe I do,” one of the interviewees says, “Cause guys are like dogs.” Oh, the ol’ bestiality connection – good detective work, Cameron! (Counterpoint: do dogs really have sex that much? Most of the non-neutered dogs I know just want extra pets and slices of cheese). Then there’s just a whole montage of people of color talking about what made them gay, a montage that we’re supposed to find . . . hilarious?

According to YouTube, the video was released just yesterday, and everythingisterrible.blogspot.com uncovered it just this morning. Still, all the footage in here looks like it came straight out of some mother’s nightmare in 1981. There’s gay men wandering around in leather and clubbing to house music, sassy snapping drag queens, and exactly one, kinda sorta maybe lesbian (because honestly, who cares about women? Zzz)

What’s so interesting about “How to Witness a Gay Person” is that Cameron doesn’t actually teach you how to do it. He and the Australian dude tell you what not to do, but they offer absolutely zero clues on how to do it. My hunch is that Cameron can’t tell you because he has no idea how to, because camps don’t work, because witnessing doesn’t help, and because the video cut off before he could market the follow-up.

This clip appears to have been co-produced with Wayofthemmaster.com. If you’re looking to kill time at work, check it out – it’s truly a wonderful way to waste the day away.

Now that Mad Men has finished shooting, Jon Hamm has nothing to do except handsomely count his millions of dollars, handsomely show off his knowledge of Internet cats, and handsomely pop up in various TV shows, including Parks and Recreation, where according to EW, he’ll “reprise his brief role as an inept National Parks employee Ed.”

“If I have my way, every episode where you see events that take place before that moment will include a shot of him doing something insanely incompetent,” showrunner Mike Schur told my colleague Dan Snierson of a Hamm return. (Via)

Six Feet Under began every episode with a death; Parks and Recreation could end every episode with a Jon Hamm f*ck up. Ben and Leslie? We never find out where that elevator goes, because Ed is the elevator repair guy and now they’re stuck. It’s a really cheap final season.

Via EW

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Where, oh where, could the Bellas take us that they didn’t already take us in Pitch Perfect? To the world championships of a cappella, obviously. Hot on the heels of the hilarious pun-play of the first poster for Pitch Perfect 2, the trailer has arrived, and it has more singing than any movie trailer in the history of the world (citation needed). Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson lead the rest of the Bellas against an international stage of competitive singers, and they’re joined along the way by Adam DeVine, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins and that one dude from the TBS series about people working (not that one, the other one). It’s a classic story of us against the world, featuring Rebel Wilson falling down some stairs.

Lost in all the tunes is the real surprise of Clay Matthews and some of his Green Bay Packers teammates. However, David Bakhtiari has never been shy about his love of Pitch Perfect, so this must have been a dream come true for them.

Everyone’s favorite Vicodin-popping doctor is already set to return to television with AMC’s adaptation of The Night Manager. Now it looks like Hugh Laurie will reportedly make a splash on Veep in an unspecified role.

The two-time Golden Globe winner (and six-time Emmy nominee) was spotted filming a scene today by Baltimore Media Blog, and HBO has confirmed to TVLine that he’ll indeed appear in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy when it returns with fresh episodes next year.

Producers refused to provide any details, though they admitted the role lasts for several episodes. Many speculate Laurie will either play the Vice Presidential nominee or campaign manager to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s newly-confirmed President of the United States.

Both are good, but with the show’s lineage back to The Thick of It and In the Loop, I’d like to see Laurie take on an Americanized Malcolm Tucker-like persona.

Source: TVLine

Grandmas Smoke Weed For The First Time, Play Cards Against Humanity, And I Just Died Laughing

Can’t. Stop. Laughing. Is it too late to add this to the winter TV schedule? I’d watch every week.