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Seth Simons

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I write Humorism.xyz, a newsletter about labor and extremism in comedy.

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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 2h
highway robbery
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
here is Duncan Trussell warning the comedians working at the Onion/Infowars that they are traitors who might get put to the guillotine
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
that’s the owner of the comedy club Stand Up NY with the genocidaire Itamar Ben-Gvir
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
in his podcast today Chris D'Elia says his manager prematurely committed him to the TPUSA event, whines about the backlash, says he'd do anything for a paycheck, even the Riyadh Comedy Festival, and complains about comics "who were head of the MeToo movement" but did the Riyadh Comedy Festival
Chris D'Elia (00:00):
So I haven't done work in Hollywood for six years it's been—and I get an offer from Turning Point USA, which to do—well, first of all, I don't really know what the offer is. They say, "Hey, you want to do comedy for our show?" And I go, "Yeah, I love doing comedy. Let me put you in touch with my manager." I put 'em in touch with my manager and then I was like, "What do they want me to do?" And he said, "They want you to do 20 minutes of comedy. You can roast them, whatever." I was like, "Oh yeah, maybe I'll do that." And one thing led to another to where my manager let them think yes, I was going to do it. And then it was posted that I was going to do it. And when it was posted, it was posted that it was going to be, like, Donald Trump Jr was going to be on the thing and all that. And I go, "Oh, what is this?" And I look at it and I was like, "Yo, I didn't even look at the contract yet." So it was a mixup that I was posted on this. And when I tell you people were coming for my head, I mean, they're like. First of all, there was no, "Hey, what's this all about?" It was only "Die bitch." 

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And I'm like, "Well, okay, hold on." First of all, the people trying to—and by the way, I know people are coming at Turning Point too because they're like, "You put him on the site prematurely, you shouldn't have done that." Just fucking shut up, dude. This was a simple, simple mistake, dude. And it's nobody's fault except probably my manager's. Okay? So you know what? I take responsibility actually, because I should have just—I'm so fucking goddamn aloof, dude. I just go, "What? I don't know. Maybe. Yeah, sounds fun. I want to make everybody happy." And then it gets announced that I'm gonna do 20 minutes of fucking roasting, I guess, in Reno. And I'm like, "Well, I don't want to do that." And then it's already up and out. And I go, "Why the fuck?" I say to my manager, "What the fuck?" And he's like," Oh, my bad."& I'm like, "All right, cool." & now everyone's like, "Fuck you, bro. You're the lowest of low.You're the scum of the earth. You're terrible." I got people telling me you're complicit in war crimes. I'm like, "Oh my God." Now granted, these people are mentally insane, but there are different levels of mentally insane that they are. There are the very batshit crazy people. That's fine. & do those people still get to you? Yeah, if there's enough of them. But then there are people who are kind of insane and they're like, "Look at you, you sell out." They offered me a lot of money. And I'm like, "Oh." In the beginning, that's what I saw. And I was like, "Oh, maybe I'll do the fucking shit. I'm not political. I just go off fucking roasting people. I don't give a shit." And in the back of my head, I was like, "Dude, you know what? Hollywood really is a bitch and they're shitty. And everyone shamed me out of Hollywood." So I'm like, "All right, I don't make money off that. So fuck it. Maybe I'll make money off this other thing."  Because I go where the bag is, dude. Do you understand that? Do you understand that? Do you understand that, dude, I will go where the bag is? I am not political. Dude, if you had me, remember when I was making fun of all those comics that went to Saudi Arabia? By the way, where the fuck happened to them? Nobody gives a shit about that. They still go to their shows. And I'm not knocking all of the comics. I'm knocking the people who were the head of the MeToo movement and then went to Saudi Arabia and fucking went to do those shows. Y'all could go fuck yourself. Okay? I don't give a fuck. I don't talk about this shit. Everything's a joke. I don't stand for fucking free this, free that. Oh, this is a disgrace. Vote for this person, don't vote for that person. I'll go to Saudi Arabia. You know what I'm saying? Now, so I don't care. I would do a show for Barack Obama. I would do a show for fucking Hillary Clinton, JD Vance. I don't give a fuck, dude.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stavros Halkias consistently frames left-wing antiracist efforts -- cancel culture, implicitly -- as targeting people for dumb shit they said when they were young and didn't know better. it is a pretty convenient and disingenuous position, imo
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
amazing
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
comedy’s most principled anti-genocide activist: “states should not intervene in other states’ genocides”
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
here is Theo Von asking a Catholic bishop, "The Israel that we see that gets talked about in the Bible, is it the same as the government of Israel that's running the country that's there now?"
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Carlos Mencia, charged with felony tax evasion, tells the San Antonio Current he never evaded his taxes, and once he files the taxes he never filed, he'll be done evading his taxes www.sacurrent.com/news/comedia...
Q: It sounds like you want to take responsibility, but you also pled not guilty to the charges, right?

A: I never evaded. I filled out my 1099s everywhere I went. I legit didn’t have enough money to cover my bases. I knew this would happen. But within the next couple of weeks, all those tax years are going to be filed. Once those tax years are filed, there’s no more evasion. It’s kind of like they’re accusing me of murdering somebody, but the person is still alive. I’m just going to have to pay whatever fines … and then it’ll go away. At the end of the day, they did the right thing.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
west indian day parade, as represented by the mister softee app
map of brooklyn showing basically all the mr softee trucks along eastern parkway
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
btw here's how much season 3 of TIRES cost, per the PA film tax credit program
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
here's secret lib Shane Gillis on Abdul El-Sayed: "This is gonna be the gayest revolution in the history of all revolutions… I didn't know anything about him and then I saw that video and I was like, fuck that guy."
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
lol
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Ev from Felt Lips @borissentme.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Archive link for anyone hitting the paywall. TW: drugs, suicide, abuse, sexual assault archive.ph/FN8J9
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smokey eunuch™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is just such a sad and haunting story and then theres the part where he snoops through his dead ex's texts and emails to make a goofy little tiktok about her suicide and i started seeing red and uh, fuck reggie watts
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
horrifying story. Reggie Watts is a psychopath www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Reggie Watts Is a Prominent Ketamine Advocate. Was It His Ex's 'Undoing'?
Comedian and musican Reggie Watts is a prominent ketamine advocate. Was it his ex-girlfriend's "undoing"?
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
today in the Humorism newsletter: some exclusive Lorne Michaels content www.humorism.xyz/some-exclusi...
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Some Exclusive Lorne Michaels Content
Courtesy of the Obama Presidential Library.
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Andy & the End Times @1985edition.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gillis is baffling. He has an appreciation for history and a mind for comedy. But his genuine embrace of the right being clumsily framed as an act of spite is cowardly. He brays about being politically atheist, but it’s so disingenuous. Shane’s an asshole troll who knows better but doesn’t care.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
check out this week's episode of the Humorism Evening Podcast, which is about a certain NYC comedy club owner who owes more than $1 million in taxes www.humorism.xyz/humorism-eve...
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Humorism Evening Podcast No. 012
You're gonna want to listen to this one.
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michael (derogatory) @gkbackup.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nailed it. Manages a persona well, and I guess he can write a bit. Both can be true but, personally and professionally, his life is “trigger>escape via plausible deniability” while regularly being triggered into little boy rants himself (which he tries laughing off after because he’s a chickenshit)
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Wiggling @stochastic.guru · 14/08/2026
Fuck this guy
In another episode of his podcast, Shane Gillis complained about the portrayal of Black people in the film Hidden Figures: “The movie is, ‘Black women are the smartest and a bunch of white dudes try to stop them from being smart.’”

“I didn’t see it,” Shane Gillis added. “I knew what the fuck it was. I knew exactly what it was.”

“They added racism to that movie that didn’t exist,” Shane Gillis continued, describing a fictionalized scene in which a character walks through the rain to a segregated restroom. “Do we really need that? Do we need her to walk to the colored-only bathroom? We don’t need that.”
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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
far too many people trying to hand it to this massive piece of shit on here today
“They’re fucking gay. A protest like that makes me love ICE. If I see a bunch of faggots in tents out front of ICE, I’m like, dude, ICE is killing it. ICE is the best.”
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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thanks to @sasimons.bsky.social for writing such a lovely review of my new standup special. The audio version is out tomorrow. Please preorder @bandcamp.com . www.humorism.xyz/what-im-watc...
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What I’m Watching & Reading: August 8, 2026
Ft. Nato Green, Mosab Abu Toha, Anthony Jeselnik, and more.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
today in the Humorism newsletter, I wrote 83 true things about Shane Gillis: www.humorism.xyz/83-true-thin...
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83 True Things About Tires Star Shane Gillis
Guy who's definitely not a MAGA diehard.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
here’s how much Nate Bargatze’s show at WV’s Charleston Coliseum made in 2022. find more records like this at comedyfees.com
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
in today's episode of the Humorism Evening Podcast I talk about Tim Dillon's apparently genuine belief that global elites want to sacrifice the earth to demons so they can live forever among the stars: www.humorism.xyz/humorism-eve...
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Humorism Evening Podcast No. 011
The episode you've all been waiting for.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
on the Humorism newsletter, I wrote about a comedy special I enjoyed: www.humorism.xyz/i-loved-the-...
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I Loved the New Mary Beth Barone Special
It's cathartic to hear something actually brave in a field of cowards who think they’re defying the status quo by attacking trans people and the victims of sexual assault.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm running a subscription drive to raise funds for a reporting trip to the Lorne Michaels archives in Austin. check out the new perks I'm offering paid subscribers here: www.humorism.xyz/email/9b0b83...
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I’m going to dig through Lorne Michaels’ archives
And I need your help.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
here's how much the University of Rhode Island paid Stephen Colbert for a live conversation in 2021. find more comedy contracts and payment records like this at comedyfees.com
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Theo Von is bringing back the n-word
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
here's how much Dave Chappelle's show at WV's Charleston Coliseum made back in 2023. find more comedy contracts and payment records like this at comedyfees.com
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
some classic white nationalism from Netflix comedian Tim Dillon today: "The third world is invading the first world… The cultural norms are completely different in those countries. Cleanliness standards are different. The way people behave in public is different."
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
enjoyed this answer from Anthony Jeselnik in his new book club Q+A, about whether he thinks about how his art will age
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Beth Stelling says Comedy Works in Denver bumped her weekend of shows to make room for Andrew Schulz. the Brea Improv recently did the same to Melissa Villaseñor bethstelling.substack.com/p/i-got-bump...
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 29/07/2026
The Comedy Fee Tracker reveals the pay disparity between headliners and openers and how much a successful comedian makes an hour at publicly funded venues.
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Great Job, Internet!: Comedy Fee Tracker reveals the price of an hour of stand-up
Great Job, Internet!: Comedy Fee Tracker reveals the price of an hour of stand-up
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
thank you @avclub.com for covering the Comedy Fee Tracker 🙏 www.avclub.com/comedy-fee-t...
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Great Job, Internet!: Comedy Fee Tracker reveals the price of an hour of stand-up
Great Job, Internet!: Comedy Fee Tracker reveals the price of an hour of stand-up
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
over on the Humorism newsletter, I built a searchable database of comedy fees and payment records. check it out: www.humorism.xyz/fee-tracker/
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Comedy Fee Tracker
The world's first searchable public database of documented comedy fees.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the Obama Presidential Library finally fulfilled my 2022 FOIA request for emails with Lorne Michaels’ assistants over the years. Here’s the one where he has his assistant tell the White House what name to put on his Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
today in the Humorism newsletter: part two of my interview with Simple Town www.humorism.xyz/simple-town-...
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Simple Town Talks Comedy, Friendship, and the Ghost of Hollywood
Part two of my conversation with the Brooklyn sketch group.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“my fans are really stupid”
theo von instagram story reposting someone’s story: picture of a phone attached to the dashboard of a car on the highway; video of his podcast is playing and the caption reads “kids are watching a movie while we watch @theovon”
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
it pays to be Theo Von: his show at the University of Illinois State Farm Center on November 15, 2024 netted $377, 046
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
in the Humorism newsletter today, I've got a conversation with one of my favorite comedy groups, Simple Town. check it out: www.humorism.xyz/simple-towns...
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Simple Town's Big Break
A conversation with the Felipe Di Poi, Ian Faria, Sam Lanier, Will Niedmann, and Caro Yost of the Brooklyn sketch group.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
this guy was just announced as a headliner at the New York Comedy Festival, sponsored by The Onion
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
here’s a poem I wrote when John McCain died rattle.com/poem-for-joh...
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
that's right: it's episode seven of the Humorism Evening Podcast. www.humorism.xyz/humorism-eve...
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Humorism Evening Podcast No. 007
Hot off the presses.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
the comedian and white nationalist Dave Smith, in his podcast about the "devastating" birthright citizenship decision: "Somebody opposing America not being a majority white country doesn't make them a Nazi."
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
here it is: episode six of the Humorism Evening Podcast www.humorism.xyz/humorism-eve...
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Humorism Evening Podcast No. 006
Presented for your enjoyment and edification.
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
today in the Humorism newsletter we've got a great interview with the author Courtney Bush: www.humorism.xyz/what-makes-w...
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What Makes Writer & Filmmaker Courtney Bush Laugh
"I think jokes and poems have a lot in common. Mainly, like, you can't really say what they are."
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Seth Simons @sasimons.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
the GOP saw Theo Von getting a little too anti-Israel and sent one of their most racist senators to dog-walk him
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