Toto Recall: Maher's 'View' to a kill; mob movie triggers AMC



Bill Maher visited “The View” this week but didn’t tell the producers he was bringing a wrecking ball with him.

The “Real Time with Bill Maher” comic votes the same way "The View” hosts do, but he’s honest enough to call out his fellow progressives when necessary.

'['Goodfellas'] includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers.'

And lately, that means every week on his signature show and “Club Random with Bill Maher” podcast.

“The View” divas do nothing of the sort, which is why Maher’s wrecking ball tore through the set this week like tissue paper.

You’ll have to watch the entire segment to soak in its greatness, even though he trotted out his canned line that the far right is the “bigger threat” than the far left. Here’s the kill shot that should give Whoopi, Joy, and co. nightmares ... assuming they’re capable of feeling shame.

Behar admitted she holds her fire when it comes to President Joe Biden for fear viewers might support Trump instead.

Maher’s response?

“You lose all credibility [with that approach] ... my bond with my audience has always been, ‘I don’t pull a punch,'” Maher said.

Break out the smelling salts, stat!

'Office' mate Merchant risks HR scolding

Ricky Gervais will forever be associated with British TV’s “The Office.” There is even an American version you might have heard about.

The show’s cocreator gets less attention. That’s British comedian Stephen Merchant, a funny character actor and the mind behind the Prime Video series “The Outlaws" — which slyly offers some balanced culture war gags.

Merchant admitted in a Guardian interview that today’s right is on the right side of the free speech battles. The journalist noted Merchant tiptoed very carefully on the subject before sharing his conclusions.

"It seems to me that there’s always been policing of comedy, of there being ... guardrails. I think the difference is that it used to feel like it was the right that was policing it. It feels like it’s the left that’s doing it now, and it’s allowed the right to become the arbiters of free speech.”

His next cocktail party may be far less comfortable than he expects.

Team Trump blasts biopic's fake rape

Hollywood’s latest anti-Trump project really goes there. And by “there,” we mean heading to court, potentially.

“The Apprentice,” a biopic exploring the early years of the future president, contains a scene in which the Trump character (Sebastian Stan) rapes wife Ivana Trump (Maria Bakalova)

Except the real Ivana Trump, who died in 2022, previously said it never happened. Defiantly. So much for “Believe All Woman,” right?

Now, team Trump is lawyering up, and that could keep the movie from being released before Election Day.

Are the 'Goodfellas' actually bad?

AMC isn’t just the home for “dubious” movie classics like “Men at Work” with the Estevez brothers. The cable network also adds “trigger warnings” to Oscar-winning films like “Goodfellas.”

The beloved mobster movie now comes with this warning: “This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers."

Wait till they see “The Godfather” trilogy.

Even Dame Judi Dench has had it with trigger warnings on art.

"If you're that sensitive, don't go to the theatre," the acting icon said.

Straight-shooting podcaster Adam Carolla offered the best reaction to this nonsense on his self-titled show.

He said the crush of warnings in our culture, from the sticker on your car visor to the six-feet rule signs during the pandemic, have left us ignoring them en masse.

“How many people see this warning and go, ‘Well, I’ve already popped popcorn and settled in for a night of ‘Goodfellas,’ but now that I’ve realized there’s gonna be some ugly stereotypes here, I guess we’re gonna have to watch Nick at Nite ... honey, pour the wine back in the bottle. It’s off!”

GameStop, AMC shares skyrocket after Roaring Kitty returns; Dave Portnoy pumps $1 million into market



A stock trader who goes by the name Roaring Kitty returned to the limelight, sparking a market frenzy around stocks that are considered meme stocks, which are seemingly propped up by the momentum of the internet.

Keith Patrick Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, was known for starting a firestorm in the meme stock category by encouraging a short squeeze on the GameStop (GME) stock in 2021 and then disappearing from the online community.

Gill returned by posting a meme on May 12, 2024, at 8 p.m., and by the next morning, the GameStop stock prices had once again soared.

The meme in question simply showed a person playing a video game and making a motion of leaning in, which is a metaphor for taking things seriously. A nearly identical meme was posted by GameStop in February 2024 with the caption "casual to competitive" on the image.

The morning of May 13, 2024, GameStop shares opened at around $21. Within 24 hours, they nearly quadrupled to around $80.

GME wasn't the only meme stock to see resurgence either.

'Every time I think I'm out they pull me back in!'

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Movie theater AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (AMC) saw similar gains.

AMC opened May 13 at around $3.10, then also approximately quadrupled in 24 hours to over $12.50 per share.

Both of the brands were helped not only by the circulation of the meme and the many memes to follow but by Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy once again injecting himself into the fray.

"You wanna get nuts [Roaring Kitty] let's get nuts!" Portnoy wrote on X. "Every time I think I'm out they pull me back in!" he added.

"Breaking news, I can't f***ing miss a f***ing 50 year storm. You wanna f***ing party, let's f***ing party," Portnoy said in his breaking news video.

The sports brand operator then announced that he was buying $500,000 worth of AMC stock and $500,000 in GameStop stock.

"You wanna know who's on this ship? I'm on this f***ing ship. Let's f***ing go!" he added.

You wanna get nuts @TheRoaringKitty let's get nuts! Every time I think I'm out they pull me back in! #GME #AMC #ddtg
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Both GameStop and AMC were seen as struggling and nearly extinct franchises in 2021 until Gill gained national attention for his remarks on GameStop. The meme stocks then took on a life of their own through Reddit.

Trading was pushed to its height through the Reddit group Wall Street Bets, along with Portnoy and Gill.

Portnoy even had a very public clash with the CEO of trading app Robinhood over the company's decision to stop trading on GameStop shares.

Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev went head to head with Portnoy on Fox News, with Tenev saying his company supports "the little guy."

"We're all about that," he added.

"You did something and gave a huge advantage to the big guy. That is the exact opposite of helping the little guy. You killed the little guy," the Barstool Sports founder came back.

Mainstream stock advisers warned casual traders about this latest trend.

Roaring Kitty "seems to be the most likely suspect for the renewed interest [in the stocks] but I would be careful not to characterize the participants in this phenomenon as investors," Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B Riley Wealth told Reuters.

Gill, on the other hand, has seemingly done nothing but post memes and movie clips since the stocks have once again become their own unpredictable entities.

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