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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

7 years

Unfortunate side effect of the scandal is this period-comma-apostrophe bullshit from the New Yorker.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

1 year

when you’ve never heard of “Meryl Streep”

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Michael Colton

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4 years

Because they’re dumb?

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Why are some people more susceptible to conspiracy theories than others? A social psychologist explains:

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Michael Colton

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4 years

This is how crowded it is on a Sunday afternoon at La Grande Jatte. No distancing. We are so fucked.

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Michael Colton

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1 year

WGA writers! There’s a way to still get paid for your writing. Pitch your hometown newspaper on an op-ed explaining why you’re on strike. It helps move public sentiment and explain our position (most people outside NYC/LA aren’t paying attention). And you get a li’l paycheck!

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Michael Colton

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5 years

Thank you. What a beautiful, thoughtful image.

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5 years

Together we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay

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Michael Colton

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11 months

I spent a couple days off Twitter, so I’m just now catching up to the outpouring of love and support for our show. Making 42 episodes of Home Economics has been the best experience of my career, and that’s due to our incredible cast, crew and fans…

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE premiered five years ago* and I still can’t believe we got this movie made and it’s sitting there on Netflix for your viewing pleasure! *anniversary was a few weeks ago but I forgot to set an alarm

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Michael Colton

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5 years

RIP Gahan Wilson, artist/cartoonist for National Lampoon and much more.

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Michael Colton

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3 years

He’s finally made it

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Michael Colton

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4 years

A+ parenthetical from @kevinroose

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Michael Colton

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3 years

When you have a compelling message, you don’t need fancy design.

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Michael Colton

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4 years

@ChuckWendig At an ATM I found a card still in the machine with the name ORLANDO BLOOM. A minute later, Orlando Bloom came running up, looking for his card. I gave it to him, and in this pre-COVID era, he embraced me.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

13yo daughter started playing Curb Your Enthusiasm theme on piano. When I asked her where she heard that, she said “it’s from a meme.”

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

I have achieved Inbox Zero, please no one email me anything ever again

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Michael Colton

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6 years

@kevinguilfoile @johnmoe I will be your first guest. I have a “PIZZA” Evernote file where I record data from my kids birthday parties.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

it begins

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

welp

Deadline

@DEADLINE

4 years

ABC Picks Up ‘Home Economics’ To Series, Siblings Comedy Comes From Michael Colton, John Aboud, Topher Grace & Lionsgate

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

some news

‘Home Economics’ Renewed For Season 2 By ABC

ABC has ordered a second season of the Topher Grace-fronted comedy series Home Economics.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

11 months

Drinking the pain away with the greatest writing staff #HomeEconomics

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

If you subscribed to HBO Max and are now looking for non-Cheetah-related content, might I suggest CLOSE ENOUGH? LATimes - "Best of 2020." NYTimes - “funny and honest." The Hollywood Reporter - "loved the specificity of the jokes about L.A. real estate."

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

6 years

It took me several reads to understand the horribly hilarious copy-editing error in this otherwise great @guardian piece by @scott_tobias .

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

11 months

Though the show has run its course at ABC, I’m hopeful the Hayworths will pop up somewhere else, if only so I can continue to embarrass my real-life family. Love you all, and #LupeForever .

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

new country, who dis

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!

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Michael Colton

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4 years

I'm watching a Chinatown documentary and I've never seen a talking head positioned this way. Robert Evans is seated facing away from the camera and does the whole interview turned around, as if the crew sneaked up on him.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

6 years

I wonder what Trump’s doing with his 12-year-old son over the holiday weekend. Probably tossing a ball around, or hitting the beach, or maybe catching a movie. What a lucky kid to have a dad like that.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

We are returning for Season 3!!!!! Thank you to the fans for watching and posting, and to a broken economic system that allows us to mine income inequality for comedy! #HomeEconomics

Home Economics

@HomeEconABC

2 years

Time to get up and dance! The Hayworths are back for Season 3 🎊

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Michael Colton

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2 years

Visiting my childhood home this weekend and have struck gold

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Michael Colton

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1 year

Standing up for what’s right

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Another flagrant example of both-sides-ism from the @nytimes . Cc @BCDreyer

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

I believe in this show so much I got my son tattooed. #CloseEnoughMAX

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Normal day at the Farmers Market

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

Tonight! The season finale of #HomeEconomics ! Featuring guest star @NicoleByer !

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Michael Colton

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6 years

Can’t believe I am doing this, but here goes… 1. This week’s Jonathan Lethem story in the @NewYorker , “The Starlet Apartments," appears to take place in 1992, based on the narrator heading to a theater for a double feature of RAISING CAIN and UNFORGIVEN.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

🚨CLOSE ENOUGH is now on HBO Max! Created by animation genius JG Quintel, it’s a surreal comedy about a couple, their daughter and their divorced roommates living together in L.A. (I produced a couple episodes of this season.)

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

New #HomeEconomics tonight! And through some kind of paperwork mix-up, @JimmyTatro ended up directing it? And delivered a fantastic episode?

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

It’s been six weeks. Does anyone know if he got his diarrhea check?

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@mitchellvii

4 years

Diarrhea kills 1.8 million a year. ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION. Where's my diarrhea check?

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Tonight! I am on the television show Jeopardy. (7pm on ABC in Los Angeles, for other cities you're on your own.) Keep an eye out for the embarrassing moment when I tried to buy a vowel!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Do we have time for another impeachment? Something quick, Coney Barrett-style?

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

1 year

Thanks for all the #HomeEconomics love! We hope to come back too, as soon as the studios make a fair deal with the WGA. We appreciate all the fan support — keep it up!

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Michael Colton

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1 year

Just call or email the opinion editor. They’re always hungry for content, especially with a local angle. And people do still read newspapers, especially the olds like me.

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Michael Colton

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6 years

8. I am the @KevinMKruse of '90s cinema.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

6 years

15. I showed my wife this thread and she said “What a waste of time.“ Does she think facts don’t matter?

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Michael Colton

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4 years

“He has had exactly the presidency that his public life would suggest—a brazen win, followed by an inevitable decline born of laziness and pure hubristic dipshittery, and finally a catastrophic and vehemently denied collapse.” -⁦ @david_j_roth ⁩

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

#HomeEconomics season finale airs Wednesday night! Which means it’s time for a GAG REEL (posted in 2 parts)

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

1 year

RIP Bruce McCall, now mostly known for his New Yorker covers but who also did incredible work for National Lampoon.

New York Times Arts

@nytimesarts

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On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, Bruce McCall satirized the superrich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland of Bulgemobiles and flying double-decker Stratocruisers. He has died at 87.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

7 years

Daughter made menu for her fake restaurant and there's a section for dogs called "Doggy Style" and I'm not sure how to handle the situation

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

"" is an awful name, that kid is gonna get so bullied

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

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Here's what #OrlandoBloom and @katyperry named their first born child:

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

CLOSE ENOUGH Season 2 is streaming RIGHT NOW on HBO Max! This season slaps, as the kids say -- thanks to the efforts of @JGQuintel @calwong and a bunch of fantastic writers whom I will be highlighting on this thread...

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

Season 3 of @JGQuintel ’s CLOSE ENOUGH drops today on HBO Max! I worked on the scripts for a bit before handing over the reins to @thatbilloakley (in exchange for an Arby’s Crispy Fish Sandwich). So now I get to binge-watch this season as a fan!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

7 years

My son is wearing long underwear from the “Larry King Backdrop” Collection.

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Michael Colton

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@steveholland1 @maggieNYT

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Michael Colton

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4 years

Do not normalize this

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

Next week is the #HomeEconomics season finale, and I’m excited to announce… we are the first sitcom to ever shoot in space.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

Tonight! The premiere of HOME ECONOMICS! Multiple exclamation points! 8:30 on ABC, and tomorrow on Hulu!

Home Economics

@HomeEconABC

3 years

Money won't get in the way of family, right? #HomeEconomics premieres TONIGHT at 8:30|7:30c on ABC!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

selling this as an NFT

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

1 year

Some #HomeEconomics writers out on the picket lines! (My friends are all just out of frame, laughing too.) #WGAstrong

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

This Thursday, February 25, I will be appearing on a televised quiz competition known as JEOPARDY! I cannot give any spoilers, other than to say I am sporting a quarantine haircut from my wife.

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Michael Colton

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4 years

THREAD

Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

How the fuck is it August

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Michael Colton

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4 years

Yes, the world is going to shit, but at least my kids are into The Far Side

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

I didn’t recognize her name at first, and I legit thought this was a comedian making fun of Pence.

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This is my favorite Pence image, when he walked out at the DMZ in a bomber jacket and glared at the North Korean military.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Star Wars is for children.

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@CaptainRex_7567

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What is your most controversial Star Wars opinions?

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Michael Colton

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1 year

The article (I assume it will be corrected soon):

‘Bob Hearts Abishola’ Co-Creator Gina Yashere Calls Out “Heartless Executives” In Passionate Speech...

Gina Yashere, who plays Kemi in the CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, is breaking down the reasons why actors and writers have gone on strike.

deadline.com

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

EIGHT pangrams? In this economy?

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Family movie night

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

Here’s @karlasouza7 rehearsing tonight’s episode on Tracksuit Thursday

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Michael Colton

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6 years

Writers in the room today did not know who Teri Garr is and I have never felt so old.

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Michael Colton

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7 years

Domhnall Gleeson glares at @mrmattwalsh

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

Guest-starring @DannyPudi in TWO separate outfits — and in one of those outfits, he holds TWO separate phones! #HomeEconomics

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

#HomeEconomics is back tonight! Written by @Boozan (her sitcom debut!) and directed by @JayChandrasekha (pretty sure not his sitcom debut!)

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

A little bit softer now

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

yes the goal is to cancel Hispanic culture and not just buy a different brand of beans

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

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Goya is a staple of Cuban food. My grandparents ate Goya black beans twice a day for nearly 90 years. And now the Left is trying to cancel Hispanic culture and silence free speech. #BuyGoya

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Michael Colton

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4 years

This has been a bit of a week for me (hashtag blessed), but what I am most excited and proud about is this trailer. April 7 on ABC!

Home Economics

@HomeEconABC

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#HomeEconomics brings you three siblings and their families trying to find common ground – even though they couldn’t be more different. Coming this April to ABC!

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4 years

How the fuck is it August

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Michael Colton

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4 years

@adityasood @briankoppelman OK Covid

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

So excited we get to continue telling this story! And I can keep using this cute hashtag emoji #HomeEconomics

Variety

@Variety

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‘The Wonder Years’ and ‘Home Economics’ Get Full Season Orders at ABC

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

My co-workers are making sure this doesn’t go to my head

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

So Tucker Carlson has been obsessed with M&Ms for decades. Here he is in 1996 Might Magazine posing as “Offree Mugumbe” and calling up Mars Inc. to complain about color discrimination

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Michael Colton

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8yo daughter: "If I had a time machine I’d go back to see if the first croissant tasted good." Me: "That’s what you would do if you could time-travel?" Daughter: "What am I supposed to do? Kill Shakespeare?"

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Michael Colton

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3 years

Today my wife and I celebrate 17 years of marriage, traditionally known as the Cicada Anniversary.

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Michael Colton

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4 years

Really great advice here from Ross Douthat. Super super helpful.

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

I'm back on Jeopardy tonight! Tune in to see if I continue to win by losing!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

When @caitlincmcgee and @thesheertruth found out that @valpettiford used to dance with Bob Fosse, oh you *know* they asked for a lesson #HomeEconomics

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

How the fuck is it September

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

5 years

@emilynussbaum Not a transcription error, but still my fave:

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Raymond Chandler Bing: “Could trouble *be* any more my business?”

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

It was a joy to work with @danicamckellar and she even signed my daughter’s book #HomeEconomics

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

I worked with Gilbert Gottfried on a Microsoft campaign where he was the voice of Clippy the paperclip. He was a pleasure to work with, and true to form, he took some sandwiches from the recording studio home with him.

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Michael Colton

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Gotta say, this is smart casting

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Michael Colton

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7 years

If you're in Sundance, come to a live performance of National Lampoon Radio Hour at 6pm at the Dell Den on 528 Main Street! With Domhnall Gleeson @joelmchale @thomaslennon @emmyrossum @mrmattwalsh @jondaly #AFutileAndStupidGesture

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

I love our fans 💚💚💚

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@PopCulture

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#HomeEconomics ' Fans Rally for Season 4 Renewal After Season 3 Finale Airs

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

Fun fact: The chef's kiss emoji was designed specifically for this episode of #HomeEconomics

Home Economics

@HomeEconABC

2 years

It's the spiked hair (and the love in their eyes) for me ✨ #HomeEconomics is all new Wednesday on ABC. Join the party!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

That is a wrap on Season 2 of #HomeEconomics ! Pictured: Confetti. Not pictured: The best cast and crew in TV!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

6 years

14. Wow! Just heard the Special Counsel’s Office has issued a rare statement saying Lethem’s story is “not accurate.”

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

I usually don’t give a shit about award-show snubs but how was Nicholas Hoult not nominated

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

4 years

Reading this on Deadline, my first thought was that he has bought the rights to Covid-19

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

2 years

Remember the 21st night of September!

Home Economics

@HomeEconABC

2 years

Pop the champagne, season 3 of #HomeEconomics is almost here 🍾 See you September 21 on ABC!

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Michael Colton

@mikecolton

3 years

One of my first jobs was editing Peter Bogdanovich's "Movie of the Week" column in the NY Observer. And by "editing," I mean I would call him to pitch some commas, and then he would talk to me about Orson Welles and Howard Hawks. A true pleasure.

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Peter Bogdanovich, the revered director of touchstone 1970s films such as “The Last Picture Show,” “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon,” died Thursday of natural causes at his Los Angeles home. He was 82.

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Michael Colton

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2 years

PINOCCHIO (2022) dir. Guillermo del Toro

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