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@LaurenBans

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(A list of everything I've ever done along with a cute lil' joke)

Los Angeles
Joined February 2009
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
“Excuse me, I must go stream HBO’s The Deuce” is probably the most sophisticated way I tell people I’m leaving to poop.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
pretty fucked up that by the time you reach 40 there are basically only like five people on the planet who really understand you and they probably live in a different city
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
why was this printed on the cheesecake factory menu
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The Academy
3 years
Meet the fifth slate of presenters for the 94th #Oscars .
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Lauren Bans
8 years
I guess if you don't believe in contraceptives, you go for the pull out method.
@AP
The Associated Press
8 years
BREAKING: House Republicans, short of votes, withdraw health care bill.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
I pooped out a baby wearing a face mask soaked with my own vomit so could you wear one to pick up your fucking $17 acai bowl please and thank you
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
Oh you "love" Colin Farrell? Name three meals he mentions during his sex tape.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
gotta say I’m a little confused by the CDC’s vaccination rollout plan
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
If Barnes & Noble could just change its name to Barnes & Nobles it would really decrease the number of times I snap at my Dad.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Per recent polls, Moore is lingering around the teens.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Katie Roiphe once threw up on my friend’s sweater at a book party and then tried to hide the sweater under a couch and that’s by far the best thing she’s ever done.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
I don’t understand why the ocean is on fire I bring my own bags to the grocery store
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Get a man who looks at you the way Jeff Sessions looks at Kamala Harris (ie with true fear)
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Where is this NYT Louis CK story?It's like it's trying to get out but someone is standing in front of the door blocking it with a dick!??
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
. @MrJessCagle your writer was assaulted by this man. I mean, holy shit, DO BETTER.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
you know what? I believe it.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
11 years
I guess Charlie Hunnam read 50 Shades of Grey over the weekend.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
I did this too where’s my fucking Yahoo! life article
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
3 years
Gwyneth Paltrow says she was “drinking 7 nights a week, making pasta and eating bread” during quarantine — “I went totally off the rails.” (via: )
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@LaurenBans
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7 years
Why would anyone choose to go big when "go home" is an option
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
The guy next to me at this coffee shop just asked if I would unplug my laptop so he could charge for a bit and then proceeded to plug in A VAPE anyway we're married now send gifts (vapes)
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
Today when I bit into a churro two of my crowns fell out and my first reaction was to calmly hold my teeth in my hand while I finished the churro & this is what I'll say next time a job interviewer asks me my greatest strength
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
All women: "Same."
@nytimes
The New York Times
7 years
Comey told Sessions he didn't want to be alone with Trump after being unnerved by his request to end an FBI inquiry
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
Crazy I thought it could only infect living hosts
@HallieJackson
Hallie Jackson
4 years
NEW: Stephen Miller has tested positive for COVID, per senior administration official. Adds Miller has been working remotely for last 5 days, testing negative every day through yesterday, and is in quarantine after a positive test today.
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@LaurenBans
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4 years
Just mistook a covid map for an electoral map at first glance. First panicked, “Shit! It’s all red!” then realized, and was like, “Oh thank god, this is just a map of our completely out of control deadly virus.” Anyway, cool times!!!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
My new year’s resolution is to be kinder to myself and stop being such a lazy piece of shit.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Call your senators and tell them it is NOT OKAY to make American people listen to 3 Doors Down again.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
5 years
I wrote about losing (a partner) while growing (a baby) Super light, lots of laughs!!!
@TheCut
The Cut
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“In retrospect, the demise of my marriage came in courses. It was so expertly spaced out, like a meal at the nicest of Michelin-star restaurants, I didn’t even see the bill coming at the end. Or maybe I did at times and I’m forgetting,” writes @LaurenBans
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
Why are they milling about like they’re at the Louvre! Like shouldn’t special ops be sliding down on wires and shit??!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
in a cruel twist “go to your room and think about what you did” is most of my evenings as an adult.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
uh oh NYTimes twitter hacked by goats
@nytimes
The New York Times
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"Goats are hot these days. Adults mostly want to get down on all fours and let the goats jump on them."
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
This is half debate/ half Hillary and Chris Wallace teaching Donald Trump basic facts about democracy.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
An under desk button for women but it releases a bucket full of period blood
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
after I work for 17 minutes straight
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reactions
3 years
hog resting on mattress in trash pile
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Before Facebook I just blindly assumed that everyone in my life knew how to spell.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
@mariskreizman do cloned dogs count
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
PLAN B
@pourmecoffee
pourmecoffee
8 years
"Scientists Show That Chimps Will Murder and Eat Their Dictators"
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
I guess I'm a One Direction fan now.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Owning *FIVE* Keurig machines should have its own classification in the DSM
@jeremymbarr
Jeremy Barr
7 years
Sean Hannity tells supporters to "hold their fire" on smashing Keurig products. Said: "In my opinion, Keurig was a victim of a group that has a radical agenda, and they didn't know. I'm convinced." (Hannity has 5 Keurig machines, he said.)
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Lauren Bans
4 years
I almost typed I can't believe Stephen Miller killed his own grandma, but I can believe Stephen Miller killed his own grandma.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
[uproarious applause] "This is the Boss Baby's 55th nomination but first Oscar win."
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Why would anyone choose go big when go home is a viable option
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
5 years
This seems like the right place to announce that there is a reality show on TLC called HOT & HEAVY about couples where one person is conventionally attractive and one person is obese and it is somehow not a 30 Rock joke
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
9 years
I feel like Coldplay surrounded themselves with a human shield made up of children so we can't be mean to them
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
How is everyone? I’m good. Today I gave my garbage cans first names.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Not all heroes wear capes
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Trump really going after the young female vote with his pumpkin spice skin.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
12 years
I'm a Fantine on the streets, and a Javert in the sheets.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
I honestly didn't know it was possible to get so fucking pumped about taxes.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Everyone suffered on 9-11, including the people in the World Trade Center.
@elizabethics
Elizabeth Yuko
8 years
"Everyone suffered in the Holocaust, including the Jewish people," said @Reince Priebus on @MeetThePress , the understatement of the century.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
10 years
"Funny or Die" is basically just the evolutionary strategy of the Jewish people.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
maybe I’m missing the point but I feel like the Shape of Water lady could have easily snagged a human boyfriend if she stopped carrying multiple hard boiled eggs in her purse
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
zoom writer’s rooms are weird cuz it’s like hey haven’t met your torso yet but here’s a story about the worst thing I’ve ever done to another human
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
Had a smoothie with PROTEIN and FRUIT for breakfast which means I can have shake shack and cocaine for lunch
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Another day, another old man telling the most qualified woman in the world she's not qualified for the job.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
will be so mad if the last thing I see before I die is one of those tweets that say "wrong answers only"
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
What if the cast of Magic Mike Live comes out and pulls the NV tallies out of their pants
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
Just feeling very burnt out from holding down two jobs (writer and person who stays up until midnight on instagram trying to figure out when exactly some lady I don't know got divorced)
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
I wish Gawker was still here
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
5 years
what will you do with your one extra day of the worst month ever
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
Allow Benihanas to open nationwide their chefs can fling shrimp into our mouths from fifty feet NO PROBLEM!!!!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
3 years
My Dad was upset his usual salad wasn't on the menu and he asked me to google (exact words): "superfood salad cheesecake factory what happened"
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
Ever since giving birth I get incredibly enraged when I experience physical pain and no one hands me baby as a prize at the end
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
5 years
TV writing is hard and all but in last night's BLL, when a 6 year old in an aquarium asks Shailene Woodley "Why do beautiful things always turn out to be the most dangerous?" I did yell COME ON out loud at my television.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
But Jared and Ivanka fought tirelessly behind the scenes to stop Ivanka from doing this.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
I suffer from a debilitating brain disease that forces me to tell people how cheap I got something for whenever I’m complimented on it.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
10 years
Made up this cool new drinking game where you do a shot every time you realize you're too old to change your life.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
Just wrote “Raisin Bran arriving” in my calendar for next Tuesday.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
I'm like the Russian Ambassador of parties. No one ever remembers they've met me before.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
If anyone in Los Angeles tries to talk to me today I’m just repeating “RICK CARUSO DONATED REPEATEDLY TO MITCH MCCONNELL” until I go unconscious
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
I like to read authors describe their writing process but only if they also agree that writing is impossible and cannot be done
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Lauren Bans
2 years
Pretty sure 2023 should be the one making promises to better itself, not me
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Lauren Bans
4 years
extra fattening line of snacks at trader joe's called trader jowls???? I took a low dose weed mint
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
I can't believe it's almost halloween and I still don't know what I'm going to be for the rest of my life
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
drunk on powerlessness!!!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
If I took an Ativan and it kept me awake hallucinating chess boards I’d be so pissed
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
Kinda worried I’m gonna pull out my bat mitzvah pics and there’ll be me, the mini dessert table, and in the corner GHISLAINE
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
I know, I know, I’m SUCH a nerd, I just saw the latest installment of the most popular franchise film series in history.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Posting an accidental dick pic would be less embarrassing than this tweet.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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The so-called "A" list celebrities are all wanting tixs to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
6 years
how come there's a kate upton, a kate middleton, but no kate downton
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
1 year
My 3 year old just lovingly caressed my face then asked if Oscar the Grouch has a penis.
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Lauren Bans
4 years
honestly what if 50-100 famous people FLEW to critical polling locations in swing states and set up camp there (however many feet away as required by law) and encouraged people to come out and vote? Took pictures with people who voted? Instead of just posting Instagram memes?
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Lauren Bans
4 years
when the dude is like “I’m close”
@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
4 years
We can, we will, and we must come together.
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Lauren Bans
8 years
Help me Russian piss tape, you are my only hope.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
ready for a may-december romance with a vaccinated old!!!!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
nothing is funnier than Trump enthuiastically proclaiming seniors are his favorite people in the world, like did his aides tell him this was about high school seniors
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
5 years
How do people in their mid-thirties make new friends? Asking for a friend. Like literally asking for a friend.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
NOT NOW READ THE ROOM
@CNN
CNN
8 years
Scientists: Cockroach "milk" is remarkably rich in protein, fat and sugar
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
PATIO NOW OPEN! Enjoy our waiters dressed like the mean scientists in ET as you sit on a wet chair watching the ashes of the city's dead rain down!!
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Pretty remarkable that the B-52s followed a sign on the side of the road to a "love shack" and survived to tell the tale.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
LA has generally been a hellhole this year but today I learned that the moderna vaccine makes face filler swell up and, well, I am very excited for springtime in Los Angeles
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
5 years
Didn’t realize how much I loved restaurants until I didn’t have restaurants anymore. Would give anything to take restaurants out to dinner at a nice restaurant and then french kiss restaurants on the sidewalk before the Lyft arrives.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
7 years
Sext: I'm gonna tie you up and whisper headlines from 2013 in your ear.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
twitter is great, exhibit a
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
I'm very sorry but I just really need to say this to someone and I'm all alone: sick pence none the richer
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
4 years
I miss crying in office bathrooms.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
2 years
It happened-- I got laid off from twitter today. I was the designer who made sure someone replied "you're" when you used the wrong "your"
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
9 months
Simply never getting over the fact my Mom bought this card for our cousin, a 14 year old boy. She thought it just meant sending lots of Christmas energy.
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
11 years
Since we're all coming out now http://t.co/qaCNPkTv1z : I was @CondeElevator !
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@LaurenBans
Lauren Bans
8 years
Owning a cat seems like a really satisfying Instagram experience.
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