Mike Roe (he/him) ⚡️
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Wrote The 30 Rock Book. News Editor @TheWrap . Writes TV drama w/ my ❤️ @semiprosaic . Find me @ Threads, BlueSky or let’s be honest, here #aapi (Hawaiian) & 🇵🇷
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I was interviewed by the St. Olaf College magazine, reflecting on the impact my university had on me, the dreams I'm still fighting for, and the advice I'd give to current students and fellow alumni.
Check out my attempts to inspire:
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And the 2020 Oscar for Best Director: IT’S A TIE between whoever directed the Boneyard Match and whoever directed Firefly FunHouse
#WrestleMania
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Retired NYPD officer on CNN, on those protesting police violence: “We have to find a way to silence them.” Wow.
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Diving into covering Hollywood/entertainment — today's my first day as a news editor for
@TheWrap
!
I'll be leading our weekend coverage, as well as contributing during the week.
Wish me luck, and I'll be keeping an ear — and DMs — open for tips/scoops/etc.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!
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#WonderCon
highlight after
#WonderWoman
clip: After WW talks about defending the helpless, dad near me whispers to his kid “THAT’S a hero.”
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I was one of the 21 folks laid off from
@LAist
today.
After 15 years in public media, it's definitely a shock.
I'll be all right, but if you hear about opportunities that seem like a good fit for a journalist/writer like myself, please hit me up.
Pulling for my colleagues. ❤️
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“The best way to win is to not live in fear of losing.” - Jon Favreau (the politics one)
@jonfavs
@PodSaveAmerica
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Hi friends — wanna see something cool?
I spent the pandemic writing a book about 30 Rock. I did more than 50 interviews. I learned a lot, and found out so many amazing stories.
I'll be talking about it a lot more, but for now, you can preorder it here!
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@ryanbailey25
His live Somebody To Love is so wonderful. And the Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me he did with Elton is the best.
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I wrote this piece about yet another COVID-19 death, this time of a filmmaker who documented the history of the Black Panthers in L.A. — and was one of the first DJs on the West Coast to play hip-hop in the early 1980s.
South LA Filmmaker Gregory 'G Bone' Everett, Director Of '41st And Central,' Dies From COVID-19
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I interviewed Paul Reubens about this role for my 30 Rock book. He was incredibly kind & generous with his time, and made sure to credit everyone he worked with as much as possible.
The story of how he first connected w/ Tina Fey is such a perfect encapsulation of his spirit.
Lots of talk about Paul Reubens as Pee Wee (and rightfully so) but his turn as an adult Habsburg child on 30 Rock still remains one of the funniest episodes of television I've ever seen. RIP to a legend.
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The Saved By The Bell reboot on Peacock has been effortlessly diverse, full of heart, and stuffed w/ excellent jokes.
Tracey Wigfield & Co., coming from the lineage of the 30 Rock writers' room, made something truly worthy of that pedigree.
Its cancelation is a huge bummer.
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Not sure how private he would want this, but I talked w/ one of my favorite writers and he independently brought up the Snyder Cut and how much he liked it.
He’s not on social. So, just a writer appreciating good art. (Can confirm he is not a bot.)
(unless bots eat brunch)
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Will add that it was also way easier to remember where we left off with a TV show when you had weekly releases & the time between seasons was like 3 months.
Now it's 8 episodes that you binge immediately and must remember for the next 2-3 years.
I hate when a new season of a tv show starts without a recap of what happened last season. you expect me to remember? my brain is a little puddle of apple sauce sloshing around my skull. I have lived many lives since then. please just tell me what I need to know
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Great point from
@mguggenheim
– comics fans often miss that, in TV, they have to write toward their cast, not just do the comics
#WGFestival
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Fallon fully understanding his role in the moment and bailing out Anne Hathaway from the silence while gassing up Stephen Colbert is beautiful.
“We don’t read. This is the Tonight Show. You wanna go over to Stephen Colbert if you wanna get people that read books.”
You could hear a PIN DROP I’m fucking crying help ??? 💀
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We’ll never forget you always being perfectly Prince, Prince. 💜
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Y'all, if you aren't watching The Orville, GET. ON. BOARD.
One of the absolute best shows on TV right now. And Season 3 leveled up in a huge way.
I am ADHD and have so much trouble putting down my phone, but I PUT IT DOWN and soak in this show. The best action & ethics around.
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Nightmares forever. MT
@saladinahmed
: Greenscreen-clad workers who secretly flip shampoo models' hair.
http://t.co/M4r8W4h4dj
ht
@MakingOfs
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One of my colleagues was shot by a rubber bullet. Another of my colleagues is investigating.
If you have any information that can help identify these officers, or know someone who does, please let one of us know.
After pledging transparency,
@LBPD
declined to ID the officer who shot
@AGuzmanLopez
w/ a foam round. Adolfo deserves to know who shot him — and if that officer has a history of using force.
Maybe you can help. We'd like to talk to the 3 officers w/ launchers in this photo.
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My mom died last week. She was the dopest.
Here she is doing dope things, with the world’s best smile, no matter what life threw at her.
Love you forever, Mom. ❤️
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Me: “HA HA, these tweets about Slack being down are so fun!”
*goes to share them with coworkers on Slack*
*feels existential dread*
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My heart goes out to the writers, but especially the songwriters who wrote TWENTY-FIVE NEW SONGS that are now being shelved:
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I love just being myself! (In a societally/corporately-approved way that ensures future acceptance and employment!)
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I bought a Mr. Rogers desk calendar this year. It’s days like today that I’m most thankful for it. Read this wonderful story from
@Breznican
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I’ve lived in L.A. long enough to be FREEZING on this day with a high of
*checks weather app*
73 degrees.
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Bernie Wrightson knew how to scare with beauty. Sad that the comic book world has lost another genius.
What an incredible loss. Such an inimitable talent. Hard to not feel we're unworthy of the work he left us with. RIP Bernie Wrightson
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So curious why the Joss Whedon Zoom got pulled from the virtual Comic-Con schedule, especially when it already had a YouTube link. 🤔
#SDCC2020
#ComicConAtHome
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UMMMM GUYS — I WON. For writing about WEREWOLF BAR MITZVAH. 🙏🏽 🐺 👦🏻 👨🏻
#SoCalJournalismAwards
#LAPressClubAwards
#BoysBecomingMen
#MenBecomingWolves
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Dang, tried getting tickets to see Alejandro
@scarypoolparty
in L.A. but looks like tickets were an instant sell-out. Excited to see him blow minds another time!
#AmericanIdol
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Mike Mignola's auctioning some art to help in these times.
If you have the resources, go get yourself some work by one of the greatest modern comic artists around.
So during these times we have decided to start an eBay auction of my sketches with 100% of the proceeds going to
@chefjoseandres
'
@WCKitchen
. They do great things check them out, here: .
Auction here:
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PSSSST, L.A. County COVID-19 wastewater numbers now the highest they've been since February, sooooo mask up, friends.
Or get Long COVID, I'm not your boss.
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Love that John Mulaney continues to use his success to be weird on a mass scale.
#EverybodysInLA
We’re only halfway into episode two of EVERYBODY’S IN L.A. and I’m ready to call this one of the best things John Mulaney’s ever done
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Martin Short held the door open for me on the way out after an authors in conversation event between Steve Martin and Tina Fey.
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The Backstreet Boys documentary premieres tonight on VH1; read our interview with one BSB fan:
http://t.co/qoqD1Xsl5A
http://t.co/Q8VEOEuQ3p
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30 Rock is great! 30 Rock has some problematic elements!
I wrote a book exploring the nuances of this show — great comedy means taking big swings — and I dove deep on where it fell short for Vanity Fair.
Get your copy of The 30 Rock Book here:
#30Rock
“It’s easy for a show like 30 Rock to punch down without even realizing that it’s punching”: The author of a new book about the series explores celebrating its triumphs without overlooking the troubling way it handled race.
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I remember how my mom would buy a few gallons in at a time — maybe asking for 5 or 10 dollars worth — and how everyone at the bank knew her so well after I had to visit there after she died, because she was there all the time, because, well, capitalism.
Poor people are trying.
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The vaccine is here in L.A.
History made.
Helen Cordova, a nurse in an intensive care unit in LA, became one of the first Californians to get vaccinated today.
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Thinking about how poor people are shamed for simple luxuries like cable television.
Also how my mom was poor but always had cable TV, because life is hard and even harder for the poor, and being able to escape from that for even a moment is magical.
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“Literally us, the Blue Jays.” *Italian chef kiss*
ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you: twitter
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@RobertMaguire_
Reminds me of when I was dealing with in-network doctor, in-network facility, but an out-of-network anesthesiologist...
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This poem/cartoon is delightful. "My body is not a democracy."
#wds2014
#womensrights
http://t.co/t3AroT68ep
http://t.co/PNU0B0zZ5s
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If you want to read about the FIRST Asian man to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, check out my piece on Haing Ngor for
@LAist
.
He won for 1984’s The Killing Fields — and was tragically murdered just over a decade later.
Ke Huy Quan is the second Asian actor to win Best Supporting Actor (though several have won Best Supporting Actress before) —
but Haing Ngor was the first, winning for 1984’s The Killing Fields. You can read about his amazing win & tragic murder here:
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More Americans will likely die from the coronavirus than died in World War I.
And US death toll in various wars:
Civil War: 600,000
World War II: 400,000
World War I: 115,000
Vietnam: 58,000
Korea: 36,000
Iraq: 4,500
Afghanistan: 2,300
(Including combat and non-combat deaths in war zones)
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Hundreds gathered at a secret protest outside the mayor’s house for a
#BlackLivesMatter
protest, speakers with bullhorn rallying the crowd.
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Managed to get the eclipse-through-the-iPhone shot to work during our peak here in L.A.
Will now consider myself the world's best photographer, thank you for acknowledging me.
#eclipse2024
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@BittrScrptReadr
It’s sad and all about Superman’s death, but I think Team Luthor will take good care of us!
And these other two seem promising as well!
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@franklinleonard
Which NON-Heath Ledger movie from the Christian Bale Batman movies is better? 🤔
Batman Begins
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tfw your friend dies of COVID before being able to go get the vaccine
*sigh*
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SO! I wrote a book about 30 Rock, and it's OUT TODAY.
I hope it gives you joy, insight, and amazement at Tracy Morgan's real-life love of sea creatures & the resulting real-life flooding. (BLERG.)
You can check out my free book talk TONIGHT at 6 Pacific!
Today
@ABRAMSbooks
publishes
@MikeRoe
's THE 30 ROCK BOOK. If you loved the show, you will LOVE this wonderful book. Mike spoke to so many people in and around the show and offers the definitive (and hilarious, and insightful) account that it deserves:
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Kurt Angle has convinced me that spaghetti should be served with scissors.
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Current feeling: Realizing the best place left to find hope is old Mr. Rogers videos.
#ItsYouILike
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I love how Gail Simone’s reaction to social media continues to be, “How do I troll the most people the most of the time? 🤔”
Exactly how I’ll use any small success I ultimately achieve. Legendary poster behavior. 🤘🏽🙌🏽
Did Martin Short ever do sketch comedy? He seems like he’d nail that.
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What monsters put Carly Rae Jepsen on LINE FOUR of the Coachella poster for Saturday?!
Respect the pop, y’allllll
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Checking out the hottest writer who writes esoteric comics about anxiety & PTSD,
@TomKingTK
, w/ special guest/amazing artist/beard-on-point
@MitchGerads
#SDCC19
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My love of politics & pro wrestling COLLIDES in this interview by my former boss,
@PWtorch
's
@TheWadeKeller
with one of my favorite journalists,
@atrupar
— worth checking out:
I really enjoyed talking with
@thewadekeller
about all things AEW, pro wrestling more broadly -- and we even got into politics toward the end of the show. Check it out 👇
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Thing I discovered today: An article I wrote for
@KPCC
was cited on
@adamconover
’s excellent
@AdamRuins
Everything!
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"I would urge you not just to read good books, read terrible books too — because they can be more inspiring than the good books... A genuinely helpful reaction to something you’re reading is 'I could write this s---.' That is immensely liberating.”
- Alan Moore
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WHEW, thankful Elon didn’t kill the Twitter profile page birthday balloons yet. 🙏🏽
(Shhh, don’t let him see this. Though I guess he probably name searches for all uses of the name Elon, oh well)
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It's a reeeeeal bummer when you have to cross things off your post-pandemic to-do list because the friend you were planning to do them with died of COVID.
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The
#BenghaziCommittee
hearing has been going on so long that Peter Jackson wants to direct the sequels.
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why did Marjorie Taylor Greene dress up as Emma Frost
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Very curious to see what Tom King & Jorge Fornés’s Rorschach book has to say about now.
There are some huge shoes to fill coming off the heels of the Watchmen TV show. Excited to see if one of my favorite writers & one of my favorite artists can do it.
Rorschach may have spoken truth, but he wasn't a hero. Enter a new mystery in RORSCHACH by
@TomKingTK
and
@jfornes74
:
#DCBlackLabel
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“First, platforms are good to their users.
"Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
"Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
"Then, there is a fourth stage: they die.”
- Cory
@doctorow
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@DogsDadBod
@joshgondelman
I immediately heard Zak and Sara in my head on reading this; Inventing Anna is solo Ben vibes all the way. LOVE IT.
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It’s been a year since my mom died. Still miss her.
(And yes, that is both David Copperfield and Fabio. JEALOUSSSSSS?)
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Nostr being banned before anyone knows what it is seems to be the best free advertising it will ever get.
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The universe has a way of balancing: My car gets a flat, DC Comics signs Brian Michael Bendis. DC fans, you can praise me for my sacrifice.
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Oh man, I remember that quote and wondering what it meant at the time.
Sad that this is how he told us. 😔
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Just realized I don't have to feel bad anymore about that time I met Max Landis and he made fun of my handshake.
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This may be a little dramatic, but as someone who’s mixed race myself, that push and pull is a big part of the appeal of Aquaman for me. Excited to see some of my own diversity added in the film version.
#AquamanMovie
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Prayers up to my family in Hawaii — aunts, uncles, 19 cousins, their kids, spouses.
Here with you all, sitting in anxious anticipation and hope for safety and that things will get better.
It wasn’t that long ago we witnessed people in Australia being forced to flee into the ocean to try to escape wildfires.
Now we’re witnessing the same thing happen in Hawaii.
This is Maui:
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I wrote about just how wonderfully Los Angeles that Super Bowl halftime show/Dr. Dre tribute show (right?) was for
@LAist
— check it out:
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Organizers officially calling the protest to an end — leader of the police unit here (Palka) marches with protesters toward Wilshire, raises a fist
#BlackLivesMattter
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