Saturday Morning

Theories that Donald Trump was becoming more "presidential" lasted about five days. He's out there now tweeting that during the election, Barack Obama had Trump Tower bugged. There's no proof out course but you don't need proof when you're trying to set up a distraction and stoke the paranoia of your base.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won, by a narrow margin, the February ratings "sweeps" period. Remember when some people were saying that Colbert would fail because his politics would drive away too many viewers? Apparently not.

Yesterday, I posted the sad news that comic book artist John Calnan passed away late last year. You can read what may be the only interview ever conducted with Mr. Calnan over on this page. His interrogator was Bryan Stroud, who earlier this week broke the news of Mr. Calnan's passing over here on the Scoop webpage. He has a few details I didn't get.

I thought we'd said everything that could be said about the Oscars envelope mix-up but Neil Gaiman sent me this link to an article about the typography on the cards in the envelopes. Okay, now everything has been said.

I've received a ton of messages (i.e., about eight) asking me to comment on Internet discussions and debates about whether the character Garfield the Cat is male or female. Here's my comment: He's male and this is a stupid argument.

And yes, it's true. As a joint venture of two comic book publishers — Boom and Dynamite — there's a mini-series coming out later this year in which Garfield meets Grumpy Cat. And yes, I'm writing it.

Lastly for now: Comedy Central has made a deal with comic Jim Jefferies to do a once-a-week half-hour late night series. I think Jefferies may be the best, smartest stand-up comic working today but I suspect you have to see him performing live, he has to do at least sixty minutes and he has to be utterly free of restrictions of taste and language. Go see him live if you can. And if his Comedy Central show sucks, don't hold it against him.