Benzinga Buzz: Martin Short Unifies Social Media, Plus: Miley Cyrus, Snoop & Weed

Each week, Benzinga Buzz compiles the latest entertainment news into a cohesive column for your consideration. Read on for the latest updates — both useful and irreverent.

There's an old saying that's usually attributed to former President Abraham Lincoln, but I think it appears originally in Maurice Switzer's "Mrs. Goose, Her Book," and it goes like this: "It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

Well, this week, Slate.com's Dan Kois learned that the hard way. Sort of. He didn't talk. But he wrote — a hit piece on beloved comedian Martin Short.

With just one headline and deck — "Why We Keep Putting Up With Martin Short: Is the 'Only Murders in the Building' star a comic genius or the most annoying actor on Earth?" — Kois managed to unite the always pensive and never surly Twitter-verse (now "X-verse") around a common enemy: himself.

The speed at which readers likely dropped off Slate after the first graph and responded with an angry tweet must've been astounding.

For all our "deep divisions," journalist Judy Woodruff noted this year, Americans "have always found a way to come back together, through a civil war, or a century later, the protests of the 1960s or the war in Vietnam." Now, Martin Short can be added to that list.

Someone should check on Kois to make sure he's OK after receiving what can only be described as a 21st-century lashing for his unpopular opinion. Some hot takes should be left on ice.

I'm assuming Dan Kois is the guy who said Margot Robbie isn't attractive pic.twitter.com/tliUriM7C9

— Dave Dameshek (@Dameshek) September 8, 2023

Looking forward to Dan Kois's next article for Slate: Martin Scorsese Is Actually a Shitty Filmmaker

— Brian Moriarty (@bmoriarty2) September 9, 2023

yesterday i texted a friend complaining that the stakes of writing a bad essay are too high, everyone should calm down about them and give writers more space to be wrong etc. well i fuckin take it back https://t.co/3LbbFl73XH

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) September 8, 2023

This is not 'I don't like that taco place' writing a scathing op-ed can have an impact on someone's career. I don't know this writer is but they seem to just have damaged their own career.
Martin, though, is a classic. pic.twitter.com/utNLnz9XSd

— Susanna McCoy �� (@SusannaMcCoy19) September 9, 2023

Seeing the asshole that wrote this vile shit about Martin Short get dragged by the entire internet today has been really wonderful. You did a good job unifying us Dan Kois, I must say... pic.twitter.com/l0qMC5kGG1

— Bob Rose (@ThunderGruntBob) September 8, 2023

You piece of shit Dan Kois. This is who Martin Short is. https://t.co/hdjfxRec2w

— Angela M (@thats_nyce) September 8, 2023

Happy Friday to everyone except Dan Kois, who can absolutely go fuck himself.

— Allan “Is THIS my last tweet?” Mott (@HouseofGlib) September 8, 2023

Recommended Reading

• Speculation has resurfaced about Apple Inc. AAPL potentially buying Disney DIS to make good on Bob Iger's “end game.”
• Meanwhile, a new report details the rift between Iger and former Disney CEO Bob Chapek. Apparently, the pair fought over who would get an office with a private shower. As for whether the shower's fixtures were gold, we can only hope.
• As if shower drama wasn't enough, the "House that Mickey Mouse" built is also feuding with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as well as Charter Communications CHTR CEO Chris Winfrey.
• Let's end this column on a high note: Click here for Maureen Meehan's recount of how Miley Cyrus got her grandmother to unknowingly bake weed brownies with Snoop Dogg.

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