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Pat Cassels

Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning writer and actor. He worked at TBS’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for seven seasons, and was an original cast member and head writer at CollegeHumor (rebranded as Dropout in 2023). Pat hosted the improv series Hello, My Name Is, and had roles in Adam Ruins Everything and Jake and Amir. He has contributed to The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, McSweeney’s, and the New York Times Book Review. Pat received the Writers’ Guild Award in 2020 and 2021, and has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy six times, winning in 2017.

Comedy Writing

Why Go Back to the Moon When We Already Crashed into Its Eye in George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon”?

Are our resources best used on returning to the moon, a place explored over 120 years ago by a team of astronomers with huge beards and wizard hats?

by Pat Cassels
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September 25, 2024

The Ernest Hemingway Cinematic Universe

For the shoes had been created in a supernova by the malevolent god Aernus, and radiated a power that could be worn by no man, let alone a child.

by Pat Cassels
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May 2, 2023

Just Because You Have Issues and I’m Murdering You Doesn’t Make This “Elevated Horror”

I’m sorry you have broader personal or political issues you haven’t resolved, but those have nothing to do with the ways I’ve been killing you guys.

by Pat Cassels
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February 21, 2023

Mariah Carey Asks If You Got a Gift Receipt

I’m the worst, aren’t I? I was so adamant it was, like, the only thing I wanted for Christmas.

by Pat Cassels
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December 23, 2022

Now Here’s MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki with Our Basic Math

It’s still early, but if the projections hold—and they should—Jimmy now sits comfortably at seven apples. Not a huge margin, but a significant one.

by Pat Cassels
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December 6, 2022