Explore dance, ceramics, silk-screen printing, and vocal jazz alongside actor John Lithgow and some fantastic young mentors. #ArtHappensHere with @jalithgow celebrates the transformational experiences arts education provides students of all ages. Watch it on @pbs or the PBS app Friday (4/26) 10/9c.
Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow return in season 2 of FX’s The Old Man. Premieres 9.12 on FX. Stream on Hulu.
Both @jalithgow and @stephenathome get misrecognized in public. #Colbert #JohnLithgow #ArtHappensHere
Catch my interview (and performance!) with PBS’s Jeffrey Brown, streaming live from the @svwriters Conference tonight at 7:30pm E.T. We spring surprises.
Oh man! No spoilers, but wait till you get to the 17th century! #FindingYourRoots @pbs
I had such fun creating the illustrations for my new book, A Confederacy of Dumptys, that I couldn’t wait to share them with you! So over the next few months, I’ll be posting little sneak-peeks and footage of my drawing process. I painted this set of portraits for the end-papers (the artwork that goes on the inside of the cover). How many of these American scoundrels do you recognize? Music Credit – Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op. 60: III. Kije’s Wedding, Neeme Järvi & Royal Scottish National Orchestra #ConfederacyOfDumptys
So proud to be in this incredible ensemble. It’s a wonderful film.
“Consider Andrew Jackson, the illustrious Old Hickory, A man of contradictions, of integrity and trickery; Of prudence and impulsiveness, of cruelty and kindness, Of coarseness and of dignity, of vision and of blindness.” How much do you remember about President Andrew Jackson—or the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears? “Old Hickory” tells the sadly half-forgotten story in A Confederacy of Dumptys. #ConfederacyOfDumptys
“Dumpty’s Dream” from A Confederacy of Dumptys, published in October 2021, but worth re-reading today.
“Dumpty’s Dream” from A Confederacy of Dumptys, published in October 2021, but worth re-reading today.
Live your best LIE. #Sharper trailer out now on @appletvplus
Tune in tonight at 6pm PDT for my conversation with Deadline’s @deadlinedominic and surprise guests who popped by. Watch on emmys.com, link in my story.
How do we laugh in very dark times? Join me and my friend @TheAlanAlda for an online talk at the @92ndStreetY about #TrumptyDumpty this Monday, 10/5, at 6 PM ET. They’re also promoting a limited number of signed copies available from @BarnesandNoble. Link in bio.
When @jalithgow visited @lachsa_official to practice with the vocal jazz ensemble things didn’t start off smoothly. But his student mentors helped him prepare for the performance! Explore dance, ceramics, silk-screen printing, and vocal jazz alongside actor John Lithgow and some fantastic young mentors. #ArtHappensHerePBS celebrates the transformational experiences arts education provides students of all ages. Watch it on @pbs or the free PBS app tonight (4/26) at 10/9c.
“His name and his infamy few will recall. We’ve all but forgotten the late Albert Fall. But a hundred years later, his story hits home: The scandalous tale of the Teapot Dome.” “The Fall of Fall” in A Confederacy of Dumptys tells the story of New Mexico Senator and secretary of the interior Albert Fall, who was convicted of bribery and conspiracy in 1929 and jailed. He was the first former cabinet member to be convicted of a crime. Criminals in government—imagine that! #ConfederacyOfDumptys
The poems in A Confederacy of Dumptys cover mostly historical figures—many long-forgotten—but I also get a few swipes in at scoundrels of the present day. Like this one… “Ted Cruz, that lardaceous baboon, Is the maestro of inopportune. With his state in deep freeze This titan of sleaze Took his family off to Cancún.” #ConfederacyOfDumptys
Dear friends, I wrote #TrumptyDumpty “to make you laugh, to make you mad, and to make you remember.” Also to make you vote. It’s election eve and time for the last of our 21 videos, created by the brilliant @TriptykStudios guys. Thank you so much for watching. Here’s the poem’s final stanza: “What title can conjure This ludicrous gent, A POTUS who hastened A nation’s descent? At the end of this age Of profound discontent, I’ll settle for Dumpty The Ex-President.” PRODUCED BY: Tim Van Patten and John Lithgow CREATED BY: B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Adam Bankhead (Triptyk Studios)
We send our sincere wishes for our POTUS’s recovery. But there’s no reason to go easy on our shifty Senate Majority Leader! Here’s episode 6 of The #TrumptyDumpty Cycle, “The Tortoise and the Hare,” starring #SteveBuscemi, #StephenRoot, #WayneKnight, and me. “The Tortoise (named Mitch) was renowned for his guile, The Senate majority’s leading reptile, While the Hare was the POTUS, a flashy young mammal Whose smile was a sunbeam of gleaming enamel. “The quick-witted Hare (whose name was Barack) Floated programs the Tortoise endeavored to block. As fast as the Hare could devise and propose them, The crusty old Tortoise would try to bulldoze them.” PRODUCED BY: Tim Van Patten and John Lithgow CREATED BY: B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Adam Bankhead (Triptyk Studios)
In April and May 2020, while the #COVID_19 pandemic raged, #Trump fired four inspectors general in his executive branch. #MerylStreep joins me to tell their tale in today’s episode of The #TrumptyDumpty Cycle: “For a desperate POTUS, impeached and disgraced, A pandemic’s a terrible thing to waste…” PRODUCED BY: Tim Van Patten and John Lithgow CREATED BY: B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Adam Bankhead (Triptyk Studios)
So proud to be in this incredible ensemble. It’s a wonderful film.
In this #TrumptyDumpty Cycle episode, you get two for one! @SamuelLJackson and #WayneKnight tell the story of #RickBright, the ill-fated HHS vaccine expert (remember him?) And the spectacular @KChenoweth conjures her cheerleading skills in “Rah! Rah! Rah!” I’ll let that one speak for itself. PRODUCED BY: Tim Van Patten and John Lithgow CREATED BY: B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Adam Bankhead (Triptyk Studios)
In today’s episode of The #TrumptyDumpty Cycle, I’m joined by #SteveBuscemi, #EdieFalco, and @WhoopiGoldberg. It would be a lot funnier if it weren’t so tragic. PRODUCED BY: Tim Van Patten and John Lithgow CREATED BY: B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Adam Bankhead (Triptyk Studios)
Over the summer, you may have seen my readings of “Scoundrels and Heroes: Limericks from the Seat of Government.” Here are the Scoundrel limericks, read by my friends—@SamuelLJackson, @Margaret_Cho, @WhoopiGoldberg, @KChenoweth, and so many more! Here’s the intro, for those reading along: “Here follow some twenty-odd verses On our national blessings and curses, Each villain or hero A Lincoln or Nero, Reflecting our gains and reverses.” PRODUCED BY: Tim Van Patten and John Lithgow CREATED BY: B. Swibel, Adam Westbrook, and Adam Bankhead (Triptyk Studios)
