Sep 9, 2023

September 9, 2023 5:46 PM | 4 min read Zinger Key Points Peruse our listicle with links to the latest coverage on Disney, Apple, Miley Cyrus and Snoop Dogg. Also in this week's column, a word to the wise: Be careful what you say about Martin Short on the internet. 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.