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Bill Simmons

  1. the industry
    Spotify Is Equally Responsible for the Royal Podcast FlopSure, everyone’s looking at Harry and Meghan, but it takes two parties to tango.
    By Nicholas Quah
  2. review
    We’re Still Getting Woodstock ’99 WrongHBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage documentary feels drunk on chaos.
    By Craig Jenkins
  3. a long talk
    Bill Simmons Just Wants to WinThat’s why he sold The Ringer to Spotify and the man who may be “Steve Jobs for audio.”
    By Nicholas Quah
  4. spotify
    Spotify Is Buying Bill Simmons’s the RingerWill a sports-podcast boom follow?
    By Nicholas Quah
  5. podcasts
    Larry Wilmore Is Taking His Talents to Podcasting With Black on the AirThe first episode is slated to drop this Thursday.
    By Nicholas Quah
  6. cancellations
    HBO Gives Up on Bill Simmons’s Any Given WednesdayNo more Wednesdays given.
    By Jackson McHenry
  7. Bill Hader Talks ‘SNL,’ Panic Attacks, and His Upcoming HBO Show on ‘Any […]Here’s a fun clip from HBO’s new series Any Given Wednesday, where two Bills – host Simmons and guest Hader – chat about everything from what […]
    By Megh Wright
  8. bless his heart
    Ben Affleck Blows a Fuse on Any Given WednesdayGood f*cking thing he was on HBO.
    By Karen Brill
  9. bill simmons
    Simmons’s HBO Show Gets a Title and Release DateAny Given Wednesday will debut June 22 on HBO.
    By Jackson McHenry
  10. game of thrones
    HBO Announces Game of Thrones Recap ShowAs part of Bill Simmons’s deal with HBO.
    By Karen Brill
  11. the sports guy
    Bill Simmons Signs With HBOHe’s taking his talents to premium cable.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  12. Larry David and Bill Simmons Talk ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ and […]“I think the thing about finales is everybody writes their own finale in their head, whereas if they just tune in during the week to a normal […]
    By Megh Wright
  13. Lorne Michaels Talks All Things ‘SNL’ with Bill Simmons“The joke I used to do is I’d say ‘You know, there will be a time when I realize that it can’t be as good as it used to be, and that I don’t […]
    By Megh Wright
  14. Robert Smigel Talks About How Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Got That Accent Former SNL and Late Night With Conan O’Brien writer Robert Smigel sat down with Bill Simmons over at Grantland to talk about the origins of […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  15. chat room
    Bill Simmons, ‘the Sports Guy,’ Saw Talkshowgate Coming, and Now He’s Got Advice for ConanThe ESPN columnist called this whole debacle back in March. So maybe he should change his name to “The Talk Show Guy.”
    By Will Leitch
  16. late shifting
    Rumor Mill: Is Next Week Conan’s Last As Host of the Tonight Show?That’s the rumor that ESPN’s Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, is spreading.
    By Mark Graham
  17. vulture reading room
    The Vulture Reading Room Says Good-bye to Bill SimmonsAnd to awesome invented terms like the “Last Great White American Player Syndrome.”
    By Amos Barshad
  18. mad men
    Jon Hamm Talks Emmys, Mad Men Season Three, and The Wire With the Sports Guy“If I win two Emmys, which I’m not going to, it will be just another thing I have in common with Kathy Griffin.”
    By Mark Graham
  19. apropos of nothing
    Who Belongs on Mount Rapmore?In the past week or so ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons — “The Sports Guy,” a massively popular columnist who’s ostensibly a sportswriter but would better be described as the National Commissioner of Bar Arguments — has started writing about “Mount Rapmore,” a hypothetical rap version of Mount… well, yes.