by snarly | Aug 20, 2021 | Celebrity Apologies
Mike Richards’s first and last day as the new host of Jeopardy! was yesterday, Ah, Mike, we hardly knew ye, and did not care to. Let’s look at the man’s many apologies and not-apologies along the journey to not being on our TV anymore, we hope, ever,...
by snarly | Jun 30, 2021 | Scientific apologies
Conventional wisdom holds that apologies make you look weak. Our last president resolutely refused to apologize for anything for four years. Americans love to mock Canadian and British people for their lily-livered, knee-jerk, obsessive apologizing. (Here, we’ll do...
by snarly | Mar 3, 2021 | Political Apologies
New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a second statement, after a third woman came forward with accusations of sexual harassment. Please allow us, your friends at SorryWatch, to annotate it for you: “The lawyers say you shouldn’t say anything when you have...
by snarly | Dec 9, 2020 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
It was recently discovered that the late author Roald Dahl’s family had added a note to his web site. It was hidden, as Washington Post’s Ron Charles noted, “like a Golden Ticket hidden inside a Wonka Bar.” (The note took Snarly seven minutes...
by snarly | Dec 7, 2020 | Political Apologies
To my fellow Americans: I owe you an apology. When I sent that sternly worded tweet telling you to stay home because you don’t need to get your roots done, I did not actually send it from my stylist’s chair. That is a scurrilous rumor and I apologize that you...