Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Says Republicans Sang ‘For He’s a Jolly Rubella’ After Advancing RFK Jr. Nomination | Video
Jimmy Kimmel isn’t a fan of prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a man who frequently denies his anti-vaccines views despite clear documentation going back decades — And on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” he had some harsh words for Republicans who voted to advance Kennedy’s nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. “It was stupor Tuesday in Washington today,” Kimmel said during his monologue. “Senators voted along party lines to advance the nominations of Trump’s pick for National Security Director Tulsi Gabbard, a woman who appears to have been styled by Cruella DeVille. And RFK Jr., who…
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
‘Late Night’ Audience Boos Rain Down as Stephen Colbert Lists Trump’s Barrage of Executive Orders | Video
Stephen Colbert’s live “Late Night” audience – not a fan of Donald Trump’s tireless weekend of executive orders, it turns out. “It’s hard to know where to start,” Colbert began in his Monday dialogue. “Each and every one of Trump’s disastrous moves deserves top billing.” Colbert got into the list, with each reference bringing down a torrent of boos from the New York City studio audience. “Over the weekend, Trump and his people gave Elon Musk access to the Treasury’s payment system [mild boos], prepared to shut down U.S. aid [boooos], threatened to take back the Panama Canal [boo], fired…
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Bill Maher Feels Sorry for ‘Pitiful, Powerless People’ Trump Bullies: ‘I’m Referring to Congress’ | Video
During his monologue on Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” Bill Maher expressed sympathy for the “pitiful, powerless people” being bullied and abused by Donald Trump. “I’m referring to congress,” he joked, obviously referring to the total lack of fight from Democrats and the full support for Trump’s various illegal actions by Republicans. Maher also briefly poked fun at Elon Musk over the gesture that the billionaire Trump supporter made that looks identical to a Nazi salute (Musk hasn’t specifically denied it was a Nazi salute but he has called accusations that it was “dirty tricks”). Maher backed off after that,…
Friday, January 31, 2025
FireAid: Los Angeles Unites and the Stars Come Out to Help Those Ravaged by Wildfires | Photos
Tens of thousands of Angelenos packed into Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum in Inglewood Thursday night for a star-studded tribute to Los Angeles as a city and community following the devastating wildfires that destroyed so much earlier this month. Among the acts who showed up to raise money for the city were Green Day and Billie Eilish, Alanis Morissette, Dr. Dre and Anderson .Paak, Rod Stewart, D-Nice, Joni Mitchell and Slash — and that’s just a sample. Read on for a look at more of the Hollywood heavyweights who showed out for their city. Alanis Morissette, recording artist (Photo…
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Jake Tapper Dismantles RFK Jr.’s Claims That He Is Not Anti-Vax With Decades’ Worth of Evidence | Video
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Donald Trumps’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, insisted he is not “anti-vax” during confirmation hearings Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Jake Tapper easily dismantled Kennedy’s claims by playing several clips in which Kennedy issued statements such as, “There is no vaccine that’s safe and effective.” “Much of the controversy Kennedy is known for, aside from admitting to dumping a dead bear in Central Park, is his anti-vaccine rhetoric and conspiracy theory-laden stances,” Tapper began. (Watch the segment in the embedded tweet below). RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine, despite past statementsWatch…
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Stephen Colbert Jokes Trump’s DoJ Firings Turned It Into ‘the Department of Just This Guy’ | Video
Stephen Colbert started his Tuesday monologue assuring his audience that he didn’t want to “cause panic,” but he said this while discussing a lot of panic-inducing stuff, beginning with the latest illegal and unconstitutional actions Donald Trump has taken since taking office, his mass-firings of federal workers. “I want to welcome everybody here, out there watching and any recently fired federal employees who were looking to travel for a while,” Colbert joked. “Hey, remember, hey, remember when Donald Trump said he was going to be a dictator only on day one? Well, evidently, his first act as dictator was declaring…
Monday, January 27, 2025
‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Review: Queer Poets Face Cancer With Strength and Humor
To many of those who have gone through end-of-life decisions after a cancer diagnosis, the disease itself tends to be no laughing matter. It has the ability to destroy families, knock down the strongest of humans and alter one’s trajectory permanently. But for the lucky few, like poet laureate Andrea Gibson, cancer can be a struggle but it can also shed light on the true meaning of what it takes to keep a life well-lived going. Gibson was diagnosed with ovarian cancer several years ago, but that’s not the end of the story. Identifying with they/them pronouns, the now 49-year-old…
Sunday, January 26, 2025
‘I Took the Photo’: Stunning Sundance Doc Challenges Authorship of Famous Napalm Girl War Photo
PARK CITY – Sundance always holds surprises in store, and Saturday night a documentary about one of the most famous war photographs ever taken – a Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm bombing of her village in 1972 – stunned the audience with its conclusion: the photo was taken by a freelance Vietnamese photographer rather than Nick Ut, the Associated Press photographer credited with the image for the past 50 years. “I took the photo,” said Nguyen Thanh Nghe, who came to the screening from his home in California, in a Q&A after the screening of “The Stringer” by…
Saturday, January 25, 2025
‘Rabbit Trap’ Review: Dev Patel Gets Lost in the Woods in Folk Horror That Falls Flat
If you were to watch the first 10 to 15 minutes of “Rabbit Trap,” the fundamentally flawed feature debut of writer/director Bryn Chainey, and stop there, you might think you were witnessing the start of a unique horror vision. In particular, the way the film uses sound in these opening scenes feels like something special; it takes on a sinister resonance, almost as if it’s tapping into another plane of existence. You can practically feel it rattling through your bones and deep into the recesses of your mind. It’s a great way to open. Then, just when you are starting…
Friday, January 24, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes Trump is Coming to LA ‘to Blame Us for the Fires in Person’ | Video
Like a lot of Angelenos, Jimmy Kimmel isn’t looking forward to Donald Trump’s visit this weekend to Los Angeles. Trump, is visiting, ostensibly to review the damage caused by the devastating wildfires. But like pretty much all Republicans, he has also responded to the them with incredible cruelty and pretty bitterness. That includes using the fires as an excuse to say bigoted things, spread conspiracy theories, attempt to punish California for being a blue state by holding aid hostage. Which of course is par for the course. So it makes perfect sense that Kimmel during his monologue on Thueresday lamented…
