Sunday, May 5, 2024
‘SNL’ Cold Open Tackles Student Protests With Kenan Thompson as a Columbia Dad
This week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open tackled the topic that’s been at the forefront of the news the last few weeks: the student protests at college campuses across the country. But with such a politically charged topic, “SNL” largely chose to duck controversy, instead tackling the issue of students protesting the war in Gaza through the lens of a dad upset at how much tuition money he’s paying for his daughter at Columbia University. Kenan Thompson played said dad in the cold open, which presented an episode of “Community Affairs” on Spectrum News. Flanked by other parents played by…
Saturday, May 4, 2024
‘John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA’ Review: Netflix Live Special Reinvents the Late Night Format
Comedian John Mulaney hit the ground running tonight with his newest Netflix special, “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A.” A quirky, live-streamed love letter to Los Angeles built around a quasi late night talk show, the series was unapologetically wacky. It’s abundantly clear after just the first episode that Netflix should look into making Mulaney a permanent late night talk show host. He’s that good and the eccentric show he’s built is delightfully nonsensical. Mulaney, known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” is a talent Netflix has spent years placing in the spotlight through projects like “John Mulaney: New…
Friday, May 3, 2024
‘Tarot’ Review: Jacob Batalon Almost Saves Evil Doodad Movie
There’s a very long and very mixed-bag tradition of horror movies in which an object that isn’t evil in real life turns out to be evil. Killer cars, killer lamps, killer refrigerators, killer iPhone apps, killer tires, killer laundry machines, killer bongs, the list goes on and it will never stop because we keep inventing doodads and every time we do, someone makes them evil and turns it into a movie. The latest is “Tarot,” based on the novel “Horrorscope” by Nicholas Adams. In the film, a group of college students find an old and scary-looking tarot deck and read…
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes Marjorie Taylor Greene Is so Childish ‘Matt Gaetz Just Asked Her Out’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel offered up a twofer insult against two very annoying Republicans on Wednesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” insulting both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz in the same joke. Then Kimmel turned his attention to Donald Trump, mocking him for continuing to insult President Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe,” despite the fact Trump is the one falling asleep in court. You can watch the full monologue at the top of the page now. “Because she hasn’t been getting enough attention lately, the Greene Goblin declared war on her fellow Republican Mike Johnson.” Kimmel said as he brought up Representative…
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Stephen Colbert Responds to Kristi Noem Dog Killing Story: ‘No! Bad Psycho Governor!’ | Video
Stephen Colbert devoted considerable time in his monologue on Monday’s “The Late Show” to South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and the story, which she tells proudly, of the time she cruelly slaughtered a puppy she hadn’t properly trained. But Colbert ultimately had a succinct response to the lunatic story: “No! Bad psycho governor! No!” We agree. In case you somehow missed it, on Friday the Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s upcoming memoir that includes the story. As Noem tells it, about 13 years ago she had a 14-month old pointer named cricket. By her own admission she appears to…
Monday, April 29, 2024
Lily Gladstone, Eva Green to Join Greta Gerwig’s Cannes Film Festival Jury
Actresses Lily Gladstone and Eva Green and directors Nadine Labaki, Juan Antonio Bayona and Kore-eda Hirokazu have been named to the jury at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes organizers announced on Monday morning in Paris. Other members of the jury are Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino and French actor/producer Omar Sy. “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was previously announced as jury president. The jury will consider the 22 films in the Cannes Main Competition, which include Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” Michel Hazanavicius’…
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Alleged Real-Life ‘Baby Reindeer’ Inspiration Says She’s the One Being Stalked: ‘I’m Being Bullied for Fame’
The Netflix miniseries “Baby Reindeer” became a surprise hit following its release earlier this month, telling the story of a struggling standup comic who offers kindness to a woman at a pub — who then responds with intense stalking. A woman, 58, who claims she is the real-life figure who inspired the fictionalized character “Martha” in “Baby Reindeer,” told the Daily Mail that writer-director Richard Gadd is “bullying an older woman on television for fame and fortune.” While inspired by real life, with the lead character based on Gadd, it’s not a documentary. Gadd has described it as “lightly fictionalized”…
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Chris Hayes Recalls Trump’s Impeachment Defense That Presidents Don’t Have Immunity: ‘You Did Not Hallucinate That’ | Video
On Friday’s episode of “All In,” Chris Hayes zeroed in on “one of the most galling” things about the Supreme Court hearing over Donald Trump’s disturbing claim of ‘presidential immunity.’ Trump of course wants the Supreme Court to declare that presidents have full legal immunity for any crimes committed in office, even if they assassinate their political rivals. Literally. But as Hayes reminded viewers on Friday, in 2021, when after several weeks of inexplicable dithering congress attempted to impeach Trump trying to overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, Trump’s attorneys defended him by explicitly saying presidents do not have…
Friday, April 26, 2024
‘The Daily Show’ Suggests a ‘Hall Pass’ Compromise for Trump’s Immunity Claim: ‘5 Crimes… if You Have the Chance’ | Video
Sharing hosting duties on Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Ronny Chieng and Jordan Klepper spent the first segment of the show talking about Donald Trump a lot. And Klepper, after discussing the SCOTUS hearing over Trump’s disturbing immunity claims, suggested an amusing compromise to resolve the dispute that involves being able to sleep with Lenny Kravitz. “The conservative justices think Trump should have immunity. The liberal justices don’t. How about we meet halfway?” Klepper said. “Instead of complete immunity, presidents get a hall pass of five crimes that are totally okay. If you have the chance. For example,…
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Leaves ‘Bodies’ Behind, Including Her Indicted Former Boss Mark Meadows | Video
Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House staffer who served as an assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows before testifying against Trump in front of the Jan. 6 Committee, spoke to CNN Wednesday about her former boss being indicted. Meadows is among those indicted Wednesday for his involvement in helping to arrange for fake electors to be seated from the state of Arizona in order to keep the former president in office, the network reports. Anchor Kaitlan Collins noted that her interview with Hutchinson had already been scheduled before the indictment dropped on Wednesday afternoon. “I mean, the indictment…
