Sinclair will replace the Jimmy Kimmel Live! time slot on Friday with a tribute special to Charlie Kirk. The company has also demanded that Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family, and donate to them and Turning Point USA, which was co-founded by Kirk. The announcement was made shortly after ABC said …
Read More »Jay Leno, Marc Maron, Wanda Sykes Raise Free-Speech Warnings After ABC Cans 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
Marc Maron and Wanda Sykes were among the many to raise serious concerns about the threat to free speech after ABC’s decision to indefinitely pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! following pressure from the Trump administration. Sykes was set to be a guest on Kimmel on Wednesday night, but ABC made its …
Read More »David Letterman Slams 'Ridiculous' Decision to Pull 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
David Letterman denounced ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! following pressure from the Trump administration, saying, “This is misery,” during a panel at the Atlantic Festival on Thursday, Sept. 18 (via Variety). “We see where this is all going, correct?” Letterman said. “It’s managed media. And it’s no good. …
Read More »Robert Redford Represented an America We Must 'Fight to Protect,' Says Jane Fonda
Robert Redford, whodied todayat the age of 89, created a body of work that often intersected his passion foractivism with storytelling and filmmaking. Jane Fonda, who co-starred alongside Redford in several films including the 1967 comedy Barefoot in the Park, shared a moving tribute to the actor and celebrated how …
Read More »Francis Ford Coppola Recalls Scooter Ride With Robert Redford That Almost Went Sideways
Francis Ford Coppola shared a chaotic, yet touching memory from early in his storied career of Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at the age of 89. Coppola posted photos of Redford on Instagram from the 1962 film War Hunt and The Great Gatsby in 1974. In the caption, Coppola recalled …
Read More »'Hot Bullsh-t': Amy Poehler Slams the Oscars for Lack of Comedy Awards
While the Oscars usually dole out the little gold men to endeavors involving drama, pain, and glory, the ceremony has rarely taken time out of its evening to celebrate the plethora of fantastic comedies being made. On her Good Hang podcast, Amy Poehler lamented over this on her latest episode …
Read More »Stephen Colbert Celebrates Emmys Win: 'Donald Trump Doesn't Have One'
Stephen Colbert showed off his shiny new Emmy on The Late Show, earning a standing ovation and a chant of “Stephen, Stephen” from the audience as he kicked off his show on Tuesday night. “On Sunday night we won our first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series,” Colbert said. “Man, I’m …
Read More »Paul Rudd and Jack Black Want to Reboot 'Anaconda' In The Trailer for Their 'Anaconda' Reboot
Paul Rudd and Jack Black push Hollywood reboot culture to its snake-eating-its-own-tail (quite literally) extreme in the new trailer for Anaconda. In this remake/reimagining/whatever-you-want-to-call-it of the 1997 action flick of the same name, Rudd and Black play Griff and Doug, respectively, a pair of flailing film lovers who have always …
Read More »'South Park' Pushes New Episode as Trey Parker and Matt Stone Admit: 'We Didn't Get It Done in Time'
A new episode of South Park will not air as planned tonight, Sept. 17, with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone admitting they did not get the episode “done in time.” In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, Parker and Stone said, “Apparently when you do everything at the last …
Read More »Judd Hirsch on Robert Redford: 'We Ran Along With Him and His Ideas'
Now a legend in his own right, Judd Hirsch wasn’t an expected choice to star in a Best Picture winner in 1980. But he was tapped to play Dr. Tyrone Berger in the directorial debut of the biggest movie star in the world. Robert Redford’s Ordinary People, the story of …
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