John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight on Sunday by assailing officials in the Trump administration for Signalgate and its handling of mass deportations, labeling them “ deeply unserious people doing deeply stupid things with massively serious consequences.” ”It’s true, they put a journalist in their group chat,” Oliver said, “something [Jeffrey] …
Read More »Wile E. Coyote Is Heading to Court as 'Coyote vs. Acme' Finally Lands Theatrical Release
Wile E. Coyote’s legal battle with the Acme Corp., accused of sabotaging his skirmishes with the Road Runner by way of faulty products, is heading to court as Coyote vs. Acme finally heads to movie theaters. Warner Bros. shelved the film in 2023, but widespread backlash led to it being …
Read More »'The White Lotus' Episode 7: Sleeping With the Frenemy
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The White Lotus, “Killer Instincts,” which is now streaming on Max. If this were one of the previous White Lotus seasons, it would be finale week right now. We would know who the dead body was that Zion saw drifting in …
Read More »AI Tries to Kill Issa Rae and Rashida Jones Is a Living Espresso Ad in 'Black Mirror' Trailer
One of the first lines of dialogue in the episode title-revealing trailer for Black Mirror Season Seven is laughably on-the-nose: “Don’t freak out.” What follows in the two minutes after this instruction is a montage of the type of dystopian nightmare scenarios the Netflix series is known for, only with …
Read More »Kenan Thompson Questions Morgan Wallen's 'Strange' and 'Abrupt' Exit From 'SNL'
Kenan Thompson says he was thrown by Morgan Wallen‘s “abrupt” exit after performing on Saturday Night Live this weekend. On Monday, the SNL cast member told Entertainment Weekly that he found the country singer’s exit (and his subsequent post about going to “God’s country”) strange. “It just felt so abrupt. …
Read More »'Chimp Crazy' Star Pleads Guilty to Charges Over Faking Pet Chimpanzee's Death
The star of the HBO docuseries Chimp Crazy pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice after she tearfully testified under oath that her beloved pet chimpanzee Tonka had died —when in reality, the primate was sitting in her basement. Tonia Haddix could face up to 20 years in prison …
Read More »Judge Rules Video Inside Gene Hackman's Home Can Be Released, but Bodies Must Be 'Blurred'
A New Mexico judge ruled Monday that video taken inside Gene Hackman’s home during an investigation into the actor’s startling death last month can be released to the public — but only with redactions that remove any images showing the partially mummified bodies of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Roasts Everyone in White House's War Chat Scandal
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked nearly every Trump administration official involved in the scandal of inadvertently providing attack plans to a journalist via a Signal group chat. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense …
Read More »'SNL': Mikey Madison Comforts Wounded Crime Boss Husband With Catchphrase Comedy
Saturday Night Live host and recent Academy Award winner Mikey Madison portrayed the wife of a fatally wounded crime boss who, in his final moments, wants to hone his stand-up comedy routine alongside her. After patriarch Marco (Andrew Dismukes) is shot through a window by unseen assailants, he admits to …
Read More »Richard Chamberlain, 'Shogun' and 'The Thorn Birds' Actor, Dead at 90
Richard Chamberlain, the prolific Golden Globe-winning actor who starred in miniseries like Shogun and The Thorn Birds, has died at the age of 90. Chamberlain’s publicist confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, adding that he died Saturday night in in Waimanalo, Hawai’i — where Chamberlain resided since the 1980s — …
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