Saturday Night Live spoofed Adam Levine’s thirsty DMs — as well as the Armie Hammer’s alleged cannibalistic overtures — in a sketch for a game show called Send Something Normal. “The game is very simple,” host Miles Teller explained. “We have four male celebrity contestants, and all they have to …
Read More »An Orthodox Jewish Boys' Choir Is Unironically Going Viral on TikTok
When you think of content that’s most likely to go viral on TikTok — lesbian influencer breakups and/or mukbangs, girls surprising their lackadasical boyfriends at college, women calling out fuckboy employees at high-end furniture stores — Orthodox Jewish kiddie pop groups seem like they’d be pretty low on the list. …
Read More »Kanye West Models Ready-to-War Look at Balenciaga's Paris Fashion Week Show
Kanye West was back in his natural habitat Sunday — Paris Fashion Week — where the rapper kicked off Balenciaga’s Summer 2023 collection showcase by leading the march down the muddy “runway.” While Ye has severed ties with the Gap, his partnership with Balenciaga continues on as West was the …
Read More »'We Are Human Beings': Alabama Prisoners Strike to Protest Abusive Conditions, Excessive Sentencing
Swift Justice, an inmate at the Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, went to prison at the age of 17. Today, he’s 47, with 20 more years to go on a half-century prison term he got before he was an adult. “In Alabama, it’s lock ‘em up and throw away …
Read More »Aretha Franklin Was Tracked By the FBI for 40 Years. Here's What's In Her File
From 1967 to 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation methodically collected information about Aretha Franklin using false phone calls, surveillance, infiltration, and highly-placed sources, according to the documents obtained in September by Rolling Stone. Franklin’s FBI file — first requested in via the Freedom of Information Act on Aug. 17, …
Read More »See Bruce Springsteen Join the Killers for Three-Song Encore at Madison Square Garden
The Killers welcomed surprise guest Bruce Springsteen onstage for their entire three-song encore Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. With the E Streeter in tow, the band performed a pair of Springsteen classics, “Badlands” and the concert-ending “Born to Run” — both assisted by saxophonist Jake Clemons, the …
Read More »Michael Fanone Is Not Your Fucking Hero
L ET IT BE known that Michael Fanone does not in any way, shape, or form want to visit the U.S. Capitol. “It’s so fucking lame,” he tells me on the phone one August night as we’re discussing what we should do over the next few days together. What he …
Read More »'SNL': Watch Kendrick Lamar Perform 'Father Time,' 'N95'
Kendrick Lamar’s third stint as Saturday Night Live’s musical guest saw the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper perform the single “Father Time” off of Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, his fifth studio album. Lamar just wrapped up the North American leg of his tour promoting the May release of the album, …
Read More »'SNL': Weekend Update Tackles Putin, Lizzo, Herschel Walker
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Chewere at it again Saturday, addressing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest moves, Lizzo’s flute playing, and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker‘s agenda should he win office. “In a speech after annexing sections of Ukraine, VladimirPutin attacked the U.S. for satanism …
Read More »Miles Teller Compares Himself to Rachel Maddow in 'SNL' Monologue
Miles Teller‘s maiden SNL monologue was largely one of self-deprecation. “I know they like when you doimpressions and play differentcelebrities, and I wanted tocome prepared,” Teller began. “So I asked my friends whatcelebrity I look like, and Iwas thinking a young DeNiro,maybe a Paul Newman. And theywere like, ‘Nope! Rachel …
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