Until you rewatch the early seasons, it’s easy to forget that Leon Black wasn’t always part of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David‘s permanent houseguest, played to delirious perfection by comedian J.B. Smoove, feels like a supporting player the show couldn’t exist without, yet he joined the cast in Season Six, …
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Z elda Williams has wonderful memories of being on film sets as a kid, watching her father, Robin Williams, shoot movies like Hook and Bicentennial Man. But that doesn’t mean she inherited his bombastic sense of humor. “I’m a bit darker,” says Williams, 34. “I’m the person who laughed during …
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This week’s Saturday Night Live kicked things off with a damn near unwatchable parody of CBS’ NFL broadcast before Dakota Johnson took the stage looking absolutely incredible, dressed in a number that recalled Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s black jumpsuit in Fleabag. The actress described her upcoming film Madame Web — a Spider-Man …
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Twitter recently lost one of its premier chaos agents: Jaboukie Young-White, the ace comic responsible for maybe the best single act of trolling in the hellsite’s history. The Illinois native attracted a large social media following in the 2010s thanks to his Instagram posts and tweets brimming with sardonic wit …
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Last May, Bobbi Althoff paid $300 to change her life forever. As a parody account on TikTok, Bobbi Althoff knew her dream of making the transition to a celebrity interviewer was missing one key component: celebrities. So she put out a request to her followers: she would give $300 to …
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An artificial intelligence-driven comedy special has attempted to resurrect comedy geniusGeorge Carlin‘s signature humor, 15 years after he died in 2008 of heart failure. Following the special’s release, the comedian’s daughter responded and said that “No machine will ever replace his genius.” The hour-long special, titled George Carlin: I’m Glad …
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Pete Davidson dropped his third hourlong stand-up special (and second for Netflix) in the early hours of Jan. 9. Titled Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli, it’s far and away his most confident, assured, and hilarious one yet, featuring rapid-fire jokes about everything from a Make-A-Wish scenario gone awry and navigating his …
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It wasn’t easy finding a host for the 81st Golden Globe Awards this year, the first iteration of the awards show run by Dick Clark Productions, who took control over it from the scandal-ridden Hollywood Foreign Press Association. (Full disclosure: Rolling Stone’s parent company, PMC, owns Dick Clark Productions.) A …
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Good jokes — and good union support — helped a public radio reporter get his job back after he was fired over clips from his stand-up set posted on social media. As Vice reports, Jad Sleiman emerged largely victorious from an arbitration dispute with the Philadelphia NPR member, WHYY. The …
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The Russell brothers had barely finished the signature routine of the act — a bit involving the boys dressed as immigrant servant girls that had traditionally left audiences in hysterics — before a soundtrack of boos filled the theater. They had crossed a line with their material, and now they …
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