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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 …

After a medical examiner determined that “acute affects of ketamine” caused Friends star Matthew Perry‘s untimely death at 54, some may be wondering just how dangerous the dissociative anesthetic actually is. The answer has a lot to do with the circumstances in which the drug is used. Perry had struggled …

Ask Bill Wyman what people should expect fromThe Stones and Brian Jones,documentarian Nick Broomfield’s new film about the late, doomed founder of the band, and he’s pretty straightforward about it: “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but!” That may be a slight exaggeration, but there’s no denying that the …

Matthew Perry entered his first rehab in 1997, back when the internet was a novelty and phones plugged into a wall. Friends was the king of prime time and Perry its court jester, a floppy-haired virtuoso of sarcasm and comic timing, but his 28-day stint in Hazelden for Vicodin, splashed …

Matthew Perry, who charmed audiences across the globe as the sarcastic roommate Chandler Bing on the popular sitcom Friends, was reportedly found dead on Oct. 28 at his Los Angeles home from an apparent drowning, law enforcement sources confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 54 years old. An LAPD spokesman …

There’s not a lot of Matthew Perry in the pilot episode of Friends, but he gets to deliver one of its funniest jokes. As the gang sits around Central Perk, a newly-divorced Ross admits that he just wants to be married again. A second later, Rachel wanders into the coffee …

Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler. She has to be, given that she’s stuck in Florida in the year of our lord 2011, trying to figure out the next step for her and her daughter, Phoebe. On the plus side, Liza has grit, …

According to this very publication, the Rolling Stones’ new album Hackney Diamonds is the best the English rockers have sounded “in about half a century,” so there’s no better time for the new documentary The Stones and Brian Jones to hit theaters (and VOD). When documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield was …

The London tabloid world has traditionally been a sort of journalism Bizarro World, where entrapment is standard practice and news is manufactured on a profit-driven whim, often at the expense of innocent victims. For two decades, Mazher Mahmood strode over this ethics-starved world like a corrupt colossus, enabled by his …

It’s a little after midnight on a cold winter night. I’m in someone else’s van, driving down a highway I’ve never seen before.I’m on my way to pick up a load of marijuana and transport it across state lines. What could go wrong? The trip was organized at the last …