When she’s not earning laughs as the flighty but metamorphosing Summer Dutkowsky, the self-proclaimed “hot one” of Girls5eva, the real Busy Philipps — beloved actor, internet personality, and podcaster — has spent the past seven years building a reputation as the brutally honest one. Around 2017, Philipps started chronicling her …
Read More »Ashley Tisdale Says Her 'Mean Girls' Audition Ad-Lib Made It Into the Original Movie
A writing credit is probably a bit much, but a little acknowledgement might be due to Ashley Tisdale, who said she ad-libbed a line during her audition for the original Mean Girls that wound up in the final cut of the movie. On Watch What Happens Live Tuesday, Tisdale was …
Read More »Best, Worst, and Most WTF Super Bowl Ads, From Beyoncé to Bennifer
Bust out the blue sequins, polish up your roller skates, and start sending those congratulatory gifts to Taylor Swift. As the country participated in the gratuitous orgy of capitalism otherwise known as Super Bowl LVIII, the real ones know that even though the Chiefs came out on top in a …
Read More »Tina Fey 'Could Easily' Take Over 'Saturday Night Live,' Says Lorne Michaels
After nearly 50 years of running the show behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live, longtime producerLorne Michaels may have an idea of who his potential successor could be. When speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, Michaels was asked if he had “ever thought …
Read More »Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Return to their Weekend Update Desk at the 2023 Emmy Awards
Twenty years after they first appeared on Weekend Update together on Saturday Night Live, beloved alums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returned to their desk at the 2023 Emmy Awards. Weekend Update’s first female duo took the stage to present the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special — but not before …
Read More »'Mean Girls' Directors Defend TikTok-Heavy Movie: 'Let the Kids Decide'
You might be familiar with Mean Girls on Broadway, most recently toplined by Sabrina Carpenter and Reneé Rapp, and you’ve almost definitely seen the 2004 movie, packed with more quotable moments than one can count. So, in the new movie musical Mean Girls, directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. …
Read More »Watch Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon Humble Brag About Their Famous Friends
Tina Fey stopped by The Tonight Show to promote the Mean Girls musical movie and host Jimmy Fallon challenged her to a new game called “Friendzee.” The game basically involves trying to guess the name of a mutual pal by asking random and “not helpful” questions from a pile of …
Read More »'Mean Girls' Musical Film Is Not Fetch, But Reneé Rapp Kills as Regina
A lot has changed in the 20 years since Regina George and the Plastics first stalked the halls of North Shore High. Every teenager now has a smartphone. Social media has given several generations new ways to slay, shame, and talk shit. The Internet is one massive Burn Book. And …
Read More »Listen to Reneé Rapp Wish the 'World Burn'
The new big-screen adaptation ofMean Girlsis just a few days away, andReneé Rappis dropping a single from the movie to tide you over. “World Burn,” sung by Rapp and the cast ofMean Girls: The Musicalis out now and available to streamhere. The song is one of the musical numbers from …
Read More »Final 'Mean Girls' Trailer Introduces Original Music, But Still Skates Around Musical Premise
Having Renée Rapp revive her role as Regina George for the film adaptation of Mean Girls: The Musical was really a genius move from producers Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey. Obviously, her stint in the show on Broadway made her intricately familiar with the character. But Rapp’s newly solidified presence …
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