It’s never been funny to tell the same joke twice. If the material on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live! wasn’t already stale by the time it left the host’s mouths, it certainly will be when those same episodes are looped back into rotation as production …
Read More »Brian Eno and Fred Again.. Will Release 'Secret Life' Album on Four Tet's Text Records
The year of Fred Again.. and Four Tet is still going strong. On Tuesday, Four Tet announced plans for the May 5 release of a new collaborative album with Fred Again.. through his label Text Records — though it won’t be himself working alongside the producer on the record, but …
Read More »Enough Is Enough. It's Time for the Rock Hall to Recognize Metal
In 2018, a journalist asked Bruce Dickinson how he felt about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Iron Maiden singer inveighed, “If we’re ever inducted, I will refuse — they won’t bloody be having my corpse in there.” A year later, Steve Harris — the band’s bassist and …
Read More »They Hired a P.I. to Find Missing Loved Ones. He Turned Them Into YouTube Content
Ashley Easterling’s son had been missing for 40 days when she says she got a call from a stranger offering to help find him. She dropped off her 30-year-old son, Robert “Alex” Easterling, at an acquaintance’s house in Pickens, Mississippi, on April 20, 2022, and he had not been seen …
Read More »'Jury Duty' Is a Very Funny TV Hit. It's Also Terrifying
Jury Duty, the surprise hit on Amazon Freevee, is a very good and funny show. The premise is high-concept, the episodes tightly written and edited. The casting is impeccable, including that of James Marsden as a heightened, more narcissistic version of himself, providing a fitting venue for his staggering comedic …
Read More »The Next Front in the GOP's War on Women: No-Fault Divorce
Steven Crowder, the right-wing podcaster, is getting a divorce. “No, this was not my choice,” Crowder told his online audience last week. “My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore — and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.” Crowder’s emphasis on “the state of …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Makes Weird Sex Comments in New Leaked Video
The drip-drip-drip of revelations about Tucker Carlson‘s questionable conduct at Fox News continued on Tuesday, with Media Matters publishing leaked, behind-the-scenes video of the recently ousted host making a series of sexual comments on set. “If we’re going to talk about sex, I’d love to hit some of the fine …
Read More »'Succession' Recap: Logan Roy Makes Shock Return, Shiv and Tom Get Kinky
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Living+.” “Living+” opens with a startling image: Logan Roy, seemingly alive and relatively well — albeit in his usual foul mood — recording a pitch for the titular product, Waystar’s attempt to re-create a cruise-ship experience on dry land.It’s enough …
Read More »Roy Wood Jr. Breaks Down His Killer White House Correspondents' Dinner Set
“I don’t think there’s a crowd that’s a more strange mix than this,” offers Roy Wood Jr. “It’s just too many different types of people, all in the same place, and you’re trying to figure out the joke that’s going to hit all of those people. And then, you have …
Read More »Keith Richards Surprises Fans at Willie Nelson's 90th Birthday Concert, Sings 'Live Forever' With Willie
With his signature one-liner — “It’s good to be here, it’s good to be anywhere” — Keith Richards emerged onstage at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night to sing with Willie Nelson at the second of the country legend’s two 90th birthday concerts. Together onstage, Richards, 79, and Nelson, 90 …
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