InRolling Stone‘s “The First Time” series,Seth Rogenrecalls his first encounter with Kanye West in 2006.“My house is right around the corner from a personal trainer who trains famous people, basically,” Rogen says. “One morning I was leaving my house, and Kanye West jogged by me and said, ‘You’re a funny …

This year’s 59th edition of Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival provided another continuous three-day dose of first-rate music, thanks to an inspired and unpredictable lineup. Featuring a list of unannounced artists that included everyone from pop-leaning breakout stars Maggie Rogers and Leon Bridges to beloved legends Mavis Staples and John …

Britney Spears joins Jimmy Fallon to play Abby, the sleep-away camp BFF of Sara, in the recurring sketch “Ew!” from Thursday’s Tonight Show. The duo reunite in Sara’s wood-paneled basement for their first-ever home sleepover. “All your poison ivy rashes from camp, they’re all gone!” Spears tells Fallon, who’s dressed …

President Trump has spent the better part of the past week stumbling from news cycle to news cycle trying to convince Americans that, despite 18 month’s worth of evidence to the contrary, he has faith in the U.S. intelligence community and has actually been very tough on Russia. First, he …

In a shocking segment from Sunday night’s episode of his Showtime series, Who Is America?,Sacha Baron Cohenconvinces Jason Spencer, a Georgia Republican state representative, to repeatedly shout the “n-word,” use an ethnic slur against Arabs and drop his pants to “intimidate ISIS.” During the prank, Cohen plays the character Erran …

For decades, television shows existed in two distinct states – alive or dead. Other than fan fiction, there wasn’t much hope for a canceled show to resurface. Not so anymore. Today, a television death sentence can be more easily commuted. Just ask fans of Brooklyn Nine-Nine,Luciferand The Expanse, three shows …

M.I.A. reflects on her creative journey and a childhood defined by the Sri Lankan civil war in the new trailer for Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., the upcoming documentary about the rapper-activist. “I had to deal with the fact that I was different and I was an immigrant,” M.I.A. recalls. “Music was my medicine. …

To any actual eighth-grader, Bo Burnham, the director of the achingly empathetic new film Eighth Grade, must seem old. So, so old. How old is he, you ask? In Internet years, the comedian-filmmaker is so old, he went viral before “Dramatic Chipmunk.” The man is so old, his teenage skits, …

Michael Ray made his late-night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday, performing his latest single, “One That Got Away.” https://youtu.be/ymhaGBe8-dY Working the crowd with hands in the air and a full band behind him, Ray and his breezy anthem offered up a big dose of in-the-moment energy – …

In the most famous, comically potent moment of Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Kazakhstan alter ego Borat takes the stage at a country and western bar in Tucson, Arizona to perform a song called, “In My Country There Is Problem,” whose lyrics include this refrain: Throw the Jew …