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 …
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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 …
Read More »Back from the Dead: Why Cross-Network Revivals Are Taking Over TV
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 …
Read More »Bo Burnham on 'Eighth Grade,' Anxiety and Why Social Media Is a Curse
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, …
Read More »'Who Is America?' Review: Sacha Baron Cohen Swings at Broken U.S.A. and Misses
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 …
Read More »'Three Identical Strangers': Reunited-Triplets Doc Takes Dark WTF Turn
In 1980, Robert Shafran drove from Westchester County to the Catskills. It was his first day of college – a community college, he modestly notes, but still, he was going. As he walked through the campus, the 19-year-old noticed how friendly everyone was … excessively so, in some cases. Then …
Read More »Disney, Pixar Tap 'Frozen,' 'Inside Out' Directors to Replace John Lasseter
Disney and Pixar announced that Frozen director Jennifer Lee and Inside Out director Pete Docter will replace chief creative officer John Lasseter, who was accused of making unwanted advances towards female employees and will leave Pixar at the end of the year, Variety reports. Lee and Docter will split Lasseter’s …
Read More »'Westworld' Recap: Ghost Story
If you want something done right, give it to actor Zahn McClarnon to do. That’s the logical conclusion to draw coming out of this week’s episode of Westworld, titled “Kiksuya” – and the series’ best hour by a considerable margin. For once, the show’s annoyances (easy escapes, constant pointless bickering, …
Read More »'Late Late Show' Producer on Booking Shawn Mendes, BTS, Fifth Harmony
It began with a toothbrush. During a late-March episode of The Late Late Show With James Corden, the host reached for his coffee mug only to find an Oral-B protruding from it. “What’s this? What has happened here?” he asked in a comically high voice. Bandleader Reggie Watts denied putting …
Read More »'Wreck-It Ralph 2' Trailer: Disney Princesses, Annoying Autofills
Disney princesses and annoying search engine auto-fills highlight the latest trailer for Wreck-It Ralph 2, which follows the animated film’s wide-eyed protagonist (John C. Reilly) and friend Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman) as they navigate the Internet as a hectic digital metropolis. The clip opens with Ralph waking up Vanellope …
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