Coolio taught white people how to properly pronounce hip-hop words on the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The sketch arrives after a viral Jeopardy! moment where a contestant named Nick lost $3,200 after the show’s judges deemed that he answered a question with “Gangster’s Paradise” and not “Gangsta’s Paradise,” …
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Disney revealed Friday that Louis C.K.‘s voice role in the animated series Gravity Falls has been redubbed following the comedian’s admission of sexual misconduct. C.K. voiced “The Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity” in a pair of Gravity Falls episodes – 2015’s “Weirdmageddon: Part 1” and 2016’s “Weirdmageddon: Part 3,” the Hollywood …
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A long time ago, a grade-schooler got his hands on a spaceship. He followed the assembly instructions as best he could, snapping on the cannons, the landing gear, the tiny interstellar-chess table. Soon enough, Rian Johnson was holding his very own Millennium Falcon. “The first thing I did,” he recalls, …
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“I want you to know the only reason I’m consenting to this is because I wish to clear my name.” With those words, a twentysomething Brooklyn artist named Nola Darling introduced herself to the world – and, in the process, so did Spike Lee, a prodigiously talented twentysomething writer-director who …
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Samantha Bee lauded the Democratic wins this past Election Day, particularly in the swing state Virginia. Her caveat, though, was that the wins are virtually meaningless until the newly-elected officials make moves on gun control in America. “After the week we’ve had, there is nothing more important to me than …
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Billy Eichner celebrated Halloween on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, appearing onstage dressed as a giant banana and roping Colbert into a Billy On the Street–style game, “Hocus Pocus or Trump’s White House.” The game (which begins at the 7:15 mark), found Eichner quizzing Colbert on facts that …
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Matt Damon didn’t mince words when he called Harvey Weinstein an “asshole” and a “womanizer” during an interview with Good Morning America Monday. The actor also revealed that he knew about Gwyneth Paltrow‘s allegations of sexual harassment against the movie mogul for years, long before Paltrow came forwardearlier this month. …
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Long before he became acquainted with the subject of his documentary Jane, Brett Morgen assumed that the primatologist Jane Goodall was a “goody two-shoe[s].” The filmmaker was used to tackling figures with pronounced dark sides like Hollywood producer Robert Evans and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, not the type of scientific …
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After a one-week absence, Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump returned to Saturday Night Live with a cold open sketch where Trump distracts everyone at a rally on tax reform with rants about Mike Pence, Bob Corker and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. During the “Trucker Hat Rally,” Trump continually brags at …
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USA has unveiled the first trailer for Unsolved, the upcoming true crime drama focusing on the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Westworld‘s Jimmi Simpson plays LAPD detective Russell Poole in the scripted series, with Fargo‘s Bokeem Woodbine and Josh Duhamel as fellow investigators in the two rappers’ …
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