President Donald Trump provided late-night hosts with more fodder than usual Wednesday, when news broke that some Americans’ COVID-19 relief checks would be delayed because the president was insisting his name be printed on each of them. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert‘s cold open was a faux infomercial for …
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“Me and my wife been quarantining here for like three weeks,” Tracy Morgan said Tuesday morning to Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb while filming a remote appearance. “So she’s pregnant three times. Every week, she got pregnant.” The comedian and actor has a long history of derailing live TV segments …
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Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever star as old college sweethearts on a thrilling journey in Run, a half-hour comedy series coming to HBO and its auxiliary streaming platforms. The show premieres Sunday, April 12th at 10:30 p.m. ET. Wever portrays Ruby Richardson, a suburban resident who decides to upend her whole …
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Like a lot of actors who’ve had long, incredibly varied careers, John Turturro gets approached by a number of different folks when he’s out in public. The 63-year-old can usually tell what they recognize him from within a few seconds. “If they have kids, it’s almost always Transformers,” he says, …
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Beastie Boys Story The new Spike Jonze documentary chronicles how three friends went from being kings of their local scene to ascending worldwide fame. Not only does the clip tease archival, behind the scenes footage of the group in its formative years, but it highlights present-day reflections from Mike Diamond …
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The Tribeca Film Festival has postponed its 2020 event due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual fest was scheduled to run April 15th through the 26th in New York City and, for the first time, in New Jersey. However, a statement on the Tribeca site notes that organizers made their …
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Days after ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Elizabeth Warren made a cameo on Saturday Night Live alongside Kate McKinnon, who portrayed the Massachusetts senator on the show. Warren’s cameo came at the end of a lengthy Fox News spoof about the coronavirus, where host Laura Ingraham (also …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Trying,” coming up just as soon as I slut-shame a guinea pig… That is very much more like it. In recent weeks, I’ve grown a bit frustrated with Nine-Nine not only repeating old patterns, but ones that the show had mostly evolved beyond, …
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The vulnerabilities of the United States’ election system are highlighted in the unnerving new trailer for the documentary, Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, debuting March 26th on HBO. The clip starts by taking on one of the major misconceptions about American voting machines — that concerns about …
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If you were paying attention to this year’s Oscars‘ and its renamed Best International Film section — a category that could’ve easily been redubbed “Parasite, and Four Other Films Which Aren’t Parasite” — you might have spotted an outlier in the lineup. There was Bong Joon Ho’s juggernaut of a …
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