Kathy Griffin, who issued a tearful apology in June after posing for a photo holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump brought death threats and concert cancellations, now says she takes it back. The caustic comic, who is about to launch her … wait for it … Laugh Your Head Off tour of Europe,…
The already passé adult coloring book craze is a fucking farce. All the “stress relieving” page designs are way too intricate. Zen patterns and overgrown secret gardens are boring reasons to stay in the lines. And the merchandising push is reminiscent of scrapbooking, and we all know what happened with that. Some adult coloring books…
Alec Baldwin made a triumphant return to Saturday Night Live Thursday night (!) to send up Trump’s instantly infamous rally earlier this week in Phoenix, Arizona. Baldwin’s Trump took the stage wearing eclipse glasses ( a poke at the viral pic of 45 staring at the sun with his naked eyes) and immediately launched into…
In a stunning reversal of an earlier reversal, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have decided they WILL attend the Kennedy Center Honors this December, but they’ve scrapped the initial honorees, in favor of new ones more supportive of the current Administration. The Trumps had issued a statement early Saturday saying they would…
Fans of Transparent, this is your lucky day, because it marks Amy Landecker’s directorial debut of Transparent: The Lost Sessions, a new 10-episode digital series. The first three short vignettes of comedy perfection are available today on Funny or Die. As a spin-off of Amazon’s award-winning series Transparent, each episode features Carrie Aizley as the…
Hulu is actively developing the tentatively titled dramedy, Queen, a slightly fictionalized version of Emmy-winner RuPaul’s rise from club kid to drag queen to gay icon, then global star. Set in NYC during the Reagan-era ‘80s, the series is being produced by J.J. Abrams (Alias, Star Wars: The Force Awakens). RuPaul Andre Charles, born in…
Pauly Shore was a ubiquitous presence in early ’90s on MTV and with modest box office hits like Encino Man and Son In Law, but was he ever really funny? It’s debatable (OK, it’s not really — he was annoying AF), but he was definitely inescapable. We haven’t really thought about him much since then,…
When beleaguered (to use a fave word of the president’s) White House communications director Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci was relieved of his duties this week after a mere 10 days on the job, our thoughts immediately turned to Mario Cantone. The comic actor, an Italian-American like Scaramucci, seemed a natural to portray the lively financier-turned-politician…
If you weren’t already looking forward to seeing Amy Sedaris offer her unique spin on good housekeeping, you probably will after watching this first preview clip. The comic actress, best known for her unforgettable turn as user-boozer-loser high school drop-in Jerri Blank in Strangers With Candy and countless guest appearances on sitcoms and talk shows,…
Melissa McCarthy might be out of her nighttime gig sending up former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live, but thankfully Mario Cantone has filled the comedy void as livewire Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci. The Sex and the City star has been employed by Comedy Central’s The President Show to ridicule portray…
