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9 months ago
NYC music

Wes Anderson's Best Needle Drops

Image Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums.She's always late, but worth waiting for.Credit...Touchstone Pictures One day when I was 14, I stayed home sick from school and watched a weird little movie called Rushmore on Comedy Central.When it was over, I thought to myself, Oh, so that's what a director does.
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AdExchanger
10 months ago
Marketing tech

Advertisers Love Their CTV ... Despite Programmatic Landmines

Connected TV may be online advertising's go-to golden child - when the industry isn't busy fawning over that other shiny object, retail media.Insider predicts this year will mark the first time US adults spend more time watching digital video than traditional linear television.But buyers beware.CTV buys can be risky, said Chris Kane, founder of Jounce Media, speaking at AdExchanger's Programmatic IO event in Las Vegas last week.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Now in its 10th season, John Oliver's 'Last Week' is still as fresh and funny as ever

Oliver rarely has guests, so the HBO show relies on him to sell both the jokes and the facts which he does, always counter-punching with a punchline whenever things start getting too serious.DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR.John Oliver spent several years as the senior British correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," then guest hosted for Stewart for two months in 2013.
Exchangewire
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Pixalate's CTV Ad Fraud Series: App 'Spoofing' Could Cost Advertisers $135M (111.7m)in 2022

Pixalate, which holds MRC accreditation for sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) detection and filtration across CTV inventory, analysed open programmatic advertising intended for more than 4,000 Roku and Amazon Fire TV CTV apps during Q2 2022 and found that app "spoofing" - a sophisticated form of invalid traffic (IVT), or ad fraud - in which one app masquerades itself as another - impacts 3% (Roku) to 5% (Amazon) of ad impressions purportedly served on these devices.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Jane Doe's sexual assault and sex-trafficking lawsuit comes back to haunt Snoop Dogg

The Orange County woman who sued Snoop Dogg and Bishop Don "Magic" Juan and others earlier this year - alleging sexual assault, sex trafficking and more - refiled her lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, just three months after her attorney requested that the case be dismissed without prejudice.
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Vulture
10 months ago
Writing

Comedian Samantha Irby Doesn't Want the Che Diaz Treatment

Samantha Irby knows how to write in many mediums.The No. 1 New York Times best-selling author has published several books of personal essays.She's written for TV shows like Shrill and And Just Like That ..., the Sex and the City reboot, and about what it felt like to almost turn one of her books of essays into a TV show itself.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Arts

MTV News shut down as Paramount Global cuts 25% of its staff

MTV News is shutting down, part of broader cost-cutting measures being implemented by its parent company Paramount Global.Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The entertainment world is bidding farewell to MTV News.The network's heyday ended years ago but, for a time, it was the go-to source for interviews with leading artists and newsmakers, from Madonna to Prince.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Arts

MTV Movie & TV Awards cancels its live show over writers' strike

A view of the MTV Awards signage onstage during the 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.Unlike in previous years, this year's awards show will not be broadcast live.Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images This year's MTV Movie & TV Awards will not be broadcast live on Sunday.
www.npr.org
11 months ago
Arts

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening and viewing

Michelle Yeoh, winner of the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for Everything Everywhere All at Once at the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, Calif.Mallory Yu recommends The Criterion Channel's "Starring Michelle Yeoh Collection."Mike Coppola/Getty Images This week, we remembered Harry Belafonte, looked at Apple Music's new attempt to bring Bach the classics, and got a preview of the upcoming Zelda game.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

'Wait Wait' for June 18, 2022: With Not My Job guest Sean Hayes

This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Sean Hayes and panelists Bobcat Goldthwait, Maeve Higgins and Brian Babylon.
Creative Bloq
10 months ago
Graphic design

The freakiest AI art of 2023 (so far)

Ah, AI art.The technology has developed so phenomenally fast that it feels it can't possibly be only around 12 months since we started talking about the latest generation of text-to-image generators.No doubt, in another year things will have advanced even further, ironing out some of those strange artefacts that appear in AI art.
IndieWire
10 months ago
Independent films

This Late-Night Talk Show Has Non-WGA Writers and Is Still on the Air

Fox News Channel's "Gutfeld!" will remain on television amid the writers strike for all your Joe Biden fart-jokes needs.Late-night TV talk shows have gone dark due to the WGA writers strike - well, all except one.Fox News Channel's " Gutfeld!" (the exclamation point is theirs) will remain on television.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Trevor Noah's Take on Russia's Sham Referendums in Ukraine

"I mean, it is one thing to conquer a town and blow up their buildings but to make them do paperwork?There is evil and then there's evil," Noah said.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Primetime Emmys 2022: The full list of nominees

Emmy statue seen at the Television Academy in Los Angeles for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Here's the full list of 74th Primetime Emmy Award nominees.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Trevor Noah Rips Russia for Brittney Griner Sentence

"We all know Russia doesn't care about what Brittney Griner did," Noah said, calling Russia "the same country that's breaking every human rights law on the planet."
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Trevor Noah Calls Out Rudy Giuliani for Being 'Thirsty'

"Yeah, Rudy made so many unanswered calls, the iPhone started labeling him as spam," Noah said.
Nytimes
2 years ago
Television

Trevor Noah: Addressing Congress, Zelensky 'Knew His Audience'

Ukraine's president must have researched American history before his speech, said Noah (who speculated about how it "could have gone very wrong").
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

Comedy Central's Digman! is Another Gem from The Lonely Island | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

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Andy Samberg co-created the show with Neil Campbell (the two previously collaborated on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), and the writing is well within Samberg's comedic output with his trio The Lonely Island ( Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are executive producers here).Like " Hot Rod" did for delusional stunt people and "Popstar: Never Stop Popping" did for delusional pop stars, this one builds upon the even more absurd, less familiar trope of hot-shot archaeologists.
Eater LA
1 year ago
LA food

LA's Newest Food Hall Stars Bring West African Cooking and Dry-Aged Sushi to Culver City

In March, Citizen Public Market in Culver City welcomes two new vendors to the food hall's line-up: Ilé Bistro and Uoichiba.Ilé Bistro comes from chef Tolu Eros of Ilé LA, a fine dining pop-up celebrating West African cooking and culture.Ilé Bistro promises to be a more approachable and casual sister concept highlighting Eros's two signature dishes, jollof rice and pepper soup, with customized spice levels and proteins available.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

South Park takes dig at Meghan and Harry in new episode

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have become the latest inspiration for an episode of the US cartoon South Park, which features a copy of a book entitled Waaagh.
Funcheap
1 year ago
San Francisco

Live in San Francisco: A Stand Up Comedy Show (HBO, Hulu, +)

- 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Cost: FREE Sunday, March 5, 2023 Milk Bar | 1840 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA
Submitted by the Event Organizer
About this event..You looking for a night out with some drinks and some laughs?Want to hangout with the crew and have a fun evening in the city?Welcome to our comedy shows.
time.com
1 year ago
Music

Everything to Know about the 2023 Grammy Awards

The 2023 Grammy Awards are set to take place this Sunday, Feb. 5 at the Crypto.comArena in Los Angeles.The nominations, announced back in November, include some major face-offs at this year's ceremony: Adele and Beyonce both released massive, record-breaking albums last year which now hold nominations in the many of the same categories including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston Celtics

6 things to know about new Celtics signing Blake Griffin

Griffin was once one of the league's best players and has already developed a career outside of basketball.
Funcheap
1 year ago
NYC drinking

"HellaSecret" SF Outdoor Comedy Night & Secret Beer Garden (Marina)

We've got a new covered secret beer garden to introduce you to for HellaSecret - a new series of pop-up live outdoor comedy shows at unique spots all across the bay.We'll take over a venue and you'll get an email with the secret location.This new HellaSecret comedy show takes place in a large covered secret backyard patio in the Marina turned into a country-fied pop-up comedy club with a 14 foot pitched red barn roof overhead, string lights, heaters, picnic-style tables and wine barrels with bar stools.
Funcheap
1 year ago
NYC drinking

"HellaSecret" SF Outdoor Comedy Night & Secret Beer Garden (Marina)

We've got a new covered secret beer garden to introduce you to for HellaSecret - a new series of pop-up live outdoor comedy shows at unique spots all across the bay.We'll take over a venue and you'll get an email with the secret location.This new HellaSecret comedy show takes place in a large covered secret backyard patio in the Marina turned into a country-fied pop-up comedy club with a 14 foot pitched red barn roof overhead, string lights, heaters, picnic-style tables and wine barrels with bar stools.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Return of "Inside Amy Schumer" is welcome, even when it's inconsistent

Amy Schumer in a scene from "Inside Amy Schumer" season 5.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Jon Stewart says the 'fragility of leaders' is the real threat to humor

Jon Stewart accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Scott Suchman/The Kennedy Center Mark Twain once said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Trevor Noah Is Inspired by Trump's Camera Work

Noah joked on Thursday that Trump gets away with so much criminal activity, "it just shows us we could do crime, too."
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Late Night Condemns Florida's Ban on Math Books for 'Prohibited Topics'

Trevor Noah joked that he wished math text books had critical race theory so "we could have solved racism by cheating and going to the back of the book."
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Late Night Isn't Thrilled About Elon Musk's Attempted Twitter Takeover

Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter
"He is super smart, definitely, but he admits that he also loves dumb jokes, so we don't know how this could turn out," Trevor Noah said of the Tesla C.E.O.
Nytimes
2 years ago
Television

How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

"Drive to Survive" is back, as is a dark Amazon comedy about the afterlife.
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'Corporate' When to watch: Now, on Paramount+.
Nytimes
2 years ago
Television

Late Night Casts Doubt on the Russian-Ukrainian Peace Talks

Trevor Noah warned viewers not to get their hopes up: "Not only did Russia not agree to end the war; it wouldn't even admit that it started a war."
Nytimes
2 years ago
Television

Trevor Noah: Russia Loves Playing Chess

Noah said Russia has been preparing to play chess while Americans "love dumb games now," poking fun at a preference for Wordle.
www.indiewire.com
1 year ago
Independent films

'Inside Amy Schumer' Season 5 Trailer: Amy Schumer Is the Mother of All Comedy

Ellie Kemper, Olivia Munn, Cazzie David, and Tim Meadows guest star in the Paramount+ sketch series.
screenshot/Paramount+ Amy Schumer is ready to dive back into herself.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

After 7 Years on 'The Daily Show,' Trevor Noah Says 'It's Time' to Depart

I'm not disappearing.If I owe you money, I'll still pay you," Noah joked.Give this article Give this article Give this article "I've never been good at goodbyes," Noah said during his surprise announcement on Thursday.Credit... Comedy Central Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep - and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Trevor Noah announced his departure from "The Daily Show" on Thursday, almost seven years to the day since he took over from Jon Stewart.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Trevor Noah Covers Liz Cheney's 'Bigly' Loss

Noah said her defeat in a primary was "the chance for Wyoming Republicans to declare whether they stood with Liz Cheney or with Donald Trump, and they answered bigly."
Nytimes
2 years ago
Television

Late Night Gapes at Biden's Calling Putin a 'War Criminal'

A Kremlin spokesman pointed the finger back at the U.S. for World War II bombings, and Trevor Noah joked, "Keep up with the times, yo!"
Nytimes
2 years ago
Television

Late Night Recaps Biden's Annual 'Status Update'

Trevor Noah joked Biden's speech was "like a birthday card from a 4-year-old: A lot of words didn't make sense, but you got what it was trying to say."
FanSided
1 year ago
National Football League

Tyrann Mathieu joins Tyreek Hill by utterly betraying Patrick Mahomes with Aaron Rodgers comparison

Former Kansas City Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu is the latest ex-Chief to make assertions that Patrick Mahomes is lacking at the quarterback position.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Music

Lizzo, Jack Harlow to perform at MTV Video Music Awards in Newark

It's about damn time.
Lizzo will give her first performance at the MTV Video Music Awards since 2019 during this month's ceremony at the Prudential Center in Newark, organizers announced Tuesday.
The Real Deal Los Angeles
1 year ago
LA real estate

Related Companies Lists Argyle House In Hollywood For Sale

Related California has listed an 18-story luxury apartment building in the heart of Hollywood for an undisclosed price.
Fatherly
7 years ago
Fathers

41. Viacom: The Best Places To Work For New Dads In 2016

Viacom is a global media and entertainment company with networks you watch all the time - like Comedy Central - and one network you're about to start watching all the time - Nickelodeon.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

5 Things to Do This Weekend

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

5 Things to Do This Weekend

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
BuzzFeed
1 year ago
Books

People Are Sharing The Book They Wish They Could Re-Read For The First Time, And They're So Good

"Ten years later, the twist is something that I'm still not over."
Washingtonian
2 years ago
Washington DC

Dave Chappelle Will Feature Two DC Comedians in Netflix Specials | Washingtonian (DC)

Earthquake and Donnell Rawlings will be featured in episodes of "Chappelle's Home Team."
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