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6 hours agoDid Jack Black and "SNL" Crack the Code of Male Friendship?
Friendship in adulthood is challenging but beneficial for health, as highlighted in a humorous SNL sketch featuring Jack Black and socially awkward men.
Jack Black shared that he was unaware of who his musical counterpart would be for the SNL episode until he received a call from Jack White. Black recalled, 'He was like, 'What do you think, should we do this SNL thing?' I was like, 'What are you talking about?' And he was like, 'Wait, they didn't tell you?' I was like, 'No, you're going to be the musical guest?'
This season on 'Deli Boys,' the Dars are drowning in dirty cash and Philly's sketchiest crooks are circling. Enter Max Sugar: casino king, money launderer, and Lucky's new crush who turns laundering into a chaotic situationship.
It's insane. Never thought I'd have a beer. Never thought I would drink a beer, honestly. Now I have one. White's brew stands as one of the featured libations in Sam Adams' new 'Our City. Our Beer' lineup - with Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet, former New England Patriots wideout Julian Edelman, and Boston Bruins legend Zdeno Chara also getting their own beers as part of the brewery's announcement.
The discoverability problem is that the medium still hasn't figured out a reliable, easily reproducible way to capture and hold a listener's attention. It's easier to stumble upon video curated and served via algorithm than it is to click several buttons in a dedicated app in order to listen to a piece of audio.
I did in the earlier seasons know that this was a possibility. I wasn't by any means blindsided... it wasn't like I turned the page and gasped. I actually think they felt there was something happening that then became breadcrumbs as opposed to the other way around.
I went through a period in my 20s where I read all of Jim Thompson and all of those writers. I just went through and through and through all of that stuff, so I was pretty well-versed in the medium and the genre. I've never really done a day-to-day procedural before, but we balance it out with the relationship stuff that keeps it grounded and keeps it interesting for me to do.
A romcom fanatic, Foxx didn't quite get the quaint four-bedroom apartment in Bloomsbury he assumed he'd land when he moved to London, but he did, at least, get the guy: a tall, fit rugby lad, just his type, he tells us. Yet after several years of sort of bliss, sort of reluctant mothering on Foxx's part, the Julia Roberts meet-cute fantasy crumbled.
I've felt terrible ever since, because it's such a responsibility to not screw up like that, he said. I was naive, of course people are gonna pick that up. But I just felt it was kind of a private moment. I thought I was safe in the bubble. And it was so fast. If there was ever a too soon,' it was this, he added. And maybe I thought I was on it, or ahead of the curve. But no, it was definitely too soon.
From The Free Press, this is Honestly,' and I'm Bari Weiss, Dillon said as he pretended to host Weiss's Honestly podcast. Dillon then made savage fun of Weiss's politics. We started this podcast nine years ago because a white woman in Minnesota served a chicken quesadilla to a man and was immediately accused of cultural appropriation, Dillon said. That man's name was George Floyd.
Gray's Anatomy and Euphoria star Eric Dane passed away this week at the age of 53, and following his death it's been revealed that he was an interview subject for the Netflix series Famous Last Words, hosted by Brad Falchuk. Dane's interview was filmed in November 2025, and is streaming now.
The story kicks off in a diner when a man claiming to be from the future barges in with a detonator and a warning about an impending AI-fueled doom spiral - and from there, it only gets weirder. Richardson says she tore through the script in one sitting. "My agent said, 'Haley, there's a good script. We want you to do it,' which is rare," she explains. "And then I read it all in one sitting... which is also rare."
Davidson's debut episode, featuring Machine Gun Kelly, is assembled from the rough, requisite symbols of podcasting: host and guest sunk into plush, beat-up chairs vaguely facing each other, chatting and smoking cigarettes in a space that's presented as Davidson's garage, Benjamin Moore paint tubs doubling as an ashtray stand. Good pals, their conversation is loose and circuitous; their discussion drifts from adventures while getting high, stints in rehab, and - because this is the first episode - what a podcast even is.
The video podcast will release episodes weekly, beginning January 30 at 12:01 a.m. PT. Each episode will feature a "candid, no-holds-barred" conversation between Davidson and a pal that takes place in his garage, per Netflix. "Netflix was the home of one of my first stand-up specials," Davidson said in a statement, "so it felt right to bring the podcast there, too. It's me and my friends talking about anything and everything. It's going to be a great time."
Unfortunately, Matt's love of film is inconsistent with his real assignment, which is to make the most money possible while taking the fewest risks. And he believes in that, too, because he wants to keep his job and he loves the life it gives him. So in this world, the desire to make art and the desire to make money are in tension, but not because they put pure artists and mercenary suits on opposite sides. They are competing desires that exist inside the hearts and minds of many, if not most, of the people in the industry, just in different proportions.
Under the deal, Wayans will produce original content for the platform, appearing in livestreams, hosting interactive sessions and launching his own multiplayer Play Together room. His addition comes shortly after NBA star James Harden joined the company as its first Premier Creator, signaling a broader push to mix star power with online play. Best known for his long career as an actor, writer and producer, Wayans plans to use the platform to meet fans in a more direct way.
The new HBO series Rooster, according to the official description, is "a comedy set on a college campus centering on an author's ( Steve Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter (Charly Clive)." Carell is an author, you see, whose sex-filled novels have landed him a plum job as a college professor, despite the mess that's become of his personal life.
The former child actor talks about growing up on the Netflix show over the past decade, and says the first time he learned what a woman looked like "down there" was captured on camera during the show. We then cut to a clip of his character Mike seeing a Demogorgon open its monstrous jaws. You get it? Vaginas are scary! Like a flesh-eating monster!
And this is all in the Oscar nominee's first few minutes as the half-Klingon outlaw Nus Braka in the new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series. We meet the character when he frogmarched into a trial for the crimes of murder while perpetrating a robbery, with two catchpoles looped around his neck to keep him under control, like a wild animal. Except he is fully in control of his anti-social behavior. He's choosing violence, even while standing before a judge.
James Austin Johnson wasn't sure he was going to play Donald Trump during the lead-up to the 2024 election. He knew there would be a lot of eyeballs on those episodes; it was Saturday Night Live's 50th season, and there were plans to bring in stars to portray the key political players. So when it became clear that Johnson was being tapped for the gig, he felt the pressure.