How Kanye Helped Bo Burnham Go From Having Panic Attacks Onstage to a Creative Breakthrough to Making Eighth Grade

There is a moment in “Can’t Handle This,” Bo Burnham’s Kanye West–inspired closer to his last special, 2016’s Make Happy, where he sings through Auto-Tune, “I can sit here and sing like my biggest problems are Pringles cans and burritos, but the truth is, my biggest problem’s you.” At that

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Fred Armisen Whipped It Good With Devo This Weekend

You don’t have to take Culver to the 1 and then hang a right at the Jamba Juice to appreciate this musical collaboration. Fred Armisen, who does lots of fun music stuff outside of his comedic projects, joined your favorite eccentric rockers, Devo, on drums for their concert at the

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Snowpiercer TV Series Is Being Plagued by, Uh, Its Director Hating and Quitting the Series

Don’t let this news pierce through your dystopian-loving heart too much. Drama is continuing to adversely affect TNT’s long-gestating Snowpiercer adaptation, as the show’s director, Scott Derrickson, has decided to quit the series and refuse to return for re-shoots. THR reports that Derrickson was hired to direct the initial pilot

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How a Comedian Managed to Impersonate a Senator and Talk With Donald Trump

Last week, comedian John Melendez — perhaps best known for his work on The Howard Stern Show — posted a series of tweets that outlined how he managed to have a phone conversation with President Trump while pretending to be Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey. Melendez’s account has since

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Alec Baldwin Is Going to Need You to Get Personally Involved in Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe

There is a lot going on right now, too much really, an infinite amount of things to mentally work through and respond to at the present moment. But if you ask Alec Baldwin, there’s one issue the American people definitely shouldn’t lose track of: Robert Mueller’s investigation into allegations of

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings a Hamilton Lullaby at Saturday’s Families Belong Together Protest

One of thousands who turned out for Saturday’s Families Belong Together March, Lin-Manuel Miranda dedicated an a cappella rendition of Hamilton’s “Dear Theodosia” to the migrant parents separated from their children after crossing the border into the United States from Mexico. “We’re here because there’s parents right now who can’t

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Andy Samberg ‘Proud To Know’ Terry Crews Following Senate Testimony

Between testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights and having to publicly defend why he didn’t “beat up” Adam Venit, the WME agent who allegedly groped the actor, Terry Crews just had an extremely hard week. Hopefully, he’ll be encouraged to

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GLOW Season-Finale Recap: Road Warriors

The best ’80s rom coms, and even some of the cheesiest, share a starry-eyed belief bordering on entitlement that love — and power ballads — can conquer all. By the ’90s, that sentiment soured and curdled as the culture collectively cringed at ‘80s myopia. But in recent years, we’ve become

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