Juice WRLD. In a year that has felt like an extended waking nightmare, one of its biggest songs embraces the atmospheric psychosis while searching for some control. 19-year-old Chicago rapper Juice WRLD struck chart-gold with “Lucid Dreams,” his glum one-time SoundCloud freebie turned mainstream hit that has steadily hovered around the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, just below the big dogs like Travis Scott and Cardi B.
The 2018 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today they revealed their annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for their “New Faces” showcase. Like past years, the list includes categories for stand-up (New Faces of Comedy), sketch (New Faces: Characters), comedians without managers (New Faces: Unrepped), and last year’s new category for digital-content creators called “New Faces: Creators.” Check out the full list below, along with clips of each comedian:
Meme superstar Keanu Reeves is known for many things — being immortal, being sad, riding a horse through Brooklyn — but his infectious laughter is not really one of them (yes, there’s that one scene from The Devil’s Advocate, where he laughs like an air horn, but that doesn’t really count). Though maybe Keanu has been hiding his chuckles from us all these years because, according to Ali Wong, his laugh is super weird.
BET’s American Soul charts the creation and rise of Soul Train. In the early 1970s, Chicago DJ Don Cornelius had an idea: a program where black artists could showcase their talent and reap the benefits. In this exclusive clip from the show, Cornelius is pitching his idea to Gladys Knight (Kelly Rowland) who’s tired and irritable, and would rather be anywhere else. “I love Flip, but who owns his show?
Louie Country Drive Season 2 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Louie Country Drive Season 2 Episode 5 «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Last week, Louie received multiple Emmy nominations, including a surprising nod in the Best Comedy Actor category for Louis C.K. himself. Now, we all know that awards shows are nothing more than tackily moribund displays of self-satisfaction, and that they exist mostly to reward the rich, promote multinational conglomerations, and spawn hilarious animated GIFS.
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Angus Cloud, born Conor Angus Cloud Hickey. Angus Cloud, best known for playing sensitive bad boy Fezco on Euphoria, died at age 25. No cause of death was shared, but Cloud’s family said in a statement on July 31 that the actor had struggled with the loss of his father, whom he buried last week. “There was no one quite like Angus. He was too special, too talented and way too young to leave us so soon,” Euphoria creator Sam Levinson said in a statement, per Variety.
Welshman Michael Sheen broke out in the U.S. as Tony Blair in 2006’s The Queen, then followed it up with a juicy role as journalist Sir David Frost in another Best Picture nominee, Frost/Nixon. But it’s safe to say that most people probably recognize Sheen as Aro, the telepathic leader of the Volturi vampire clan in a little movie called New Moon. Down the line, he can be seen as a nightclub host in Tron: Legacy and again as Blair (for the third time!
Ivan Reitman has always worked best with a charismatic front man. Back when he had Bill Murray star in his films (Ghostbusters, Stripes, Meatballs), sloppy timing and bantamweight premises were part of the charm: There are worse directorial strategies than “get out of Murray’s way and let him do his magic.” But such an approach falters when, say, a lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger is the star (Kindergarten Cop). And though Kevin Costner could have been the right guy to work with Reitman during the actor’s Bull Durham era, these days his famous lopsided smile has been supplanted by an omnipresent scowl.
Golden Globes hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey zinged the HFPA for their lack of Black members. Remember the Golden Globes? You know, the awards show that had ratings that were a third of last year’s, that’s voting body has zero Black members (and hasn’t for over 20 years), and that last week received a letter from over 100 PR firms threatening to withhold access to their celeb clients if changes didn’t happen?