Television

On Monday, Stephen Colbert addressed the recent arrests of seven Late Show staffers — including the comedian behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — at a U.S. Capitol office building in Washington, D.C. last week. Last Thursday, a Late Show production team and Triumph puppeteer Robert Smigel were spotted around the Capitol filming a segment during the third day of the Jan. 6 hearings. Later that evening, after the building was closed to the public, the group either remained in or returned to the Longworth House Office Building to film additional...

“I don’t really care about movies,” the man says, nervously wringing his hands together. “I used to…but not anymore. Maybe it’ll come back?” It’s not an uncommon sentiment to hear in the Year of Our Lord 2022. What makes that comment stand out, however, is that it’s being delivered by a French filmmaker who’s sitting on the set of his latest movie. He’s admitting this to the A-list American star he’s just met and has employed, at great expense, to play the lead in it. The young woman smiles and...

John Oliver began his main story by defining housing in the United States as “the thing that 16-year-old TikTok millionaires can afford, and you can’t.” This week’s episode of Last Week Tonight only got more infuriating from there. More than a third of U.S. households are currently renters, which is a problem for a whole bunch of inequity-related reasons. But as many news stories in the past couple of years have pointed out, being a renter is hard and getting harder — in the past year alone rents have risen...

Seven Late Show With Stephen Colbert staffers — including the comedian behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — were arrested Thursday night at a U.S. Capitol office building in Washington, D.C. Earlier in the day, the production team and Triumph puppeteer Robert Smigel were spotted around the Capitol filming a segment during the third day of the open Jan. 6 hearings; Triumph’s Twitter page also shared photos of the cigar-chomping dog on hand in the Capitol: If this Greg Jacob guy gets indicted he may be a flight risk #youseebecauseofhisenormousears pic.twitter.com/PTIgSuHGts...

In any other cultural moment, the satire embedded in Amazon Prime’s endlessly entertaining, blood-spattered superhero show The Boys might seem heavy-handed. But in 2022, its near-nihilist depiction of a deluded public rooting for an all-powerful class of elites who couldn’t care less about them almost feels like a documentary, albeit with superpowers, eviscerations, and really weird sex stuff thrown in. In the show (based on, and vastly improving, an indie comic series co-created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson), the sinister Vought International dominates both pop culture and the wider...

Rob Kardashian’s disputed claim he reached a binding settlement agreement with Blac Chyna to end her “revenge porn” lawsuit was rejected by a Los Angeles judge on Thursday. That means Chyna’s allegation Kardashian illegally posted private naked photos of her on Instagram in July 2017 is back on track, barreling toward jury selection set to begin Monday in a public civil trial that Kardashian had hoped to avoid. The denial of Kardashian’s motion to enforce settlement was confirmed in a minute order posted on the court’s website Thursday evening. Lawyers...

In the latest edition of Jimmy Kimmel’s “Mean Tweets,” the late-night host has tapped a slew of NBA players to read negative opinions about themselves on air. Everyone from Russell Westbrook to Anthony Edwards to Jalen Suggs participated in “Mean Tweets – NBA Edition 2022” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. In the clip, Westbrook kicks things off, reading, “Russell Westbrook dresses like a 70 year old uncle with a timeshare in Florida.” The Lakers played replies, “I’m a fresh 70 year old, I’ll tell you that much.” Edwards seems confused as...

The title of FX’s The Old Man doesn’t really tell you what kind of show it is. It could be a wacky multicamera sitcom about an ill-behaving senior citizen who gets kicked out of his retirement home and has to move in with his hipster grandson. It could be a whimsical dramedy about a retiree figuring out how to fill his days. Or it could be what it actually is: a thriller starring Jeff Bridges as a renegade former CIA operative who has to kill a lot of people when...

For everyone who tuned into Squid Game and left the series not with a deeper understanding of the violence of capitalism, but with an over-confident belief that you’d be able to win the whopping cash prize — you’re in luck. Netflix has announced it’s begun recruiting for Squid Game: The Challenge, a 10-episode reality series in which 456 people will enter a real-life re-creation of the game with a $4.56 million reward at stake. The network is searching for English-language speakers to participate in a series of challenges inspired by...

Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and Kylie Jenner filed paperwork through their attorney to request the money Blac Chyna owes them, following the $100 million defamation and contract interference lawsuit that she lost. According to documents obtained by Rolling Stone, the family is seeking over $390,000 in legal fees that the family expensed throughout the two-week trial. (In May, a Los Angeles jury found the Kardashian-Jenner women owed no damages to Chyna.) The requested costs on the lower end cover filing and motion fees, jury fees, service of process,...

The ultimate mystery-solving/podcasting/comedy trio of Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short are back in the new trailer for Season Two of Only Murders in the Building, set to premiere June 28 on Hulu. Season Two picks up right after the events of the Season One finale (spoilers ahead), with Mabel (Gomez), Charles (Martin), and Oliver (Short) implicated in the homicide of their building’s Board President, Bunny. The new trailer finds the trio scrambling to prove their innocence, tie up loose ends still dangling from their previous mystery, and figure...

The official teaser trailer for Issa Rae’s Rap Sh!t introduces the chaotic adventures of Shawna (Aida Osman) and Mia (KaMillion) through the lens of Instagram – and it’s one story you won’t want to click through. The preview of the comedy series, which arrives on HBO Max on July 21, is part Instagram Live and part Instagram Story. Based in Miami, Rap Sh!t follows estranged friends Mia and Shawna as they reunite years after high school to form a rap duo à la City Girls, whose Yung Miami and JT...

One of Ray Liotta’s final projects before his death is coming to Apple TV+. The streaming service unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller series Black Bird on Wednesday, starring Liotta as a disappointed father to a troubled Taron Egerton. The trailer opens with the voice of the late actor speaking to his son Jimmy Keene, played by Egerton, now in prison. “I never wanted this for you,” Liotta says as Big Jim. “I wanted a totally different life. A steady paycheck. Kids. A family.” “Dad. Tell me there’s...