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When last we left the corrosive Roy family in the Succession Season Two finale, prodigal son Kendall (Jeremy Strong) had just publicly accused cruel patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) of being complicit in their company’s pattern of heinous sexual and human rights abuse. When the HBO Emmy winner finally returns after a two-year, Covid-related absence, Logan gets Kendall on the phone to congratulate him on temporarily outmaneuvering his old man, and wonders what he wants in exchange for his renewed loyalty. Kendall insists that they are no longer on the same...

Pete Davidson recapped the Met Gala and poked fun at his own attire — the comedian wore a dress of sorts to the “elitist” event — during his appearance on Saturday Night Live’s first Weekend Update of the new season. “It was amazing. I got to go to the coolest event of the year, and I can now say, I’ve been in a museum,” Davidson said of attending the gala. As for his attire — a black-and-white tunic ensemble by designer Thom Browne — Davidson joked, “That’s a cool dress....

Michael Che and Colin Jost paid tribute to former Saturday Night Live cast member — and Weekend Update anchor — Norm Macdonald during the first Weekend Update of the show’s 47th season. Following jokes about the R. Kelly trial, the Met Gala and a masturbating chimpanzee, Che and Jost devoted the final minute of the segment to vintage Macdonald clips: zingers about President Clinton’s marriage, a poorly planned airport and a French building-climber known as the “Snakeman.” But it was Macdonald’s favorite target that wrapped up the homage — a barb...

Seinfeld finally arrived on Netflix Friday, and while all 180 episodes are now available on the streaming service, some jokes didn’t make the cut, literally. As noted on social media, some of the visual gags from the series have been cropped out due to the series’ now-16:9 aspect ratio that updates the picture for HD televisions, as opposed to its original and boxier 4:3 ratio from when the series first broadcast on TV. The cropping is most visible in the episode “The Pothole,” where instead of searching for his keys...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Live from New York … it’s finally time for another season of Saturday Night Live. SNL returns to Studio 8H for its 47th season this weekend, with host Owen Wilson and musical guest Kacey Musgraves. Don’t want to miss the premiere’s hilarious sketches? Here’s your guide to streaming SNL online for free this fall — from Hulu to...

A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Midnight Train to Royston,” coming up just as soon as you make my eyebrows less crazy… Midway through “Midnight Train to Royston,” Rebecca enters Ted’s office to tell him about her affair with Sam. After Ted makes the obligatory Cheers joke(*), he advises her to follow both her heart and her gut on the matter, then observes that it was roughly this time last year when she came into the same room to confess her true motive for hiring him to coach the...

Jon Stewart’s new Apple TV+ series The Problem With Jon Stewart opens with him meeting with his producers to discuss the topic of their first episode: military veterans enduring severe health problems from their exposure to burn pits — literal trash fires filled with toxic chemicals and other waste that shouldn’t be burned — during their deployment overseas. Head writer Chelsea Devantez recalls that Stewart got the idea from a Daily Show episode where he interviewed 9/11 first responders suffering similar effects from being around the hazardous fumes emanating from...

Dave Chappelle returns with the sixth and final chapter for his Netflix stand-up specials, The Closer. It arrives on October 5th. The special follows The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation, and Sticks & Stones — for which he earned three Grammys in the Best Comedy Album category. In a teaser, he posits comedians have a responsibility “to speak recklessly.” “Sometimes the funniest thing to say is mean,” he tells the audience. “Remember, I’m not saying it to be mean, I’m saying it because...

William Shatner is unlike just about any other 90-year-old man on the planet. Not only does he keep busy as the host of The UnXplained on the History Channel, but he also finds time to appear at Star Trek conventions, and work on his horse-breeding business. He’s also reportedly heading up to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. If that wasn’t enough, he maintains a busy career as a recording artist. In the past few years, he’s tackled everything from blues and country to prog-rock on his...

Larry David promises he hasn’t changed a bit in a new teaser for the 11th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which will premiere October 24th on HBO. The new 30-second teaser opens with a dramatic shot of the Earth from space and the text, “The world has changed…” Set to the iconic opening horns of Richard Strauss’ “Also sprach Zarathustra” — otherwise known as the 2001: A Space Odyssey song — the globe slowly transforms into the unmistakable bald head of Larry David and the text returns, “…He hasn’t.”  Cue,...

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver broke down the attacks on voters’ rights through new, restrictive laws passed in over a dozen states. “I know that those pushing these bills claim that critics of them are completely distorting what is inside them and that any objections can simply be cleared up by a basic step,” Oliver says, citing calls from those defending the new voting bills to simply read them. “If you do actually read these bills, you quickly find that they absolutely make it harder to vote and...

Saturday Night Live will welcome three new featured players to its cast this season, including James Austin Johnson, who went viral for his front-facing camera impressions of Donald Trump.  Johnson has been a regular in the Los Angeles comedy scene and appeared in shows like Tuca and Bertie and the Coen Brothers movie, Hail Caesar. But during the 2020 election, he regularly went viral with videos where he’d bust out a pitch-perfect Trump voice and go on rambling tangents about everything from Scooby-Doo, to Weird Al Yankovic’s feud with Coolio, to...

“Work,” one of her employers tells Alex, the heroine of Netflix’s fantastic new limited series Maid, “is the one thing you can count on. Everything else is fragile.” It’s an apt sentiment for both Alex (Margaret Qualley) and Maid itself, a limited series about the value — financial and psychological — of hard work. After Alex leaves an abusive relationship with Sean (Nick Robinson) and finds herself and her daughter, Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet), homeless, large swaths of Maid follow her as she cleans houses and fights her way through...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The lights have finally gone up on Broadway once more, with the 74th annual Tony Awards airing on September 26 after a lengthy postponement and a dark theater season. The four-hour event will herald the return to Broadway, as many shows have started to open their doors for the 2021 season (and in the case of Beetlejuice, come...