Author: Michael

Robert De Niro made a surprise appearance during Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” but not as himself, as the Oscar winner portrayed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a late-night bit. As Kimmel addressed his yearlong feud with the FCC during Wednesday’s monologue amid the show’s “Brooklyn Week,” De Niro appeared onstage in a navy suit, carrying a baseball bat. “I don’t know if you know this, but the last time we were here in Brooklyn, we were just getting back on the air after we had that unexpected FCC vacation week,” Kimmel said. “And while I would like to…

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“South Park” may have a new name, “South America,” but Season 29 of the animated comedy is back to taking the same biting shots at Donald Trump. During Wednesday’s episode for “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone brought back the AI deepfake-version of Trump as a way to mock the billionaires of “Weenietown.” As was teased heading into Wednesday night, the new episode followed Butters as he dealt with a literal “Billionaire Weenietown” in his backyard. Specifically, the South Park youth dealt with a number of cartoonish disembodied penises as they destroyed the area with their data centers. Butter…

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In January, Matt Damon caused a stir when he appeared with Ben Affleck on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said Netflix urged the duo to restate the plot of the film “three or four times” and for the sake of distracted audience. The comment struck a chord because viewers have long suspected such a directive (just watch the final season of “Stranger Things), but Affleck, appearing at the Bloomberg Screentime conference on Wednesday night, set the record straight. “I’ve never met anybody who’s had a note that idiotic and brazen,” Affleck said, arguing that he and Damon had tried to debunk…

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