The Billboard Music Awards were a thing of beauty this evening. We had Nicki Minaj lap dances, Prince and Miguel going absolutely ape sh*t during his performance. The “Adorn” singer came out to the stage like a ball of fire and was obviously “turnt up” as the kids say. Read the rest of this entry »
Don Draper has gone insane, the entire Sterling Cooper Draper Last Name Last Name Another Last Name staff is on butt drugs, people are f*cking in the office, grandmas are robbing small children, and Pete’s off planning his next Prickish Pete Plan — and yet all I want to think about is Little Kenny Cosgrove’s dance.
Full Mad Men recap tomorrow, assuming Cajun can stop coughing, but until then, tap dance the night away…
Joffrey Baratheon: Terrible king, worse replacement father of the bride. And for those of us (i.e. everyone) who can’t get enough of him getting his comeuppance, Tyrion once again (in the face of all new levels of drunkenness) stole tonight’s episode of Game of Thrones with an epic rebuttal of The King’s scheming. Spoiler alert: knife threatening stare down techniques were involved.
Josh will of course be here will your full Game of Thrones recap tomorrow morning, but until then let’s re-live that satisfying moment over and over until way better GIFs are available (I’ll update, swear).
If the first thing you thought when you spotted Vice President Selena Meyers’ ex-husband on Veep was, “Hey! That’s Adrien Brody!” you’re not alone. It’s been a common mistake through comedian David Pasquesi’s career as a bit player in movies and television shows. In fact, the third and fifth Google image search suggestion when you type in David Pasquesi is “Adrien Brody” and “Adrian Brody.” Given Brody’s career of late, he probably got more Google searches tonight than he has in years.
Per usual, we’ll bring all best lines from Veep tomorrow.
In the hype surrounding the season finales of The Office and New Girl (and every episode of Game of Thrones), there was a certain TV milestone we didn’t cover as well as we should have this week: Bob’s Burgers. What about Bob’s Burgers, specifically? Well, it just completed one of the strongest sitcom seasons in some time.
Every episode was an A- or better, not only because of the continued genius of H. Jon Benjamin and Linda’s ever-magical songs, but also because of Tina Belcher, voiced to droll perfection by Dan Mintz. (The list of reasons why Bob’s Burgers is great could go on for awhile.) In honor of the coolest 13-year-old dork with a passion for zombies only rivaled by her infatuation for butts, today’s GIFs of the Week is dedicated to “Bad Tina.”
While most of you suffered through graduation speeches from former deans and, ugh, SENATORS, University of Virginia students were treated to remarks from none other than Stephen Colbert. For over 17 minutes, The Colbert Report host discussed UVA’s high party school ranking in Playboy (“I only read Playboy for the rankings”), the university’s ousted then rehired president (“I want to thank president Teresa Sullivan. You are way better than that last president, Teresa Sullivan, she was terrible”), and self-obsessed millennials (“Your generation needs everything to be about you…and that’s very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing”).
But Colbert saved his most inspiring material for the end: “I believe we have given you a gift, a particular form of independence,” he said, referring to the Steely Dan demographic, “because you do not owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us, you owe it to the Chinese.” Haha, we’re doomed. Hear the whole thing below.
It’s easy to bag on Saturday Night Live for their musical guests, but just as the “SNL isn’t as funny as it used to be” argument is played out and incorrect, history often looks kindly at the artists the show books. Take, for instance, last year: yes, there was the Karmin fiasco and One Direction should never have performed on the same stage that Fear once did and Lana Del Rey hadn’t yet thawed out of her accidental ice shell, but otherwise, solid. Radiohead, the Black Keys, Robyn, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, Jack White, the Shins, Arcade Fire, Usher, the Rolling Stones — even if you don’t like a lot of those bands (*coughcoldplaycough*), it’s not as if they were unworthy of performing on SNL.
In a year, when we look back at season 38 of SNL, which ended last night, how many miscues will we count? Justin Bieber, definitely, and probably Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and fun.; otherwise, not too shabby. Rarely spectacular, usually good, briefly awful, not unlike SNL itself. Here are seven of the season’s best performances.
Last night’s SNL was never really about Ben Affleck, and he knew it. It was an important episode for both the show’s future — definitely no more Bill Hader, probably no more Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen — and its present, snagging one of the world’s most famous musicians right before he releases his mega-hyped new album, and Affleck was more than happy to support rather than lead. Even his cold open, in which he shared the stage with Bobby Moynihan and later, his wife, instead of any members of the Five Timers’ Club, subtly acknowledged this.
That’s Affleck at his best, though. Like any good director, he knows it’s best to highlight your strengths, and while he’s not a bad comedic performer, he’s no Bill Hader or Cecily Strong, either, so might as well let them run with it and you do whatever you can to give them a foundation to bounce off of. So, yes, this was a very good, very good emotional season finale of SNL with one major caveat: WHERE THE F*CK WAS MY WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?
We’ll have a full SNL recap tomorrow (well, in eight hours from now), but until then, please feel free to relive Stefon’s final appearance, for now at least. It’s that thing where…Stefon almost marries Anderson Cooper in front of all his best friends, including Menorah the Explorer and Gizblow, but instead runs away with Seth Meyers.
He began as Ben Affleck’s brother, he ended in love with Seth in an episode hosted by Ben Affleck. #america
