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Bill Maher has a bone to pick with his fellow progressives. The comedian says America has made major cultural strides, from race relations to women’s rights, since the 1960s. It’s undeniable, even though some progressives…
Tina Fey isn’t lacking for work. The “Saturday Night Live” hit the ground running after leaving the NBC institution. She created and starred in NBC’s Emmy-winning “30 Rock” and produced Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” in…
Peter Webb’s “Give My Regards to Broad Street” (1984) was seen as a major misstep and commercial setback for its star, writer and producer, Paul McCartney. In fact, nearly every biography on the former Beatle…
The minds behind the Oscars care deeply about addressing the diversity divide in Hollywood. That explains the new rules, which kicked in this year, demanding Best Picture nominees check select Identity Politics boxes to qualify…
Hollywood won’t go near Hunter Biden. Late-night comedians barely mention the First Son in any comical way. Neither will “Saturday Night Live.” Studios ignore his outrageous actions, captured on a notorious laptop that would have…
Neal Brennan is a man of the Left, but he has something many of his peers lack. Self-awareness. The stand-up comedian and co-creator of the legendary “Chappelle’s Show” opened up to the “Triggernometry” podcast about…
Ricky Gervais mulls the end of humanity in his Netflix special “Armageddon.” Pandemics. Nuclear war. Climate Change. It all could happen someday, he argues. The British comic’s material hopes to extinguish a more current threat…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and that’s especially true in Hollywood. The industry loves to clone its success stories. 1978’s “Halloween” inspired the “Friday the 13th” series along with other slasher films. “Star…
Another year, another struggle to select enough movies worthy of a “Best of” list. This critic found most of the critic-bait selections to be either merely good (“May December,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Priscilla,”…
Comedian Lou Perez doesn’t deny Cancel Culture’s existence like some of his peers. Perez, part of the Comedy Is Murder sketch series, understands the cultural forces at play. He just refuses to be bowed by…