Everybody’s got that one song, the one that, once you begin bellowing it into a mic, transforms you from an unremarkable flesh sack into a fearless performer in search of an audience. Mary Halsey lived the dream last month when a clip of the Rhode Islander performing a spot-on rendition of Missy Elliott’s “Work It”…

Say, what’s going on with Kylie Jenner, spinoff celebrity of the popular Kardashian line of celebrities? It has, in some ways, been a busy year for Kylie, but also a quiet one, as she ducked out of social media and her customary celebrity appearances in order to keep her pregnancy with Travis Scott a private matter.…

If you want to see Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks act their tails off in roles that will probably score them another gold statue or two for their formidable mantles, go see The Post. If you want to see them put on silly wigs, giggle, and gamely try to recreate each other’s most iconic roles, watch the above video.

In a funny monologue yesterday, Ellen DeGeneres responded to an Eric Trump tweet that… maybe accused her of being part of a government conspiracy? Or maybe he was trying to accuse Twitter of being biased toward liberals? It’s hard to tell. But the frequently apolitical DeGeneres responded with her typical good cheer,…

Two years after warring electronics companies competing to develop high-capacity CDs declared a truce, their compromise format, the DVD, first went on sale in the U.S. in March of 1997. (Twister, The Mask, GoodFellas, and The Road Warrior were among the first batch of titles.) DVDs didn’t hit major retail chains like…

It’s no secret that Netflix has lured stand-up comedians to its platform with—let’s be frank here—tons of money and the promise of specials. Now it’s hooked Ellen DeGeneres, who’s been out of the stand-up game for quite some time as in favor of her gig promoting viral stars, a.k.a. her daytime talk show. But, if some…

Last year, when mocking Donald Trump was just a fun diversion and not a key part of the #Resistance, Johnny Depp starred in a Funny Or Die adaptation of Trump’s The Art Of The Deal. Recently, Depp appeared on Ellen (via The Hollywood Reporter), where he resurrected his Trump impression while explaining why he’s…

Nicole Kidman is both an acclaimed actress who recently won plaudits for her work in Big Little Lies and the brutally honest talk show guest we need. Usually, etiquette demands that hosts and guests rave about the delicious food some celebrity chef concocted for a daytime TV appearance. Not Kidman. During a recent …

Ellen DeGeneres seems to like pretty much everybody—it’s sort of a cornerstone of her whole career—so it feels even more damning than usual to hear that not even she wants President Donald Trump on her show. DeGeneres made that clear in a Today interview with Matt Lauer this week, briefly discussing her past…

If you ask a regular person to name some famous YouTube superstars, there’s a good chance that they won’t even know that there is such a thing as famous YouTube superstars. This hasn’t exactly been a problem for the site, since its current batch of stars can still rack up millions of views without being traditionally…

Lucas Jacobiak is a Polish motivational speaker who believes in the fine art of visualization. In the motivational speaker universe, this can attain quasi-mystical properties; The Secret portends that geniuses throughout history believed in themselves so strongly that they were able to alter the fabric of reality.

ABC has added a few new family comedy pilots to its slate for the upcoming year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has snagged pilots for a new series from Ellen DeGeneres and Selfie creator Emily Kapnek, as well as one from American Housewife producer Sam Sklaver.

CBS’s annual People’s Choice Awards are one of the few big-name award shows in which average citizens get a voice, with online voting determining the winners of the ceremony’s 64 categories (ranging from Favorite Movie all the way over to Favorite YouTube star). As such, the PCAs present a somewhat different picture…

President Barack Obama has ended his presidential term with the same sense of grace and pop-cultural largesse that he entered it. This is no small feat, given that he was ushered into the office on a tide of global optimism. But he leaves with high approval ratings, a handful of major accomplishments to his name, and…

As the last days of America’s first Cool President wind to a close, Barack Obama took one last chance to remind us what we’re about to lose, giving a warm, joke-filled speech honoring this year’s crop of Presidential Medal Of Freedom honorees. Starting with a statement that this year’s crop of notables—including Diana…

The Presidential Medal Of Freedom is the highest award the U.S. government gives to civilians. It’s graced the necks of Supreme Court justices, foreign heads of state, and artists ranging from Tennessee Williams to Lucille Ball. This year, President Barack Obama has named 21 recipients for the prize, in what will be…

Eddie Redmayne will make his debut as the new J.K. Rowling hero in just two short weeks, when Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is released. So he’s making the talk-show rounds, sharing appropriate anecdotes and the like. His recent appearance on Ellen naturally required that he make a fool of himself for host…

The public expects a lot, maybe too much, from its politicians. Not only do these elected representatives have to govern responsibly and ethically once voted into office, but they also have to be (or seem) inspiring, personable, and likable, whatever the hell those adjectives even mean anymore in these jaded times. To…

Finding Dory swims into theaters this weekend, adding another sequel to Pixar’s growing list of them. So where does the film fall on the studio’s continuum of quality, the WALL-E to Cars 2 spectrum? A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky reconvene at Farmhouse Tavern to discuss the latest from the house Woody and Buzz…