Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Two things that young people have always enjoyed is being frightened and hanging out with rapper Ludacris, and MTV’s rebooted incarnation of gross-out/stunt show Fear Factor has apparently been a wildly successful amalgamation of those two beloved thrills. According to Variety, the show has been a “solid performer”…
The Fate Of The Furious comes out on Friday, and along with it comes the latest soundtrack in the long-running series, featuring undoubtedly bass-heavy cuts by a murderers’ row of talent—Migos, Kevin Gates, Jeremih, Young Thug, 2 Chainz, and a whole bunch more. In advance of that release, series star Ludacris has…
The tally is now up to 52 companies that have pulled their advertising for Bill O’Reilly’s long-running shouting showcase The O’Reilly Factor. This comes in the wake of The New York Times report that Fox News renewed his contract despite having spent, along with O’Reilly, a combined $13 million in sexual harassment…
I’ve never been much of a beer drinker (wine, please), which means that I’m an even-worse beer pourer. The Onion kitchen boasts not one but two kegs, and nearly every time I approach them, I wind up with a beer milkshake: about seven inches of foam and one inch of actual liquid at the bottom. So when I signed up to…
Thanksgiving is America’s great television holiday, a harvest feast with parade telecasts for an appetizer, presentations of the National Football League as a main course (plus second helpings), and a dessert of some crowd-pleasing blockbuster film or another. In the realm of episodic television, Thanksgiving brings a …
Adrenaline junkies, speed freaks, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson addicts, rejoice! The dawn of Furious 7 is approaching and the latest installment of the franchise promises to be the fastest and most furious sequel yet. Insidious director James Wan takes the reigns on this one, which pits our team of heroes (including…
It’s almost Comedy Central Roast Day, that special time of year when American families gather around the hearth to celebrate Jeffrey Ross getting his annual paycheck. In case all the egg-and-opera-based marketing hasn’t clued you in, this year’s sacrificial lamb is Justin Bieber, still in the “humble contrition and…
Seth Rogen might not want anything to do with roasting Justin Bieber, but Martha Stewart and Shaquille O’Neal do. The noted chucklemeisters have signed up for Bieber’s Comedy Central roast, where they’ll be encouraged to “go hard” at the singer by host Kevin Hart. O’Neal has been known to land a few mild zingers on …
