TV amp; Movies

Forty years after the film’s release, Mel Brooks’ classic 1981 comedy History of the World, Part I is receiving a sequel as Hulu orders the eight-episode variety series History of the World, Part II. The show will follow the same format as the film, which was made up of segments …

ReigningJeopardy!champ Matt Amodio ended his winning streak on Monday, losing his 39th game. The Yale Ph.D student had the second-longest winning streak in the game’s history and the third largest amount of prize money earnings. In total, he racked up $1,518,601, which puts him behind Ken Jennings ($2,520,700) and James …

Saturday Night Live‘s second episode of the season featured Kim Kardashian West making her hosting debut and roasting her entire family in the opening monologue. When talking about how her father inspired her in opening her eyes to racial injustice, Kardashian said: “It’s because of him I met my first …

He was blonde, for starters — that was enough to throw some purists into a tizzy. Stockier, too, with a pugilist’s build, and muscles that looked earned rather than sculpted in a gym. Handsome, but not in a pretty way, with that barroom brawler’s mug of his. Those blue eyes …

Dave Chappelle returns with the sixth and final chapter for his Netflix stand-up specials, The Closer. It arrives on October 5th. The special follows The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation, and Sticks & Stones — for which he earned three Grammys in the …

Jake Gyllenhaal’s new thriller, The Guilty, boasts a healthy cast list that includes Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, Eli Goree, comedian Bill Burr, and the great Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite Is My Name). You won’t see any of them in the movie. You’ll hear quite a bit …

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The incredibly sad and shocking news came down Tuesday afternoon that Norm Macdonald died after a private, nine-year battle with cancer. He was 61. “He was most proud of his comedy,” his friend and producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra told Deadline. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way …

Actor Jonathan Majors remembered late co-star Michael K. Williams as “an angel — a guardian angel — a man who put others ahead of himself at every turn,” in a new tribute in Variety. Majors and Williams first worked together on the 2017 mini-series When We Rise, in which they …

Trevor Moore, the comedian best known for co-founding the cult sketch comedy groupThe Whitest Kids U Know, died Friday night at age 41. His manager, Kara Welker, confirmed the comedian’s death to Variety in a statement on behalf of Moore’s family. A specific cause of death was not immediately available, …