BFFs Leo’s Birthday plus Olivia and Chris? Leonardo DiCaprio’s 49th birthday was on Saturday and he celebrated with a big party because, well, partying is what Leo does. Partying and modelising are Leo’s lifelong priorities which I guess is kind of impressive, in a weird way. When you’ve been partying for as long as By Lainey • Nov 14, 2023 11:16 am
Dumbass Selective Outrage: The Same Old Chris Rock Chris Rock's new comedy show, Selective Outrage, aired Saturday on Netflix. It was Netflix’s first live show ever (they are also shooting the SAG awards like this next) and Chris’s first standup special since The Slap. The special confirms what many of us already anticipated: Rock By Melayna • Mar 06, 2023 03:30 pm
Will Smith Intro for August 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Will Chris Rock host the Oscars next year? That’s what we’re talking about because that’s what he’s talking about. At a show in Arizona on Sunday, Chris claims that the Academy asked him to host the 95th Oscars in 2023 but he declined. Chris By Lainey • Aug 30, 2022 09:29 am
Dumbass The Slap drags on The story of The Slap continues as the Academy is dragging its feet on doing anything and Chris Rock returns to work on the theater circuit, performing at the Wilbur Theater where he was greeted with a standing ovation and some guy trying to start a “F-ck Will Smith” chant. By Sarah • Mar 31, 2022 10:27 am
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Top Reads The One About Chris Rock on Your Fave 90s Sitcoms Jerry, Elaine, Kramer… and Chris? During an appearance on The Late Show this week, Chris Rock confirmed the recent rumour he was in consideration to play Jerry’s best friend, George Costanza, on Seinfeld. Can you imagine? And why wasn’t this the first topic discussed when Chris was on By Cody • Jan 14, 2021 10:06 am
TV Updates SNL is my Favourite Pandemic Sport Am I the only narcissist who thinks, “Hey I said a smart thing, why didn’t everyone pick up on it?” (I’d venture no, because that’s the sole reason Twitter is still in business.) I was very pleased with myself on an episode of Show Your Work for By Duana • Oct 09, 2020 02:52 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Hollywood’s Newest Job & Chris Rock’s Next Era We are back at work on Show Your Work and on this new episode, we’re talking about a new job on Hollywood sets. But first, there’s this Instagram post from the set of Riverdale: I mean, I think we should all know by now that mouthwash doesn’t By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 02:26 pm
TV Updates Intro for September 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Saturday Night Live returns this weekend with Chris Rock as the guest host and Megan Thee Stallion the musical guest. And it’ll be in front of a live audience. Vulture has all the details about how the show is getting audience members in and out of the By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spiral: I would rather watch Cats Chris Rock is a huge fan of the Saw movies. How do we know? Because in one of the weirder entertainment stories of 2019—which is saying a lot, because 2019 was goddamned WEIRD—he pitched his own spin-off to Lionsgate, keeper of the keys of Saw. That spin-off is By Sarah • Feb 06, 2020 02:10 pm
Girlcrushes Everybody loves Ali Wong There’s a headline that’s been going around today about Ali Wong and how she joked on Ellen DeGeneres’s show about writing a movie specifically so she could experience the joy of kissing Daniel Dae Kim and Keanu Reeves. Keanu is the biggest star in Always Be My By Lainey • May 29, 2019 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Rock is rebooting Saw This is the second weirdest headline of the week. It turns out that Chris Rock—yes, comedian and filmmaker Chris Rock—is a fan of the Saw horror franchise, you know, the torture porn movies with the serial killer who sets elaborate Rube Goldberg traps for his victims. Rock is By Sarah • May 17, 2019 04:14 pm
Weddings I Do in Rio If you read Instagram comments (as I often do – for research, OK?!) you know that “come to Brazil” will inevitable appear on a celebrity post. It’s both a command and an invitation that’s become a meme. John Mayer recently joked about it; Katy Perry commented “lol.” (I looked By Maria • Oct 25, 2017 09:32 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Miley, Gaga, and Kelly – Shapeshifters, Name-changers, and Bad Bosses Miley Cyrus’s new song Malibu – it’s boring right? Come on, admit it. Even if you’re the most hardcore Miley fangirl, you can’t tell me that song is lighting you on fire. Still… Is Miley’s Malibu as boring as her new “image”? On this week’s By Lainey • May 15, 2017 03:58 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Make Brad Pitt Great Again That Brad Pitt piece in GQ – as I wrote last week, this was a solid appeal to the base. But if you’re not part of the base… were you rolling your eyes? Duana and I go through the eye-rolly parts. And those eye rolls brought us to “Make Brad By Lainey • May 08, 2017 04:38 pm
