Movie Reviews and Previews Will Arnett in Is This Thing On? Inspired by the dad-to-comic life story of British comedian John Bishop, Will Arnett and his writing partner, Mark Chappell, penned a film called Is This Thing On? about a sad dad turned stand-up comedian who gets his groove back on the stages of New York’s comedy scene. Director Bradley By Sarah • Dec 19, 2025 03:11 pm
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper The sparkly dress moment at the Emmys Sparkly dresses had a moment at the Emmys. But they very specifically had a moment with women of a certain age, as Catherine O’Hara, Jennifer Aniston, Candice Bergen, Kristin Wiig, Janel Moloney, and Christine Baranski all wore gleaming gowns. And we can pretty much blame it all on Laura By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 10:12 am
Jock Smut Intro for April 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, Happy Eclipse Day…? It’s a question mark because I know there are those out there who are wary of this celestial event and the strange things that might occur. I have two eclipse preoccupations: how our dogs will react and Beyoncé, of course. Veterinarians are saying that By Lainey • Apr 08, 2024 09:38 am
TV Updates Kristen’s Five and RAYE’s First Kristen Wiig returns home to Saturday Night Live this weekend as the host when she’ll join the Five Timers Club. She left the show as a regular cast member in 2012 and it’s no surprise that she’ll be a member of the illustrious club. After all, the By Lainey • Apr 04, 2024 01:20 pm
Golden Globes 2024 Intro for January 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, So the “new” Golden Globes were…a mess. Which is how we like our Golden Globes! Unfortunately for Jo Koy, in most of the post mortem coverage of the show, his performance as host is included in that mess. In his defence, he had no time. We all By Lainey • Jan 08, 2024 07:55 am
Golden Globes 2021 Maya & Kenan & Barb & Star & The Hoodie Once we all dispensed with the pretense that the Globes was going to be fun or glamorous or in any way functional, the unintentional joys appeared, mostly in wardrobe form (and yes, it was mostly men who felt entitled to not GAF) but neither Bill Murray’s cabana shirt nor By Duana • Mar 01, 2021 09:09 am
Kristen Wiig Intro for December 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was so good to see Maya Rudolph and Kate McKinnon join Kristen Wiig onstage for the opening monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They’ll go down as all-time greats on the show for sure. Actually, they already are. The women of SNL have always held By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 15, 2020 Dear Gossips, Many months ago, shortly after the start of the pandemic in the west, do you remember celebrity “Imagine”? Maybe you don’t want to. The impact did not match the intent. Anyway, Gal Gadot was one of the stars prominently featured in the “Imagine” video and she’s By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 09:08 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Mariah’s Meaning and The Bloody Truth At long last (and after many emails from you guys keeping us on it) we waited for December, and unofficially rang in the holiday season and finally had our book club about The Meaning Of Mariah Carey. Problem is, there may not be a whole lot of meaning… not that By Duana • Dec 10, 2020 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s wishful thinking Here is the DC movie I am most excited to see, Wonder Woman 1984 dropped a new trailer during the DC Fandome event this weekend. It’s such a good time! Diana lassoing lightning? Awesome! Cheetah’s punk style? Cool! Steve Trevor doing a 1980s fashion montage? Fun! Wonder Woman By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 09:53 am
TV Updates Is Kristen Wiig pregnant? I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Hollywood Lockdown Baby Boom and the growing list of celebrities who’ve announced their pregnancies over the last few weeks. Are we adding Kristen Wiig to it? During the season finale of Saturday Night Live @ Home this weekend, Kristen was the By Lainey • May 12, 2020 11:58 am
Oscars 2020 Kristen Wiig & Maya Rudolph: Oscar Pirates You know what we never really talk about, even when we talk about it? Televised awards shows have a built-in power imbalance – and that’s why they work. The Academies, hosting the shows, know they need talented performers, amusing enough to hold the audience’s attention. And those performers – actors, By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 1984 has friends and Steve Trevor With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker coming out in a couple weeks, all the big summer 2020 movies are starting to drop trailers which will be attached to Skywalker in theaters. It is also CCXP, the giganti-huge Brazilian comic con, which means this is the perfect time for Wonder By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Wiig Kristen Wiig is apparently in talks to play the villain in Wonder Woman 2, which is surprising. Not that they’re casting—the movie films later this year, so it’s casting season—but that they’re talking to Kristen Wiig! If you asked me to guess who would be By Sarah • Mar 01, 2018 10:54 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Kristen Wiig’s in green velvet Andrea Riseborough’s beautiful green gown was my favourite at the Governors Awards. Kristen Wiig’s green crushed velvet… I mean, I like the idea. And I feel like Duana would be all over this. The problem with crushed velvet though is … those patches. In person, I bet you this By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Downsizing is about shrink rays?! Alexander Payne is an Oscar regular. He’s one of those filmmakers who gets instant consideration, thanks to films like About Schmidt, The Descendants, and Nebraska. (His best movie is still Election.) And he’s back in contention this year with Downsizing, starring Matt Damon—also Oscar-friendly—Kristen Wiig, and By Sarah • Aug 30, 2017 11:28 am
