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Saturday Night Live addressed the racial makeup of its cast last night in the show’s opening sketch. It’s a bold move for a show routinely accused of lacking diversity, and having a talented black actress like host Kerry Washington as

Most political comedians would be thrilled if the mainstream media gave extra weight to their punch lines. Not Jon Stewart, at least not when The Daily Show host is hammering President Barack Obama’s “signature,” “historic” health care reform. Stewart has

You’d think a multi-part documentary on climate change would do all it could to rally audiences to its cause no matter their political affiliation. Watching the first trailer for Years of Living Dangerously, a climate change fear project from Avatar

Not even casting a Bill Clinton sound-alike in the new movie Free Birds could keep the P.C. police at bay. The animated feature follows two very different turkeys who travel back in time to stop their brethren from becoming the

Jay Leno is generally considered the least hip of the late night talkers. The Tonight Show host is the guy Middle America likes, while the coastal elites rally around David Letterman and his peers. Leno is squaresville, man. When it

Comedy Central’s South Park often tackles topics few other comic outlets dare touch. Wednesday, the show hammered ObamaCare after both Saturday Night Live and late night comics had their way with the law’s beleaguered web site. Only South Park could

Russell Brand is calling for a socialist revolution, one he can observe from the comfort of his million dollar home. Brand made social media news last week when liberals starting sharing an interview the comic gave to Jeremy Paxman espousing

Carolyn Buchanan says she studied the major world religions as a younger woman and once considered herself an atheist. After the events depicted in the film The Conjuring, purportedly based on Buchanan’s otherworldly experiences, she now gives far more weight

Ronan Farrow is already in MSNBC mid-season form. Farrow, the son of actress Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, is set to debut his own MSNBC talk show early next year. His latest political comments, though, find him boosting the image

Jon Stewart is still mocking ObamaCare as well as the man whose name is permanently attached to the legislation. The Comedy Central host tormented the massively flawed web site that anchors the health care law anew Monday on The Daily

Sean Penn cares, deeply, for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his fellow Tea Party members. It’s why the Oscar winner wants Cruz and co. committed to a mental asylum. Penn shared his views on the Tea Party during Monday’s edition

Members of the Hollywood community have railed against the influx of money in politics in films like The Campaign and the power corporations wield via the Citizens United ruling. Meanwhile, some of the industry’s heaviest hitters are lining up to use

What do A-listers like Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have in common? Based on the weekend’s box office receipts, they all lack the clout of the “Jackass” brand. The Counselor, the new Ridley Scott

Late night comedians united this week to torment the bug-riddled web portal for President Barack Obama’s “historic” health care legislation. NBC’s Saturday Night Live picked up the comedy baton last night. The show opened with a sketch featuring Secretary of

Bette Midler must have read some, if not all, of the damaging headlines this week regarding President Barack Obama’s “historic” health care legislation. Or, as as every late night comic is calling it, the best source of comedy we’ve seen

Veteran actor John Ratzenberger has a simple question for President Barack Obama after hearing him vow to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the ObamaCare web site. “Why didn’t they bring in experts at the very beginning?” Ratzenberger asks.

Fledgling film director George Romero looked around during the late 1960s and realized the left’s cultural revolution had failed. “We thought we changed the world,” Romero says in the new documentary Birth of the Living Dead. “All of a sudden,

One of the many highlights of The Avengers came watching Captain America embrace his God-fearing, flag-waving image. Now, with the second solo Captain America film coming our way next year, the character might be heading to more left-of center terrain. The

Even some of President Barack Obama’s biggest boosters have seen enough of the ObamaCare rollout. Fox News reports that celebrities are now being cautioned not to shill for the “historic” health care reform in the wake of a maelstrom of

The stars of the new lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color are trashing the film’s director in the press for what they dubbed an awful work environment. Now, director Abdellatif Kechiche is threatening to sue one of the film’s actresses

Faith-based films no longer shock Hollywood when they earn double or triple their budgets at the box office. Consider the runaway success of Fireproof, a film lacking bankable stars that trumped many mainstream movies all the same. The new Mormon-friendly

A new video featuring John Cusack, Maggie Gyllenhaal and director Oliver Stone warns against massive overreach by the NSA’s domestic spying program. The clip features repeated images of President Richard M. Nixon, for many the face of government corruption. The

Morgan Freeman must spend so much time on movie sets he hasn’t heard anyone question his industry’s adoration of President Barack Obama. To Freeman, a grassroots movement like the Tea Party dedicated to smaller government is racist because the current White

Veteran actor Chris Noth must be new to the world of Twitter. The star of both Sex and the City and The Good Wife apparently thinks deleting tweets from his personal Twitter account will make them go away. Memory holes

Comedian Bill Maher tells GOP jokes no one on the right could get away with against a liberal. Maher hits the “right” targets, so it doesn’t matter how low he goes. The Thought Police sit on their hands and wait

Anyone who found the new Tom Hanks film Captain Phillips too conventional should consider the new to Blu-ray import A Hijacking. The Danish film doesn’t involve an elite team of Navy SEALs saving the day. Instead, it’s up to corporate

The Onion, a reliably left-of-center humor site, is out with a new article slamming Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder for refusing to change the team’s name. It’s a media-concocted scandal, and it’s no surprise where The Onion stands on the

Netflix’s original series House of Cards garnered the streaming site the most press attention upon its release, and deservedly so. The series stars Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey and features The Social Network director David Fincher as a major player behind the

Even The Daily Show host Jon Stewart couldn’t sit back and let the botched rollout of Obamacare go unnoticed. On Monday’s edition of the liberal Comedy Central show, Stewart scorched the official Obamacare web site, a debacle of such epic

Netflix continues to attract streaming competitors, witness a new movie service from retail giant Target. The company behind House of Cards and Orange is the New Black can take solace in the latest stock news and subscriber stats. Netflix now has

The daredevils on The History Channel’s latest reality show drape themselves in the American flag. Do these thrill seekers represent the true American spirit, or is it nothing more than a patriotic branding game? American Daredevils, debuting at 10 p.m.

The Mark Twain Prize, handed out each year in the Nation’s Capital, is generally a nonpartisan affair meant to toast the funniest people in pop culture, period. This year, both the honoree and a key presenter couldn’t resist the chance

Blame the ripped from the too recent headlines plot or a trailer that painted Julian Assange as a free speech hero. Either way, after the new WikiLeaks feature The Fifth Estate bombed in the U.K. it did the same in

Director Oliver Stone continues to talk up the release of his Showtime miniseries The Untold History of the United States, now available on home video. That gives him the chance to talk down his own country as much as any person

The director of the new Tom Hanks’ hit Captain Phillips isn’t about to abandon ship. The film, based on the 2009 pirating of a U.S. cargo vessel, has come under attack from members of the actual crew for not portraying

Now we know why Julian Assange has been attacking The Fifth Estate with such ferocity. The film, opening nationwide today, recalls the dawn of WikiLeaks and its dysfunctional founder–Assange. The movie depicts Assange as a manipulative liar, one whose obsession