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Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres may not see eye to eye with reality TV personality Caitlyn Jenner when it comes to their views on same-sex marriage. On Tuesday, DeGeneres told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that she thought Jenner “still has a judgment about gay marriage.” DeGeneres, who interviewed the Olympian gold medalist…
Tuesday night was the debut of the new “David Letterman Show, Starring Stephen Colbert!” and for a night of such fanfare, you’ve got to call Jeb! Bush, because he’s the only candidate with an exclamation point after his name. There was much to laugh about, like when Colbert told Jeb, “You are, with one exception…
Kermit and Miss Piggy’s moment of conscious uncoupling represents the kind of cynicism that has been, until now, entirely absent from the Muppet project. Credit Photograph by Mary Altaffer / AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ At the beginning of August, the foam puppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy announced on Twitter that they had broken up….
Photo Stephen Colbert outside the window of his office, which overlooks Broadway and his new marquee at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times On a recent Monday night, Stephen Colbert was about as high atop the Ed Sullivan Theater as one can be, looking out over the 200 or so employees…
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Start Article Post Content Former “True Blood” showrunner Mark Hudis and director Barry Sonnenfeld have signed on to steer Netflix’s adaptation of the Lemony Snicket “A Series of Unfortunate Events” fantasy book series. Hudis will serve as showrunner and exec producer of the series, while Sonnenfeld will direct and exec produce….
Few West Wing characters are as loved as President Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen’s folksy, Nobel Prize-winning commander-in-chief. Bartlet’s charm is partly rooted in his many quirks of personality—his professorial air, his lofty quotation of the Bible, his tendency to pepper staff with impromptu tests of erudition. Another, more subtle character trait is the way the…
Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty Images Over the course of The Colbert Report, little was as guaranteed to go viral as the few times Colbert broke character. Well, apparently, it actually wasn’t that rare. “We would edit any mistake I ever did,” Colbert told Time. “People said, ‘Oh, you never broke’ or ‘You rarely…
Meet Kermit the Frog’s new girlfriend, Denise. Presenting Denise: Kermit the Frog’s new pig pal. Image: ABC/Andrea McCallin As first hinted in the early trailers and sneak peeks at ABC’s upcoming comedy, The Muppets, she’s the one whose filling the pig-sized hole in Kermit’s heart following his split with Miss Piggy. Piggy and Kermit confirmed…
The great colonnades of Rome have lasted for centuries, through political upheaval and some really questionable fashion choices. But for some of us, glory is more fleeting. CBS, because genius is never recognized in its time, has decided to pull the plug on my show, Under the Dome. In other words, I’m looking for work….
There is something wrong with that TV. The week of September 9th, 2001 was fated to become the most historically significant week of the new millennium. Had the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon never occurred, however, the week would still be remembered—albeit far less intently—for a handful of significant cultural…