Based on anecdotal evidence of me and my friends at lunch during high school, “Celebrity Jeopardy” is one of the most-quoted SNL sketches in the show’s history.
It aired 15 times between 1996, when Sean Connery (Darrell Hammond), Burt Reynolds (Norm Macdonald), and Jerry Lewis (Martin Short) were the special guests, and 2015, with Will Ferrell dusting off his Alex Trebek mustache for the 40th anniversary special. Following Trebek’s death from pancreatic cancer, SNL writer Steve Higgins shared the origin of the sketch and the time the Jeopardy! host reached out to Lorne Michaels.
“The idea for the sketch came from my wife. She said to me, ‘You should write a ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ sketch, because these celebrities don’t know that much.’ So I took it to Adam McKay,” he wrote for Variety. McKay was SNL‘s head writer before directing Anchorman, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and Step Brothers and winning an Oscar for The Big Short. “The fun of writing the sketch to me was the formula,” Higgins continued. “You go through the categories, and the category that has the dirty word hidden in it is always going to be a joke for Sean Connery. And then you have to figure out what the Final Jeopardy! is, and what the reveal is that people won’t get in advance. It’s third-grade humor, which is the best kind of humor. But also Will Ferrell, one of the greatest comics in the world, playing the perfect straight man in Trebek. I’m just lucky that I got to be a part of it. That’s the best thing I’ve ever done.”
Trebek was a fan of Ferrell’s impression. In fact, he “told Lorne that he loved the sketch. I was always very happy about that,” Higgins revealed. “That would have been terrible, if he’d thought it was anything but love. You really can’t parody something if you don’t love it, or else it’s just mean.” Don’t let the oversized hat (“it’s bigger than a normal hat”) distract you, there’s nothing but love between Trebek and Turd Ferguson.
Lindsey Graham won reelection against his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, last week, which may have come as a surprise to Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator looked to be near tears in September while begging Fox News viewers for campaign funds. He kept his job despite protesters (literally) waking him up (over his push to quickly replace RBG) and the public calling him out for uttering racially charged “sarcasm” on the Senate floor. So, he must feel emboldened because — you guessed it — he’s still peddling for donations on Fox News.
This time, however, Laura Ingraham has had enough of the Senate Judiciary Chairman’s salesman shtick. In the days leading up to the election, she simply cut one of his interviews short, but when he persisted in directing viewers (over and over again) to his donation site (immediately after winning an election) Ingraham called him out.
“Enough with the Lindsey Graham dot com… we get the point,” she interjected. “This is like a used car salesman after a while…” Graham responded with an uncomfortable chuckle while he absorbed the label before simply stating, “Yes, that’s right.”
Laura Ingraham: “Enough with the Lindsey Graham dot com — but we get the point…We get the point. This is like a used car salesman after a while…”
Previously, Rep. Eric Stalwell (D-CA) called out Graham for fundraising while on intermission (but still arguably within the course of official duties, which would violate federal law) during the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings. He simply would not stop pushing his donation site live on C-SPAN while declaring (without a shred of irony), “The state is not for sale.”
Like many artists, Phoebe Bridgers’ lyrics aren’t always direct, so sometimes it takes a bit of thought to figure out what she means. Sometimes, though, the meaning can seem more poetic than literal or informed by inside information, which leaves fans wondering what exactly it is she’s talking about. Last night, Bridgers decided to indulge her followers by hosting an impromptu Q&A on Twitter to explain her lyrics. At one point, she took a jab at Ryan Adams.
A fan on Twitter asked Bridgers if they “could get together and u could tell me what ur lyrics mean,” to which Bridgers replied, “comment a lyric and I’ll tell you exactly what it means.”
One person asked about the “Motion Sickness” lyric, “You gave me fifteen hundred / To see your hypnotherapist / I only went one time, you let it slide,” asking, “I would just like to know who I can see who will give me $1,500 to see their hypnotherapist but I only have to go one time please and thank you.” Bridgers answered, “Ryan Adams. Do not recommend.” Bridgers has spoken out about Adams before and previously disclosed the song was written about him.
Bridgers answered a lot of other fan questions as well, so check out the tweets below or here.
it’s a joke Conor’s old tour manager used to make when they were in Europe, they’d get off the bus and wherever they were he’d say “I hate this part of Texas”
plagiarizing Elliott Smith is the copycat killer part (like when people copy serial killers for the media attention) and chemical cut because I bleach my hair and it’s so fried I never have to cut it
Elliott used to live in one of the Snow White cottages in LA, so I’m imaging he actually lived with her. He is just as much of a fictional character to me because he died before I heard his music.
Yeah I had a crush on someone who lives next to a nazi and used to joke about just killing him and burying him in the garden. Originally it had this whole thing about making out on top of the unmarked grave but it was Very Stupid
I’m such an Elliott Smith fan that whenever I meet “industry” people they tell me their Elliott stories, and they’re usually from seeing him at the Silverlake Lounge
Earlier this month, Britney Spears sought to have her father removed from his role as her conservator. In a motion filed on November 3, Spears’ lawyer Samuel Ingham noted that Jamie Spears continuing in his role as conservator would cause “Britney to suffer loss and injury.” He requested the court remove Jamie as soon as Spears’ new co-conservator, financial company Bessemer Trust, is appointed. Now, it has been revealed that Spears has lost this appeal.
According to the Associated Press, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny declined to suspend Jamie from his role in the conservatorship. She did say, however, that she would consider future petitions for his suspension or complete removal. which Ingham apparently plans to file.
Jamie’s attorney, Vivian Lee Thoreen, argued that Jamie has performed well as Spears’ conservator, getting her out of debt to a net worth of over $60 million, and that removing him from the role would prove harmful. “I don’t believe there is a shred of evidence to support my client’s suspension,” Thoreen said.
Meanwhile, Ingham noted that Spears is afraid of her father and refuses to perform as long as he is her conservator, saying, “My client has informed me that she is afraid of her father. She will not perform again if her father is in charge of her career.”
Hanson’s normally cult-like fan base is reexamining their support for the group following their behavior across the past few months. A recent report from Vice reveals that Hanson is been facing strong criticism from their fan base, one that started after they took longer than expected to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. After the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed, the group carried on with their normal social media routine for days before they delivered a message. Despite this, fans were still unhappy with what their statement said as it did not include the “Black Lives Matter” slogan. The group failed to use it until a post on June 9 to their Instagram, more than two weeks after Floyd’s death.
Things got worse for Hanson when a now-deleted Pinterest account that was said to belong to drummer Zac Hanson leaked online. The account featured pro-gun memes, many of which were racist, sexist, and transphobic. Zac later confirmed the account belonged to him and issued a statement to Vice that read, “The leaked Pinterest page provided a distorted view of the issues surrounding race and social justice, which do not reflect my personal beliefs.” He added, “I apologize for the hurt my actions caused.”
The actions from the band over the past few months pushed fans to create “PostHanson” subreddit, which currently houses over 1,200 members, intended for “former and ambivalent Hanson fans to discuss and support each other.” Additionally, Black fans of the group spoke to Vice and shared their current thoughts on Hanson. “They went from being the princes of pop to the kings of being tone deaf,” said one fan. Another said, “For me, to say Black lives matter should be as easy as saying the sky is blue because it’s a fact. Period. So, to have them duck and dive and do everything that they could possibly do to not say Black lives matter was really interesting. It was just weird.”
Brushing off the risks and immediate dangers that were at hand, Grimes brought her talents to a recent episode of The Eric Andre Show. The singer appeared on the show on Sunday, one that premiered on Adult Swim and was filmed when Grimes was still pregnant with her and Elon Musk’s child, X AE A-XII. During a skit entitled “Grimes And Punishment,” the singer was subjected to a trio of torturous activities which included being tickled by a feather, having melted wax put on her feet, and getting “cheeseboarded” with liquid cheese by Kraft Punk.
In an interview with Complex, Eric Andre revealed how got Grimes to guest appear on the show. “I explained to her, it’s because we always torture the musical guest,” he said. “I’m always beating them with bats or electrocuting them, so it’s not a good look if I’m like torturing a woman. And she goes, ‘Yeah, that makes sense but I wanna do the show. F*ck it, you can torture me!’” Andre also says that he learned that Grimes was pregnant on-set as they filmed the episode. “I was like, ‘You just talked me into torturing a pregnant woman,’” he said. “And she was like, ‘Yeah, but it was f*cking awesome!’”
Prior to the pandemic, Lisbon, Portugal was experiencing a serious travel boom for going on a decade. If you know anything about the Western European destination, it’s easy to see why. It’s got a Mediterranean climate, Instagrammable architecture (which will still be a thing when the pandemic ends, we promise), and bustling city life. Meaning good food and even better parties. Best of all, Lisbon is relatively cheap to visit, with direct flights from both Delta and United.
It’s easy to make a case for why Lisbon will be one of our (and perhaps one of your) first stops once it’s safe to travel again. But with a city as culturally rich as this one, where should you go first? In order to create the coolest possible travel guide that we could, we linked up with Portuguese tastemakers and cultural icons HOLLY and Alexandra Moura.
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HOLLY is one of Portugal’s most prominent hip-hop producers, frequently cutting records with Lisbon’s best rappers and an international cast of performers that have made him globally recognized and widely respected despite only being 24. In 2019, he won A-Trak’s Goldie Awards Beat Battle.
In promotion of his new mixtape, Dark Skies and Holy Grail, HOLLY connected with Portuguese designer and stylist Alexandra Moura — who has showcased her designs at international fashion weeks and dressed many of Portugal’s A-List artists including Gisela João, Sónia Tavares, Dino D’Santiago, and now HOLLY himself.
So we thought — who better to guide us on the coolest possible trip through Lisbon than two of the city’s most prominent tastemakers? Check out HOLLY and Alexandra Moura’s guide to the city they love below.
HOLLY: This is one of my favorite restaurants in Lisbon! I’ve been to all the top vegetarian restaurants in LA and I can tell you that this one beats any of them. The food is delicious and the prices are very affordable.
During lunchtime, they do a buffet which is great to try a lot of different plates. They also have a small garden outside where they do massages and where you can chill after a great meal.
Alexandra: Dr. Bernard is a friendly beach restaurant, a surf center, and a wellness platform just in front of Costa da Caparica beach. A place where you’re surrounded by contemporary aesthetics, with good food and an incredible view of the beach where the Atlantic presents us with its smell and where the sand turns golden.
HOLLY: You most likely have heard about the famous ‘Pastéis de Nata’ already — the famous egg tart from Portugal. Well, there’s a lot of different companies doing them, but the best/most historic one (and my personal favorite) is the ‘Pastéis de Belém’. Their bakery is situated in Belém, about 20 minutes away from the city center, and once you taste them you will never forget them.
I’m hungry already just from thinking about them!!
HOLLY: Mesa de Frades is a fado house [folk-singing pub] in Alfama. I’ve only been here once but it’s one of the most famous fado houses in Lisbon and a great place to listen to good fado and taste typical Portuguese food. It’s also a really good place if you are planning on going on a date!
It’s a must to go place if you want to experience the magic of fado in Lisbon.
Alexandra: Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology is a wonderful building from Amanda Levete in front of Tejo river. An experience in many ways. An incredible white building, almost like a nave, planted next to the incredible Tagus River. Here the surroundings of nature, all the light so characteristic of Lisbon, combined with contemporary art and technology make us shoot into another world.
HOLLY: Lux Frágil is one of the best clubs in the world and it’s a historical mark in the Portuguese club scene. It’s been open for 20 years already and the 3-floor building is the perfect place for an epic night. The rooftop has a great view over the Rio Tejo while the 1st and 2nd floor are great to rave and show your best dance moves. There’s also some really trippy decoration inside that takes the magic of this place to another level.
Best Way To See The City
Miradouro Panorâmico Do Monsanto
HOLLY: The ‘Panorâmico de Monsanto’ is an abandoned restaurant that you can freely visit and get an amazing view of the city of Lisbon. It’s hard to explain how beautiful this view is through words, but it’s a great place to get out of the city for a little bit and meditate on the beauty of Portugal.
It’s also situated in the middle of the beautiful forest of Monsanto in Lisbon, one of the most beautiful nature spots in the city!
Holly: Skate Park in São João do Estoril, near the beach, and with amazing spots to Skate and BMX. The coming together of generations, the love of skateboarding and urban art, all with an incredible view under the sea.
Alexandra: An incredible garden with centuries-old trees. space for socializing outdoors and a wonderful kiosk to drink a beer. The friendliness, two fingers of conversation, a great coffee, and the classic greeting by Mr. Oliveira “Good morning in the morning”, make this place a 2nd home, where green parrots greet us and where Jacarandas turn the walks into a fragrant lilac rug.
Holly: This is the place to dream with your eyes open and sleep like a beast, in the quietness of nature, in the heart of Lisbon. Opening soon… Inside we stroll through contemporary art, neon mixes with beautiful flower beds, tiles with fabrics, design with an interior garden.
All of this takes us to the quiet rooms where we relax after a day spent in the heart of Lisbon.
For the last three months, Britney Spears is seeking to have her father Jamie Spears removed as her conservator, much to his consternation. After asking a court judge to take her father off the conservatorship, Britney and her lawyer formally filed a motion for his removal. Now, mere days later, the pop singer’s lawyer, Sam Ingham, reportedly told a court that Britney fears her father and that she would not perform until he was removed from the position on her estate.
According to TMZ, Ingham reportedly revealed the news during a court hearing on Tuesday, where an attorney for the pop singer’s mother, Lynne Spears, also asked her father to step down from the conservatorship. Lynne’s lawyer said that while Britney is grateful for her father’s help and support, Lynne believes that it’s time for Jamie to let go of his position.
Britney and her lawyer filed the original motion for her father’s removal after they found out Jamie hired a new business manager for her estate without her knowledge. The hire came after the previous manager stepped down without any prior notice. Britney was also unhappy that Jamie requested in a letter stating that her estate account remains at City National Bank until her new conservator takes over. Ingham said the request was a “blatant attempt by James to try to retain full functional control of her assets, books and records in the face of Britney’s objections, TriStar’s resignation and the appointment of Bessemer Trust.”
Even after Joe Biden’s presidential win on Saturday, the news continued to be scary and weird. The losing candidate, incumbent Donald Trump, refuses to concede. Those around him are baselessly alleging voter fraud. It’s a nightmare. But some of the news is just weird, even when it involves recent failed Republican candidates. Such is the curious case of one Dean Browning, a fairly obscure political figure from Pennsylvania who started trending after tweeting that he was a “gay black guy.” And then things got really weird.
The story’s hairpin twists and turns unfolded over Tuesday afternoon into early evening, but places like Vox and Snopes have tried to make some sense out of the nonsensical. It started on Sunday when Browning — a former county commissioner who earlier this year lost the Republican primary for his district in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley — tweeted a pretty stock, if bold, conservative tweet: “What Trump built in 4 years, Biden will destroy in 4 months.”
That tweet went viral; it currently has over 12,000 retweets. (Browning has it pinned.) But it took two days until he received a reply that made him a sudden superstar. Someone pushed back, arguing that Trump tied to “take credit” for “what Obama built in 8 years.” Then came Browning’s inexplicable retort: “I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected – which I never do when democrats are involved.”
Browning, as his avatar attests, is not black, and after several hours, after much of Twitter had sicced upon it, he took it down. Luckily people had screengrabbed it.
Dean Browning, former Lehigh County comissioner who seems to have forgotten to log into his burner account, was about 2,500 votes away from being the GOP’s nominee in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional district this year. pic.twitter.com/ftiY68wae6
Eventually Browning tried to explain, saying it was all a simple (if weird) misunderstanding. “Regarding the tweet that is going viral from my account — I was quoting a message that I received earlier this week from a follower,” he wrote. “Sorry if context was not clear. Trump received record minority votes & record LGBTQ votes. Many people won’t say it vocally, but do in private.”
Regarding the tweet that is going viral from my account — I was quoting a message that I received earlier this week from a follower.
Sorry if context was not clear.
Trump received record minority votes & record LGBTQ votes.
Many people won’t say it vocally, but do in private.
Is it really so strange to quote someone who’s definitely not you without attribution? Sure! But this is where things got even more surreal. A lot of people called bull, even theorizing that Browning had one of those fake “black Republican” accounts so popular among Russian bots. One journalist even singled out one of Browning’s frequent reply guys: one “@DanPurdy322,” who was prone to…unusual tweets about black women.
Not long thereafter, Browning chimed back in, saying the message was from this Dan Purdy. He even included a link to this person’s Twitter account, which, by the way, has since been suspended.
Here is a message from Dan Purdy, who has decided to responded to the controversy.
I wish the media would pay attention to the voter irregularities in the state of Pennsylvania as much as they have this Twitter story. https://t.co/8UUpC0Y8UH
That seemed fishy, too, but then the account posted a video of a black man claiming to be Don Purdy. ““I sent that message to Dean, Dean accidentally posted it somehow, that’s the end of the story,” the man said. “No, he’s not a sock puppet. No, I’m not a bot.” That video was soon deleted.
so the video was taken down, but here it is in case you want your brain to melt: pic.twitter.com/umGPjt5sN4
According to Vox, even the video aroused suspicion, which some accusing him of being a hired actor. Soon internet sleuths like Jon Hendren (aka @fart) did some Googling and found the Dan Purdy account belonged to someone with a suspended account, as well as a number of aliases, one of them being “White Goodman.”
so from googling it would appear @deanbrowningpa‘s black guy identity “Dan Purdy” was also once used on the suspended account @soulcookie322. but before that account became Dan Purdy, it was a white guy named “Pat Riarchy” and “White Goodman”. dean is really something else pic.twitter.com/gFkUPkNDPV
— food truck drove away with my debit card (@fart) November 10, 2020
But there’s (at least!) one more twist. Other internet sleuths went further, pointing out similarities between the face and the avatar of this professed Dean Purdy and one William Holte. And William Holte is otherwise known as Byl Holte, a regular on Medium who’s often written about feminism and anti-racism in media, caling himself an “anti-feminist TV critic.” And one other thing about him: He’s the adopted nephew of R&B legend Patti LaBelle. Because why not! 2020!
So there you have it. Sort of. Thing is, this is far from over, and there could be more twists, especially once Browning and Purdy respond to press requests. For now, we hope this has been a welcome surreal distraction from the news, which has been see-sawing between optimistic and grim, much as the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle helped us deal with a soon-to-be former president who may have to leave office by force.
We live you with one of the finest works by Patti LaBelle — not her recent Verzuz with Gladys Knight, but her duet with Michael McDonald.
The Los Angeles Lakers are fresh off winning the 2020 title, adding a record-tying 17th championship banner to the rafters at Staples Center. It marks LeBron James’ fourth title and fourth Finals MVP, further cementing his legacy as one of the game’s all-time greats.
For other players, it’s the first time reaching the mountaintop, a culmination of years of hard work and dedication and the glamour-less daily grind that happens when no one’s watching. Few players embody that ideal better than Alex Caruso, an undrafted prospect who fought his way up through the G League ranks to become a key rotation player for the Lakers during their championship run.
Caruso has become a fan favorite in Los Angeles and around the league, the sort of scrappy underdog that appeals to something universal in us and makes it easy to root for him. In a recent appearance on the J.J. Redick podcast, The Old Man and the Three, Caruso talked about how the key for him securing his place in the NBA and getting out of G League limbo was to understand his role and find his niche.
“That’s a big reason guys get stuck in the G League is that they don’t understand the position they’re trying out for,” Caruso said. “It’s like going to a job interview thinking you’re going to be the CFO of the company, and they’re looking for a guy to clean the bathrooms…It’s a self-awareness of understanding what you’re good at, what teams need, and trying to do that.”
Caruso certainly made the most of his opportunities, and last summer, earning a two-year, $5.5 million contract with the Lakers. He’ll now prepare to help L.A. embark on their title defense when the new season tips off on Dec. 22.
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