Month: July 2023

Sometimes things happen that are just plain embarrassing, where you know three years down the road you’re likely going to wake up in a cold sweat remembering the thing that you hope everyone else has forgotten. But with the power of the internet, those hilariously humiliating moments can be cemented into internet history.

And if you’re really unlucky, your embarrassment can become a meme. One that haunts you every few months for the rest of your life—unless you’re the one that posts the video, then it’s safe to assume you’re perfectly fine with the entire world having a belly laugh at your expense. At least that’s the logic that makes the most sense in this instance.

Toria Townsend uploaded a video to her TikTok page @classy_Melita, which has since taken over the app thanks to her side-splitting misfortune that involves the police, concerned citizens and a hair appointment.

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Townsend had just gotten her hair done and returned home when she heard a knock on the door. The video looks to be recorded by a home surveillance system from the doorway and shows the woman answering the door as two police officers stand on the porch. By one officer’s question, it seems obvious that he wasn’t concerned that there could be a person trapped in the trunk of her car.

“The craziest thing you’re not going to believe,” the officer says. “So we got a call, somebody was concerned. Are you like a hairstylist?”

Likely to the officer’s brief dismay, Townsend says she’s not a hairstylist, which is the moment he informs her that there’s hair sticking out of her car.

“Oh, my Jesus,” Townsend screeches while trying to get out the door.

It wasn’t a person at all. As she runs towards the car, the officers chuckle while she screams that it’s her wig hanging from the trunk and giving passersby heart palpitations. The hilarious video has racked up a massive number of views as people continue to reshare it, including It’s Gone Viral, where it has nearly 9 million likes and over 58 million views.

Watch the unforgettable interaction below:

@classy_melita

#rvp #wig #hilarous #icantmakethisup #police #policeoftiktok #embarrassing #blowthisup Police receive a call called that there was a body in my trunk.

Tom Hanks’ wholesome, relatable and reassuring on-screen presence has been said by many to have fatherlike qualities. Over the years, Hanks’ portrayal of genuine, honest characters in films such as “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Saving Private Ryan,” and “Cast Away” has etched him into the heart of many Americans, earning him the endearing title “America’s Dad.”

Further, Hanks’ off-screen personality closely tracks many of his “everyman” characters, solidifying his reputation as a father figure. And the fact that he’s maintained this reputation in the cutthroat world of Hollywood is a true feat, given the number of years he’s been in the limelight.

So, if Tom Hanks is “America’s Dad,” who in popular culture could take the role of “America’s Cool Uncle”? You know, the guy who gives you your first sip of beer, introduces you to great music and has conversations with you that dad was too embarrassed to discuss.

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A Reddit user named Galactic Splurge posed the question to the AskReddit subforum, and over 6,500 people chimed in with their thoughts. “If Tom Hanks is America’s Dad, who would be America’s cool Uncle?” they asked.

So, to determine the winner of the great uncle debate, I looked at the number of upvotes each suggestion received and then ranked the top 15. It’s not the most scientific way of doing things, but it gives us a pretty good idea about who people think should win the award.

The funny thing is that the results weren’t even close. Actor and musician Jack Black had around five times the number of upvotes over second place. Who else made the list? Here are the top 15 most popular responses for who should be America’s favorite “Cool Uncle.”

1. Jack Black

“This is the only correct answer.” — _HuntressWizard

​2. Matthew McConaughey

​“Like… Uncle Matt is DEFINITELY the guy to set up a bonfire for you when you’re 16.” — pm_me_your_clippings

3. Jeff Bridges

“That’s just like, your opinion, man.” — Downvote4grammar

4. Robin Williams

“He is the fun uncle that you have sweet memories of as a child and teenager but then passed away. But every time someone brings them up, it’s never sad, it’s just ‘remember when Uncle Robin used to….’ and everyone laughs and smiles.” — Sandvich48

5. Danny DeVito

“I was just going to say no he’s more like Nana’s new friend we just call Uncle Danny,” — sew_u_thnk_ur_a_hero

6. “Weird Al” Yankovic

“‘Weird Al’ is your mom’s wacky cousin who makes every party a good time.” — KiribakuFriend

7. John Candy

“The good uncle who passes when you were little, John Candy.” — itsearlyyet

​8. Snoop Dogg

“The uncle that you go on walks with during family get-togethers, same come back all bleary-eyed.” — Bonnedraco

9. Keanu Reeves

“Rides motorcycles, plays with weapons, knows martial arts, is humble and genuinely kind. Definitely the cool uncle.” — Phil_MyNuts

10. Bill Murray

“He’s the uncle who seems really cool when you’re a kid but once you’re an adult, you realize that he’s a drunk and there’s a reason why he keeps getting remarried and divorced.” — Yellow_Vespa_Is_Black

11. Paul Rudd

“I still feel like Paul Rudd is the corny friend you’ve known since childhood and comes up with weird nicknames like Jobin or City Slicka.” — Sandvich48

12. Dave Grohl

“I was watching Dave Grohl interviews one day, my son was 10 at the time and I didn’t realize he was paying attention to the TV. He asked me later that day, ‘Can we please watch ‘the nice man’ again?’ Dave is forever known as ‘The Nice Man’ in my house.” — Background_Ad5873

13. Woody Harrelson

“I had a dream that he married my aunt and bought me a Nintendo during his ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ era. I’ve called him Uncle Woody ever since. This is the only answer.” — DJTrpTrp59

14. Jeff Goldblum

“A lot of the other options here are ‘goofy silly uncle who lives one suburb over.’ Goldblum is more ‘cool uncle who lives in the city and used to hang with rock stars.'” — Pylo_The_Pylon

​15. Danny Trejo

“He’s the uncle that everyone thinks is intimidating as hell and maybe a gun-runner or something, but it turns out he runs a soup kitchen and reads to kids in the hospital.” — Geminii27

Big Boss isn’t just the title of Keke Palmer’s May album and accompanying film. It also describes her lifestyle. Palmer attended Usher’s July 4 concert, as part of his ongoing Las Vegas residency, and she chronicled how much fun she had on her Instagram Story. Palmer danced and sang along to “My Boo,” but her reported real-life boo, Darius Jackson, seemingly wasn’t too happy back home.

A fan-taken video circulated on Twitter by RNB RADAR shows Palmer hugging and slow-dancing with Usher as he sings “There Goes My Baby,” eventually showing off her own voice. A Twitter account believed to be Jackson’s quoted it, writing, “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom.”

In a separate post, Jackson wrote, “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is. This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”

Palmer has not publicly acknowledged the comments, and Jackson’s Instagram account has no traces of similar commentary. Page Six reached out to Palmer’s representation for comment but, as of this writing, hasn’t heard back.

Palmer confirmed her pregnancy while hosting Saturday Night Live in December. She and Jackson welcomed their son, Leodis, in February. Neither comments on their relationship publicly, but there has been a long-running assumption that they are together.

The beef between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk isn’t just about the cage fight that may or may not happen. (And may not go well for Musk if it does.) It’s about the fact that the former is trying to snuff out the latter’s social media service. On Wednesday, the Meta honcho launched Threads, his long-threatened “Twitter killer” (as some techies have dubbed it). He even did it a day early. But to really rub it in, Zuckerberg did something else: He tweeted for the first time in over a decade.

Zuckerberg’s post was simple, perhaps even inevitable: It was a meme, specifically the one of two Spider-Men pointing at each other. The joke was obvious: He was joking about how he’d created a Twitter clone, one that’s supposed to if not kill Twitter then at least provide the services Twitter, under Musk, no longer does.

“I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Zuckerberg posted on Threads shortly after it went life. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

Threads appeared soon after Twitter went through some stuff over the weekend, including limiting the number of tweets users — even paid subscribers — could see and generally acting glitchy. It got so bad that its co-founder Jack Dorsey took sympathy.

Zuckerberg was never a big tweeter. It is, in fact, only the 13th tweet that still lives on his profile. (He could have always deleted a bunch.) He first tweeted in 2009 about being on a boat. He’s twice described things as “neat” — once TweetDeck, once an ambiguous “This.” In one, before the (original) blue checkmark days, he assured people it was really him. (His account has over 500,000 followers.) He didn’t tweet for three years, returning in 2012 to link to a since-deleted Facebook post about being “pro-internet.” That was his final tweet until now.

Zuckerberg’s Threads is an off-shoot of Instagram. It even allows users to subscribe to all their Instagram buds with one click. That also makes it easier to quickly amass a large user base who can set up an account in less than a minute. (By contrast, Bluesky Social, whose board includes Dorsey, is still not only in the Beta phase, but requires one to painstakingly rebuild their base, depending on who’s scored an early account.)

Threads is also touting itself as an “open, friendly” place, said Instagram head Adam Mosseri. That stands in contrast to Twitter, where blue checkmarks are now largely wielded by Musk heads willing to fork over monthly payments, not famous or notable people trying to prove they’re them.

There are already complaints about Threads — on Twitter as well as Threads, of course — but it is its first day. In fact, one of the jokes being bandied about is that there are now too many social media services.

Drake and 21 Savage are opening their highly anticipated (and slightly delayed) It’s All A Blur Tour on Wednesday, July 5, at Chicago’s United Center. Earlier in the day, Drake shared a teaser trailer video that featured him reminiscing on getting high before his Degrassi audition and called back to his formative acting role again to warn, “If anyone got beef with Savage on tour this how I’m coming be warned.” Savage, meanwhile, posted some mirror selfies.

Fans began sharing footage from United Center online as show time drew nearer, including a first official look at the It’s All A Blur Tour merch and a larger-than-life statue of the late Virgil Abloh.

A nine-second, fan-captured video shows white Nike hats, black “It’s All A Blur” bucket hates, several spray-painted graphic tees, and Drake’s newly published poetry book. One black tee simply says, “Peer pressure.”

The latter hints at what Drake was talking about in his earlier teaser video on Instagram:

“Someone asked me the other night what my biggest fear is, and I’ve never really had a good answer for it, but my answer was that all this is for nothing. Kind the idea that like, one day, life ends and it just all goes black, and I guess that question, like, sent me, you know, obviously deep into a spiral of thought. And it makes me think about my life and how surreal it feels at times.

I go back to this day when I was like 13 or 14. I had an audition for a TV show that ultimately shaped my life. And before my audition, I went to this kid’s house and um, I, out of, I guess, a desire to be accepted, I would succumb to peer pressure, and I got high with these kids right before my audition. And um, I kind of wonder, like, if something bad happened that day, or you know, maybe I’m still high, maybe I’m in some coma and this is just like me playing out my ideal life, and yeah, that concept has stuck with me for a lot of years. I mean, it feels like reality, it feels tangible, but I definitely wonder sometimes.”

Watch the video below.

Beach Fossils recently dropped Bunny, their first album since 2017, and chatted with Uproxx around its June release. The band admitted that the last show they attended was a Beach Fossils show, but they’re about to attend 26 Post Malone concerts.

“Hitting the road with our number one homie @PostMalone this summer [bunny emoji, peace sign emoji] see y’all there!” Beach Fossils posted on Wednesday, June 5.

Malone announced his North American If Y’all Weren’t Here I’d Be Crying Tour in May and since added international dates.

“i love y’all so very much, and i’m so excited to get out and do some more shows for y’all,” Malone wrote on May 16. “help me put a baby through college, and come on out [beer mugs emoji] some cool new production, new songs, and a very very handsome man up on stage [cool sunglasses emoji] sending love to you and yours.”

Malone hasn’t yet posted about Beach Fossils joining as his opener. He’ll release his Austin album on July 28, sandwiched between his Bristow, Virginia (July 26) and Charlotte, North Carolina (July 29) shows.

The trek is scheduled to kick off this weekend — in Noblesville, Indiana on Saturday, July 8, and Cincinnati, Ohio on Sunday, July 9.

This pairing might be random on the surface, but Beach Fossils and Post Malone enjoyed a good-natured karaoke night together in January 2020.

“Wot U know bout that New York shit?! [Fire emoji] TIMBS ON MY HANDS / TIMBS ON MY FEET,” Beach Fossils captioned an Instagram video at the time.

Austin is out 7/28 via Mercury Records/Republic Records. Find more information here.

While the Lakers entered this offseason with the goal of keeping its core group from last year intact, they still wanted to make some changes to the rotation on the margins. Among those changes was letting go of Mo Bamba and Malik Beasley, opting to use those roster spots elsewhere as they moved quickly to fill out their rotation for next year once free agency opened.

Beasley eventually landed a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, giving them another bench option on the wing. On Wednesday, Bamba found a new home, likewise joining an Eastern Conference contender, as he worked out a 1-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers to be one of Joel Embiid’s backups.

The Sixers also will have a decision to make on Paul Reed, who Woj reports they still want to retain even with the Bamba addition (which echoes an earlier report from Jake Fischer that Philly plans to bring back Reed). Should Reed come back as expected, Bamba is likely the third center in the rotation for Nick Nurse. The Sixers will hope they end up with the Bamba that was shooting nearly 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from three in Orlando prior to the deadline, rather than the version of Bamba that was much spottier shooting the ball in L.A. in extremely limited action (89 total minutes).

The 2023 Levitate Music Festival will mark its 10th iteration, and the anniversary is shaping up to be a party this weekend in Marshfield, Massachusetts, with headliners Brandi Carlile, Trey Anastasio, and Stick Figure.

The three-day event will take place across three stages — Stoke Stage, Style Stage, and Soul Stage — and begin around 1 p.m. local time each day.

On Friday, July 7, Steve Rondo will get things going from 1-1:45 p.m. on the Soul Stage. The Q-Tip Bandits (2:50-3:50 p.m.), Melt (3-4 p.m.), Ripe (5:30-6:45 p.m.) are scheduled ahead of Stick Figure’s headlining set on the Stoke Stage from 8-10 p.m.

Saturday, July 8, will follow a similar structure. Birch & Anna is the day’s first act from 1-1:45 p.m., followed by John Craigie (2:10-3:10 p.m.), The Heavy Heavy (3:10-4:10 p.m.), Lime Cordiale (4:20-5:20 p.m.), and Peach Pit (3:20-4:20 p.m.). The Saturday headliner is Trey Anastasio Band — again, from 8-10 p.m. on the Stoke Stage.

Carlile’s will wrap it all up 24 hours later from 8-10 p.m. on the Stoke Stage on Sunday, July 9. Preceding her will be Couch (1:10-2:10 p.m.), Celisse (2:10-3:10 p.m.), Ziggy Marley (3:20-4:30 p.m.), Veronica Lewis (3:10-4:10 p.m.), Larkin Poe (4:30-5:30 p.m.), Christione “Kingfish” Ingram (5:30-6:30 p.m.), Rebelution (6:40-8 p.m.), and Shakey Graves (5:40-6:40 p.m.).

Check out the various lineups and schedule below. Everything you need to know about Levitate Music Festival can be found here.

Last month, a particular group of fans took it upon themselves to chuck objects toward the stage during concerts. Bebe Rexha was hit in the face by a phone, while Nicolas Malvagna is subsequently facing several assault and harassment charges. Ava Max, Kelsea Ballerini, and Lil Nas X have also been targets.

However, all that happened to Machine Gun Kelly was that he was politely asked for a favor.

The musician posted an Instagram video which shows him fulfilling a fan’s wish to be punched in the face during his Rock Werchter Festival set in Belgium on Saturday, July 1. In the video, he spots a fan-held sign in the crowd and asks, “Why do you want me to punch you in the face so bad?” Off camera, a fan yells, “I love you!”

“I got rings on, dude. That sh*t’s gonna hurt,” Machine Gun Kelly responds. He contemplates out loud whether he should do it — “it’s a lose-lose for me” — before the video jumps to him in the crowd while singing “My Ex’s Best Friend” and holding the sign claiming that the fan “just came from Mexico 4 U 2 punch me in the face.” Then, MGK half-heartedly punches him in the face, walks away, and yells back to the fan, “I love you!”

Watch the video below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

There were major questions entering this summer surrounding the future of Grant Williams. Between how hard it was to project out what he would command on the open market and how unlikely it seemed that the Boston Celtics would be able to bring him back due to financial restrictions after acquiring and extending Kristaps Porzingis, Williams was one of the more interesting cases on the restricted free agent market, as the best version of himself is something that any team could use.

While there were a handful of interested suitors, most were restricted to using the mid-level exception to sign him to an offer sheet unless there was a sign-and-trade to be worked out. On Wednesday, that exact scenario played out as the Dallas Mavericks were able to pull off a three-team sign-and-trade with the Celtics and Spurs, acquiring Williams on a 4-year, $53 million deal from Boston, with the Spurs taking Reggie Bullock into cap space along with a future pick swap, and Boston landing a trio of future second round picks, per Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski.

Williams had a strange 2022-23 campaign as his role frequently changed, whether that meant going from the bench to the starting unit or seeing Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla prefer other players over him for stretches of the season. Despite that, Williams would end up registering solid numbers for essentially being a role player, as he averaged 8.1 points and 4.6 rebounds in 25.9 minutes per game, while connecting on 39.5 percent of his attempts from behind the three-point line. The No. 22 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft after the University of Tennessee, Williams has spent his entire professional career in Boston up to this point, and started 23 of the 79 games in which he appeared last season.

Now he’ll join a Dallas team that is desperately in need of some stronger defenders, and Williams will bring that to their frontcourt while also being another floor spacing option. The Mavs also may not be done on the RFA market, as there are reports they’ll be using most of the mid-level to sign Matisse Thybulle to an offer sheet and try to pry him out of Portland.