Diddy had the internet talking last Halloween with his spot-on Joker costume, which pulled inspiration from Heath Ledger’s version in The Dark Knight. However, when the mogul and musician sat down with Jimmy Kimmel recently, he revealed that not everyone might have been pleased by it.
“Last year, I was the Joker, and I actually got a letter from the studio that I can no longer be the Joker,” Diddy shared.
“They said it broke their trademark, that I did it too good,” he added. “I swear I have this letter. I swear to God. From Warner Bros.”
In the segment, Kimmel then encourages Diddy to wear the same costume again for Halloween — especially since the interview was done on October 30, and he wasn’t sure what to wear.
“So tomorrow… Warner Bros. lawyers, can you see me?” Diddy proceeded to joke. “Put this camera on right here. The head of legal: Tomorrow, watch what I do.”
Over on Instagram, Diddy then made a post, where he seemed to be holding the legal papers he received as proof. “I don’t know what I’m gonna be this year, but I will say, to the motherf*ckers who took all this time,” he said in the video. “This six full papers.”
Then, in a hilarious move, if he was actually threatened with legal action, Diddy isn’t scared — because he dressed up as Batman from the same movie this year.
In late 2021, Narcos: Mexico concluded the popular Narcos franchise after six seasons. If this still doesn’t seem like enough drug-lording escapades to you, there’s some good news. Sofia Vergara will soon star as Griselda Blanco, the so-called “Cocaine Godmother,” in the aptly titled Griselda on Netflix. The not-as-good news is that this is not a direct crossover series, yet this still feels like a Narcos show, and there’s a damn fine reason for that.
This series is the “cousin” to Narcos, and that’s a quote from Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman, who teamed up with original Narcos co-creator Doug Miro for this series that’s executive produced by Vergara. You will notice a few familiar faces along the way, for sure.
Griselda also happens to be Vergara’s first extensive dramatic role, and she portrays a woman who deftly piloted Miami’s cocaine trade into party central. She did, of course, have a legion of helpers that she personally recruited, and she eventually did earn respect, but it was a hell of a struggle. If you think it was difficult to be taken seriously in a “normal” 1970s or 1980s profession as a woman, imagine the scoffs that the first female drug lord received in her time on the “job.” Then again, it’s difficult to feel bad for a woman who ran an $80 million per month cocaine empire in her heyday.
Griselda Blanco proved herself to be industrious and creative while putting together her network. She was savvy and shrewd as a businesswoman, but she had plenty of fatal flaws that led to her downfall. Blanco was incredibly brutal and had no issues with calling for executions on the spot. Lots of collateral damage went down on her watch, and it’s estimated that she was responsible for somewhere between 50 to 250 murders.
Naturally, there was some urban legend-ing involved with her story, but Griselda does the thing with parceling out truth with the slightly fantastical aspects of her twisted legacy. Narcos fans will be pleased with the series. From the Netflix synopsis:
La Jefa is coming. Sofia Vergara transforms in this series, inspired by Griselda Blanco, a woman who rose from obscurity to become ‘the Godmother’ of the underworld. Witness her lethal blend of charm and ruthlessness in this captivating series.
Donald Trump celebrated Halloween the only way he knows how: by yelling on social media. “RADICAL LEFT JUDGE TAKING AWAY MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH IN ORDER TO HELP CROOKED JOE BIDEN & HIS THIRD WORLD ELECTION INTERFERENCE SCAM. AS GOOD AS THIS SOUNDS, IT WON’T WORK!” the former president wrote at 1 a.m. EST on October 31st. Trump followed that up with another all-caps screech, which he bizarrely re-shared (“ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”) three hours later.
As How I Met Your Mother taught us, nothing good happens after 2 a.m., especially on Truth Social.
Jimmy Kimmel tried to get to the bottom of Trump’s middle-of-the-night tweeting, er, truthing habits. “The not-so-great pumpkin was up all night mashing his little pink fingers, posting all-caps rants about this gag order that clearly isn’t working too well,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live host said during Tuesday’s episode. About the 4:24 a.m. post, Kimmel added, “He woke up, and went, ‘Oh, I forgot to say ‘election interference’ in all caps.’ And what is it with him and the caps? He types in all caps. He wears red caps. He had his supporters storm the Cap. He’s a real piece of cap.”
You can watch the Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue above.
November has arrived to put visions of Thanksgiving feasts into our heads, and even though The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon‘s season finale has already aired, there’s plenty to be thankful for on TV this month. This includes returning hits from different ends of the spectrum (a Squid Game reality show, The Crown‘s highest drama in its history, and Fargo with a side of Hamm). As well, Selena Gomez is back with more of her incredibly charming cooking series that would brighten your kitchen if you give it a chance.
Additionally, Amazon continues to be the current champ of the comic-book adaptation game with more Invincible, and Taylor Sheridan has a new show on the not-so-distant horizon. More fuel for Hugh Howey readers will arrive onscreen too, along with the first of three Godzilla projects. Let’s get cracking.
Here are the must see shows for October.
Invincible: Season 2 (Amazon Prime series streaming 11/3)
Robert Kirkman’s other most beloved comic book series proved that Amazon really is doing superheroes and supervillains better than anyone else right now. When this round of episodes begins, Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) will need to fully reckon with the implications of that climactic fight in the sky with his dad, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons). Additionally, his love life will receive new wrinkles, and Walton Goggins will be back, meaning that the man who would be Boyd Crowder again is achieving TV supremacy with every passing year. New characters shall be portrayed by Ben Schwartz and Tatiana Maslany.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves: Season 1 (Paramount+ series streaming 11/5)
Taylor Sheridan currently has 6666 in the works on the Yellowstone side, but first, he’s taking viewers back to the real Old West. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal. This series will harken back to the Post-Reconstruction era, in which Bass Reeves became a notorious frontier hero by capturing thousands of the most frightening criminals in the land. Oyelowo will be accompanied by Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland.
The Buccaneers: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series streaming 11/8)
Christina Hendricks stars in this series that should please Downton Abbey, The Gilded Age, and Bridgerton fans, and not simply for the opulent surroundings and wiggery. The story revolves around the new rich in America and their daughters, known as The Buccaneers, who make a spectacle of themselves in London while attempting to find some aristocratic dudes who are both handsome and classy. Gotta dig that hot corset action.
For All Mankind: Season 4 (Apple TV+ series streaming 11/10)
Joel Kinnaman is still starring in this alternate-history space-race series, and in the year 2003, the Earth’s nations are competing like hell to capture and mine asteroids full of precious minerals. That doesn’t sound ominous at all, and of course, there’s still plenty of beefing between nations after Happy Valley has grown in size on Mars’ surface.
The Curse: Season 1 (Showtime series streaming on Paramount+ 11/12)
Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder are here to whoop some The Property Brothers butt. Only kidding, sort of. Stone and Fielder star in this A24 series as hosts of a house-flipping show who end up being cursed by a guest on their series. From there, the genres begin to bend in this series created by Fielder and Benny Safdie.
Beacon 23: Season 1 (MGM+ series streaming 11/12)
After the success of Apple TV+’s Silo, which you should watch, there’s now the question of how Hugh Howey fans can get their fix before the soaking wet Season 2 arrives. Well, enter Beacon 23 starring Lena Headey in this story about intergalactic lighthouses. Headey portrays Aster, who finds herself on a beacon helmed by Halen (Stephan James), and let’s just say that all is not what it seems. Cue intrigue.
A Murder at the End of the World (FX limited series streaming 11/14)
There’s some Glass Onion flavor to this mystery series that follows Darby (Emma Corrin) accepting an invitation to visit a reclusive billionaire with an assortment of other guests. One of the lucky participants will be not-so-lucky and end up dead, and at that point, Darby must use her amateur-sleuth abilities (including hacking and being a typically astute Gen Z-er) to solve the case before anyone else ends up dead. Along with Corrin (The Crown), this show also stars Harris Dickinson of the upcoming The Iron Claw and Clive Owen, who is already so many projects and yet who should be in more.
The Crown: Season 6 (Netflix series streaming 11/16)
The final season of this royal soap opera is upon us. The story will partially focus upon the courtship of Prince William and Duchess Kate after they met at university. Charles will marry his former mistress, Camilla, and Diana will move on as well. Sadly, the world already knows how a car chase between the paparazzi and Diana/Dodi Fayed ended. Thus, the Queen will enjoy her Golden Jubilee while a “fairy tale” ends and another one begins.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series streaming 11/17)
Three (three!) Godzilla-centered projects are hitting screens in the next year. That includes this Apple TV+ series that should be incredible in 4K and will star father-and-son powerhouses Wyatt and Kurt Russell, the latter of whom will team up with Godzilla, which is certainly a take that we need in this world.
Fargo: Season 5 (FX series streaming on Hulu 11/21)
Jon Hamm, need we say more? Alright, we will. This season stars Hamm and his enormous belt buckle as this season’s most eccentric lawman. The season co-stars Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lamorne Morris, Joe Keery, Richa Moorjani, Jessica Pohl, Nick Gomez, David Rysdahl, and Sam Spruell — all as characters bearing names even more flowery than the actors themselves.
Squid Game: The Challenge: Season 1 (Netflix series streaming 11/22)
Despite Squid Game being a smash, global, runaway hit, something about a reality show did not sound so wise. Still, Netflix decided that they were up to The Challenge, and sure enough, some unfortunate allegations have surfaced. Still, it will be worth checking in to see how this show moves from dystopian-tale-that-portrays-a-horrific-reality-show to an actual reality show. People won’t be able to resist.
Selena + Chef: Home For The Holidays (Food Network special streaming on Max 11/30)
Selena Gomez remains underappreciated, so thank goodness there will be an offshoot of her long-lived cooking show. What a wonderful holiday season.
In recent times, Mariah Carey has bookended the years on the charts. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was the final No. 1 song of 2022 and the first of 2023, and that’s been true in previous years, too. Well, it’s Carey time again. As has become tradition, now that it’s November 1 and Halloween is over, Carey has come through with a new video ushering in the holiday season.
Carey’s video, shared at the crack of midnight, sees Carey encased in a block of ice as people in spooky costumes work to defrost and free her. Carey, donning a Santa-inspired outfit, busts out a high-pitched “It’s tiiime” as the ice surrounding her cracks and crumbles away. Carey and others then dance and celebrate in front of a festive backdrop as “All I Want For Christmas Is You” plays.
Last Halloween, Diddy had easily one of the year’s best costumes with his phenomenally executed Joker look. It appears Warner Bros. didn’t like that and actually forbade Diddy from wearing the costume again, but he still managed to stick it to the studio this year.
Diddy was a Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest on October 30 and at the end of the conversation, when the host asked what he was planning to be for Halloween this year, the rapper responded, “Last year, I was the Joker, and I actually got a letter from the studio that I can no longer be the Joker.” Kimmel asked why and Diddy continued, “They said it broke their trademark, that I did it too good. I swear I have this letter. I swear to God. From Warner Bros.”
Kimmel, forever stirring the pot, responded, “Well do it again, then. Do it again!” Diddy leaned into it, declaring, “So tomorrow… Warner Bros. lawyers, can you see me? Put this camera on right here. The head of legal: Tomorrow, watch what I do.”
After the show, Diddy took to Instagram to expand on the story, holding the papers he supposedly received from Warner Bros. “I don’t know what I’m going to be this year,” he said, later adding, “You win, I’m not going to be the Joker this year.” At the end, though, the video teased, “Stay tuned.”
Now, this morning, Diddy made his grand reveal. True to his word, he didn’t dress up as the Joker, but he kept his costume in the same universe, sharing a scripted, high-production-level video of himself as, who else, Batman (“The Darkest Knight,” as he called his version). In the video, Diddy’s Batman confronts a studio executive in his office and demands they end the ongoing actors strike.
In conclusion, Diddy has mastered the art of malicious compliance.
On the heels of an embarrassing Monday Night Football performance in which the team fell to the Detroit Lions, the Las Vegas Raiders are going to make some major changes. In a bit of news that the franchise announced in the early hours of Wednesday night, Las Vegas decided to fire head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler.
“After much thought about what the Raiders need to move forward, I have decided to part ways with Josh and Dave,” Raiders owner Mark Davis said in a statement released on the team’s Twitter account. “I want to thank them both for their hard work and wish them and their families nothing but the best.”
According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, Las Vegas will turn things over to linebackers coach Antonio Pierce in the interim.
Sources; Raiders are planning to name LB coach Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach. pic.twitter.com/ABVVZSCsV8
Both McDaniels and Ziegler came to the Raiders ahead of the 2022 season from the New England Patriots — McDaniels was the offensive coordinator under Bill Belichick, while Ziegler was the team’s director of player personnel. It marked the first time that Ziegler was put in charge of an NFL front office, but for McDaniels, this was by no means his first foray into head coaching, as he previously coached the Denver Broncos from 2008-09.
The decision means that McDaniels has now been fired during his second season in both of his head coaching stops, as the Broncos fired him 12 games into his second year at the helm. Here, McDaniels lost his job after the team fell to 3-5 on the year, including back-to-back road losses to the Chicago Bears and the Lions immediately before his ouster. Despite the success he had in New England as an offensive coordinator, the Raiders are currently 31st out of 32 teams in yards per game, and 30th in points per game.
Next up for Las Vegas is a home tilt against the New York Giants on Sunday afternoon at Allegiant Stadium.
Victor Wembanyama sat down with the Inside the NBA crew on Tuesday night in the aftermath of the San Antonio Spurs‘ shocking 115-114 win over the Phoenix Suns. After getting the usual slate of questions that unsurprisingly popped up after San Antonio came back from a double-digit fourth quarter deficit to beat Kevin Durant and co., Charles Barkley made it a point to give us some pretty compelling television by asking Wembanyama a simple question: “How do you say ‘churro’ in French?”
What came next was a, quite frankly, hilarious back-and-forth that revolved around the fact that Wembanyama has never heard of a churro before.
“Churro!” Barkley responded. “You know what churro is! You’ve been in San Antonio long enough!”
Kenny Smith and Barkley both said it was a dessert, with Barkley describing it as “the long doughnut,” which did not ring and bells for the French rookie and also is not a way that I have ever heard anyone describe a churro. By this point, Wembanyama’s interest was piqued, and asked the fine folks in San Antonio to help him out.
“What? I’ve never heard of that,” Wembanyama said. “San Antonio people, put me on that ASAP. I need to try that.”
Barkley has long associated churros with the city of San Antonio, and has made clear that he likes eating them, so hopefully he can lend Wembanyama a hand here.
Despite not having Bradley Beal or Devin Booker due to injuries, the Phoenix Suns led by as many as 13 points in the fourth quarter of Tuesday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs. Fast forward to the final buzzer and everyone in the Footprint Center in Phoenix was left stunned, as San Antonio managed to storm back, take the lead for the first time all night with only 1.2 seconds remaining, and pick up a 115-114 win.
Despite San Antonio scratching and clawing all fourth quarter thanks in large part to Keldon Johnson, Victor Wembanyama, and Devin Vassell, it looked like a Kevin Durant dunk with just over minute left to put the Suns up five was going to provide enough breathing room. Wembanyama scored on the ensuing possession, which the Suns followed up with a disjointed possession that ended in a good look from the corner that Yuta Watanabe missed.
And then, things got crazy. Vassell missed a three that Wembanyama cleaned up, and Phoenix wisely responded by inbounding the ball to Durant. He got trapped in the corner by Tre Jones and Johnson, the latter of whom ripped the ball out of his hands, got to the rim, and finished through contact by Josh Okogie.
Durant was rather upset, as he clearly got scratched across his face but did not get a foul call. And on the final possession of the night, he missed a contested jumper that sealed a win for the upstart Spurs.
Johnson led the way for San Antonio with 27 points, four assists, three rebounds, and two steals, while Vassell had 18 points, six rebounds, five assists, and three steals. Wembanyama likewise had 18 points, but pitched in eight rebounds, four blocks, and an assist.
In person, and unlike some of his more iconic roles, Robert De Niro tends to be quiet, reserved. He’s not much of a talker. But make him mad, as a certain former president well knows, and look out. The legendary actor was in court Monday and Tuesday of this week, giving testimony in a civil trial involving a former personal assistant who’s suing him for, basically, allegedly being an abusive boss. He’s countersuing her for other matters. On Tuesday it got pretty ugly.
Per Deadline, while on the witness stand, De Niro blew up when asked about one particularly sketchy allegation. The ex-assistant, one Graham Chase Robinson, claimed he audibly urinated during a phone call with her as he was on the toilet. That prompted De Niro to shout across the room, “Shame on you, Chase Robinson!”
Robinson, who worked at De Niro’s business and personal services company Canal for 11 years, has accused De Niro of gender discrimination, wage theft, and retaliatory behavior. Other allegations include unwanted physical contact, “stereotypically female duties like housework,” plus assorted other “office wife” duties, such as making her “scratch his back, button his shirts, fix collars, tie his ties, and prod him awake when he was in bed.”
Some of the accusations drove De Niro to exasperation. “Give me a break with this stuff,” he grumbled towards the end of his second day (of two) of testimony. At one point he told one of her lawyers, “You got us all here for this?” He also thundered, “I don’t take liberties with people who work for me,” saying that claims that he does are “so ridiculous, I don’t know what to say.”
When asked about a claim that he had asked her to scratch his back, De Niro admitted that was true, but that he was just asking her to help out with a hard-to-reach spot. He also admitted that he may have called her a “b*tch” one time and that he told her she was “finished” after she failed to make an important call to him while she was in Europe, where she sometimes worked remotely.
“I berated her,” De Niro said. “I wasn’t abusive. I was annoyed.”
But he blew up at her claims of eternal servitude, saying, “She implies that she’s out in front of the building on her knees scrubbing the floor.”
Jurors in the trial also have to weigh in on De Niro’s counterclaims, which include that she misused a company credit card, absconding with over five million frequent flier miles.
De Niro can currently be seen in Killers of the Flower Moon, his latest picture with Martin Scorsese, in which he almost never gets mad but simply smiles like a kind grandpa as he helps orchestrate the murder of people he claims to love.
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