On Thursday morning, Nikki Haley tweeted out a campaign video where she blatantly copied the “Mean Tweets” segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! in an attempt to roast Donald Trump. The late night host was not amused.
During his monologue later that day, Kimmel launched his roasting of Haley by revealing the confusing text message he received after her Twitter video went live. Despite running against Trump, the governor’s name still isn’t immediately recognizable to Kimmel.
“Did you have Haley on the show?” Kimmel said. “It took me a while to figure out what Haley meant. Like Hailey, who, Duff? Haley Joel Osment? I didn’t know.”
However, Kimmel soon saw the video, and he didn’t pull his punches on calling out Haley for blatantly “co-opting” the popular segment.
“She used our bit, our title, our logo, our graphics,” Kimmel said. “She called it Nikki Haley Live. And, worst of all, she added the fakest fake laugh track maybe I’ve ever heard.”
But the late night comedian was just getting started. Via The Daily Beast:
Kimmel was not happy about Haley’s decision to just blatantly rip off his well-known bit—and feels pretty certain that Haley wouldn’t appreciate a similar gesture. So he addressed her directly when he asked: “How would you like it if I launched a disastrous campaign for president?”
“This is why you lost Nevada to ‘None of the Above,’” Kimmel continued.
Kimmel ended the roast by warning Haley that she’d be hearing from his attorney “Rudolph Giuliani.”
Just a month into 2024 and Callum Turner is already having one hell of a year.
The 33-year-old British actor can count the George Clooney-directed sports dramaThe Boys in the Boat and the Steven Spielberg-produced World War II series, Masters of the Air, amongst his recent on-screen credits. Both roles have earned him praise from critics, thrusting him into the spotlight with Hollywood “It” boys of the moment like Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan – who, coincidentally, serve as his co-stars on the Apple TV+ show.
And, in what may be the most definitive piece of evidence concerning the question of whether Turner has “made it,” he’s now fielding rumors during red carpet walks that he’s in the running to become the next James Bond. (He’s not, that he knows of.)
With his role as Major John “Bucky” Eagan in the Spielberg and Tom Hanks-backed Band of Brothers off-shoot, Turner trades on his physicality, vibrating with barely-contained rage in every scene he’s in. The high-flying bomber pilot is reckless, antagonistic, and ill-equipped to weather the emotional brunt of war, but his heroics in the air and his care for his men weigh the scales.
Uproxx chatted with Turner about his personal connection to the big-budget war series, being a loose cannon on set, and trying to lose his American accent once filming was done.
Was a World War II movie near the top of your acting bucket list?
Not anymore, but it was, for sure. The truth is that my granddad went to war when he was 16 years old, and I grew up on the stories that people would tell about him. I’ve always been fascinated by this moment in history and how miraculously the Allies managed to win and how close we came so many times to losing — how many mistakes got made and how fragile life is. I guess that’s what it represents, how lucky we are that we live in this time. I didn’t know about the Eighth Air Force and I didn’t know about the 100th, and I’m just very grateful that I get to be a part of this story, to shine a light on their legacy.
I always thought it would be the infantrymen who had the toughest time down there on the ground, but actually, it was these guys. They would fly into the face of adversity, into hell, and lose men left, right, and center. What’s exceptional about our show is that we experience that. We go up with them and we see that hell, and we see that pain and we see how outrageous it is, what they had to put themselves through. Only 23% of them make it, which is such a low number. It just blows my mind. And we watch them deal with grief and trauma, the effect that has on their mind, body, and soul.
Your The Boys In The Boat role required a lot from you physically. Did this show challenge you in a similar way?
Absolutely. It’s tight in those planes, it really is. And you’ve got a lot of gear on. You’ve got your flak vest, you’ve got your life jacket, you’ve got your parachute rig. I’m also 6’2″, which is a lot bigger than John Egan. He was wafer thin and I’ve got broad shoulders. It was just an interesting exploration of who this man was. I didn’t want to just bring this idea of John Egan with me. I wanted to find him from within, and that meant being him as much as possible, staying in the accent, drinking loads of whiskey, and dancing and singing as much as possible. I mean, I know it sounds like really hard work.
It does, yeah.
[laughs] It wasn’t. It was a lot of fun. I was lucky enough to be one of the leads of the show with Austin, and I felt the weight of that. I carried that on my shoulders.
Did you learn anything about your leadership style playing Eagan and being one of the leads on this show?
I love the responsibility because you get to work closely with the directors and you get to be there every day. I always describe it as like being on a train. Once the train leaves the station, if you’re already on the train, it’s much easier to stay with it. When you’re playing a supporting part and that train is moving, you’ve got to jump off, and then further down the line, you’ve got to jump back on while it’s still going. I just like the rhythm and the flow of being in it. And 10 months is a long time to shoot something. We had some COVID breaks, our schedules got compressed. [But] I just really loved every second. It was grueling at times, five days a week, sometimes six, and I relished it.
Did that make it harder to come back to the real world when filming was finally done?
What was difficult was leaving the character. I mean, I spoke in an American accent every single day. In 2021, I spoke more in an American accent than my own.
I’m so sorry. That sounds terrible.
[laughs] No, it was so much fun. I went from John Egan to Joe Rantz. I had a month off before I started. Going from playing someone who has a high level of alcohol dependency to someone who is an Olympic rower was a real shock to my system. But I feel like what I get to do is the most special thing on the planet, and I never take it for granted. It truly is like being part of the circus. You can have the most beautiful experiences if you’re lucky.
Over the first few episodes, your character feels a bit unhinged. He’s definitely reckless. Why do you think he acts out in that way?
He’s an extrovert anyway, and he’s dealing with all this grief and trauma and this high-pressure situation. It must just be the most mind-breaking situation for you to be in. I just wanted to let him loose. Everything that I read was that he was this loose cannon, and the 100th was this loose cannon group of people, and I wanted to embrace that.
And then, I think that embracing that side of him meant that when he says, ‘Oh, I want to write the letters to the families of the men who we lost because it’s more of a personal touch,’ it means so much more. Because he’s multifaceted and he’s got a heart. That’s the thing that bonds him and Cleven, they’re both extraordinary pilots and extraordinary men.
How much of those aerial fight scenes, like the one in episode three, are CGI versus real effects?
We had the old-school way of making movies and the new-school way, which was just a beautiful dichotomy. They built 81 buildings — the barracks, the officers’ mess, the clubhouse … it was so big that they gave us a map. You really immerse yourself in that world. It’s like you’re there. You have all these extras, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, sometimes thousands of extras. And then, you had this thing called the volume, which is the new-school way of doing things and that was the CGI element. It’s a horseshoe of high-definition screens that are wrapped around you while you’re 50 feet in the air on a gimbal in the plane, doing these scenes. And the screen and the gimbal are in sync, so whatever you see, you feel.
I found the etiquette video they made American GIs watch before heading over to England during the war. I heard you watched that as well. Are there any tips that still stand?
It’s hilarious. “Don’t be loud when you go into a pub and don’t be rude.” Just some basic manners there. But what’s important is that that video represented the moment. The Brits didn’t want the Americans there. But by the end of it, we were all brothers in arms. We’d achieved something together.
The Bob Marley biopic Bob Marley: One Love will open in theaters next Friday, but for now, you can check out the film’s soundtrack, which functions as a greatest hits, of sorts, from Bob and The Wailers. Meanwhile, the film’s release will be accompanied by Bob Marley: One Love (Music Inspired By The Film), a seven-song EP featuring contemporary artists like Kacey Musgraves and Daniel Caesar covering the reggae icon’s classic songs. The latest single from the upcoming release is the best so far, with Leon Bridges covering the ultimate track from 1980’s Uprising, “Redemption Song.”
As Bridges is an accomplished guitarist in his own right and has a honeyed whiskey vocal tone, the warmth of his cover could melt even the coldest heart. While it’s not a straightforward cover, the song’s nature as a clean guitar ballad means Bridges’ take is both familiar enough to evoke nostalgia for the original but unique enough to stand on its own.
Bridges is a few years removed from his most recent full-length album, 2021’s Gold-Diggers Sound, but has stayed busy since then, recording two EPs with Texas psych-soul band Khruangbin in 2020 and 2022, and collaborating with Miranda Lambert on “If You Were Mine” in 2023. If “Redemption Song” is the first sign of a possible new release from Bridges in 2024, we’ll take it.
Listen to “Redemption Song” above.
Bob Marley: One Love (Music Inspired By The Film) is out on 2/14 through Tuff Gong/ Island Records.
The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.
ITEM NUMBER ONE – Good show
Most of the pushback I’ve heard about Amazon’s new Mr. And Mrs. Smith series has been related to the reboot/remake of it all. Which, yeah, I get. These things can be lazy sometimes and tiresome at others and sometimes a combination of both that just smells funky straight through. There’s a real fatigue there, with a steady stream of reimaginings and recasting that feels a little like the people in charge are just squeezing dry every piece of fruit they already have instead of going to the yard to pick some fresh stuff off the tree. Again, I get it. Believe me.
But maybe it will help to look at it this way…
Throw out the Brangelina of it all. Look at it fresh. Imagine all you knew about it was “Donald Glover and the creative team from Atlanta are working with Maya Erskine from PEN15 on a fun little series about two spies who had never met before getting paired up as a married couple and there are a ton of great guest stars and action and a travel budget that would make a real-life adventurer jealous.” You would watch that show, right? I definitely would. And I am. And it’s a blast so far.
I say “so far” here because I’m only halfway through. Amazon dumped the whole eight-episode season last week and I didn’t have to do the review and I enjoyed the first two so much that I decided to chill and savor it. I’m enjoying that, in part because there’s a “case of the week” aspect to it that makes each episode its own little story and in part because it’s nice to have little things to look forward to. Hey, speaking of the review I didn’t have to write, my colleague Kimberly Ricci handled it for us and she knocked this part out of the park.
Things go incredibly wrong in the business of death, and also, you have to consider this: how f*cked up are people who agree to do this for a living? Pretty screwed up, as it happens. In a departure from the film, Glover and Erskine’s “John” and “Jane” were hired before they knew that they would be paired with anyone, let alone “married.” They work that discomfort and the sense of discovery hard, in the most entertaining way. Glover is incredible as always, but Erskine steps up to take control of the screen, and boy, their onscreen relationship is as much of an occupational risk as their assignments themselves.
This is what I’m saying here. The show is so much its own thing, and such a different take on the premise, that I wonder if it’s actually being hurt by the title. Glover and Erskine come at it all from such a different angle, less focused on the glamour and “holy crap, look at these two almost unreasonably attractive people on the screen” part than they are about the real-life implications of two spies meeting and having what is basically their first actual date be a stakeout of an old lady. It’s kind of cool. I still wonder what the original version with Phoebe Waller-Bridge would’ve looked like, but hey. I’m fine just accepting the cool thing as is.
“I don’t really do remakes,” he told his buddy, an exec at New Regency, which produced the 2005 original starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married spies. Of course, he’d never actually seen the film, just the tabloid saga surrounding its stars, who’d later wed. In fact, Glover’s still convinced that was key to the project’s appeal. “When people are like, ‘I love this movie,’ I’m like, ‘What did you like?’ Not to say that the movie’s necessarily bad,” he says, “but I think it just had to do with the chemistry and what was happening between them.”
Yes, correct, accurate. Three notes in conclusion:
I think you will probably like this show if you give it an honest chance
Maya Erskine is so good in this show and I think we should all devote more of our time and resources to making her a huge star
If any of you spoil this for me I will let the air out of your car tires when you’re at dinner
Good show. More like this, please.
ITEM NUMBER TWO – Let Ryan Gosling hang out in the water tower
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Ryan Gosling got nominated for an Oscar for his role as Ken in Barbie (good), which means he’s now stuck doing hundreds of interviews about it (bad) (for Ryan) (probably), which means we get to read lots of things Ryan Gosling thinks and says out loud (good). He seems like a rascal. I love a rascal. He’s always being about 10-15 weirder and funnier in these things than he needs to be. I enjoy this both as a person who likes when people have a blast with otherwise tedious stuff and as someone who has to fill up a 3000-word column every Friday with fun stuff from the world of entertainment. Thank you, Ryan Gosling. I appreciate this. I would appreciate it a teeny bit more if you weren’t so handsome, but still. I appreciate it.
One of those interviews he did dropped earlier this week. It’s a big huge profile in Variety that touches on his early career and his big breaks and a whole lot of stuff related to playing Ken. It’s a good read. Go check it out. But I want to focus on this.
“When I was very little, there was a show called ‘Animaniacs,’” Gosling says of the zany, reality-bending ’90s cartoon. “And they lived at Warner Bros. in the water tower — that was like their clubhouse. I loved that show. And I think it planted some seed in my head. That’s what making movies was like: The lot was just your home, and you wander in and out of Western sets, and you can hang out in the water tower.”
Okay, I am serious about this. I promise I am serious. I think we should let Ryan Gosling hang out in the Warner Bros. water tower. It’s still there. Let Ryan Gosling hop in there. I bet he’d have fun. People would be on tours of the lot and he’d just be up there waving as their tram rolls by. (“Honey, look! It’s Ryan Gosling!”) That would be cool.
I suspect he doesn’t actually want to live in the water tower anymore, for any number of reasons (he’s a busy working actor, he’s raising a family with Eva Mendes, his mansion probably has a lot more square footage than a water tower, it doesn’t hold water anymore so he’d get really thirsty, I don’t think it has WiFi, climbing up and down that ladder every time you want a snack seems exhausting, it probably gets really hot in there in the summer, there’s no toilet or shower, it might tip over one day, and so on), but if he ever really asks, I think we should let him.
ITEM NUMBER THREE – Arnold Schwarzenegger bullied Jake from State Farm into getting ripped
Look. You read the heading up there. I don’t know if the words in it really sunk in, though. Read it again: “Arnold Schwarzenegger bullied Jake from State Farm into getting ripped.” That’s true. That’s a real thing that happened. They made a Super Bowl commercial together and Arnold Schwarzenegger — The Terminator and the former Governor of California — kind of yelled at Jake from State Farm to get in shape. He told everyone about it. Here, look.
“Well, we worked out together. I had to get him in shape for this because when I heard that he has 10% body fat, that was unacceptable,” Schwarzenegger tells PEOPLE of spending time with Miles. “So I said to him, I said, ‘By the time we do the commercial, you have to have 8% body fat.’ And so he really whipped himself in great shape and he was a lot of fun to work with. He’s a really funny guy and he’s of course a great actor. So it was fun.”
Okay, here’s the fun part. I know they probably worked out at Arnold’s private gym or whatever but forget that part for now. Picture you’re at like a Planet Fitness a few weeks back, before this commercial was announced. You’re on the recumbent bike pedaling away, maybe ripping through an episode or two of Slow Horses on the cell phone you have balanced precariously in front of you. And you look up for a second over by the weight machines and… hold on. Wait. Is that… is that Arnold Schwarzenegger showing… Jake from State Farm the correct form for a lat pulldown? Are… are they friends? Do they hang out? Does Arnold just train commercial spokespeople now? What exercises is he giving Flo?
You would never shut up about it. It would just live in your head forever. Kind of like how this quote Arnold gave Variety in another interview promoting the commercial lives in my head forever now.
Schwarzenegger plans to have some friends over to watch the Big Game: “I’ll throw some steaks on and have some good pizza and watch for my commercial.”
How does he like his pizza? “With everything on it,” Schwarzenegger said. “Totally load it up with every vegetable and every meat and every kind of junk you can find on the kitchen floor.”
Please read this in his voice. Thank you.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Here are some things I will watch
What we have here is the first trailer for the upcoming Roku original film First Time Female Director. It stars Chelsea Peretti, who also wrote and directed it. Here’s the official description:
Aspiring writer Sam (Chelsea Peretti) is thrust into the role of director when the Regis Theatre’s director is fired. Hand-picked by the theatre’s artistic director, Sheldon (Andy Richter), Sam is asked to direct the Regis’ upcoming Southern-inspired play, ‘Rain’s Comin’ In.’ Sam dives into the opportunity, and hilarity ensues as she struggles to wrangle the eclectic cast—including classic theater kid Rudy (Benito Skinner); over-trained amateur Clara (Kate Berlant); vain, tech-addict Davina (Meg Stalter); theater vet Marjory (Megan Mullally); acting savant Simon (Jak Knight); and Corden (Blake Anderson), whose minor acting credits give him high status in the company. Barely making it through each rehearsal, Sam vents to her eccentric therapist, Meg (Amy Poehler) and even turns to the Regis’ arrogant-but-dorky usher, Robbie (Max Greenfield), for drunken comfort. As Sam struggles to understand why she can’t seem to nail her production, she tries different tactics to make her play a success. Will she finally hit it big? Or will being a first-time female director lead her to try a totally different career?
The facts here are not in dispute:
Chelsea Peretti rules and has ruled dating back to Brooklyn Nine-Nine and even before
This cast is freaking incredible
I am going to watch this movie
Moving on…
What we have here is the first trailer for Secrets of the Octopus, the latest entry in the Secrets Of… franchise that National Geographic does with James Cameron. Here is the relevant chunk of the press release:
Octopuses are like aliens on Earth: three hearts, blue blood, and the ability to squeeze through a space the size of their eyeball. But there is so much more to these weird and wonderful animals. Highly intelligent, octopuses can use tools, transform their bodies to mimic other animals and even communicate with different species, including us. The secrets of the octopus are more extraordinary than ever imagined.
“It’s been an incredible journey learning about these mysterious creatures and their interconnected lives. I can’t imagine audiences won’t be as blown away with the secret lives of octopuses as I was working on this series,” said PAUL RUDD. “If you’re going to dive deep into natural history, you have to do it with National Geographic. I’m thrilled to be working with James Cameron and the Nat Geo team to deepen our connection with the ocean and all of its creatures and curiosities.”
The facts here are not in dispute either:
Paul Rudd rules and has ruled dating back to Wet Hot American Summer and even before
Paul Rudd seems really freaking jazzed about narrating this octopus documentary
I am going to watch this, too
Very exciting stuff here.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Guys… does Stephen A. Smith think the rat from Ratatouille is named “Ratatouille”?
Background first, quickly, only because I have important things to say here. Stephen A. Smith has a podcast now. It’s on video. Sometimes he takes questions from fans and then gives the answer the Full Stephen A. Smith, where he’s unwaveringly confident about things he may or may or not know anything about, which is really just very fun when the questions he’s answering are extremely silly. That happened this week when someone wrote in to ask who would win in a fight between the cartoon mouse from Stuart Little and the cartoon rat from Ratatouille, who we have now somehow mentioned in two consecutive editions of this column.
But anyway. Here’s a loose transcription of his answer.
“That’s an easy one. It’s Ratatouille. You see, Stuart Little, he lived in the confines of a nice habitat. Posh, affluent lifestyle. Comfort, meals, never had to worry about some cheese, never had to worry about any of that stuff. He was fine. Ratatouille, now he had it rought. He’s a rough rider. Scratch and claw! He don’t have no time to be messing around. Ratatouille is like one of those rats in the NY subways, that’s what that is. That’s Ratatouille. The kind of that cats run from, that the only thing that can get him to move is the train! Stuart Little isn’t even in Ratatouille’s class. Ratatouille all day every day.”
I can’t decide which aspect of this is funnier to me: the thing where Stephen A. Smith thinks the rat from the 2007 Pixar classic Ratatouille — whose name is Remy, for the record — is actually named “Ratatouille” or the way Stephen A. Smith thinks the word “ratatouille” is pronounced.
Oh.
Oh, did you not click play on that video before you started reading this?
Oh, please do that now.
Please listen to how Stephen A. Smith pronounces ratatouille.
I promise you that you do not see this coming.
I am not exaggerating even a little when I tell you that it will change your entire life.
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From Rob:
Here’s something I’ve always wanted to know… how do you tv critics and reapers watch tv? I assume advance screeners are involved, but what about the rest of the time? Are you a cord cutter? A standard cable channel surfer? Do you even want to watch tv when you’re off the clock or does it being your job kind of ruin it for you?
Hmm. I can’t speak for everyone here because I’m just me and also I have never done anything efficiently in my life. Case in point: I have access to a lot of screeners, but I also pay for most of the streamers (easier to watch on multiple devices, better for making screencaps, only way to get caught up on stuff I missed earlier), and I also pay for cable, mostly for live regional sports (go Sixers, go Phillies, etc.). It’s madness. I know some of the big players in sports broadcasting are coming together to try to get a live sports bundle going, which is nice, but even then I don’t see myself cutting the cord until two things happen:
Regional providers get lumped into a streaming service to allow me to watch every Sixers and Phillies game in a reliable way
Streaming figures out a way to recreate the kind of passive viewing thing where it’s a boring Saturday afternoon and you’re like “oh snap the last 40 minutes of The Bourne Supremacy are on TBS, guess I better settle in”
The owner of an Alabama radio station is stunned, and out a lot of money, after thieves made off with his 200-foot radio tower.
Excuse me.
Brett Elmore, owner of WJLX in Jasper, then received an unexpected, and baffling, call.
“He said, ‘Brett, we’re down here and the tower’s gone.’’
“I said, ‘The tower’s gone?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, the tower’s gone.”
Okay, yes, confirmed. This call would indeed be unexpected and baffling. I mean, this time. If he rebuilds the tower and someone steals it again, then maybe not. Then it would be old hat. In fact, I bet this burned itself into his brain so vividly that he kind of expects to hear a tower was stolen every time he answers his phone. Or any time anyone else was on the phone.
“Hey, man. Sorry I missed your call. Was on the other line.”
“Did someone steal your radio tower?”
“Uh, no?”
“Oh, okay. Anyway…”
But this time, yes. The story checks out.
The small transmitter building had also been vandalized. At Elmore’s direction, the landscaper looked inside and described what he saw – a wooden table, a metal chair, and a box fan.
“And then I knew. I said, ‘Something bad, bad has happened,’’ Elmore said. “The transmitter was gone.”
I mean, I think “the 200-foot tower going missing suddenly” might have gotten me there, but everyone has different standards for what they consider bad, I guess.
“It’s one thing to break into the building and steal the transmitter,’’ he said. “But it’s another thing to steal a 200-foot tower.”
Okay, maybe we are on the same page after all.
Elmore called his engineers and the Alabama Broadcasters Association and then went to the Jasper Police Department to file the theft report.
“They said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’’’ Elmore said.
LOTS OF WEIRD AND UNEXPECTED PHONE CALLS WHEN A 200-FOOT RADIO TOWER VANISHES
Elmore said the thieves likely got some copper from the transmitter, but he assumes the tower will just be sold for scrap.
He can only guess how the tower was dismantled.
I know I joked about it earlier but I think, if I were this guy, this would haunt me for the rest of my days. Like, I would jolt awake up in an icy sweat just shouting “WHAT DID THEY DO WITH THE TOWER???” five or six times a year for the rest of my life.
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The big one is here, and that means the end of the NFL season. Super Bowl LVIII arrives on Sunday with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs meeting in Las Vegas, and we’ll have five picks below for the festivities. After all, that is what we do in this space for the last eight (!) seasons, and it’s been another profitable year on the whole. Championship Weekend was quite kind to us with a 4-1 mark, clinching a winning season overall, but we’re not done yet.
As always, we’d encourage you to stay within yourself and treat this one like (almost) a normal game, but before we tackle the five official plays, let’s take stock of the 2023-24 season.
Championship Weekend: 4-1
2023 Season: 55-41-4
Come get these winners.
Travis Kelce OVER 70.5 receiving yards — PointsBet
I am rarely as square as this play feels. But I do think it’s the right side. Kelce is on a 12-game streak of at least 70 yards in playoff action and, while he isn’t the same player athletically that he once was, Patrick Mahomes is peppering him (and Rashee Rice) with targets. San Francisco’s linebackers are tough to navigate, but Kelce will be a huge part of the game plan.
Christian McCaffrey UNDER 90.5 rushing yards — Widely Available
I’m already not enjoying this one, but sometimes we must stand on principle. The Chiefs haven’t given up a 90-yard rusher in a million playoff games (all numbers approximate), and McCaffrey has fallen short of this mark in three of the last four. I wouldn’t touch his scrimmage yards because I think McCaffrey will be a big part of the passing game, but all signs point to this number being at least a touch inflated.
Brock Purdy OVER 0.5 interceptions — BetMGM
Simply put, Purdy has been fortunate with turnover-worthy plays that have not become turnovers this season. Under the bright lights, Purdy should give the Chiefs a couple of chances, and I think they come up with one.
Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers UNDER 47.5 points — Widely Available
The Chiefs are 14-6 to the Under this season. I’m not saying that because I’m a big “trends guy,” because I’m not. But also I don’t think the market has caught up with Kansas City’s defense and, to some extent, Kansas City’s offense. As I’ll say again below, this isn’t a number that would be screaming at me under normal circumstances, but it’s the side I’d play if I have to pick it. And, hey, I do.
Kansas City Chiefs (+2.5) over San Francisco 49ers — FanDuel
If this was a game in Week 6, I probably wouldn’t give out the Chiefs at this number on a neutral field. I get why the number is what it is, and I don’t think it’s “wrong,” but if you’re making me pick the game, I’m taking Kansas City. It’s not as simple as Mahomes vs. Purdy, but that is an enticing tiebreaker. Mahomes is absurd as an underdog with a 10-1-1 career record against the spread, and while I don’t believe Purdy is the caricature that some have painted, I also don’t think he’s an elite player. I think the Chiefs should be able to get pressure up front. They’ll get enough from Kelce, Rice, and Pacheco. If it was pick’em, I’m not sure what I’d do, but the extra candy makes it an easier choice.
Chicago rappers HotBlock Jmoe and MAF Teeski link up to bang it out in the video for “Aye,” Jmoe’s latest single. The song finds the rappers taunting foes in the streets while flexing their own credentials. The new single arrives just a year after Jmoe’s 2023 album, Da Hottest, which featured appearances from G Herbo, Fresco Trey, Tyla Yaweh, and Yung Bleu.
“You can stop all that dissin’ in your raps like you killin’ sh*t,” Jmoe sneers on the chorus, “I asked about you, boy, you innocent.” Meanwhile, the video was shot by Jerry Production (who has also shot videos for other Chicago standouts like Polo G and King Von) and features the two rappers and their respective crews fanning money and repping their hoods as ATVs burn rubber in the background.
While “Aye” marks Jmoe’s first single of 2024, the relentless pace he’s maintained in the past suggests it won’t be his last. Meanwhile, MAF Teeski just released his own first single of 2024 last month. That single, “Magic,” followed the September 2023 release of his album, Slick Almighty.
Jmoe was recently featured on UPROXX Sessions, where he pulled up to perform Da Hottest standout “9x Outta 10” — albeit without the song’s guest Tory Lanez.
Watch HotBlock Jmoe’s “Aye” video featuring MAF Teeski above.
In what seemed like a victorious moment back in November 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery reversed its decision to shelve Coyote vs. Acme by allowing the Looney Tunes film to be shopped to other streamers instead of plunged into the ether alongside Batgirl. At the time, Amazon was being touted as the top contender, and it truly seemed like the film was saved. But then nothing happened.
For the past few months, there have been crickets from Warner on the fate of the film, and according to a new report, there’s a reason for that: Coyote vs. Acme is about to be “unceremoniously deleted.”
The Wrap reports that Amazon, Netflix, and Paramount Plus all submitted “handsome offers” to take Coyote Vs. Acme off of Warner’s hands. All of them were rejected:
But Warner Bros., which stood to make $35 – $40 million on the tax write-down, wanted something in the ballpark of $75 – $80 million from a buyer. And what’s more, they wouldn’t allow the interested studios to counter Warner Bros.’ offer. It was a “take it or leave it” situation, one that the other studios didn’t even know they were entering into.
According to The Wrap, Warner Bros. wanted to turn a profit through the sale of Coyote vs. Acme by insisting on a price tag that was “negative cost plus.” In essence, the studio wanted to make up the entire cost of the film plus whatever “additional fees” had incurred through this whole process.
When they couldn’t extract the exorbitant price they wanted from the streamers, the studio contented themselves with “closing the book” on the whole thing by quietly returning to the tax write-off strategy.
“They made a short-sighted choice based on dismal third quarter projects,” a source told The Wrap while noting that the fate of Coyote vs. Acme is most likely sealed.
Super Bowl LVIII is this Sunday (February 11). You will have to tune into the big game to catch Usher’s highly-anticipated halftime performance. But as far as advertisers are concerned, they have no problem spoiling their forthcoming commercials. So far, the public has been treated to Ice Spice’s upcoming cameo. Yesterday (February 8), Dunkin previewed their ad slot starring “Lovin’ On Me” rapper Jack Harlow and Ben Affleck.
In the teaser, Affleck, a longtime Dunkin’ lover, battles with his late-night craves. As Affleck and Harlow sit in their car in what appears to be a Dunkin’ parking lot, the two verbally spar about right and wrong. The actor needs to be pulled in from the temptations. Unfortunately, Harlow isn’t there to be the “voice of reason,” at least not in what Affleck needs. Instead, Harlow pushes Affleck closer to his Dunkin’ fix. You will have to tune into the Super Bowl to see how the dilemma ends for Affleck.
With the Super Bowl just a few days away, brands have been getting a jump on promoting their star-studded commercials. We’ve already seen Arnold Schwarzenegger as a State Farm agent, and now, Kate McKinnon stars in a truly bizarre big game spot for Hellman’s.
In the 60-second spot that just hit YouTube, McKinnon is trying to figure out what she can make with the leftovers in her fridge. Nothing seems terribly exciting until her cat makes a suggestion by seemingly say “mayo” instead of “meow.” At first, McKinnon is onboard with the suggestion before realizing the more important matter on hand.
“Holy sh*t, you can talk.”
And thus, Mayo Cat was born. The two embark on a whirlwind press tour as McKinnon’s “talking” cat becomes a worldwide sensation filled with talk show interviews and glamorous photo shoots that may or may not involve McKinnon eating gobs of mayonnaise right out of the jar.
Of course, no celebrity rise is complete without the biggest rite of passage: Dating Pete Davidson. That’s right, Mayo Cat and Pete quickly become a hot item, and then just as quickly go their separate ways.
“You lasted longer than most,” McKinnon says to console her sulking feline. “Wanna go pound some milk and rip up my couch?”
Super Bowl LVIII kicks off 6:30 ET on CBS.
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