In their second SNL performance of the night, Foo Fighters continued to show why they are one of the most timeless bands of our time. Continuing to share songs from their most recent album, But We Are Here, the band performed “The Glass,” a ballad alluding to the loss of the band’s drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
On “The Glass,” lead vocalist Dave Grohl mourns the loss of a friend, and how he has been forced to go through life without him.
“I had a version of home, and just like that / I was left to live without it, left to live without it / I had a person I loved, and just like that / I was left to live without him, left to live without him,” sings Grohl on one of the song’s verses.
Adding more rockstar flair to this heartbreaking album cut was HER, who performed this particular verse alongside Grohl, while showing off her guitar chops. Toward the bridge of the song, Grohl and HER delivered an electrifying guitar duet.
HER’s special appearance wasn’t the only surprise of the night. Earlier, actor Christopher Walken introduced the band ahead of their performance of “Rescued,” marking a special full-circle moment.
You can watch the performance of “The Glass” above.
Foo Fighters made their ninth appearance on Saturday Night Live tonight, reminding everyone of the legends they are. In their first set of the night, the band delivered a performance of “Rescued” from their latest album, But We Are Here.
Actor Christopher Walken stood before the stage, introducing Foo Fighters, who were surrounded by television displays as they appeared in full rockstar glory in their performance of “Rescued.”
“Rescued” and But We Are Here comes over a year following the death of Foo Fighters’ original drummer, Taylor Hawkins. The album is a work of grief and features the band emerging from adversity, ready to carry Hawkins’ legacy for years to come. Over the past year, Foo Fighters has performed various festivals, and the band is gearing up for a stadium tour which will begin next year.
Walken’s introduction of the band came as a full-circle moment, more than 20 years in the making. Walken hosted an episode of SNL back in February 2003, during which, Foo Fighters was the musical guest. Grohl recalled this moment in a 2017 interview with Radio X, during which, he uncannily imitated Walken, asking if the emphasis on the band’s name was on the “Foo” or “Fighters.”
Dave Grohl is one of the rock icons of our time. But perhaps now, he may venture into country music. Tonight (October 28), Foo Fighters performed songs from their newest album, But We Are Here, as the band was the musical guest for this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live. But also, this episode was full of surprises, as Grohl made a couple of appearances in some of the show’s sketches.
In one of the sketches, the show’s cast members James Austin Johnson and Andrew Dismukes formed a fictional country band called Mudpuddle, along with this week’s host, Nate Bargatze. The trio performed in a music video for their song called “Lake Beach,” an ode to their favorite country getaway.
During the clip, the band partakes in every activity one can imagine available to them at a “lake beach,” including slipping on slimy rocks, getting chased by bats, and catching poison ivy.
Grohl appears as the uncle of Johnson’s character, who, evidently, has a case of cornhole on the brain.
“My girlfriend didn’t show up, but my uncle did / He’s not fun to play cornhole with / He’s got weird gear and he knows all the rules / and he can’t tell that that’s not the vibe,” sings Johnson, as Grohl plays cornhole like a madman.
Saturday Night Live continues to deliver a promising set of guests in its 49th season. Next month boasts an equally exciting guestlist.
On November 11, Wonka actor Timothée Chalamet is set to host the show. Boygenius will perform as the show’s musical guest that night. Chalamet’s appearance arrives about a month before wide theatrical release of Wonka — an origin story about the fictional chocolatier, Willy Wonka, created by Roald Dahl.
Boygenius’s performance comes near the end of an exciting year for the musical trio, comprised of Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers. Back in March, Boygenius released their critically-acclaimed debut album, The Record. The trio performed at Coachella in April, during their set proclaiming “F*ck Ron Desantis.” Earlier this month, Boygenius released a follow-up to The Record, an EP titled The Rest.
Chalamet’s upcoming hosting gig marks his second on SNL, his first being in 2020. He made a brief cameo in a 2021 episode as well.
In an interview with GQ, Chalamet described getting into character for Wonka as a “throwback to LaGuardia.”
“We’re telling a story here,” said Chalamet. “This isn’t, like, athletic naturalism. It’s a shot of earnestness and sincerity, without the cynicism or dread or all the stuff we’re exhausted by.”
Saturday Night Live broadcasts on Saturday nights at 11:30 p.m. EST / 10:30 p.m. CST. You can also stream episodes of SNL on Peacock.
Brian Gordon is a cartoonist. He’s also a dad, which means he’s got plenty of inspiration for the parenting comics he creates for his website, Fowl Language (not all of which actually feature profanity).
He covers many topics, but it’s his hilarious parenting comics that are resonating with parents everywhere.
“My comics are largely autobiographical,” Gordon tells me. “I’ve got two kids who are 4 and 7, and often, what I’m writing happened as recently as that very same day.”
Gordon shared 15 of his oh-so-real comics with us. They’re all funny ’cause they’re true.
Let’s get started with his favorite, “Welcome to Parenting,” which Gordon says sums up his comics pretty well. “Parenting can be such tedious drudgery,” he says, “but if it wasn’t also so incredibly rewarding there wouldn’t be nearly so many people on the planet.”
Truth.
I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.
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All comics are shared here with Gordon’s express permission. These comics are all posted on his website, in addition to his Facebook page. You can also find a “bonus” comic that goes with each one by clicking the “bonus” link. Original. Bonus.
I love Gordon’s comics so much because they’re just about the reality of parenting — and they capture it perfectly.
There’s no parenting advice, no judgment, just some humor about the common day-to-day realities that we all share.
When I ask him about the worst parenting advice he’s ever received, Gordon relays this anecdote:
“I remember being an absolute sleep-deprived wreck, sitting outside a sandwich shop, wolfing down my lunch quickly beside my 1-month-old son, who was briefly resting his lungs between screaming fits.
A rather nosy woman walked up to me and said, all smugly, ‘You should enjoy this time while they’re easy.’ It was the exact worst thing anyone could have said to me in that moment and I just wanted to curl up on the sidewalk and cry.”
Who hasn’t been on the receiving end of totally unneeded and unwanted advice? That’s why Gordon’s comics are so welcome: They offer up a space for us to all laugh about the common experiences we parents share.
Here’s to Gordon for helping us chuckle (through the tears).
Why should a superintendent get a raise while teachers in the same district struggling to make ends meet see their paychecks flatline — year after year after year?
Teacher Deyshia Hargrave begged the question. Minutes later, she was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a cop car.
The scene was captured below by YouTube user Chris Rosa, who attended a board meeting for Vermilion Parish Schools in Louisiana.
You can watch Hargrave begin speaking about 33 seconds in. The situation starts becoming contentious around 6:35 minutes. Hargrave is arrested at 8:35, and then walked outside in handcuffs and placed in the back of police vehicle.
Teacher Deyshia Hargrave was questioning the school board how they can vote to give the superintendent a raise when school employees have not gotten a raise …
“We work very hard with very little to maintain the salaries that we have,” Hargrave, who teaches middle school language arts, said during a public comment portion of the meeting, stating that she’s seen classroom sizes balloon during her time at the school with no increased compensation. “We’re meeting those goals, while someone in that position of leadership [the superintendent] is getting raise? It’s a sad, sad day to be a teacher in Vermilion Parish.”
According to comments Hargrave made to BuzzFeed News, she believes Superintendent Jerome Puyau was already making $110,000 before the board voted to give him a raise of $38,000. The raise alone is roughly the salary of “a teacher, or two cafeteria workers, or two janitors,” Hargrave told the outlet.
After Hargrave spoke out again later in the meeting, a city marshal on duty asked her to leave — even though the school board was still addressing her.
“You’re going to leave, or I’m going to remove you,” the officer told her, as seen in the video. Many people in attendance seemed shocked. “Are you serious?” someone asked, aghast, in the crowd.
Hargrave leaves the room, followed by the officer. But moments later, someone chimed in, “he’s putting her in handcuffs” — and the room erupts in disarray.
“I am not [resisting], you just pushed me to the floor!” Hargrave is heard screaming at the officer, as he forcibly removes her down the hallway and out the building in handcuffs. “Sir, hold on! I am way smaller than you!”
Teacher removed from Vermilion school board meeting in handcuffs
According to KATV News, Hargrave was booked in the city jail for resisting an officer — a fact that left many commenters online flabbergasted. School officials are reportedly not pressing charges. “Umm … what charges could they possibly make?” one Redditor noted.
With help from the Reddit community, Rosa’s video has gone viral, garnering more than 600,000 views in less than 24 hours. Clearly, Hargrave’s earnest question about inequality in our education system — met with a grotesque abuse of power — has clearly touched a nerve with people across the country.
“I don’t know how this teacher could have been more polite and patient in her earnest desire to find out why the superintendent deserves a raise while the teachers work harder with less,” YouTube commenter Scott Wells chimed in. “She continued to press because they refused to come up with an answer. Seems like a good question to me.”
TMZ reports that Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, has died from an apparent drowning. He was 54 years old.
Perry was found earlier today at his home in the Los Angeles area where he was allegedly discovered by authorities in a jacuzzi. According to TMZ, “there were no drugs found at the scene” and “there is no foul play involved.”
Outside of Friends, which was one of the biggest shows on television for 10 seasons and over 230 episodes (and a high-profile reunion), Perry starred in numerous movies, including Fools Rush In, Almost Heroes, The Whole Nine Yards, and 17 Again. His filmography also includes leading roles in the sitcoms Mr. Sunshine and a reboot of The Odd Couple.
In his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, Perry opened up about his history with drug and alcohol addiction. “I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” he told People in 2022. “I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.”
Steve Smith was one of the best wide receivers in the NFL during much of his career, but he was just as well known for being someone not to be messed with.
But fellow slight-finder and NC State head coach Dave Doeren did not like what Smith had to say as a guest picker on ESPN’s College GameDay when he – along with the rest of the panel – picked Clemson to win.
So after NC State beat Clemson for the second straight season and got its best win of the year, Doeren wanted to let Smith know.
“Tell Steve Smith this ain’t a basketball school,” Doeren said to wrap up his postgame on-field interview. “He can kiss my ass.”
NC State got the upset win over Clemson, so it was quite the walk-off line from Doeren, even if the game was on the CW instead of ESPN and Smith was merely the guest picker so he wouldn’t have likely been in the studio.
What he seemed to be responding to was Smith’s comment after picking Clemson: “But NC State, unfortunately, they’re waiting for basketball to start.”
Steve Smith Sr. earlier on College GameDay:
“Clemson has been struggling. They’re not the Clemson that we’ve loved over the years. But NC State, unfortunately, they’re waiting for basketball to start.” pic.twitter.com/wIFyev8gxx
It’s unclear whether Smith meant to imply they were a basketball school specifically or if he meant that the fans had given up on the football season, but either way, Doeren understandably did not care for it.
Smith remains one of the more beloved former Carolina Panthers in the team’s history and has shown even recently he’snot afraid to get into a war of words, so it was certainly bold of Doeren to take a shot at him.
But Doeren had defended his team fiercely leading up to his Smith call-out in that same interview, getting choked up as he said that he wished others believed in them as much as he did.
NC State’s men’s basketball team has made the NCAA Tournament once in the last five seasons and has not won a conference title since 1987. But the Wolfpack women under Wes Moore are a power, reaching the Sweet 16 or better in four of the last five NCAA Tournaments.
For some, Halloween is a day to play dress up. But for others, like Uproxx cover star Ashnikko, it’s a lifestyle. Yesterday (October 27), the “Dying Star” singer brought back her annual Halloweenie single series. The latest addition to the collection is “Halloweenie V: The Moss King,” and its official visual is the perfect way to kick off your spooky night festivities.
In the video, an animated version of Ashnikko causes havoc in the forest with the help of a few ghoulish friends. Last year, Ashnikko decided not to release a Halloweenie track, as they were working on their Weedkiller album.
“Just to soften the blow, I’m just gonna tell you now there won’t be a ‘Halloweenie’ song this year because I’m literally ripping my hair out trying to finish this album, and I have to focus! It will be worth the wait, I promise! So grateful to you all for listening to my songsies,” wrote Ashnikko on their official X (formerly Twitter) page.
just to soften the blow i’m just gonna tell you now there won’t be a halloweenie song this year because i’m literally ripping my hair out trying to finish this album and i have to focus!! it will be worth the wait i promise!! so grateful to you all for listening to my songsies
How sure was Mike Pence that he could win over a party dominated by someone whose supporters wanted him dead? Perhaps we’ll never know. But on Saturday, after nearly five months on the trail, the former veep announced he was suspending his 2024 presidential campaign. And people weren’t exactly sad to see him go.
“I came here to say it’s become clear to me this is not my time,” Pence told the crowd at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition convention in Las Vegas. “I have no regrets. The only thing that would have been harder than coming up short would have been if we never tried at all.”
There have been two kinds of Republican presidential candidates this season: ones critical of former president Donald Trump, hoping to bring the GOP back to its foundations, and ones who were probably just trying to be Trump’s vice president. Pence was of the former, although his attacks on his former top dog were never as blistering as they should have been, especially considering Trump defended those who wanted his VP hanged.
But now it’s over. Some of his fellow Republicans (not Trump) had nice things to say about Pence. Ron DeSantis called him a “principled man of faith.” Meanwhile Nikki Haley described him as a “good man of faith.”
Others on social media weren’t surprised that Pence ultimately caved, especially considering Trump is clobbering all the competition.
It turns out the “hang Mike Pence” party isn’t sweet on Mike Pence
Great news: Mike Pence just announced that he will drop out of the 2024 Republican presidential primary race, ending his lifelong dream of becoming President. It’s only a few months too late but we’ll take it. Oh, joy!
Before we even get there, Mike Pence is not a martyr, and don’t describe him as one because he had a brief moment of clarity that any reasonable adult in public service would have had, too.
He helped build the Republican Party we see now and directly enabled it all along.
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