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Just like Lizzo did earlier this year, Megan Thee Stallion will work double duty on Saturday Night Live this coming weekend as both the show’s host and musical guest for the evening. On the episode airing Saturday, October 15th, Megan will add two more song performances to her arsenal of of SNL appearances which includes another musical guest slot, and a cameo appearance for her 2019 debut on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show. So let’s run down the list of every song Megan Thee Stallion has put down on the SNL stage

2020: “Savage Remix” and “Don’t Stop”

For her first appearance as the musical guest on SNL (which aired on October 3rd, 2020) Megan Thee Stallion was introduced by host Chris Rock when she played her first song, “Savage Remix.” The third single off of Suga, Megan was in a black and white, zebra-striped onesie with matching boots as she played the song in front of a screen that matched her outfit and read “Protect Black Women.” Megan was not shy in using her platform in this performance to call out Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron while advocating for Black women and men. Beyoncé is featured on the song, but she did not appear alongside Megan. Instead, Beyoncé’s verse was played on a backing track, as were the voices of Malcom X and Tamika Mallory, who both speak on the track.

For her 2nd song, Megan Thee Stallion performed “Don’t Stop” featuring Young Thug. She wore all red and the black and white background became soaked with red. Young Thug came out wearing a red overcoat with two matching side purses; bold to say the least. Meg’s back-up dancers also changed into red outfits for this one.

2019: Cameo performance with Chance The Rapper On “Handsome”

On the episode dated October 26th, 2019, Chance The Rapper was both the host and musical guest. With a special introduction by actor Jason Momoa, Chance invited Megan Thee Stallion on stage to perform their song “Handsome.”

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Pickleball is one of those neo-sports that seems to have infected every sleepy suburban community all at once, spreading with its loud rhythmic thwacking sounds and tiny paddle wielders with unstoppable enthusiasm. Where did it come from? No one knows. It is the kudzu of casual sports. It’s also the basis for the latest celebrity competition on CBS.

According to The Wrap, Stephen Colbert will host the special with Dierks Bentley, Will Ferrell, Emma Watson, Daniel Dae Kim, Max Greenfield, Luis Guzman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tig Notaro and Kelly Rowland among those competing for pickleball immortality. It’s for charity (Comic Relief), so it’s tough to rag too hard on it, but nonetheless it’s maybe a signal that we’ve reached the end, full stop, of culture itself.

“If you love pickleball and you love celebrities and you love helping people, you’re going to love watching these celebrities help people by playing pickleball,” Colbert said in a statement.

It was previously thought that we’d reached the end of culture with the immense popularity of Lip Sync Battle, but it turns out we had just a little bit more art to squeeze through the sieve to turn into content. Pickled will premiere November 17th on CBS and Paramount+, and Colbert will sing the National Anthem in a duet with Kenny Loggins. This event comes as news broke about Tom Brady buying a professional pickleball team, offering the rare phenomenon that makes you question whether you’re too young or too old to understand it.

If there’s a reason to be optimistic about any of this unrelenting Pickleball madness, it’s that Tom Brady has now jumped on the bandwagon, and we all know what he did to Bitcoin.

(via The Wrap)

California’s a lovely state, filled with perpetually (or mostly) warm and sunny weather, gorgeous coastal drives, ever-thriving entertainment industries, and incredible tacos. (It’s also home to the best detective show in TV history.) But over the years, some of its residents have fled in terror. Elon Musk took his toys and moved to Texas, fleeing, among other things, a Democrat-heavy leadership. (The Lone Star State’s lack of state income tax probably helped, too.) It even lost Adam Carolla. Now it’s losing another icon: the erstwhile Richmeister.

Rob Schneider — who became a name largely for playing a guy who talks to people using copy machines on SNL but has in recent years taken on a more conservative bent — went on Fox & Friends Wednesday to declare that he’s “had it” with living in San Francisco and had decamped for Arizona. What pushed him “over the edge,” as he put it? Progressive governor Gavin Newsom and all those pesky liberals.

“I really feel like I don’t want the Democratic Party trying to run my life. And there’s not one aspect of your life that they don’t want to interfere with,” Schneider revealed.

He also criticized the homeless problem in his now-former town. “San Francisco either has a huge homeless problem or a gigantic camping success story,” he cracked.

Schneider also claimed that he’s not the only one sick of so-called “wokeness” in today’s Democratic party. He says others agree with him, but just won’t say it. “They’re just scared of it because it really is like a mob of ideologues that just will attack you,” he claimed.

And so there you have it. The two-time Deuce Bigelow is giving up In-N-Out Burger so he can live in…an even hotter part of the country. Much like Tulsi Gabbard formally leaving the Democratic Party, this should be a shock to no one.

(Via Mediaite)

The Braves and Phillies had to wait three hours to start Game 2 of their NLDS series due to a rain delay, but neither pitcher was phased by the delay, as Kyle Wright and Zack Wheeler both came out throwing near-perfect ball for the first half of the game.

The Braves would finally strike first in the sixth inning with a two-out rally that started with Ronald Acuna Jr. getting hit by a pitch that was followed by a walk and three straight ground ball singles to put them up 3-0.

That was still the score when the eighth inning rolled around, and the Phillies got a man on with one out on a loud single from Jean Segura, hoping to spark a rally. Up next was Bryson Stott who fought off a 1-2 pitch with a pop-up into foul territory that, at first, looked like it’d extend the at bat — that was until Austin Riley ran over and caught it while sliding off the tarp along the edge of the field.

It’s an outrageous catch for a number of reasons, most notably that he runs into the tarp right as he gets the glove on the ball and, very easily, could’ve had it jarred loose.

The other catch by the Braves infield, referenced by John Smoltz as what had been the play of the night before Riley’s catch, came from Dansby Swanson to end the top of the sixth inning, as he chased a fly ball deep into the outfield to make a sliding over the shoulder catch himself.

It was quite the night from the Braves defense, as they flashed the leather all night behind Kyle Wright and the rest of the Braves staff that delivered a gem of a game, holding the Phillies scoreless through eight innings as they looked to even the series at 1-1 leaving Atlanta.

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1. “Take a more holistic approach”

“I will place a rose quartz on the copy machine and rub the stapler with rosemary oil.” – @Synicist

2. “Competitive pay”

“Yes your pay will be competing with your bills.” – @PM_ME_YOUR_MUSIC

3. “Our workers are part of our family”

“Translation: we have boundary issues.” – @shanster925

4. When someone refers to a request as an “ask”

“We had a word for this already, what was wrong with it?” – @Johanssjoberg

“Request is two syllables. Not punchy, not cool.” – @Fred2718

5. “We all wear multiple hats around here”

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“I hear this everyday. It’s just an excuse to not hire anyone else.” – @ChurchWineDrunk

6. “Rockstar”

“My company already changed ‘rockstar’ to ‘jedi’ in our JD 5 years ago. They changed it to ‘ninja’ at the beginning of this year.” – No_Imagination_4907

“I hate your company.” – @JohnCail01

7. “Win win win”

“First people said ‘win win’ for something that was good for both parties, this makes sense. One popular exec said ‘win win win’ once for something that helped us, our third party partners and the customer. That’s fine as a one off and a good play on the original expression. But now every exec says it’s a ‘win win win’ when something good happens. They’re not even a ‘win win’, just something that’s good for one party.” – @NotACockroach

8. “Willing to work in fast-paced environment”

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“*ends up in cubicle*” – @Raven0uss

“Should really hire two people but only willing to pay for one.” – @Sellswordinthegrove

9. “Core values”

“A corporation is a corporation, they don’t have values aside from their responsibilities to their shareholders and the law. Pretending there’s some moral or ethical policy overriding any of that is insulting to the employees who are expected to parrot it.” – @Aquoad

10. “Must have excellent communication skills”

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“What if they are just great communication skills, huh? I guess I’m screwed.” – @TheBladeRoden

11. “Young, dynamic and fast-growing team”

“In my experience, it usually means inexperienced people, frequent resignations and just general lack of stability.” – @longlegs25

Or maybe you prefer to steal this person’s delightfully positive take on the whole thing:

“I love corporate buzzwords. You can send emails which sound intelligent without actually saying anything and just confuse everyone.” – @boywithtwoarms

Plains is the side project of Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson. Their new album, I Walked With You A Ways, is due out this Friday, October 14th. The album is said a tip of the cap to the country and folk music that the two grew up with, from Willie Nelson to The Judds to Loretta Lynn. And Lynn, who passed away earlier this month, is the visual inspiration for the new video for “Hurricane,” directed by former SNL cast member Aidy Bryant.

“I trusted that she [Bryant] had the answer for the perfect way to visually accompany this song and from the jump she just deeply understood our vision, at moments better than we could have even explained it ourselves,” Crutchfield said. The clip is uniquely shot with deliberate lighting choices that recall Southern belles of the past, with sparkles and sheet cake to boot.

“We had a talented, hardworking crew and paid homage to Loretta Lynn’s 70’s TV performances,” Bryant said in a statement. Adding that, “I’m also going to drive the bus for their tour, so see you on the road!” Plains are heading out on tour later this month, and we’ll just have to see if Aidy is being serious about that whole driver thing.

Watch the “Hurricane” video above.

I Walked With You A Ways is out 10/14 via Anti-. Pre-order it here.

Looks like someone didn’t fall so well.

Anyway, if you get down a rabbit hole about what happened to evangelical movement heir Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki Falwell, you will likely never come back up for air. It’s a twisty, thorny ride, and that’s the complicated mess that director Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys) has chosen to illuminate for us. A pool attendant named Giancarlo Granda is at the heart of the scandal, having spent 7 years in a romantic relationship with Becki, including sexual encounters filmed by Jerry. Totally cool if consensual, right? Let’s not yuck anyone’s yum. But when your public persona is a holier-than-thou preacher running a massive Christian university, it’s the kind of truth that can bring down much more than a reputation.

The trailer for the film (which was also produced by Adam McKay) promises a wild, voyeuristic ride for us to rubber neck. It also heavily, heavily implies that Donald Trump received Falwell Jr’s endorsement (and also a metric ton of evangelical support) because the fake-tanned fascist had this specific dirt on the Falwell family. That’s going to take some heavy lifting and proof to be more than a salacious, unserious jab. Still, the bulk of the documentary seems to rely on Granda’s direct testimony in talking head segments about what was happening behind closed doors. Corben is billing the project as Get Out meets The Righteous Gemstones.

God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty hits Hulu November 1st.

We are 22 years removed from Vince Carter authoring the greatest in-game dunk of all time when he jumped clear over 7’2 Frederic Weis during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Carter’s dunk remains the gold standard for posterizations, as the “jumping over someone” genre of dunking typically is reserved for dunk contests. Every once in awhile, someone will do their best Vince impression on the court, albeit never over a 7’2 opponent, but it’s still always wildly impressive when it happens.

On Wednesday night, we got a Carter-esque moment courtesy of Mouhamed Gueye, a 19-year-old 7-footer from Washington State, who got a lane to the rim in practice and jumped clear over a teammate who arrived late trying to take a charge, providing one of the cleanest leaps you’ll see, as he doesn’t even lay a hand on the guy he jumps over.

It’s not Vince Carter, but it’s still an unbelievable display of athleticism — much less from a 7-footer. The best part is his teammate’s reaction, as he spins around and falls to the ground, staring at Gueye like “what the hell did you just do?” That poor guy should have some beef with the video department for sending this out to Givony, but hard to blame them for wanting this dunk to get the shine it deserves on the internet.

Nice murder-solving lady and total badass Angela Lansbury died yesterday, and amid videos of her singing Be Our Guest and being utterly charming, a 2014 interview with Mail Online has resurfaced in which she details how she went to great lengths to keep her child safe from one of the most notorious killers in modern American history. Her son Anthony and daughter Deidre has become addicted to heroin as teens in the 1960s and fell in with a bad group that was Charles Manson-adjacent.

“It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson,” Lansbury said at the time. “She was one of many youngsters who knew him – and they were fascinated. He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no question about it.”

To keep Deidre safe (and to help detox her son), Lansbury pulled up stakes and left Hollywood for Ireland.

“I was drawn to Ireland because it was the birthplace of my mother, and it was also somewhere my children wouldn’t be exposed to any more bad influences. I still have a house there which I try and visit at least once a year. So I refused all work for a year and simply kept house. . . Certainly, I have no doubt we would have lost one or both of our two if they hadn’t been removed to a completely different milieu, the simplicity of life in Ireland. In the end we found a doctor who prescribed methadone, a heroin substitute, which helped with the withdrawal symptoms as Anthony and Deidre were weaned off hard drugs. We were so very, very lucky we spotted what was happening just in time.”

She didn’t specify a time in the 1960s when this would have happened, but there was a four-year gap in an otherwise steady career between Mister Buddwing in 1966 and Something For Everyone in 1970. She’d make Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971, presumably only a few years separated from moving halfway across the world to ensure her daughter survived.

(via Mail Online)

Fresh off fighting in the multiverse, Michelle Yeoh is set to voice the peregrine falcon-bot Maximal Airazor for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. She’ll be joined by Pete Davidson, who will voice the Autobot Mirage (also known as Dino). Mirage transforms into a red Ferrari 458, but doesn’t seem to have any RBG tattoos painted on it.

Dino last appeared in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (back in the Sam Witwicky days!) and was voiced by Francesco Quinn who passed away in 2011.

For those keeping score, Rise of the Beasts will include four races of transforming bots all fighting with and against each other as we relatively-ant-sized humans scramble around trying not to get trampled. It’s also the 7th film in the franchise which has earned over $4.8 billion globally and represents a continuation of the nostalgia-set spin-offs after the 1980s world of Bumblebee. Rise of the Beasts is set in the 1990s and will be directed by Creed II helmer Steven Caple Jr.

Peter Cullen is returning to voice Optimus Prime (is anyone else allowed to?) and Ron Perlman is voicing Optimus Primal. Dominique Fishback (The Hate U Give) and Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) will star as non-robot characters.

Yeoh and Davidson are solid additions to a cast that looks far different than the initial entry in the franchise. Speaking of which, children born when Transformers came out will be able to get driver’s licenses and take themselves to Transformers: Rise of the Beasts when it comes out in June 2023. Enjoy that fun fact while applying your back ointment, friends.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)