Just four days ago (July 18), Nardo Wick shared an Instagram post with the caption “Who Is Nardo Wick? 2” and confirmed its release date for July 22. The cover art resembled its predecessor as the colors remain black and white, only the rapper is found now sitting on the porch of the broken-down home.
Thus, many believed that this was going to be the follow-up to his December 2021 debut album. Today (July 22), the project is here but instead is just the deluxe version of Who Is Nardo Wick? with an extra question mark to the title.
Who Is Nardo Wick?? (Deluxe) adds 12 new songs to the original version, including The Kid Laroi-assisted “Burning Up” and a Latto verse on the remix to “Baby Wyd” with Lakeyah. For an album that already boasts appearances from Future, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, 21 Savage, and G Herbo, the 20-year-old found a way to up the ante even further, add some life to an already well-received LP and maybe even avoid any disappointment in the fact it is not a completely new offering.
Besides, the Jacksonville rapper has delivered plenty of new verses in 2022, appearing on projects from Latto, Gucci Mane, Money Man and Doe Boy
Who Is Nardo Wick?? (Deluxe) is available now via Flawless Ent. and RCA Records. Listen to it here.
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 – Listen to me
Something kind of cool happened this week. Alan Dershowitz, the famous attorney who recently did some work with various figures in the Trump administration, told a story about running into Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Per Dersh, the interaction went down something like this…
Dershowitz: “We can still talk, Larry.”
David: “No. No. We really can’t. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! It’s disgusting!”
Dershowitz: “He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?”
Which is… I mean, it’s perfect. Both the thing where Larry David is apparently always 100 percent Larry David whether the cameras are on or off or nowhere nearby and the thing where he used the word “enclave.” That’s a really good word. I don’t use it enough. I suspect you don’t either. Let’s all try to slip it into a conversation at some point this weekend, just to see how it goes. I bet it’ll feel great. I’m excited.
Reading that got me thinking, though. A lot. About how strange it must be to be friends with Larry David, sure, but also about what a singular personality he has. How no one else is really like him, now or at any other point in history. And that got me thinking about how much fun it would be to just parachute him, as himself, into various other shows in the HBO family.
Larry David cussing out Kendall Roy inside an upscale coffee shop in an episode of Succession.
Larry David on The Righteous Gemstones talking to Baby Billy Freeman about the finer points of Judaism and why organized religion as a whole is a sham.
Larry David on Euphoria talking to Rue about… I don’t know… scratchy sweaters. For the full hour.
Larry David with NoHo Hank on Barry doing a whole bit about criminal organizations and contract killings and why he could never do it for some small reason that’s extremely important to him.
Larry David on Westworld complaining about the robots.
Larry David on Hacks discussing the finer points of comedy with Deborah and pissing her off royally in the process.
Larry David as a guest in the hotel on The White Lotus.
Larry David and Nathan Fielder having the single most awkward/interesting conversation in history on The Rehearsal.
Larry David ranting about dragons on one of many Game of Thrones-based spin-offs.
It could work. Maybe. Just a little. Or it could be terrible. I suspect I will like it either way, though. And really, isn’t that the important thing here?
ITEM NUMBER TWO – The brand was strong
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Earlier this week, although it somehow feels like a month ago (this is how time works sometimes), rumors started bubbling about a rift between Desus and Mero, the hosts of, well, Desus & Mero. This was a bummer and something I hoped was not true because Desus and Mero are funny and funny together and had been doing stuff on television that no one else was doing, really. The day went on and the whole thing came to a boil and neither of them commented on it, which was weird because both of them are super online. Then, just after closing of business on the East Coast, this happened.
Bodega Hive: The illustrious @desusnice and @THEKIDMERO will be pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward. #DESUSandMERO will not be returning to SHOWTIME. It’s been a good run, fam.
— DESUS & MERO on SHOWTIME (@SHODesusAndMero) July 18, 2022
I’m going to come back to the rest of it in a second, but first, let’s all take a second and think about how fast this all happened. We’re talking, like, hours between rumors being floated and the whole thing ending. That’s kind of crazy. Something had obviously been simmering for a while and this was just the heat being cranked up to high, but still. Hours. If you worked the night shift and got home at 8 am and slept from 9-5, you could have gone from thinking everything was fine to watching the world burn in a flash. The internet is wild.
More importantly, this stinks. I don’t care too much about the whys or the hows of it all ended, I’m just sad it did. The story itself is so cool. They were just two funny dudes on Twitter who got plopped together for a project and they kept turning that into more projects until they were full-on interviewing Barack Obama on a premium cable channel. That… it kind of doesn’t happen. If there was a movie where that happened, you’d be like “uh huh, sure.” It’s all very cool.
And they did cool stuff once they had the chance, in addition to talking to a slew of famous people and breaking the form of that kind of show a little. Like this. They did that. It was cool. Uproxx’s Aaron Williams said it all better than I’m saying it.
Before Desus & Mero, it’s hard to find too many examples of hip-hop culture in the late-night TV space. Sure there was Arsenio Hall, doing his best to bring the fashion, music, and voice of the streets to America’s living rooms in the early ’90s. But while The Arsenio Hall Show was a landmark in bringing hip-hop to mainstream audiences, it was also watered-down, polished, and presented in a way that the whole thing slicker and more palatable to those audiences. It also largely avoided political topics, although the show did come under fire for booking — or not booking — some guests that audiences found controversial.
Again, cool. I should probably stop talking about them in the past tense, though. They’re still around and doing stuff, just as Desus and Mero instead of Desus & Mero. I’d love to see Desus get another late-night show, like maybe in James Corden’s empty slot. I’d love to see Mero get a crack at daytime television, maybe the Wendy Williams slot. I’d love to fast-forward 5-10 years for the reunion special. But right now, I’m just bummed out. I wish them both the best, but I’m bummed out.
ITEM NUMBER THREE – Russell Crowe seems to be having a good time
This made me so happy when I saw it. It’s still making me happy right now, days later. Imagine you’re on vacation in Rome and a sweaty Russell Crowe offers to pose for a selfie with you. Imagine how you’d react. I hope he just starts doing this, hanging around the outside of the Colosseum offering to pose for pictures with people. I hope he starts charging, like, $5 for them. Not so much where you’re like “Damn, Russell Crowe is really greedy and/or down on his luck.” Just enough to be funny. Maybe $4. I like the idea of him making change for people.
If you spent any time on the internet in the last week or so, you probably saw or at least heard about Emmanuel, the rascal emu. I hope you did, at least. If not, please click on that video up there at once. Click on it anyway, actually. You deserve to have a little fun. Go watch all of them later tonight, maybe after a glass or two of wine. It’s Friday.
Anyway, it brings me great pleasure to report that the Washington Post caught up with the young woman in those videos, Taylor Blake, who works at a place called Knuckle Bump Farms, which is both a tremendous name for a farm and where my sweetly naughty boy Emmanuel lives.
In their first joint interview, Emmanuel stared into our Zoom call, then at Blake, then away from the screen. He refused to comment.
“Emmanuel’s just kind of a down-to-earth guy,” Blake told The Post. “I don’t really think he cares [about being famous].”
Blake says fame isn’t going to change Emmanuel: “I have talked to him about it a few times, but he hasn’t really had much of a reaction. I think he’s just … adapting to this new life of fame.”
I love it. I want them to start making videos where they solve mysteries, with Taylor trying to do things by the book and Emmanuel flying off the handle like a loose cannon who plays by his own rules but gets results, dammit. At the very least, I would like to see him in sunglasses. But I’m serious about the first thing.
Blake was raised near her grandparents’ farm and developed a deep love for animals as a child. She has been creating social media content professionally since 2013. After a brief stint in Los Angeles, she moved to Knuckle Bump Farms with her girlfriend to help Blake’s aging grandparents care for their animals full time.
She began posting videos with the animals — cows, donkeys, ducks and, yes, emus in the plural — in 2018. Her rationale: “The world is dark, and animals bring everyone joy. They’re funny, they’re entertaining.”
This is correct. Everyone is doing great here. As is this dog who ran away from home and won a dog show while he was out in the world. That doesn’t have much to do with any of this beyond both of them being animals I liked a lot this week, but I don’t have room to talk about it anywhere else because the news section at the bottom of this post has to focus on the beauty queen who was arrested for her part in a million-dollar wine heist. So here we are. I hope Emmanuel stars as an Interpol agent in the movie about it all.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Liam Gallagher, please recap Our Flag Means Death for Uproxx
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Two pretty important things happened this week. The first was that I finally finished Our Flag Means Death. What a good and fun show that is. Go watch it if you haven’t. It’s a bunch of pirates and everyone is gay and Taika Waititi plays Blackbeard. I could probably explain this all more and better, but then I’d risk ruining some of it for you. I can’t have that. This is all you get. For now.
Which brings me to the second important thing from this week. Liam Gallagher, former lead singer of Oasis and noted fan of profanity and chaos, tweeted this.
This is the first official image from the fourth John Wick movie, which will hit theaters in March 2023. A few things are worth noting:
There are so many candles here
More like John Wicks
Get it? Because of the candles
NO, YOU SHUT UP
I cannot possibly be expected to wait until March for this movie
New rule: From now on, do not give me more than, like, three weeks notice before a movie comes out. I’ll go as far as one month. Drop the trailer four Thursdays before the release date, do the little publicity tour, go on Hot Ones or something, then blammo, put it in theaters. What the hell am I supposed to do until March? Maintain healthy relationships with my family and friends? Collect a series of new experiences and memories that I can carry with me for the rest of my life? Watch the first three John Wick movies like five times each?
Well, joke’s on them. I was already going to do that last one. The other two… I mean, we’ll see how it goes.
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From James:
Are you watching the new season of Blood and Treasure? I need to know your thoughts on the Mongolian ninja Vatican secret vault heist.
Well… no. I have not been watching Blood and Treasure. But I kind of feel like I need to now. “Mongolian ninja Vatican secret vault heist” speaks to me in ways few phrases ever have or will again. There’s so much happening there. I kind of can’t even picture exactly what it all means, but I feel like I like it very much. I appreciate when television is made this narrowly tailored to my own stupid interests, even if I’m not there in the moment to watch it. Thank you, Blood and Treasure.
In my defense, I have been a little busy. And by that, I mean “I have been watching and thinking about this week’s basically perfect episode of What We Do in the Shadows, which features all of the following things: a genie negotiating an extremely specific wish about a penis, a vampire rapper named Richie Suck, and, most enjoyably, for me, Matt Berry doing cartwheels and somersaults through lasers to steal some sort of artifact.” Here, look.
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It was great. Easily one of the funniest episodes of television I’ve seen this year. My former podcast partner Alan Sepinwall wrote up a big thing about it because, well, that’s what Alan does and Alan is good at it. Watch the episode and go read it. Maybe tell Liam Gallagher to watch it, too, if you run into him. He’ll probably like it if he liked Our Flag Means Death. Then maybe he can do a podcast with me about it. Think about this, too, Liam.
A former Mexican beauty queen and a Romanian-Dutch accomplice have been arrested in Croatia over the theft of $1.7 million worth of prestige bottles of wine in Spain after a nine-month chase across Europe, police said on Wednesday.
This is the only thing I care about now.
Police investigators believe the woman, a 29-year-old Mexican, who according to Spanish daily El Pais had competed in a beauty pageant in her homeland, distracted El Atrio waiters by ordering room service from the Michelin-starred restaurant after its kitchen had closed.
Meanwhile, her 47-year-old male accomplice slipped down to the wine cellar, opened it with a master key he had stolen during a prior visit, and filled three backpacks with the bottles, wrapping them in hotel room towels for protection, according to the police statement.
Ah, of course, the old “a beauty queen distracts the staff while her accomplice sneaks downstairs with a stolen key and shoves millions of dollars worth of wine into his backpacks” ruse. I’ve seen it a million times.
The next day, hotel CCTV captured the pair, who had checked in with false Swiss identity documents, checking out at 5.30 a.m. and leaving on foot with no forensic trace of their presence left at the hotel, it said, leading police to initially believe an organised gang was behind the heist.
I don’t think I have ever been angrier in my entire life than I was the first time I read this when I realized they weren’t going to tell me the fake Swiss names they used. I was so excited. I wanted to see, like, Dr. Klaus Klausman and Inga Blickensderfer. I feel so cheated here. The million-dollar wine heist and European manhunt helps, sure. But still.
The two suspects left Spain within days and were pursued for months across Europe before being identified by Croatian border guards as they crossed from Montenegro, police said.
I need this to be a six-episode docuseries as soon as possible and I need Agent Doug from McMillions to pop up as a talking head who explains and/or analyzes various law enforcement strategies. I think… let’s say November. Let’s have this ready by November. December at the latest. I believe we can do it
Dungeons and Dragons has been the basis for countless movies and TV shows for decades whether the less Chessex-experienced among us realize it or not. The character archetypes, monsters, and magic from the fantasy realm can be found all across the entertainment landscape, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before an IP-specificDungeons and Dragons movie came to fruition.
That time is now, with Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, set to hit theaters next March. The movie’s cast is fittingly making the rounds at San Diego Comic-Con this week to hype the first trailer for the star-studded fantasy epic. And among them is Hugh Grant, who apparently cannot help himself when being associated with the word “dungeon.”
Grant, who will play a rogue named Forge, may not have the 5e rulebook in his library. But he does know how to make some kinky wordplay to get the movie some buzz. In an SDCC interview with Entertainment Weekly, Grant joked that he’s been a longtime “dungeon master,” but not with any dice involved.
“Well, I was a Dungeon Master,” Grant said dryly, before quipping, “But it was more S&M and less D&D. It’s the English version.”
As the group burst into laughter, Rodriguez spoke for everyone when she replied, “I wasn’t expecting that!”
Apparently, this is a joke you might get from Grant quite a bit in the junket circuit, as he later elaborated during an SDCC panel.
The jokes continued at a panel later in the day at Hall H. When the moderator joked that he had heard Grant was a lifelong D&D fan, Rodriguez corrected him: “I think you mixed it up with S&M.”
“She’s not wrong,” said Grant. “I’ve been an enthusiastic Dungeon Master for some years now. That’s a British pastime, [a] national sport almost. I believe that’s why the Jonathans [the directors] thought of me for this, my reputation.”
There’s really no telling what this movie will be or if it will be any good at all, but at least Grant is having some fun with the press tour. No kink-shaming here.
Big Sean and Jhene Aiko are fully leaning into this whole pregnancy thing. After Jhene shared her first set of maternity photos — which had a spacey theme very in line with the content of her music and general demeanor — last week, the couple followed up this week with some new photos featuring both of them. Today, they shared a new photo in which Big Sean strips down and joins his partner, who is radiant and accented with golden rays of celestial energy. Which, again, fits her whole thing. In the comments on Instagram, Sean jokes that they “tried to post this so many times”; maybe the IG filters were against all the (tasteful) nudity.
The couple’s fans now wonder which will arrive first: the baby or their follow-up Twenty88 album, which they said they were working on as recently as February of this year. In the meantime, they’ve been plenty busy individually, with festival appearances at Smokin’ Grooves and Sol Blume for Jhene, as well as a recent collaboration with fellow LA-based singer August 08, “Water Sign” (also, check out August’s latest EP, Towards The Moon, in full, as its well worth the listen). Big Sean, meanwhile, most recently contributed a verse to Ellie Goulding’s “Easy Lover.”
Phew! Is it reallyfrigginhot where you live right now?
This time of year, we in the northern hemisphere develop a love-hate relationship with the sun. That glorious, lifegiving ball in the sky can feel oh so good, right up to the point where we become convinced it’s trying to light us on fire.
Summer is still loads of fun, though, with the long light in the evenings, the sprinklers and swimming pools, the smell of freshly cut grass and somebody in the neighborhood barbecuing something yummy. There’s something deeply nostalgic about summer, with distinct smells and sounds and sensations that take us back to our childhoods.
That’s why I put the first video in this list first. It’s reallyfrigginadorable, for one, but also the simple joy of water coming from a hose is such a sweet symbol of summer.
So whether you’re sweltering at the moment or lucky enough to be enjoying some perfect weather (or cold—is that a thing anywhere right now?), I hope you’re able to bask in some of summer’s delights.
And if you’re not able to, here are 10 things to tickle your smile trigger.
1. The only thing better than baby giggles are baby giggles plus a good doggo.
Replying to @chloebluffcakes thank you, from deep in my heart. Thank you alyssa, taylor, abby, cindy, libby and wveryone else who helped make this possible. You didnt just save a little girl from heartbreak, you saved something in me ♥️ #birthdayparty.
Charlotte started at a new school this year and her mom sadly passed away from brain cancer just three months ago. So when only one invitee responded to an invitation to her party, her sister shared in a TikTok how she was heartbroken for her and pleaded with people to just go to kids’ parties. The video went viral, and then strangers’ kindness started pouring in. Amazing. Read the full story here.
3. Famous street barber gives Kingston (aka The Best Kid Ever) a free haircut and some wise life advice.
He was so excited to meet me, I had to bless him! 💙✊🏼 #vicblends #barber #motivation #UnsealTheMeal #OscarsAtHome #InstaxChallenge #WomenOwnedBusiness #BridgertonScandal #inspiration #love
What. A. Sweetheart. Oh my gosh. Kudos to Kingston’s parents for raising such a wonderful young man.
4. Drew Barrymore’s zest for life is infectious—and inspiring, considering what she’s been through.
u201cI want to love anything as much as Drew Barrymore loves everything. Perfection.u201d
People may think that being rich and famous makes it easy to enjoy simple things, but Barrymore has had to overcome an incredibly traumatic childhood to get where she is today. (As in, she was blacklisted in Hollywood at age 12 due to her cocaine addiction—not a typo, age 12.) Read more about her impressive journey to joy here.
5. These tiny frogs who can jump but absolutely cannot land are entirely too relatable.
Oh, I feel you little froggy. The inner ear systems of these pumpkin toadlets are so tiny that they lose balance midair, resulting in their graceless tumbling. (Shout out to all my peeps who are great at starting things but struggle to finish!)
6. Emmanuel the Emu is out here stealing everyone’s hearts with his silly shenanigans.
Emmanuel Todd Lopez—that’s the infamous emu’s government name—took the internet by storm this week, highlighting the delightful account of Taylor Blake from South Florida’s Knuckle Bump Farms. There’s so much more Emmanuel where this came from. Get the full story here.
7. Ever seen a silverback gorilla gently petting a groundhog? Now you have, and it’s probably made you a better person.
u201cSilverback gorilla gently petting a groundhog.. ud83dude0au201d
Every once in a while, an online trend so absurd and random will suddenly become a thing, and it is imperative that every single person on the internet tries said challenge. We had the Ice Bucket Challenge, The Cinnamon Challenge, and of course who could forget the Saltine Challenge? Now, Gen Z has invented its own food-related event that is sweeping the nation: The Tortilla Challenge. And it sounds exactly like you would expect.
The challenge requires two people to fill their mouths with water and then slap each other with tortillas. That’s…it. While it sounds quite simple, most people seem to fail and spit water everywhere. Enter: The Rock and Kevin Hart.
While promoting their new animated movie about superhero dogs, the duo decided to try out the challenge, which has been a growing trend on TikTok. Is it too soon to talk about celebrities slapping each other?
The two went up against each other, with Hart getting the first slap, which invoked a look of pure hatred on The Rock’s face, which is not something you want to see on a former professional wrestler.
Of course, it was all in good fun, and they got to “slap the sh*t” out of each other…that’s what it’s all about, right?
While The RZA by himself is an indelible part of hip-hop history, he has also created an alter ego for himself by the name of Bobby Digital. The name previously appeared in the title of his 1998 debut albumBobby Digital In Stereo and, under the alias, he has released a few solo albums. This week, Digital is back with the new track “Troubleshooting” which appears on the Wu-Tang Clan member’s soundtrack for his upcoming graphic novel Bobby Digital And The Pit Of Snakes.
“Troubleshooting” has a smooth guitar solo opening before the drums and cymbals join the mix. A soulful vocalist belts out “Trouble keeps on finding me, the man trying to take my time / Keeping me from love I need, that’s why I got to take what’s mine / I feel it in my spine.” The tune definitely feels more like jazz or an old ballad than what people may expect seeing The RZA’s name associated, but it simply shows how versatile the legendary artist is.
The graphic novel soundtrack consists of eight total songs and no featured artists.
Check out “Troubleshooting” above.
The soundtrack for Bobby Digital And The Pit Of Snakes is available now via 36 Chambers. Listen here.
Before he became a star on Comedy Central, the Canadian comedian was a writer and performer up north. And that included a short stint on the CBC mock news program This Hour Has 22 Minutes. From 2008-09, Fielder developed an On Your Side segment where he interviewed unassuming people and asked them, well, basically the things that Fielder became known for on shows like Nathan For You and The Rehearsal. And that includes a moment that’s gained new attention in the wake of The Rehearsal’s debut: interviewing the president of the CBC while working for the CBC.
In the segment, which you can watch above, Fielder sits down with the president of the CBC, Hubert Lacroix. And though it was filmed more than a decade ago, the segment has all the hallmarks of Fielder’s interviewing genius. Including the fact that he refuses to break character as things get weirder and more uncomfortable.
It starts with a strained anecdote about how the network is taxpayer funded, and if you don’t like what’s being broadcast you may as well dump money into a toilet and flush. Something like that. Then the interview starts, with Fielder tossing a softball about the purpose of the network itself. Lacroix gives a decent answer, mentioning a desire to show off more Canadian-based programing. But Fielder then follows with a very specific question about his own work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
“Like, for example, what do you think of what I do?” Fielder asks.
And here’s where things change. Lacroix thinks he’s in on the joke, sarcastically saying “without you the CBC wouldn’t exist.” But Fielder presses him even more, asking specifically what his favorite interview his been, even after praising This Hour and its specific style of humor. It’s clear that while Lacroix knows what the show is supposed to be, he’s not the biggest fan in the world. And even though he’s in charge of the network the interview will air on, he’s definitely not in charge of this interview.
“Every person sitting in my chair right now must be wondering ‘OK, how am I going to deal with this?’ because obviously you’re very good at what you do,” Lacroix said, avoiding the question once again. Lacroix clearly knows what the show is supposed to be, but he’s not familiar enough with it to name a single person Fielder has interviewed. By the end of the interview, the company’s president is basically pleading with Fielder to make things less awkward. But all he says, with a slight smile, is “just name one.”
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It’s worth noting that Fielder didn’t work for CBC very long after this interview, but it probably has nothing to do with any consequences for making the company’s president look foolish. Thankfully he was destined for bigger, less Canadian things on Comedy Central and beyond.
In terms of unexpected pairings that actually work really well, the Russ and Ed Sheeran one feels like it hits the sweet spot on the axis chart. Titled “Are You Entertained,” their collaboration finds the two ostensible underdogs (who are both actually ridiculously successful) feeling themselves and letting you know it. In the video for the new song, Russ hops off a private jet in the UK, where Ed picks him up for a night on the town. They hit a pub, a fancy restaurant, and a nightclub, soaking in their success.
It’s always fun when Ed Sheeran gets some bars off, as he’s wont to do every now and again, but alongside Russ, who usually brings out the best in his collaborators — see Chomp and Chomp 2 — Ed sounds … well… swaggy in a way we rarely hear from him. It’s pretty cool because he doesn’t force it, he just lets his natural charisma — and some smooth falsetto ad-libs — shine through.
Russ seems to be enjoying his travels lately, making his jet-setting the focus of both this video and his last one, “Yes Sir.” I suppose international travel does tend to boost one’s confidence — especially when it’s via private jet with celebrity concierges like Ed Sheeran in many of your stops. As for Ed, he continues to branch out musically, recently appearing alongside Burna Boy in his “For My Hand” video from Love, Damini, and with J Balvin in “Sigue.”
Watch Russ and Ed’s “Are You Entertained” video above.
While the latest January 6 hearing brought more damning revelations about Donald Trump and his allies, Twitter users couldn’t help but be distracted by an interesting (and hansome) addition to the proceedings: A guy who looks like Clark Kent. The mystery man was seated between former Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger and former Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews as they testified during the hearing.
While the Superman doppelgänger has yet to be identified, it’s only a matter of time. As of Friday morning, “Clark Kent” was still trending on Twitter as people fired off thirst tweet after thirst tweet about the hunky look-alike. There were also plenty of jokes about phone booths and the Man of Steel taking off his glasses to save democracy.
Being gay and on Twitter means that you have zero idea if American democracy will survive but you do know that there was a very attractive guy with Clark Kent glasses at the latest January 6th hearing
Granted, the January 6 hearings are a serious matter of grave national importance, it’s worth noting that this is fine Superman-related publicity for Warner Bros. Discovery. Earlier in the week, Henry Cavill was trending following a Deadline report that he could be making an appearance at San Diego Comic-Con to announce his return as Superman. The news of Cavill potentially getting back in the tights was enough with Twitter to go wild with hopes that he’ll get another (better) crack at the iconic character.
Now, with Clark Kent trending, that’s just more proof that there’s a lot of love out there for the Man of Steel. Maybe a little too much because, again, these people were getting super horny about a random guy in glasses watching an insurrection hearing. But hey, that’s Twitter.
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