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All the way back in February 2021, Paramount+ announced a new Beavis and Butthead movie would be coming to the streaming service, and now, creator Mike Judge has shared a first look at the classic characters who have definitely had a rough couple of years. When the film it was first teased, the announcement hinted that the iconic duo would be “older, more mature,” and while the drawings shared by Judge confirm the first part, their maturity level will almost definitely be open to debate.

“Beavis and Butt-Head will be returning this year with a brand new movie and more on Paramount+,” Judge tweeted. “No exact date yet, but soon. They need some time to get back in shape.”

On top of the film, which will be Beavis and Butthead’s second movie after 1996’s Beavis and Butthead Do America, a revival series is in the works for Comedy Central, which has been keeping Judge very busy. The creator felt that “it seemed like the right time to get stupid again.” Via Deadline:

“We are thrilled to be working with Mike Judge and the great team at 3 Arts again as we double down on adult Aanimation at Comedy Central,” said [Viacom Entertainment & Youth Group head Chris] McCarthy. “Beavis and Butt-Head were a defining voice of a generation, and we can’t wait to watch as they navigate the treacherous waters of a world light-years from their own.”

Judge is also reportedly working on a revival of King of the Hill, his follow-up hit to Beavis and Butthead.

(Via Mike Judge on Twitter)

Father John Misty has been speaking in cryptic tongues as of late, posting peculiar Instagram clips and photos in the lead-up to the much-anticipated follow-up to his 2018 album, God’s Favorite Customer. And you gotta admit, the black and white vignettes that have dotted his feed have been alluring, to say the least, and have fit a unified aesthetic that evokes the style of Father John Misty auteur Josh Tillman.

While Tillman technically announced the release of Chloë And The Next 20th Century in a spoken-word vinyl that was mailed to fans, today he has officially announced the album via his Instagram, shared the tracklist and the video for the lead single, “Funny Girl.” The track is chock full of the FJM whimsy, with a throwback ballroom vibe. The video depicts a futuristic jellyfish drifting through a sepia-toned post-apocalyptic world (recency bias makes this jellyfish look like a sentinel from The Matrix at first glance.)

Among the items seen in an image of the album’s deluxe package posted by Pitchfork, is a version of the track “Buddy’s Rendezvous” by Lana Del Rey. The tracklist also confirms that the two tracks Tillman dropped last year, “To S.” and “To R.,” won’t appear on the album and are just one-off singles.

Watch the video for “Funny Girl” above and check out the Chloë And The Next 20th Century art and tracklist below.

1. “Chloë”
2. “Goodbye Mr. Blue”
3. “Kiss Me (I Loved You)”
4. “(Everything But) Her Love”
5. “Buddy’s Rendezvous”
6. “Q4”
7. “Olvidado (Otro Momento)”
8. “Funny Girl”
9. “Only A Fool”
10. “We Could Be Strangers”
11. “The Next 20th Century”

Chloë And The Next 20th Century is out 4/8 via Sub Pop. Pre-order it here.

J.K. Rowling was practically persona non grata at HBO Max’s Harry Potter reunion, where it seemed like the special’s participants went out of their way to avoid mentioning the woman who created the Potterverse, who has spent the past two-plus years alienating former fans and collaborators with her anti-trans rhetoric. But Jon Stewart’s issues with the bestselling author go back even further.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the former Daily Show host ripped into Rowling on the latest episode of his podcast, The Problem With Jon Stewart, not for her problematic anti-trans comments, but for the goblins that run Gringotts Wizarding Bank in the Harry Potter series.

“Here’s how you know Jews are still where they are,” Stewart explained. “Talking to people, here’s what I say: Have you ever seen a Harry Potter movie? … Have you ever seen the scenes in Gringotts Bank? … Do you know what those folks who run the bank are? … Jews!”

Stewart noted the striking resemblance between Harry Potter’s goblin bankers and an infamous illustration from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a wildly anti-Semitic tome from 1903. He said that the typical reaction to showing someone that illustration is “‘Oh, [that illustration is] from Harry Potter!’ And you’re like, ‘No, that’s a caricature of a Jew from an anti-Semitic piece of literature.’ J.K. Rowling was like, ‘Can we get these guys to run our bank?’ … It’s a wizarding world … we can ride dragons, you can have a pet owl … but who should run the bank? Jews, … but what if the teeth were sharper?”

Stewart said he was shocked when he first saw the characters—but even more surprised when no one else seemed to be offended. “It was one of those things where I saw it on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, ‘Holy sh*t, [Rowling] did not, in a wizarding world, just throw Jews in there to run the f***ing underground bank. And everybody was just like, ‘Wizards.’ It was so weird.”

While Stewart is not the first person to take offense to the characters, and characterizations, others claim that Rowling has regularly called out anti-Semitism. Neither Rowling nor Warner Bros., the studio behind the Harry Potter juggernaut, responded to THR’s request for comment.

You can watch the full segment with Stewart below.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

The Weeknd has so far spent this week incrementally sharing information about his upcoming album Dawn FM, which comes out on Friday. He officially announced the project on Monday, shared the album cover yesterday, and today, he unveiled the album’s tracklist in a new teaser video.

While the tracklist as revealed today doesn’t indicate which artists are featured on which songs, some of the titles are indicative of their collaborators: “A Tale By Quincy” and “Phantom Regret By Jim” appear to be collaborations with Quincy Jones and Jim Carrey, respectively. Also previously announced to be appearing on the album are Tyler The Creator, Lil Wayne, and Oneohtrix Point Never.

Speaking of Carrey, the new video unveils another voiceover from the actor, as he can be heard saying, “God knows life is chaos, but he made one thing true: You got to unwind your mind, train your soul to align, and dance until you find that divine boogaloo.”

Also worth noting as that since pre-order links for the album first went live yesterday, The Weeknd’s online store has been updated to include various physical editions of the album, including some with alternate art that has an aesthetic similar to that of recent Oneohtrix Point Never releases.

Watch the Dawn FM tracklist reveal clip above and find the full tracklist below.

1. “Dawn FM”
2. “Gasoline”
3. “How Do I Make You Love Me?”
4. “Take My Breath”
5. “Sacrifice”
6. “A Tale By Quincy”
7. “Out Of Time”
8. “Here We Go… Again”
9. “Best Friends”
10. “Is There Someone Else?”
11. “Starry Eyes”
12. “Every Angel Is Terrifying”
13. “Don’t Break My Heart”
14. “I Heard You’re Married”
15. “Less Than Zero”
16. “Phantom Regret By Jim”

Dawn FM is out 1/7 via Republic. Pre-order it here.

Earlier this week, trans Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider (the show’s Winningest Woman in history, who’s closing in on the $900,000 mark) revealed that she had been robbed on Sunday in Oakland, California. While making that revelation, Amy declared that she was taking a brief social media breather while insisting that she is “fine” and had spent time replacing her ID, phone, and credit cards.

That Twitter break has continued, as has Amy’s winning streak, which hit 24 games on Tuesday night. Meanwhile, police in Oakland (where Amy currently lives) are talking to the press about their ongoing investigation. Via NBC News, spokesperson Candace Kea confirmed that a robbery (of an unnamed victim) had taken place. The police are searching for “two people, one armed” who had seized “personal belongings” from the victim. At this time, no arrests have been made.

Oakland FOX affiliate KTVU has more word from the PD about the armed robbery:

Oakland resident and reigning “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday. Oakland police told KTVU the incident happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. in the 200 block of Lenox Avenue in the Adams Point neighborhood. “Two unknown individuals, one with a firearm, approached the victim and demanded the victim’s property,” investigators said. “The victim complied, and the individuals ran off with the victim’s personal belongings.” Police said no arrests have been made and did not provide descriptions of the suspects.

Back on the Tuesday night airwaves, the taped episode was decidedly more lighthearted. Ken Jennings outed Amy as possibly the biggest Golden State Warriors fan in the land, and it sure looks like the $1,000,000 winnings mark is in Amy’s sights. Hopefully, she’s also taking all the social media downtime that she needs, especially after revealing (on New Year’s Eve) the harassment that’s been coming her way lately.

“I’d like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I’m a man,” Amy tweeted. “Every single one of you is the first person ever to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind.”

When Texas realtor Jenna Ryan boarded a private jet last year bound for Washington, D.C., she was determined to do one thing: storm the Capitol on January 6th. And storm she did, alongside many other MAGA people, all while documenting the insurrection via her social media accounts (which were later used as evidence against her in court). Now Ryan is behind bars, serving a 60-day sentence for her role in the fatal coup attempt. And she seems to have decided that being one of the most prominent members of the MAGA herd is not as glamorous a role as she might have imagined—even going so far as to declare herself a “scapegoat” and compare her situation to (deep breath!) being a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Just five days before she reported to prison to begin serving out her sentence, Ryan spoke with NBC News’ Kate Snow about her actions on January 6, 2021, and admitted that “walking into the Capitol for two minutes and eight seconds was a big mistake. And I pled guilty to that, and I have remorse for that.” It’s a statement that is in direct contrast with Ryan’s previous statements, including a tweet she sent out the next day where she stated: “We just stormed the Capitol. It was one of the best days of my life.”

When pressed on these mixed messages by Snow, Ryan said you really needed to be there to understand. Sure, she entered the Capitol behind hundreds of people who were breaking windows and smashing things, but Ryan says she wasn’t violent, and the reality of the situation was much different:

“People see footage on TV that I wasn’t privy to. So, to me, it was like we were saying ‘excuse me,’ people were polite, and it was beautiful.”

Last year, Ryan called herself a “martyr” when speaking with NBC’s Cynthia McFadden and claimed that she was “being persecuted” by the public at large. “She pushed her claim in our December interview,” Snow stated, “comparing herself to victims of genocide.”

Ryan rattled off a laundry list of complaints about the way she was being treated by people:

“They are calling me entitled, they’re making fun of my skin color, they’re calling me an ‘Insurrection Barbie.’ They don’t see me as a human. And so that is the epitome of a scapegoat. Just like they did that to the Jews in Germany.”

(Raise your hand if you think that Ryan is the one who came up with ‘Insurrection Barbie.’)

When Snow pushed further on that point and asked her, point blank, “Do you compare what’s happening to the Holocaust?” Ryan replied that she was actually afraid to answer that question “because I will be attacked for saying that. I mean, people say that that’s what it’s like. They’re like, ‘We feel like that’s happening.’”

Something tells us that Ryan, and these “people” she’s talking to, could probably stand to brush up on their understanding of history and the Holocaust.

Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, spoke with NBC about Ryan’s case, and claimed that “she’s all over the map on whether she accepts responsibility for her actions.”

When Snow noted that many people see Ryan attempting to use the notoriety she has gained as a way to draw more attention to and publicity for herself, and asked “What do you say to that?” After some rambling, Ryan decided her answer was: “I’ll say yes.”

You can watch the full interview below.

(Via NBC News)

While fame is something many aspire to, not everything that comes with the territory is appealing. That was on display last night, as Jason Derulo found himself being accosted by a couple of instigators at a Las Vegas hotel, who created a situation that turned violent.

A video obtained by TMZ shows the entertainer coming down an escalator accompanied by somebody who appears to be a bodyguard. As he leaves the room, a man shouts, “Hey Usher! F*ck you, b*tch!” Immediately after that, Derulo charged two men and attacked them.

TMZ reports that according to law enforcement sources, police were called to Las Vegas’ Aria hotel early Tuesday morning following the incident. Eyewitnesses told the publication Derulo punched the guy who swore at him in the face and slapped a second guy shortly after. As The Guardian notes, police say Derulo “committed a battery against two individuals.”

While the fight got a bit bloody, none of the injuries sustained required hospital visits. Meanwhile, Derulo got a trespassing notice from the hotel and was removed from the premises (in handcuffs, per The Guardian). Neither man wanted to press charges, but as TMZ notes, “there’s always the possibility of a lawsuit.”

In 2018, Johnny Knoxville told Entertainment Weekly that a fourth jackass movie was possible, but “we’d have to bring in some new younger guys — just to bring some fresh blood into it.” Four years later, jackass forever is finally (FINALLY) coming out, and true to his word, Knoxville has added new members to the jackass crew.

Don’t worry, Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, and Preston Lacy are back for more hilariously irresponsible fun, and now they’re joined by Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Zach Holmes, Eric Manaka, Jasper, and Rachel Wolfson, who spoke about her experience making jackass forever in an exclusive featurette above. “They made me laugh so hard and I’m literally seeing childhood heroes of mine come to life,” she said, adding, “My mind is blown.” But it’s Manaka who summed up the jackass experience the best: “I love skating, and I love getting a bit hurt.” Amen.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Celebrating the joy of being back together with your best friends and a perfectly executed shot to the dingdong, the original jackass crew return for another round of hilarious, wildly absurd, and often dangerous displays of comedy with a little help from some exciting new cast. Johnny and the team push the envelope even further in jackass forever.

jackass forever opens on February 4.

This spring will mark five years since Joey Badass released an album, namely 2017’s All Amierkkkan Badass, the strong sequel to his excellent debut album B4.Da.$$. Since then, Joey has released a handful of loose singles, guest features, and other releases. But for the most part, his focus has been on the acting world, with roles in Grown-ish, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Two Distant Strangers, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. With 2022 underway, Joey Badass seems ready to return with new music.

During a recent session on Instagram Live, Joey took questions from fans who tuned in, and naturally, he received a question about when his third album would arrive. He replied, “The album dropping this year for sure… for sure, for sure.” He continued, “I ain’t gonna say exactly when though cause there’s certain rappers who be on my heels. So imma just — it’s coming though.”

Joey’s third album will be his first project since his 2020 EP The Light Pack, which offered three songs and a lone feature from Pusha T. Elsewhere, he also dropped collaborations with Westside Boogie, DJ Scheme, Phony Ppl, Nas, Westside Gunn, Kenny Beats, and more.

You can watch Joey Badass talk about his upcoming album in the video above.

The 2021-22 season hasn’t been incredibly kind to the Portland Trail Blazers, and things might get even more challenging for Chauncey Billups and company in the near future. On Tuesday, Billups addressed the media and discussed the status of superstar guard Damian Lillard, who missed Portland’s win over Atlanta on Monday with abdominal tendinopathy. Lillard previously missed a five-game stretch in November and December with the ailment and, while his individual numbers have improved, this recent hiccup has prompted discussions of a potential break from on-court action.

While the Blazers are not completely out of contention at 14-22, it would be fair to suggest that Portland isn’t a title contender this season. From there, the 31-year-old Lillard has his worst individual statistics since 2014-15, averaging 24 points and 7.3 assists per game while shooting only 40.2 percent from the floor and 32.4 percent from three-point range. It’s also worth mentioning that Portland’s first-round pick in the 2022 NBA Draft is lottery protected, but if they finish outside of the lottery, it goes to Chicago.

Even in his weakened state, Lillard is Portland’s centerpiece and best player, but the abdominal injury has posed lingering problems for the veteran point guard. Clearly, the medical evaluation is something that can’t be fully understood from the outside but, if the team believes that an extended hiatus would help Lillard to fully recover, it does make sense to take course of action. Nothing is official at this juncture, but the Blazers have already ruled Lillard out for the team’s home game against Miami on Wednesday, and it is possible Lillard won’t return to the floor for a while.