ESPN’s biggest morning show is going to get a new look in the near future, as First Take will apparently no longer feature Max Kellerman. According to Front Office Sports and confirmed by the New York Post, Kellerman is expected to leave First Take at some point soon, without a permanent replacement in the fold.
Instead of a permanent verbal sparring, Stephen A. Smith will take on a rotation of ESPN personalities and guests as he will be the undisputed face of the program that has become ESPN’s most popular entity (or, for some, the most loathed). Molly Qerim will remain on as the show’s host, steering the ship from topic to topic. Per Front Office Sports, the idea may simply be “Stephen A. vs. the World.”
As for Kellerman, he will remain at ESPN and the expectation is that he’ll return to a more prominent role on the radio side, while also continuing to host his boxing program. There are rumblings that Kellerman could join ESPN Radio’s morning show with Keyshawn Johnson and Jay Williams, or expand his current program, The Max Kellerman Show, which occupies an afternoon timeslot.
Nothing is official as of this moment, but it seems First Take will look quite different in the near future as Stephen A. will no longer sit opposite just one co-host.
The freshman politician has proven she can hang with the big dogs when it comes to publicly humiliating herself. From throwing masks at House staffers to praising the Taliban on Twitter to her Kamala Harris cardboard cutout, she’s almost as good at self-owning as fellow GOP blowhard, Ted Cruz. But while her wild publicity stunts are just that — bids for attention — the latest scandal that she finds herself embroiled in might have more legal consequences.
Boebert is facing questioning from the Federal Election Commission after her team filed documents disclosing thousands of dollars in questionable payments. Via CNBC, the FEC sent a letter to Boebert’s campaign treasurer, asking about four separate Venmo payments made between May and June that totaled more than $6,000. On the forms, the transactions were described as “personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to campaign account in error.” Later, the document noted that the “expense has been reimbursed.”
This is the first time Boebert’s use of campaign funds has been called into question, either. A separate complaint was filed by a government watchdog group earlier this year, asking the FEC to investigate a reported $20,000 in mileage reimbursements that Boebert received during her 2020 election campaign. If those Venmo payments end up violating the FEC’s laws against using campaign dollars for personal expenses, Boebert might be facing some serious trouble in court.
Of course, she’s not the only Republican who’s had a hard time keeping track of their money. Both Cruz and Matt Gaetz have come under scrutiny — Cruz for buying hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own book, reportedly with campaign money, and Gaetz for some oddly timed Venmo transactions with an accused sex trafficker. There’s fiscally conservative and then there’s just fiscally incompetent.
Ah, Fall. To some, this season brings with it visions of pumpkins and fallen leaves, but at UPROXX, we’re excited for two things: fall sports and all those new fall games. So, naturally, we combined these two great loves for the latest episode of everyone’s favorite gaming show, Recon.
In this episode of Recon, SushiBae and UPROXX’s AJ Lodge are huddling up to talk about — you guessed it — sports! What starts off as a conversation about the latest Madden and FIFA games turns into a broader discussion about what sports games are doing well, and which they think could use a little bit of coaching. They also talk about extreme sports games such as the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 +2 remake, classic family games like Mario Kart and Wii Sports, as well as alternative sports titles like Rocket League and Knockout City.
Of course, no conversation about sports and gaming would be complete without the mention of esports, one of the fastest-growing sectors of gaming. Whether you’re a die-hard Overwatch League fan or a casual Valorant enthusiast, there’s a team and game for everyone to enjoy. Last but certainly not least, be sure to watch Sushi and AJ discuss all the must-play games coming this Fall. From Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, we promise you’ll find at least one title that’s sure to knock your October outta the park.
To join the guys as they talk about everything from the AAA big hitters we’ve come to depend on year after year, to the indie underdogs that captured our hearts and hours of our free time, simply click play on the video above.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as well as Avengers: Endgame, on the off-chance you haven’t seen either and still clicked on this.
To anyone who watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the following should come as no surprise: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anthony Mackie is set to star in the fourth Captain America film. It seems the MCU is finally getting around to the next installment in that wing of the franchise, over two years after Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers bade farewell to the role he played for nearly a decade.
Tapping Mackie is a no-brainer. At the end of Avengers: Endgame, an elderly, time-hopping Steve Rogers bequeathed his iconic shield to his good buddy Sam Wilson, aka Falcon, played by Mackie. And The Falcon and the Winter Soldier concluded with Wilson swapping roles, taking over the character entirely. They even changed the title at the end to “Captain America and the Winter Soldier.”
This is good news for Mackie, an acclaimed actor who’s been with the MCU since 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It also makes him the second Black actor to get his own Marvel stand-alone movie after Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther, as opposed to one that splits the lead with other characters, as he did with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. You probably suspected all this was coming, but it’s nice to have it all locked in.
An unearthed Saturday Night Live sketch has been stirring up controversy following the recent events in Afghanistan. In the 2001 sketch filmed shortly after the U.S. invasion following the September 11th attacks, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, and others play a bunch of partygoers who break into song and dance after Seth Meyers enters the room to announce the U.S. has captured Kandahar. After a video of the 20-year-old sketch was shown on Twitter, it led to a round of sharp criticism as people accused SNL of normalizing “imperialism” and not being “funny back then either,” according to the New York Post.
However, The Good Place creator and former SNL writer Michael Schur came to the sketch’s defense by noting that it’s clearly satire, and the purpose was to mock the country’s flippant attitude towards invading a country that we end up occupying for two decades. Via Twitter:
Not my sketch, but I was there. This is satire. It starts at a well-heeled cocktail party with everyone being ridiculous, and then they break into song when they hear we’ve reached Kandahar. The point was to make fun of how cavalier and ignorant we were being about the invasion.
Not my sketch, but I was there. This is satire. It starts at a well-heeled cocktail party with everyone being ridiculous, and then they break into song when they hear we’ve reached Kandahar. The point was to make fun of how cavalier and ignorant we were being about the invasion.
Schur was joined by others on Twitter who also noted that the sketch was obviously not celebrating the Afghanistan war.
“Yeah this is mocking people who casually celebrated the invasion of Afghanistan which by the way was a super unpopular thing to criticize at the time,” wrote user mightywelsh. “This sketch is actually based.”
Yeah this is mocking people who casually celebrated the invasion of Afghanistan which by the way was a super unpopular thing to criticize at the time. This sketch is actually based.
Nine Perfect Strangers: Nicole Kidman’s one of several A-listers who’ve made themselves at home on the so-called “small screen” in recent years, and after a few Emmys and a Golden Globe for Big Little Lies and a Globe nomination for The Undoing, she’s not done yet. She portrays a wellness guru that might remind you of certain celebrities who shill bizarre products and claim that they’ll change your life with a dash of snake oil. Yes, the Paddington villain is here to shake up your little world again.
What If…? (Disney+ series) — We’re in the multiverse, baby. The MCU’s officially launching headfirst into that realm after Loki‘s season finale, and this show’s Twitter account clarified official participation as well. And that sounds about right. I’ve been looking forward to these alternate-reality scenarios since catching D23 footage a few years ago, and Disney+ will show us a wealth of scenarios that stand separate from the existing canon (thus far). Last week, Agent Carter took the serum and became Captain Carter. This week, King T’Challa materializes as Star Lord. Notably, Chadwick Boseman did voice work here, so you’ll be able to say a proper goodbye to his Black Panther. Let the good times and the tears roll.
Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (Comedy Central, 10:00pm) — Awkwafina’s semi-autobiographical series returns for a second season, in which she gazes into the future with starry eyes. In the present, however, she’s training a new employee, dealing with her feisty grandmother, and then enduring an earthquake. There’s a little backward time travel, too, and the attempt to avoid inevitable mistakes.
Riverdale (CW, 8:00pm) — Following a bizarre time jump and, uh, literal war, Season 5 gives Hiram an origin story, which led him to eventually become a powerful Riverdale kingpin. Elsewhere, Reggie’s dealing with his daddy issues.
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Michael Keaton, Heidi Klum, Vince Staples Ft. Fousheé
Late Night With Seth Meyers — Ms. Pat, Sleater-Kinney, Jeff Bowders
Chloe X Halle‘s Halle Bailey has a lot to be excited about these days. Not only did she and sister Chloe release last year’s Ungodly Hour, Halle has spent the last few months filming Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, an experience she’s chronicled on Instagram.
“It has definitely been a whirlwind of an experience,” Halle told Flaunt in a new cover story about filming the movie in London and Italy. (The Little Mermaid also stars a Hollywood who’s-who, including Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, and Javier Bardem as King Triton, with Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, and Awkwafina as the voices of Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle, respectively.)
“I really connected with how Ariel feels,” Halle added. “She just wants to discover something new. She wants to see a whole different world that has never been introduced to her before […] There was a moment particularly when I was in London, and doing things on my own, and working every day, and working very hard, where I was like, ‘Okay, this must be what it feels like to have myself to rely on. I am kind of proud of myself. This has been a wild ride into adulthood.”
Halle also reflected on releasing the follow-up to her and Chloe’s 2018 debut, The Kids Are Alright, and how the sisters grew between both albums: “When we started to shape the album, it was kind of beautiful to see kind of a rebellious theme of heartbreak and love, and excitement, and all the things we go through as a young woman, pertaining to life and the hardships.”
When R&B revivalists DVSN and Ty Dolla Sign announced they were working on a joint mixtape, the instant expectation was of chunky harmonies populating seductive but blunt come-ons over silky, ’90s-esque grooves. With their first single “Memories” and its accompanying video, the trio has not only met but exceeded those expectations ahead of the full project’s release on Friday.
Do you want extensive talkbox use? Check. A classic R&B sample (Silk’s 1992 hit “Freak Me”) courtesy of Nineteen85? Check. Were you looking to see glittery halters adorning the denizens of a grown-and-sexy club party in the video, a la millennial-era videos from the likes of Maxwell, Usher, Tyrese, and others? Yep, DVSN and Ty give you that, too. And yes, the harmonies are layered, lush, and lascivious as Ty and Daniel Daley describe all the immodest fantasies on their minds as they tell a potential paramour, “I want to make memories tonight.” We’ll leave just what those memories might consist of to your imagination.
The unofficial group first announced the title and release date for the project, Cheers To The Best Memories, earlier this month, a couple of weeks after dropping the lead single with Mac Miller, “I Believed It.” It’ll be DVSN’s first release since A Muse In Their Feelings, the duo’s third album, and Ty’s first since Featuring Ty Dolla Sign, his second album.
Watch the video for “Memories” above.
Cheers To The Best Memories is due 8/20 via OVO Sound and Warner Records. Pre-save it here.
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What are some of the greatest TV duos of all-time? There’s Statler and Waldorf, of course. Mulder and Scully. Norm and Cliff. Troy and Abed. Olivia and Paula. Who are Olivia and Paula? They’re the terrifying teens at the heart of one of the best shows of 2021 so far, HBO’s The White Lotus, and if you don’t recognize their names, that’s fine. They don’t know you, either. But they will make fun of you on Snapchat.
The New York Times spoke to Sydney Sweeney (Olivia) and Brittany O’Grady (Paula) about the zoomer vacationers, including creator Mike White asking them to listen to a podcast to get into character. Which podcast? “Red Scare,” Sweeney revealed. “I mainly listened to it for the frequency of the voices of these girls and the timing and the monotone. It was so dry and drawn out and slow. I would just emulate and copy that as much as I could and then bring it into the present day, Gen Z-esque-type woke Twitter girl.” Hosted by Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan, the CutdescribedRed Scare as “a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned.”
Sweeney said that when White told her and O’Grady to listen to the podcast, “I was like, ‘What is this?’ I have never really listened to podcasts.” You probably never thought “listening to podcasts” would make me feel ancient, but here we are.
I’ll be deathly afraid of these two characters for the rest of my natural-born life pic.twitter.com/KA3TFiGyQn
A ton of new and returning TV shows are landing on the streaming platform this September, all of it good, some of it award-worthy. First up is a new season of an FX comedy, What We Do In The Shadows, which promises to be a bloody good time (sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves.) Then, there’s the long-awaited Y: The Last Man, a dystopian drama based on a popular comic book series that sports an all-star cast. And speaking of talented A-listers, B.J. Novak got a bunch of them to sign on for his new anthology series, which is coming to FX on Hulu mid-month.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Hulu this September.
What We Do In The Shadows: Season 3 Premiere (streaming on FX on Hulu 9/3)
Everyone’s favorite trio of Staten Island vamps is back (along with resident energy sucker Colin Robinson and newly-minted vampire hunter Guillermo in tow). The new season of FX’s hit comedy sees Nadja, Laszlo, and Nandor being named overlords of the vampiric council and having to navigate an uneasy transfer of power. Kickball matches with werewolves trips to Atlantic City and the genitals of Van Helsing all pop up this season.
Y: The Last Man Series Premiere (streaming on FX on Hulu 9/13)
It’s been a long road from comic book property to dystopian TV drama but Y: The Last Man has finally made it and judging by the show’s stacked cast, it looks to be worth the wait. After a mysterious event wipes the planet of nearly every being with a Y chromosome, the rest of the population must learn to survive in a new normal. Diane Lane plays the world’s de-facto president, and it’s her son who becomes the titular last man on Earth.
The Premise Series Premiere (streaming on FX on Hulu 9/16)
B.J. Novak has assembled an all-star cast to populate his latest anthology series for FX. Everyone from Jon Bernthal to Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Daniel Dae Kim will play in his sandbox with each episode engaging with a different element of modern life.
Here’s everything coming to Hulu this September:
Avail. 9/1 50/50 A Fish Called Wanda Anaconda Angel Unchained The Apparition At the Earth’s Core Blue City Bull Durham Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Cannon for Cordoba Cellar Dweller Cold Creek Manor Count Yorga, Vampire Crazy Heart The Dunwich Horror Edward Scissorhands El Dorado Election Exterminator 2 Free Willy Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home Free Willy 3: The Rescue Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove Friday the 13th – Part III Friday the 13th – Part IV: The Final Chapter Fright Night Gattaca Girls! Girls! Girls! The Glass House Grosse Pointe Blank Hitman: Agent 47 Hoosiers I Spit On Your Grave I Spit On Your Grave 2 I Spit On Your Grave 3 Internal Affairs The Interview Jacob’s Ladder Just Between Friends The Killer Elite Kiss the Girls The Last Castle Magic Mike The Manchurian Candidate The Mexican McLintock! (Producer’s Cut) The Mexican Miss You Already Mommy Mosquito Squadron Mr. North Much Ado About Nothing New Year’s Eve Nixon Office Space The Omen The Patsy Phase IV The Possession Priest Raising Arizona The Ring Road to Perdition Salvador Secret Admirer Shaun the Sheep Movie Slumdog Millionaire Solace Stephen King’s It Sucker Punch Tears of the Sun The Tenant Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys Under Fire Vantage Point Volcano The Wedding Plan The Wrestler The X-Files
Avail. 9/2 Trolls: TrollsTopia Season 4 (Hulu Original) Death in Texas The Unthinkable
Avail. 9/3 What We Do In The Shadows: Season 3 PremiereAvail. 9/4 Flower
Avail. 9/8 Wu-Tang: An American Saga Season 2 Premiere (Hulu Original) La La Land
Avail. 9/11 High Ground
Avail. 9/13 Y: The Last Man Series Premiere Colette
Avail. 9/15 Dark Side of the Ring Season 3A Joseph: King of Dreams Love, Simon Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Avail. 9/16 The Premise Series Premiere Stalker On Chesil Beach Riders of Justice
Avail. 9/18 Dark Side of Football Season 1
Avail. 9/20 Grown Ups
Avail. 9/21 9-1-1 Season 5 Premiere The Big Leap Series Premiere Dancing with the Stars Season 20 Premiere Ordinary Joe Series Premiere The Voice Season 21 Premiere
Avail. 9/22 New Amsterdam Season 4 Premiere Our Kind of People Series Premiere The Resident Season 5 Premiere
Avail. 9/23 A Million Little Things Season 4 Premiere Alter Ego Series Premiere Chicago Fire Season 10 Premiere Chicago Med Season 7 Premiere Chicago P.D. Season 9 Premiere The Conners Season 4 Premiere The Goldbergs Season 9 Premiere Home Economics Season 2 Premiere The Masked Singer Season 6 Premiere The Wonder Years Series Premiere The Eric Andre Show Season 5 Funhouse
Avail. 9/24 Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 2 Premiere Law & Order: SVU Season 23 Premiere An American Haunting
Avail. 9/25 Gemini
Avail. 9/27 Bob’s Burgers Season 12 Premiere Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Season 2 Premiere Family Guy Season 20 Premiere The Great North Season 2 Premiere The Rookie Season 4 Premiere The Simpsons Season 33 Premiere Supermarket Sweep Season 2 Premiere
Avail. 9/28 The Good Doctor Season 4 Premiere Felix and the Hidden Treasure Home Run
Avail. 9/29 La Brea Series Premiere Minor Premise
Sept. 30 New Order
Here’s the full list of what’s leaving Hulu in September:
Leaving 9/1 The Iron Lady Our Family Wedding Young Adult
Leaving 9/2 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Leaving 9/23 An American Haunting
Leaving 9/29 Destination Wedding Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol One for the Money
Leaving 9/30 2012 50/50 A Fish Called Wanda A Hard Day A Perfect Day The Adventures of Tintin Anaconda Anaconda 3: Offspring Anacondas: Trail of Blood Angel Unchained The Assassin At the Earth’s Core Australia Bad Teacher Beasts Clawing at Straws Better Living Through Chemistry Big Fish Black And White BOY Bram Stoker’s Dracula Breakdown Bruno Bull Durham Burning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Caddyshack Caddyshack II Cannon For Cordoba Cellar Dweller Charles and Diana: 1983 Charlotte’s Web The Chumscrubber The Condemned Contagion Count Yorga, Vampire Coyote Ugly Dangerous Minds Daredevil Desperate Measures Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings Don’t Think Twice Dumb & Dumber Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd The Dunwich Horror Eliminators Exterminator 2 Fired Up! Foxfire Fred Claus Fright Night From Paris with Love Galaxy Quest Grandma Grosse Pointe Blank The Grudge Gundala Hard Romanticker Hideaway Himalaya House of the Dead House of the Dead 2 Housesitter I Do…Until I Don’t I Wish I Knew Ice Age In the Cut Indignation Intolerable Cruelty It’s Kind of a Funny Story Jacob’s Ladder Johnny English Just Between Friends The Killer Elite Knowing Lady Vengeance Long Day’s Journey Into Night Lost in Hong Kong Machines The Man From Nowhere Maximum Risk Mercury Rising Mosquito Squadron Mountains May Depart Mr. North The Nightingale Nixon Old Stone The Omen Once Upon a Time in the West Open Water Open Water 2: Adrift Places in the Heart The Polar Express Pop Aye R.L. Stine: Mostly Ghostly R.L. Stine’s Monsterville: The Cabinet Of Souls R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? R.L. Stine’s Mostly Ghostly: One Night In Doom House R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It Raising Arizona Reno 911!: Miami: The Movie The Ring Rookie of the Year Salvador Scent of Green Papayas Secret Admirer Sk8 Dawg Sleeping With the Enemy Sleepwalkers The Soloist Somewhere Sorority Row Space Jam The Stepfather Sunshine Super Troopers Sweet Bean Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Take Shelter Taken This Means War Thunderheart Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Tokyo Rising Tooth Fairy Train to Busan Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys Under Fire Universal Soldier Virtuosity The Wailing Whip It Wilde Wings of Courage The Woman Who Left Young Sherlock Holmes
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