Adam Driver is a fine thespian, capable of great variety and sometimes accents, too. But chances are most people know him for one role in particular: Kylo Ren from the last Star Wars trilogy. Specifically they know him as the guy who killed one Han Solo. Christmas is nigh, so during his latest stint on SNL, he asked Santa for some gifts, including that people will stop blaming him for what he did in The Force Awakens.
During Driver’s opening monologue, he gushed about the holidays, one of his favorite times of year. At one point he took to a piano, where he played music while addressing Santa directly.
“Hey, Santa. It’s me, Adam Driver, from the nice list. And also Girls’” he said. “I turned 40 this year, Santa, so I would like five pairs of chinos. I also want one of those giant metal Tesla trucks. I think it would pair perfectly with my teeny tiny micropenis.”
Eventually he got to a more ambitious wish. “I would like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo!’,” he said. “I didn’t kill him. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”
There were more wishes. “Oh, you know those TikToks, like those couples that do pranks on each other? Can you kill those people?” he added. “What I want for Christmas is a gingerbread house. Do you think a gingerbread man gets scared when he realizes the house is made of his own skin? That’s a cute one. You can tell your kids that one.”
It was Driver’s fourth time hosting the show, which he clearly relishes. You can see him as the lead in Michael Mann’s Ferrari when it’s released December 25.
Recently Questlove, musician, author, and director, served as curator for the Grammys‘ tribute to 50 years of hip-hop, bringing together pioneers like Grandmaster Flash and newcomers like Lil Uzi Vert. While the transitions through the decades appeared smooth onstage, Questlove was falling apart behind the scenes. On December 7, during an interview on Grammy.com, Questlove claimed due to the sheer level of stress brought on by all of the planning, he lost two teeth by the end of the process.
“After the success of the thing that we did in March — that 12-minute revue thing — I’ll be honest with you,” he said. “For 12 minutes, that was like going through damn near, and I’m not even using hyperbolic statements by saying, coming out within an inch of my life.”
He continued, “When that moment was literally over, and I was on the airplane landing back in New York, two of my teeth fell out. That’s the level of stress I was [under]. Imagine landing in JFK, and I got to rush to ‘The Tonight Show,’ but then it’s like, Oh, wait, what’s happening? Oh God, no! My teeth are falling out! And going to emergency surgery. My whole takeaway was like: Never again.”
It looks like the culture owes Questlove a considerable debt and reimbursement for medical expenses.
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“Old Town Road” rapper Lil Nas X is walking on the heavenly path and ensuring that his ‘Satan Shoes‘ are far behind him. Instead, he’s putting his best foot forward with comfortable footwear for the rocky journey.
No, Lil Nas X isn’t rolling out another sneaker. Even if he were, we know, based on Nike’s response to the misguided backlash it received, they probably wouldn’t be open to the idea. No matter, Crocs has opened their designer studio up with open arms. So, how can you buy Lil Nas X’s mega crush clog with Crocs?
According to Crocs’ official website, Lil Nas X’s mega crush clog and the matching $20 5-pack Jibbitz charms (but note that the design does not accommodate charms being inserted into the shoe) are solely available online. Currently, only men’s and women’s sizing are up for grabs on the website. It doesn’t appear that a children’s option was ever listed.
The item retails for $110, well above the brand’s standard pricing model. However, the Lil Nas X’s mega crush clog has several design upgrades, including the inclusion of a faux-shearling exterior as well as a strap for added warmth and increased height of its platform. Just not as the item’s description lists; all finals are final and cannot be returned or exchanged.
Lil Nas X’s mega crush clog by Crocs and Jibbitz charms are available while supplies last. Find more information here.
In 2021, Lil Nas X released a limited-edition sneaker with the viral fashion company MSCHF. Dubbed the ‘Satan Shoes,’ it incorporated actual human blood into the design. Now the “Industry Baby” rapper left his devilish ways behind. Is his new collaboration with Crocs receiving a normal rollout, right? Wrong.
Although the comfort footwear item doesn’t involve blood, Lil Nas X was sure to insert his troll-like tendencies in its promotional video. On Saturday, December 9, he took to his official X page to upload a clip revealing the item. In the video, Lil Nas X makes a few unsubstantiated claims about the shoes’ capabilities.
The comedic infomercial promises that if the wearer is suffering from depression, physical attractiveness, and loneliness, all of these problems will go away once they slip into a pair of Lil Nas X’s Crocs. The wildest of the clip’s insertions was that it could somehow make owners heterosexual if they weren’t already.
Adam Driver has always been a very game SNL host, but his fourth time on the show found him tackling one of his most disturbing characters: a weird baby with a giant head. The sketch in question found Chloe Fineman as a mom flying with her 11-month-old son. Alas, the baby had not only the head of Adam Driver, but also an atypically advanced intellect. He still has the emotional wildness of a toddler, but he can also speak in complete sentences, articulating his confusion and temper tantrums like an adult.
“Ahhhh, my ears feel strange,” the Driver baby says as the plane hits a higher altitude. “My ears, they feel different! I don’t like this!” When his mom offers him an iPad as emotional relief, he calls it his “Peppa Pig device,” which is “the only thing I want.”
Fellow passengers, played by Heidi Gardner and Kenan Thompson, aren’t buying that the Driver baby is less than a year old. When he states his age, Thompson replies, “And 15,000 days?”
Eventually Fineman tries to appease her son by playing with his toy bear, but when she playfully hides it behind her back, the Driver baby has a meltdown, screaming, “He vanished!” and “You killed him, you b*tch!”
You can watch the sketch in the video above. Driver’s latest film, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, hits theaters on December 25.
Last week was not a great one for Hunter Biden. The president’s son was hit with a new indictment, which revealed that he spent millions on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature.” The revelation has provided comics plenty of fodder, including on SNL‘s Weekend Update — who were able to make it a joke about a certain former president instead.
Noting that Biden’s spending spree happened between 2016 and 2020, co-host Colin Jost asked, “And they’re only catching him now? “Man, this is super embarrassing for whoever was president between 2016 and 2020.”
Jost took sympathy on Biden, noting that “no one finishes doing cocaine with a hooker and is like, ‘Can I get a receipt?’”
Elsewhere in the segment, Michael Che took on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent revelation that he flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private jet not once but twice. “But only to make sure none of those girls were vaccinated,” Che joked.
Che also dragged Nick Cannon, who recently said that he spends around $200,000 a year taking his 12 kids to Disneyland. Cracked Che, “That’s how bad condoms feel.”
You can watch SNL’s latest Weekend Update in the videos above and below.
Last week Beyoncé’s new concert movie Renaissance was the top movie in America, bringing in $21 million worth of ticket sales. Unfortunately, the movie won’t be in theaters much longer. However, a new rumor floating around social media has users breathing a sigh of relief. Is Beyoncé’s Renaissance movie coming to Roku?
According to Beyoncé’s publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, the answer is flat out no. On Saturday, December 9, a post uploaded to Noel-Schure’s official Instagram page put a kibosh on that rumor.
“‘Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé’ is ONLY playing in movie theatres worldwide,” Noel-Schure wrote. “The comments that the film will play on Roku are categorically false.”
Well, that’s the end of that. If you want to watch Renaissance, you have till the end of the month to do so.
Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé is in theaters now. Find more information here.
The night’s maiden sketch found Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, and Chloe Fineman playing MIT’s Claudine Gay, Harvard’s Sally Kornbluth, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, all of whom testified in Congress on Tuesday. That didn’t go well for them; on Saturday, mere hours before the show, Magill resigned after massive pushback. It didn’t go well for the sketch either, which struggled to find laughs in a powder keg situation.
Most of the attempted yuks came from Chloe Troat’s take on MAGA lawmaker Elise Stefanik, who at the beginning of the sketch vowed she would be “screaming questions at these women like I’m Billy Eichner.” She sure did, saying things, like, “Antisemitism: Yay or nay?” and admitting that no matter what they said, they were “going to make me look good, which is really, really hard to do.”
Kenan Thompson arrived late in to save the day, playing the president of the University of Phoenix Online. When Stefanik asked him if he promised to eliminate all anti-Semitism from his campus, he replied, “Well, my campus is the internet, so anti-Semitism is kind of our most popular major.” He added, “And our mascot is porn.”
You can watch the SNL Cold Open in the video above.
Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.
Godzilla Minus One is out there collectively pleasing franchise fans more than any other Godzilla movie in existence, and before that comes to streaming, there is still the rest of this Apple TV+ series starring Kurt and Wyatt Russell, together again after all these years. Actually, the father and son portray the same Army officer, Lee Shaw, who has a special connection to the angry lizard that could help humanity finally rest easy about monsters once and for all. Or at least for a few moments, which ain’t nothing in an action franchise.
TIE: 10. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Doom (Disney movie streaming on Disney+)
Our own Mike Ryan wrote that this film didn’t do so shabby in the de-aging department, and it not only didn’t rest as heavily upon nostalgia as The Crystal Skull but also delivered a more satisfying finale while pulling off a reasonable runtime. James Mangold helmed Harrison Ford’s return to one of his most iconic roles, and the story begins back during World War II. Expect to see the story grounded in reality before things get far less real, fast. This movie embraces that audacity, and in doing so, it goes even further down that path to satisfy the hardcore Indy fans out there.
David Fincher swings and does not miss, and this methodical, cold-blooded assassin character is actually a role that Michael Fassbender was meant to embody, ever since he met a quick demise (RIP) in Haywire. This film is also obsessed with The Smiths (you gotta watch to find out), and this ends up being a movie that embodies an unlikely trinity for the ages. Fincher can do both blockbusters and Oscar fare in equal measure, but here, he’s rolling around in pulp and clearly digs what materializes. Although the subject matter is obviously unsettling, Fassbender’s steely bone structure was meant for films of this intensity. Thank you to Quentin Tarantino for making him a household name in the first place.
The Cobra Kai creators (Josh Heald, Hayden Schlossberg, and Jon Hurwitz) concocted a more adult action/comedy series that takes place in Vegas, where things will not stay in Vegas if an elite special forces team doesn’t properly diffuse a deadly threat. Unfortunately, they believe that they do the job and then proceed get wasted, only to realize that the terrorist threat in question has not been eliminated. Cue the tipsy search for the real nuke — gotta hate it when that happens.
7. Lawmen: Bass Reeves: Season 1 (Paramount+ series)
White dudes are running this streaming list thus far, but here we are with Taylor Sheridan’s presentation of the most legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal in history. David Oyelowo portrays the title character, who is a frontier hero of the Post-Reconstruction era and beyond. During Reeves’ tenure, he captured thousands of the most frightening criminals in the land, and Sheridan pays tribute along fellow cast members including Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland. Will this graduate into a full-on anthology series? Chances are good because everything that Sheridan touches on TV goes cowboy-viral.
Finally, this week’s episode delivered a Home Alone payoff that might or might knock Jon Hamm’s nipple rings right off. This series continues to show no shortage of fresh weirdness or inventive names that have been hitting since Molly Solverson brought this world to our TV screens. Jon Hamm loves to get weird, and somehow, that never gets old from the former Don Draper. Get him, Juno Temple.
5. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures movie for purchase on Amazon Prime)
This movie isn’t yet available as part of a streaming service package, but it’s worth the rental or purchase fee to see Christopher Nolan’s cinematic return to brilliance after the lukewarm (and too-confusing) Tenet. An all-star cast of revolving door MVPs fills out this half of the unofficial Barbenheimer phenomenon, so you can watch Cillian Murphy along with Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, and Matt Damon in this never-black-and-white story about the father of the atomic bomb. Actually, it’s worth singing out Alden Ehrenreich as a special MVP who has had a glorious year giving us every onscreen emotion possible in this film as well as Cocaine Bear and Fair Play.
For sure, Gary Oldman eats plenty and farts too much here, but that’s not the only attraction. This show has had quick turnaround between seasons to keep Mick Herronthe’s series of Slough Horses novels coming at ya. Oldman is a failed spymaster, Jackson Lamb, who leads a gathering of British intelligence f*ck-ups including Olivia Cooke, who simply cannot be in enough TV shows right now. This show is for everyone who’s tired of spies simply being sexy things and wants to see them being utterly human while thrashing around in professional woes filled with dark comedy.
The recently revealed winner of this first season (and yes, there will be another) claims that she hasn’t been paid her millions yet, but Netflix must sure be glad that they decided to spend that money. This reality series did not always run smoothly, but that was to be expected, considering the original series’ bleak theme and tone. Viewers remain transfixed by this imitation-reality-show taking a stab at simulating those morbid events with plenty of controversy in the process.
2. Killers Of The Flower Moon (available for rental on Apple TV+)
This modest little flick from Martin Scorsese will eventually be part of the Apple TV+ streaming library, but understandably, this will first take the rental route in your home theater. Enjoy David Grann’s soaring subject matter coming to life with a powerhouse performance from Lily Gladstone and a butt-padded Leonardo DiCaprio. As well, enjoy or dislike Brendan Frasier’s polarizing performance while also absorbing a dark chapter in U.S. history that finally puts the Osage community’s ordeal front and center.
This might be an Oscar movie for Netflix, even though the subject matter initially seems too tabloid-oriented at first glance. Julianne Moore portrays a character (Gracie) who is based upon Mary Kay Letourneau and is still married to her younger husband (Charles Melton). Their seemingly unending life of domesticity receives a throttling by Natalie Portman’s TV star, who is researching a new role and ends up becoming very personally (and uncomfortably) involved. It’s scandal upon scandal up in this joint.
It’s the season of giving, and tonight’s Weekend Update portion on Saturday Night Live was a special gift for millennials. During part of the weekly segment, SNL cast member Chloe Fineman offered some gift ideas “for that special someone.”
To the surprise of Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che, Fineman took to the front of the stage, as she needed the space to show off her dance moves.
“The perfect holiday gift this year is the dance that Julia Stiles does at the end of the 2001 dance movie, Save The Last Dance,” said Fineman.
Fineman then proceeds to deliver the movie’s iconic brand of “street ballet,” while talking about some of the movie’s bizarre plot points. Notably, about Stiles’ character getting a second chance to audition for Juilliard after bombing the first time.
“Her crush, Derek [played by Sean Patrick Thomas], skips a drive-by shooting to come support her,” says Fineman.
“So does she get into Juilliard?” asked Jost.
Seconds later, Stiles herself made a surprise appearance in the Weekend Update newsroom.
“Yes!,” replied Stiles, which prompted cheers from the audience.
Teaming up with Fineman, Stiles reminded us just how exactly her character, Sara, nailed her Juilliard audition.
You can see the clip above.
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