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If you would for a moment think back to the pilot of Succession. I know, it’s been approximately 45 years since 2018, but we all remember watching Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy tearing up that check after bullying a child after taking over his family’s baseball game. Memories!

But you might also recall a time when Roman had a family with a wife (?!) that was only briefly mentioned in the first episode. As with most shows, the pilot was shot way before the rest of the season, and before the show was considered a “hit,” so it’s normal for things to change in that time, like hairstyles or characters being replaced. For Roman, he had a whole storyline with his family that was ultimately scrapped by the second episode.

When asked by Variety about the change, Culkin admitted that he was excited about the idea of playing a dad, though it never panned out. “It was in the pilot, and after it was picked up, it was his girlfriend, and she had a child. I’m wearing my real wedding band in the episode. I was excited about the idea of having a kid, and the kid was like 7 or 8,” Culkin explained, before adding that the idea was axed. “It was a little disappointing, but I think the idea was that it would just give them more freedom to play with the character.”

Since the writers wanted more freedom, this gave them the opportunity to be a little more ambiguous about Roman’s love life and sexuality. Culkin continued, “They had mentioned to me, even before we shot the pilot, about questioning what Roman’s sexuality is — and we don’t know what it is. But it put something in my brain, and I was like, ‘OK, but I’m married and have kids?’” He added, knowing that episode one introduced the idea of his family. “They were toying with the idea that she’s aware that you have sort of hangups sexually when it comes to monogamy and might be more fluid, but we don’t know what that is yet.”

This wasn’t the first time that writers toyed with the idea of making one of the family members gay, though it would have been Cousin Greg, who didn’t have much of a backstory until the later seasons. Perhaps a disgusting brothers spinoff will explore that idea a bit more!

(Via Variety)

It goes without saying, but Bad Bunny has a ton of fans: In 2022, he was Spotify’s most-streamed artist in the world for the third year in a row. Among those admirers, it would seem, is another hyper-successful figure: Jeff Bezos.

This past Friday (April 21), Bad Bunny headlined the first night of Coachella’s second weekend for 2023. As People reports, the billionaire Amazon founder, who was once the wealthiest person in the world (he’s currently third), was seen attending Bad Bunny’s performance alongside partner and reporter Lauren Sánchez, Kris Jenner, and Corey Gamble. Fan-shot videos also show Bezos and Sánchez enjoying the show.

Bezos’ look drew some attention. As People notes, “Bezos, 59, also kept it casual in a long-sleeve light blue button-up shirt with butterflies on the front, a pair of jeans, and white sneakers with dark trim around the ankle.” Some onlookers took notice of the shirt, which can apparently be bought on Amazon for about $12 (or at least one that looks just like it can). One Reddit user summarized the ensemble, “Jeff looking like the dude that comes into a store and asks to buy the outfit off the mannequin.”

This comes months after Bezos gave Dolly Parton $100 million to use for philanthropic purposes.

Tucker Carlson may have buried himself in Swanson money last night because he’s been pretty quiet after parting ways with Fox News. Still, that doesn’t prevent anyone else from discussing this shocking turn of events for cable news. The conservative network didn’t spare many seconds to summarily dismiss the subject while Brian Kilmeade punched in on Tucker’s old time slot, but other nighttime hosts had a field day.

The Daily Show was happy to pick up the subject with guest host Desi Lydic — who has served up rabid parody rants aimed at Fox News over the years — swinging in on a wild news day. Obviously, Desi wasn’t about to hold back on the irony of the non-gender-affirming Fox News deciding to “just cut off their own dick.” That wink was a nice touch.

Desi also addressed Tucker’s chronic wallpaper face by pointing out that, finally, the “stupid look” had a time and place to be appropriate. As well, Desi paid tribute to the “17 years of New Year’s Eve blackouts” contributed by Don Lemon at CNN before he lost his gig, too. And then Desi pretended to swiftly get fired as well and pack up her “giant fish” because, sure, why not, but hey, not so fast. Desi Lydic will guest-host The Daily Show all week long.

You can watch the full applicable The Daily Show segment below, and the Tucker part begins after 3:00.

Today, 6lack announced a massive global Since I Have A Lover Tour, in support of his recent album under the same title.

Kicking off in North America this October before heading to Europe in early 2024, he will be joined by Mereba, Spinall, Sadboi, and another special surprise guest throughout select dates.

Tickets for 6lack’s new tour go on sale this Friday (April 28) at 10 a.m. There are also several presales happening before that, earlier throughout this week, and VIP packages available. Find more information here and a complete list of dates below.

10/01/2023 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds **
10/04/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum **
10/05/2023 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater **
10/07/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic **
10/10/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater **
10/12/2023 — San Diego, CA @ SOMA **
10/13/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren **
10/15/2023 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex **
10/17/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium **
10/19/2023 — St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
10/21/2023 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory *
10/22/2023 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater *
10/25/2023 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center *
10/26/2023 — New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore New Orleans *
10/31/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis *
11/01/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom *
11/02/2023 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit *
11/05/2023 — New York, NY @ Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom *
11/06/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Great Hall – Avant Gardner *
11/08/2023 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem *
11/10/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
11/11/2023 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS *
11/13/2023 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *
11/16/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia *
11/18/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
11/19/2023 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte *
11/21/2023 — Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Orlando *
11/22/2023 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center *
11/24/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena *
02/12/2024 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre #
02/14/2024 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ O2 ­­Academy Glasgow #
02/15/2024 — Manchester, United Kingdom @ O2 Apollo #
02/17/2024 — Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy Birmingham #
02/18/2024 — London, United Kingdom @ Eventim Apollo #
02/20/2024 — Paris, France @ Bataclan #
02/21/2024 — Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall #
02/22/2024 — Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique #
02/252024 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg #
02/27/2024 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxley’s Neue Welt #
02/29/2024 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Amager Bio #
03/01/2024 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Berns #
03/03/2024 — Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller Music Hall #

* special guest
** Mereba
# Spinall and Sadboi

After making headlines with his trip to rehab followed by a tabloid-ready relationship with Olivia Munn (and a new baby), John Mulaney is back with a new Netflix special, Baby J, where the comedian gets surprisingly candid about the past few years of his life.

As Mulaney explains it, at the height of his addiction, his friends had to sit him down for what he jokingly describes as a “star-studded intervention.” Fortunately, the effort worked, and the former Saturday Night Live writer checked himself into rehab. However, one of his closest friends, Pete Davidson, couldn’t attend the intervention, which led to a funny moment when Kim Kardashian’s former lover attempted to call Mulaney in rehab.

Mulaney had Davidson listed in his phone as “Al Pacino,” which led to a nurse frantically waking the comedian in the middle of the night thinking he had missed five calls from the real Pacino. While that bit killed, Mulaney wanted to make sure to set the record straight about his old pal after hearing some not cool rumors.

“Some people suggested he and I did drugs together because he has tattoos and I am plain,” Mulaney told the audience via USA Today. “I’ve never done drugs with Pete. He’s always been very supportive of my sobriety.”

John Mulaney: Baby J is available for streaming on Netflix.

(Via USA Today)

2023 has been a mixed bag for Travis Barker, the Blink-182 drummer and famous Kardashian husband. He injured his finger right before he was set to embark on a highly anticipated tour with original Blink vocalist Matt DeLonge (it’s now kicking off next month), but he did just perform at Coachella with the group.

Now, Barker has teamed up with Liquid Death for an appropriately wild partnership for… drum roll… enemas. The Liquid Death Enema Of The State Collectible Enema Kit is fittingly $182 and it’s apparently the first-ever celebrity-endorsed luxury enema kit.

To go with the announcement, Barker stars in a graphic ad to promote the product: “What’s my secret?” he asks. “How did I marry the woman of my dreams? How have I had such a successful career in music? I use Liquid Death mountain water. In my asshole.”

Blink-182 recently made headlines for hopping on the Coachella lineup last-minute following Frank Ocean’s cancellation. DeLonge shared the news by posting a photo of a monitor on social media that read: “Sh*t, piss, f*ck, c*nt, c*cksucker, motherf*cker, tits, fart, turd & twat,” which true fans know are lyrics from their 1999 song “Family Reunion.”

Watch the ad above and find more information here.

Blink-182 is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

George Lucas gets all the heat for the Star Wars special editions, but his buddy Steven Spielberg edited one of his most beloved films, too. In the original version of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, government agents are seen holding guns during the stirring bike sequence (a hammer would have sufficed), but in the 20th anniversary edition, Spielberg replaced the firearms with walkie-talkies.

It’s a decision that the Oscar winner has come to regret (and since fixed).

“That was a mistake,” he said during the TIME100 Summit. “I never should have done that. E.T. is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”

Spielberg doesn’t want other filmmakers to make the same mistake he did. “All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like, and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there,” he said.

You got that, the Russo Brothers? You think it’s a good idea now to digitally remove the scene in The Gray Man where the Gray Man does the Six Flags dance, but you’ll eventually wish you hadn’t (I have not seen The Gray Man).

(Via Mediaite)

The world of Campari drinks feels like it’s constantly expanding. Of course, classics like the Americano, Negroni, boulevardier, and spritz go back centuries. But there’s always someone out there willing to take the iconic Italian bitters and find new and refreshing ways to enjoy it.

Enter Jamaica’s favorite drink, the Campari Ting.

This is a simple drink that packs a huge punch of flavor with a super refreshing vibe. The two-ingredient highball was born in Jamaica and has taken the small island nation and now the world by storm. Punch did a great history of the Campari Ting, in case you’re into mixology histories. Long story short, Campari was looking to expand into new markets in the Caribbean like Jamaica (they’d already cornered the market on other islands) and bartenders came up with the Campari Ting. The drink was such a smash hit that Jamaica went through a two-year Campari shortage while trying to catch up with demand.

If that’s not an endorsement of how good this drink is, I don’t know what is!

Okay, enough preamble. Let’s make your new favorite drink!

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Campari Ting

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Campari
• 4 oz. Ting Sparkling Grapefruit
• Ice

You really only need two things here. It’s self-explanatory. I ordered Ting off of Amazon but you might be able to find it if you’re in a part of the country with Caribbean supermarkets. Otherwise, you can totally use any grapefruit soda really. I would lean more toward Jarritos as a replacement than, say, Squirt but both work fine.

What You’ll Need:

• Tom Collins Glass
• Straw

Method:

• Fill the glass with ice.
• Add the Campari and then top with Ting soda.
• Gently stir once as you drop in the straw. Serve.

Bottom Line:

Yeah, this is what I’ll be drinking until September. It’s bright, tart, and fresh AF. The bitterness of the Campari is perfectly accented by the sweet and fizzy grapefruit bite of the Ting, creating this effervescent flavor bomb.

Overall, this is almost too good — especially if you’re already into Campari. My only quibble is that it is on the sweeter side, which means I’ll be drinking a lot of sugar over the warm months this year. But f*ck it, this is too good (and easy) not to keep pouring.

John Mulaney recently got real about his time in rehab in his new Netflix special Baby J, where he revealed his struggles with drugs sandwiched in between some of his signature jokes.

In one segment of his new special, Mulaney revealed that his pal and fellow comedian Pete Davidson had called him as soon as he heard that he was in rehab. Though due to Davidson’s fame and maybe some whirlwind relationships, Pete changes his number regularly, and Mulaney revealed that he would save his friend’s number as various A-listers, which is why he awoke to see he had five missed calls from Al Pacino while in his first night at rehab. Maybe he thought that he was being cast in The Godfather Part 4.

Unfortunately for Mulaney, it wasn’t Al Pacino, but instead, it was Davidson calling to check up on his friend. “Some people suggested he and I did drugs together because he has tattoos and I am plain,” Mulaney joked (he’s a comedian after all.) He added, “I’ve never done drugs with Pete. He’s always been very supportive of my sobriety.”

Even though Pacino never called Mulaney (that we know of) the comedian seemed to be in a good place in his new stand-up show, which dropped on Netflix last week.

Next up, he has a guest spot on Davidson’s new series Bupkis, in addition to the new seasons of Big Mouth. Maybe he’ll stop by Saturday Night Live to support Davidson’s first-time hosting. Unless Al Pacino is free and wants to hang out.

(Via USA Today)

Look, we all know that moms often pull off amazing feats to help make their kids’ dreams come true. But this story is about a mom going above and beyond in a completely unexpected way. The shock value behind her gesture alone is one for the history books, and the fact that it also involves a Whitney Houston song…well that’s just icing on the cake.

Claire Connolly walked onto the stage for “Britain’s Got Talent” as most auditioners do—nervous, excited and maybe on the verge of a heart attack.

However, unlike any other “BGT” hopeful, Connolly had no real intention of auditioning.

As soon as the 33-year-old mom from Liverpool stepped under the spotlight, she announced that it was actually her daughter Tia who would be singing that day.

No one had known this was Connolly’s plan—not even Tia.

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“She’s got me through some very hard times. I feel like I owe her. So I’m giving up my audition for my daughter. This is my way of saying she’s fabulous,” Connolly said before handing over the mic.

Tia might have not anticipated singing in front of hundreds of people, but as she belted out Whitney Houston’s “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength,” it became pretty clear that she had been preparing her whole life for this moment.

Watch:

Tia ended up getting a standing ovation and a unanimous, resounding, enthusiastic “YES!” from all four judges.

Online viewers also flooded the video with praise:

“The first note you could tell her voice was incredible.”

“Oh wow! Tia truly sang from the heart and has such a unique and powerful voice … and she’s only 15?!! Amazing!!!”

“What a voice, very unique and could definitely see her paving her own way. Her voice will only get better as the year’s pass.”

“I could listen to her all day! She’s amazing.”

“Her deep tone is just so great for a 15 year old. Love it.”

“A beautiful performance, Tia’s voice is so mature, no forced fancy rifts. It came from her soul. Such an unassuming young lady with a wonderful future ahead of her.”

And to think, she never would have auditioned in the first place without a little help from Mom. Tia mentioned after her song that she had faced bullying growing up, something no kid should have to endure. But thank goodness she has a mom who believes in her. Because…wow…those are God-given talents that need witnessing.

Congratulations, Tia. And kudos to Connolly for doing such a beautiful thing for her daughter. Moms are amazing.