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“Comedy is now legal on Twitter.” But off Twitter, when people go to a comedy show, they want to see a comedian — not the world’s richest desperately unfunny sh*tposter.

Elon Musk was the special guest at Dave Chappelle‘s standup gig at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Sunday, and instead of being greeted as a sink-carrying, Silicon Valley hero, he was roundly, loudly, and hilariously booed by thousands of people.

“@elonmusk just got booed like I’ve never heard before on stage with @davechapelle and @chrisrock,” @Ilana_Stern tweeted. “He couldn’t get a word in, the crowd booed for 10 minutes. Not favored on his home turf. He looked stunned, must not get enough feedback IRL.” @Esqueer_ added, “Elon Musk was booed heavily when he was invited on stage by Dave Chappelle last night. He fucked around and is quickly finding out. Sycophantic Twitter users are a small minority. Even Chappelle’s transphobic fans don’t like this jackass.” Musk also quoted “I’m rich, bitch” from Chappelle’s Show, because of course he did. On the bright side, at least it wasn’t “I’m Rick James, bitch”?

As the laughs for Chappelle’s jokes would get drowned out by boos anytime Musk tried to talk, the comedian said that people could boo all they want, because Musk had given him a jetpack last Christmas. But every single time Musk began to speak, the crowd started booing again, much to the frustration of Musk.

You can watch a video from the show (until Musk deletes it) below:

(Via Gizmodo)

(SPOILERS from The White Lotus will be found below.)

HBO’s The White Lotus delivered a crushing blow when it killed off the crossover character from Season 1. That would be, of course, Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya, who managed to kill her would-be murderers but then bit the dust anyway. This was shocking and upsetting and a perfect twist from Mike White. The Gays got what they deserved after zeroing in on Tanya in order to help Quentin’s “cowboy” and nab that money for themselves. By the way, it sure looks like Greg’s gonna get that payout anyway. Let’s forget about that for the moment, though, because fans are already thinking about Season 3.

People really would like to see more of Daphne. Ideally, they’d like to see her without Cameron, perhaps with her trainer/probable baby daddy in tow. Or with Harper, so they can have a proper girls’ vacation. Speaking of Harper, I’m conflicted over how she and Ethan are seemingly alright now. They finally had sex after Ethan punched the hell out of Cameron, and Ethan and Daphne had a spooky conversation, during which it seemed as though he wasn’t long for this world. Admit it, you thought Daphne could be luring Ethan into murderland in the below moment, right?

Both Daphne and Ethan turned out to be fine, but this made Daphne even more interesting than she was already shaping up to be. She had advice for Ethan that may have hit home and worked some magic. According to Daphne (Meghann Fahy crushed this subtle yet telling scene), maybe you don’t need to know everything about your SO in order to love them. Maybe a little bit of mystery is good. And she’s happy with pretending all is well, but there’s more underneath the surface that could further roll out in this universe. And that Maldives mention? Yep.

Make it happen, Mike White.

The White Lotus season finale is streaming on HBO Max.

Adele (pronounced “Uh-dale”) had herself a big weekend… or at least that’s how it seemed.

Yesterday, a video started making the rounds on Twitter, of a person grinding hard on a man at a nightclub, rubbing their backside on his crotch and straddling him with their leg. One tweet about the video in particular generated some attention, as it has racked up over 80,000 likes and says, “Adele is really for the people.”

Indeed, the person does look like Adele. That said, it is not. It has plenty of people fooled, though, apparently including the Twitter user who shared that tweet, as they later wrote, “Oh my God let me get my glasses.” Somebody else commented, “Lmao I stared at this video hard and long and it didn’t hit me until the very last minute that this in fact was not Adele.” Another user replied, “the way you really gaslighted my brain into seeing adele is crazy.”

So, who is it really? The answer is Kehlani, dancing with their makeup artist, Troye Antonio. The two actually have a habit of doing this, too: A couple months ago, a different video made the rounds, that time with Antonio as the one doing the grinding on Kehlani. Kehlani is also apparently just big on grinding, as they were recently spotted doing it with Letitia Wright.

(SPOILERS from The White Lotus will be found below.)

HBO’s The White Lotus will return for a third season, but first, we’re going to need to heal from the second season finale. No, this doesn’t involve the cast wising up and finally eating at an offsite restaurant. And no, Ethan didn’t kill anyone, and Aubrey Plaza made good on her promise that Harper is disgusted by Cameron. Rather, a major fan theory was correct. Tanya was being lured to death by The Gays, and party favor guy and the camera were definitely a part of that hot mess.

Tanya wised up by the end and tried to save herself. She did succeed at saving herself from Quentin and the gang, and in fact, she killed most of them. Thank god! Sadly enough, though, she couldn’t land in a lifeboat without taking herself out. It was sad! But it could have been worse. I feel like she went out on her own terms. We don’t know what will happen with Cowboy Greg, or whether he’ll get her money, but at least Tanya gave Quentin and Co. what they deserved. However, Tanya’s a fan favorite character, so viewers are understandably upset. The “you got this” was slightly heartbreaking!

The White Lotus season finale is streaming on HBO Max.

For the second time this year, the Atlanta Hawks turned to rookie AJ Griffin for a game-winning shot at the rim on a lob, this time beating the Bulls in overtime on an outrageous shot, catching it, spinning, and putting it up to the rim all in one motion to beat the buzzer on an inbounds play with just 0.5 seconds on the clock.

It was the capper to a wild overtime period that saw Atlanta pull ahead by five thanks to a circus shot from Bogdan Bogdanovic, who led the Hawks with 28 points in the game, midway through the OT.

The Bulls would claw their way back to tie the game, only to see Trae Young sink a stepback midrange jumper with one second on the clock to push Atlanta back ahead by two.

That seemed to ensure that the next Bulls possession would decide the game, but DeMar DeRozan got fouled on a three-point attempt on the catch with 0.5 seconds left, hitting all three to put Chicago up one.

Because there were 0.5 seconds left, the Hawks still had a chance for a catch-and-shoot winner, and while the Bulls focused their attention on Young and Bogdanovic, Atlanta snuck the rookie to the rim, cutting back a defender to create space, and then had the body control to finish and get the shot off before the buzzer. It’s a very important win for a Hawks team that has been reeling of late, losing three in a row coming into this amid reports of discontent in the locker room.

One win doesn’t fix everything, but it certainly helps lift the spirits in Atlanta as they move towards trade season with the expectation that some changes are on the horizon. On the other side, the Bulls have a two-game winning streak snapped in painful fashion and slip back to 11-15 on the season, as many wonder if they might fall into a deep enough hole to become a seller at the deadline and shift their focus a bit more to the future.

The Miami Dolphins couldn’t get much of anything going in the first 20-plus minutes against the Chargers on Sunday Night Football, as Tua Tagovailoa started off 2-of-9 for 13 yards and their running backs had a combined seven yards rushing. Despite that, they still managed to pull within 10-7 thanks to one of the strangest plays of the season, as a Jeff Wilson Jr. fumble turned into a scrum for the ball. Tyreek Hill was just lingering behind the pile when the ball just happened to shoot out of the sea of bodies right to the fastest man on the field, who ran it all the way for a touchdown.

It’s as serendipitous a bounce as the Dolphins could have hoped for, because initially it looked like it’d be Chargers ball for certain. However, when you play a sport with an oddly shaped ball, you get funky bounces and no one could get their arms around it, sending it shooting out right to the one person fast enough to run all the way around everyone to the sideline and take it to the house.

We’ll see if that’s the play that unlocks the Dolphins offense which couldn’t get out of first gear, as Hill found a way to make an impact despite Tua’s early struggles.

The San Francisco 49ers entered Sunday afternoon with Brock Purdy set to make his first start of the season after seeing Jimmy Garoppolo suffer a broken foot early in their win over the Dolphins last week. Garoppolo was already starting in place of Trey Lance, who was lost for the season in Week 2, and the Niners could ill afford to lose any more key stars on offense if they are to keep title dreams alive with Purdy now under center.

Unfortunately, after a tremendous 21-0 start against Tampa on Sunday, the Niners saw their biggest offensive weapon, Deebo Samuel, get carted off the field after he got rolled up on in the second quarter on a rushing attempt.

Samuel fumbled the ball because of the pain, and immediately grabbed at his left knee. He would get carted off the field, with his teammates coming over to give him encouragement while he was in tears headed to the locker room, still holding that knee.

It is obviously a massive blow for the Niners, who rely so heavily on Samuel and the recently acquired Christian McCaffrey to apply pressure to opposing defenses with their unique abilities to both run and catch the ball. Samuel had 64 combined yards and a touchdown already against the Bucs, and now much more attention shifts to McCaffrey and receivers like Brandon Aiyuk to try and fill the massive shoes left by the injured Samuel.

It’s been nearly two years since the Jan. 6 riot, when armed Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Has the GOP learned any lessons? Not really! Instead they’ve downplayed it and refused to cooperate in investigations. Leaders have even embraced those who helped promote it. One of them is Marjorie Taylor Greene, who not only wasn’t horrified by that deadly day, but is now openly fantasizing about how she and jailbound podcaster Steve Bannon could have made it worse.

As per The New York Post (in a bit teased out by The Daily Beast), Greene spoke at the star-studded New York Young Republicans Club gala on Saturday night, where she reflected on what could have been.

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won,” she said. She then added, chillingly, “Not to mention, we would’ve been armed.”

What would they have “won”? Well, they would have overturned the will of the people as well as democracy itself. And they would have done it with arms, which certainly doesn’t sound terrifying. It was a line tailor-made for the crowd, which features not only young Republicans but also figures like Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, and Donald Trump Jr., who spent his speech making Hunter Biden jokes.

One person not present at the gala was Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who isn’t much liked by the MAGA wing of his party — nor by the officers who defended him and his colleagues that fateful day.

(Via NY Post and The Daily Beast)

Patrick Mahomes has done it again, coming up with a new way to throw a touchdown pass against the Denver Broncos. On 3rd and 2 from his own 44, Mahomes rolled right and looked like he’d get brought down well short of the line to gain, but somehow flipped the ball across his body to Jerick McKinnon — while breaking loose of a diving tackle attempt — which McKinnon then took to the house.

This is just preposterous stuff that has become unbelievably common for Mahomes. It’s a great job by McKinnon of recognizing there’s a chance to break up field into space, but there’s such little time for Mahomes to get rid of that ball and for him to get that much on it and lead McKinnon so he can keep running in stride is unreal.

It is they kind of play that drives defenses crazy, because you cannot defend this any better. They got pressure, flushed him out of the pocket, had contain on his scramble, and it didn’t matter. The defensive back has to step up there to stop a scrambling Mahomes from getting the line to gain, which creates an opening for McKinnon, but no one else is going to have the ability or vision to make that throw happen so you shouldn’t have to worry about that. You do when 15 is on the other side, though, and the Broncos found themselves down 13-0 with haste thanks to the latest Mahomes magic trick.

Metro Boomin is finishing 2022 with a bang. The acclaimed producer dropped Heroes & Villains, his sophomore solo album, on December 2 after a bit of a false start. Metro Boomin compared the 15-track project to Dr. Dre’s 2001 as the latest GQ Hype cover star. But unlike 2001, Heroes & Villains is a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

According to Billboard, Heroes & Villains debuts at No. 1 on the chart dated December 17, with Metro Boomin’s biggest week of his career at 185,000 equivalent US album units in its first week. It marks Metro Boomin’s third career No. 1 album, following in the footsteps of its 2018 predecessor Not All Heroes Wear Capes and the 2020 collaborative album Savage Mode II with 21 Savage.

Heroes & Villains dethrones Taylor Swift’s Midnights, which has five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 to its name. Midnights moves to No. 2 (143,000 equivalent units), and the top five is rounded out by Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss at No. 3 (78,000), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti (55,000) at No. 4, and Michael Bublé’s Christmas at No. 5 (54,000).

Metro Boomin pulled out all the stops for the Heroes & Villains. The track list features John Legend, Future, Chris Brown, Don Toliver, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Gunna, 21 Savage, The Weeknd, Mustafa, and a posthumous verse from Takeoff.

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