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Though it’s now been two weeks since “Queen Elizabeth died of being old,” according to Trevor Noah, the fervor that has ensued in that time has been a bit of a roller-coaster ride — even for the millions of people around the world just watching the events unfold. While the Queen was officially laid to rest on Monday, Noah was still having trouble believing not just how many people came to pay personal tribute to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and see her casket lying in state — but how long they waited in line to stare at the coffin of a person they had likely never met.

At one point, the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport was practically begging people to please not travel to queue up with the tens of thousands of other mourners, as the line was more than 5 miles long and some truly undeterred royalists waited for up to 25 hours to stand mere inches from the Queen’s corpse.

Noah shared several news clips reporting on the immense crowds, and how David Beckham refused an offer to trade in on his celebrity to cut the line and waited 13 hours overnight. Which prompted a CBS News report to note how it was really “a reminder of how much people in this country really like to line up.” Which Noah found to be an “interesting takeaway” — as if thousands of people had gathered for no other reason than to stand in line. Though Noah continued:

But this is true: Apparently, standing in line is really popular in Britain. It’s like their national pastime. And before you make fun of them for doing something so boring, don’t forget America’s national pastime is baseball. Which is when people act as if someone died but they didn’t.

But 22 hours in line — that’s no joke. Twenty-two hours! ‘Cause remember: there’s no iPhone at the end of that line. It’s just a box, and you don’t even get to open the box.

While lots of people chose to pay their respects by re-watching The Crown, Noah was particularly impressed by Beckham waiting in line. “Because apparently he was offered a chance to skip the queue and he refused,” Noah said. “Which is really admirable. Especially when you consider you don’t know who you’re going to be stuck in that line with.” Noah’s biggest concern: An Arsenal fan.

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 1:45 mark. But just remember, there are always consequences for standing in line too long.

The only people who weren’t delighted by the all-pink-everything photos of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling while filming Barbie were Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling themselves. “I can’t tell you how mortified we were,” the Oscar-nominated actress said during Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show after host Jimmy Fallon presented a photo of her and Gosling in rollerblades. “We look like we’re, like, laughing, having fun, but dying on the inside.” Dead inside is also how I will feel if the Barbie movie isn’t good.

Robbie called it the “most humiliating moment of my life,” and she had no idea the photos would go viral. “I knew that we had some exteriors to shoot in L.A. I knew, OK, once you’re doing exteriors, you’re gonna get papped. There’s probably going to be a little crowd of people who are going to take notice because, you know, the fluoro,” she said. “We stand out a little in the outfits.” But Robbie didn’t expect “hundreds of people watching.”

Barbie doesn’t hit theaters until 2023, but Robbie has a new movie, Amsterdam, coming out next month. After raving about the star-studded cast, including John David Washington, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Taylor Swift, she told Fallon about the time that the cops tried to shut down filming because lead Christian Bale wouldn’t stop acting.

You can watch The Tonight Show clip above.

Sudan Archives made her television debut with a performance of “Selfish Soul” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday night (September 19), but the surging singer-songwriter and violinist looked right at home. Sudan commanded the Ed Sullivan Theater stage alongside her bassist and three backup singers.

“Am I good enough? Am I good enough?” she posed in the chorus. Short answer? Yes. After coolly introducing her new audience to her signature violin-playing, she sang straight into the camera, “I don’t want no struggles, I don’t want no fears.” She didn’t struggle at all to fearlessly deliver in the national spotlight.

The evocative rendition comes after Sudan released Natural Brown Prom Queen, her sophomore album following 2019’s Athena, on September 9. The Cincinnati-bred artist dropped the lead single, “Home Maker,” in March, marking her first solo offering in three years.

“Selfish Soul” arrived in May. The textured track is “about women and the celebration of hair. It’s about representation of different hair textures and embracing all colors and textures of it,” she explained in a press release that coincided with the accompanying music video meant to show that the traditional American standard for beauty and beautiful hair is “not what all beauty is.”

Sudan’s proper TV debut came on Colbert, but she gave a riveting Tiny Desk Concert in 2020 — recorded days before the US was locked down due to the then-burgeoning coronavirus pandemic.

The natural-born performer has been getting even more comfortable in unapologetically expressing her truths on the festival circuit this summer. Her headlining Homecoming Tour kicks off September 24 in Solana Beach, California, and will stretch 38 dates across North America and Europe. See all dates here.

The normally reserved Dana Perino left her The Five co-hosts practically rolling on the floor after landing a well-timed dick joke that Greg Gutfeld had bungled earlier in the show. It all started with the hosts tackling Joe Biden’s latest comments about inflation. The president told 60 Minutes that “inflation rate month-to-month was [up] just an inch, hardly at all.”

“When he said inflation is up just an inch, he was probably referring to a chart. Look, that’s just an inch. That’s just an inch,” Gutfield said while holding up a chart that showed a tiny suggestive uptick. However, the gag clearly didn’t land with co-hosts Perino and Jesse Watters. “I thought that was a brilliant joke, but screw all of you,” Gutfeld said.

As they bantered a bit more about inflation, Watters asked Gutfeld to hold up his chart again, and that’s when Perino surprisingly moved in for the kill. Her joke landed so hard that even she couldn’t stop laughing.

Via Mediaite:

“Hold it up again,” Watters said to Gutfeld, referring to his chart.

“It’s just an inch. You know, an inch matters,” Perino said while flashing a grin at the camera.

After a couple of seconds, the normally prim and proper Perino burst out laughing, along with her co-hosts.

“Dana Perino,” Watters reacted.

“Oh yeah, oh yeah, 5:09 pm, September 19!” Gutfeld exclaimed. “Count it!”

Perino, who has completely lost it at this point, ended the segment by laughingly saying, “God, this show is amazing.”

(Via Mediaite)

Kanye West has an interesting relationship with social media. He often uses it as a tool for his feuds, and sometimes he’ll just wipe his profiles clean or take them offline altogether; His Instagram account currently has no posts. Now, though, he has broadened his online reach by joining TikTok.

Ye’s account went live yesterday and he shared his first video, a near-three-minute clip filmed from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, fixed on the stereo playing parts of his 2019 album Jesus Is King. The clip has so far racked up over 800,000 plays and 200,000 likes, while West himself has over 260,000 followers (and 0 accounts followed).

West’s new TikTok account is especially interesting given the problems he has had with the platform in the past. Back in August 2020, for example, he tweeted, “A vision just came to me… Jesus tok. I was watching tik tok with my daughter and as a Christian father I was disturbed by a lot of the content but I completely loved the technology.” Earlier this year, he also expressed his discontent with his daughter North using the platform, saying in an interview, “Tell [Kim Kardashian] don’t have my daughter wearing lipstick on TikTok and don’t have her on TikTok at all if I don’t approve that.”

And so the Blackpink shut downs have officially begun.

The K-pop powerhouses made their performance debut — or in K-pop terms, “comeback performance” debut — of their newest single “Shut Down” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, September 19. Pulling up to the show with backup dancers, members Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé, and Lisa utilized the talk show’s set to showcase the group’s striking choreography.

Though the stage setup may not have sparklers, or fire, or some sort of fog machine like in Korean music shows, it’s safe to say the concept of the performance was to embody what a shut down with Blackpink really looked like with the flashing lights surrounding them. Blackpink, as expected, delivered and served. (Did you hear the Blinks in the audience during their performance?)

Last Friday (September 16), the YG Entertainment powerhouses released their second sophomore album, Born Pink, at midnight alongside the music video to lead single “Shut Down.” As album promotions kicked off on release day where a Blackpink Pop-Up Experience hosted by Spotify was setup in Los Angeles, the members of Blackpink also took a trip to a local Target to check out their own albums in store.

Following their album promotions, the group will kick off their Born Pink World Tour next month (October 15 and 16) in Seoul, then stop in North America and Europe.

Seth Meyers didn’t mince words when it came to his feelings about Ron DeSantis’ “especially cruel and sadistic stunt” of lying “to a group of undocumented migrants to lure them onto a plane,” which dropped them off on the mostly abandoned island of Martha’s Vineyard. While it’s easy to picture DeSantis (who Trevor Noah declared “Earth’s biggest dick”) snickering like a cartoon villain at his own repulsive — and some say illegal — antics, Meyers wasn’t amused.

On Monday night, the Late Night host dedicated a large portion of his “A Closer Look” segment to the Florida governor’s very public display of human trafficking. The way Meyers sees it, using immigration as a “scare tactic” in an election year is already a tried-and-true part of the Republican playbook (though noted historian/documentarian Ken Burns likened the governor to Hitler). As a result, says Meyers, “everyone is onto them. Which is now why they’re trying to out-MAGA themselves with increasingly ghoulish and despicable acts of cruelty toward migrants fleeing poverty and violence.”

Case in point: DeSantis, who last week decided that it would be a total riot if he used a ton of taxpayer money earmarked to fight COVID and used it to send 48 undocumented Venezuelan migrants, including young children and some elderly individuals, from San Antonio (which is NOT in Florida) to Martha’s Vineyard, in an attempt to apparently stick it to residents of the wealthy island, which is basically abandoned following Labor Day. Meyers had a lot to say about the governor’s “grotesque scheme,” which he believes was “designed entirely to curry favor with Fox News, who he apparently alerted beforehand.” As Meyers explained:

You see, they thought the people who live on Martha’s Vineyard would freak out. Instead, residents and community organizations scrambled — without any notice — to provide aid and comfort to the migrants…

So congrats, Florida. You just spent a bunch of taxpayer money on a stupid and repulsive stunt that achieved nothing except maybe some publicity for Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential bid. And worse than that, you gave the rich liberals who summer on Martha’s Vineyard another thing to feel self-righteous about.

Meyers also pointed out that “most of the liberals you hate left the Vineyard two weeks ago.” And he should know, as he is one of them!

Which is why he noted that “it’s important to make a distinction between the people who spend their summers on the island and people who live there year-round, like the hardworking staff at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, who rose to the occasion with grace and empathy.” It’s also worth taking a deep look into your own soul when Donald Trump is complaining that you stole his idea.

You can watch the full segment above, beginning around the 5:55 mark.

Everyone responded to the death of Queen Elizabeth II differently. Some waited in line for over 24 hours to see a coffin; others watched The Emoji Movie. John Oliver, meanwhile, expressed his, uh, grief with a casual remark on HBO’s Last Week Tonight — a fact, really — that was bizarrely censored in the U.K.

After joking on Monday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers that he’ll appear on the show whenever a senior royal kicks the bucket to “give it the disrespect it deserves,” Oliver called it a weird time to be in Britian. “This 10 days in forced mourning, apparently, has been very, very strange,” he said, including Sky censoring his Emmy-winning series.

“All we said was that Britain is still mourning the shocking loss — right? — of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes. It’s literally not a joke,” Oliver explained. “Scientifically, it’s not a joke. That’s just a fact with a kind of d*ck-ish inflection, that’s all it is.” And yet, “they cut it out,” he continued, “which is pretty sh*tty, because apparently all we’ve heard all week is the queen had the incredible sense of humor. Just nonstop. Oh, she was so funny. Seth, she was so funny. The queen, she was razor sharp.”

The queen lived for 96 years, and no one thought to ask her about Weekend at Bernie’s. What a missed opportunity. You can watch the Late Night with Seth Meyers clip above.

Nickelback have been doing just fine since their commercial apex in the early 2000s, continuing to pump out albums that have peaked in at least the top 5 on the US charts. They have a new album — Get Rollin’, which will be their first since 2017’s Feed The Machine — set to drop on November 18. So, in the coming months, a lot of people will be speaking about the band and singer Chad Kroeger, and when they do, they will probably say the vocalist’s name incorrectly.

The most widely used pronunciation of the singer’s last name is “Kroh-ger,” but it turns out it’s actually supposed to be said like “Kroo-ger”; think more like A Nightmare On Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger and less like the Kroger grocery store chain. Kroeger himself confirmed that on a recent episode of the Loudwire Nights podcast, saying, “It’s ‘Kroo-ger,’ don’t trust the internet.”

As for why he doesn’t really correct people on that, he explained, “I never get time, because it goes, ‘Hey, well here we are with Chad ‘Kroh-ger,’ dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, so how are things going?’ And by the time it gets… it’s so far in by the time I get to say something, I don’t actually… because if I just stop and go, ‘Actually, it’s ‘Kroo-ger,” I’m gonna look like such a [expletive]. So I’m just like, ‘Whatever, I don’t care.’”

Check out the Loudwire Nights interview above.

Jimmy Fallon and Taylor Swift both had surprise show-stopping moments at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards: Swift closed the VMAs by unexpectedly announcing her new album (later revealed to be called Midnights) while Fallon showed up with a beard and caused “thirst” and “confusion” online. Since that night, there have been a lot of Midnights developments and now Fallon has given them a proper run-down.

On The Tonight Show yesterday, Fallon made note that fans are finding Easter eggs in Swift’s social media posts, which prompted The Roots’ Tariq Trotter, playing along with the bit, to dismiss those findings as just “conspiracy theories.” Fallon then enthusiastically and thoroughly broke down everything, from the surprise announcement to the number 13 to the currently unknown song titles. He also noted Swift’s recent reveal that the backs of the special vinyl editions of Midnights go together to form a clock, which is thematically appropriate given the time-based album title. From there, he only went deeper.

Swift and Fallon have enjoyed a friendly relationship over the years, as Swift has appeared on The Tonight Show on many occasions. Perhaps her most notable visit came in 2017, on Fallon’s first episode since the death of his mother. Swift gave a surprise performance of “New Year’s Day,” which proved to be especially emotional for Fallon due to a coincidence involving the song’s lyrics.

Check out Fallon’s Midnights break-down above.