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As the world continues to mourn the passing of Norm Macdonald, it will be of no surprise that the hard-working comedian left behind projects that had yet to see the light of day. One of those projects is Macdonald’s voice work on the sci-fi comedy series The Orville. From the very first season, Macdonald has hilariously voiced, Yaphit, a green gelatinous looking alien who works on the Orville intergalactic cruiser captained by series creator Seth MacFarlane.

According to Deadline, Macdonald recorded his Yaphit lines for Season 3 before his death, and the character will reportedly appear in new episodes whenever they start streaming on Hulu. (Like most TV shows, production on The Orville was significantly delayed due to the pandemic.) In the meantime, MacFarlane was one of the first voices to honor Macdonald’s passing when news of his private cancer struggle broke.

“To so many people in comedy, me included, there was nobody funnier than Norm MacDonald,” MacFarlane tweeted. “You always hoped he would hang around after the work was done, just so you could hear his stories and get a laugh. So hilarious and so generous with his personality. I’m gonna miss him.”

As Family Guy fans know, Macdonald and MacFarlane go way back. The Saturday Night Live alum was one of the earliest guest stars during Family Guy‘s first season, in which he voiced Death.

(Via Deadline)

Snail Mail (aka Lindsey Jordan) established herself as one of indie’s most promising up-and-comers with her 2018 album Lush, and now she’s ready to follow it up: She announced today that her sophomore album is called Valentine and it’s set to release on November 5. She also shared a video for the title track, a song that starts out guided by mellow, atmospheric guitars before bursting into a kinetic chorus.

Jordan says of the video:

“It was so rewarding concocting this video alongside the brilliant Josh Coll! Watching a few perverse images in my head metamorphose into this gorgeous storyline and eventually into a tangible visual was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. We connected over a mutual interest in the intersection between terror and devastating beauty. But also Tim And Eric and watered down ginger ale, which I had to drink a shocking amount of in those drink-bombing scenes.”

She also said of the album, “I wanted to take as much time as possible with this record to make sure I was happy with every detail before unleashing it unto y’all. Referring to the process as the deepest level of catharsis and therapy I have ever experienced would be a huge understatement. Valentine is my child!”

Listen to “Valentine” above and find the Valentine art and tracklist below, as well as Snail Mail’s upcoming tour dates.

1. “Valentine”
2. “Ben Franklin”
3. “Headlock”
4. “Light Blue”
5. “Forever (Sailing)”
6. “Madonna”
7. “c. et. al.”
8. “Glory”
9. “Automate”
10. “Mia”

11/27/2021 — Richmond VA @ The National *
11/28/2021 — Charlotte NC @ Neighborhood Theatre *
11/30/2021 — Orlando FL @ The Beacham Theater *
12/01/2021 — Tampa FL @ The Ritz Ybor *
12/03/2021 — Birmingham AL @ Saturn *
12/04/2021 — Knoxville TN @ The Mill & Mine *
12/05/2021 — Louisville KY @ Headliners Music Hall *
12/07/2021 — Milwaukee WI @ Turner Hall *
12/08/2021 — Madison WI @ Majestic Theatre *
12/10/2021 — St Louis MO @ The Pageant *
12/11/2021 — Bloomington IL @ The Castle Theatre *
12/12/2021 — Columbus OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre *
12/13/2021 — Detroit MI @ Majestic Theatre *
12/15/2021 — Millvale PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre *
12/16/2021 — New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place *
12/17/2021 — Providence RI @ Fete Music Hall *
12/18/2021 — Asbury Park NJ @ The Stone Pony *
12/19/2021 — Norfolk VA @ The NorVa *
12/21/2021 — Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore *
02/18/2022 — Manchester UK @ Manchester Academy 2
02/20/2022 — Glasgow UK @ QMU
02/22/2022 — Bristol UK @ SWX
02/23/2022 — London UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
02/25/2022 — Paris FR @ Le Trabendo
02/26/2022 — Lyon FR @ Epicerie Moderne
02/27/2022 — Bologna IT @ Locomotiv
02/28/2022 — Milan IT @ Magnolia
03/02/2022 — Zürich CH @ Bogen F
03/03/2022 — Munich DE @ Ampere
03/04/2022 — Dresden DE @ Groovestation
03/06/2022 — Copenhagen DK @ Loppen
03/07/2022 — Gothenburg SE @ Oceanen
03/08/2022 — Oslo NO @ Parkteatret
03/10/2022 — Stockholm SE @ Slaktkyrkan
03/12/2022 — Berlin DE @ Columbia Theater
03/13/2022 — Hamburg DE @ Knust
03/14/2022 — Brussels BE @ AB Ballroom
03/15/2022 — Cologne DE @ Gebäude 9
03/16/2022 — Amsterdam NL @ Paradiso Noord
04/05/2022 — Philadelphia PA @ Union Transfer #
04/06/2022 — Philadelphia PA @ Union Transfer #
04/07/2022 — Brooklyn NY @ Kings Theatre #
04/08/2022 — Boston MA @ Royale #
04/09/2022 — Montreal QC @ Club Soda #
04/11/2022 — Toronto ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre #
04/12/2022 — Cleveland OH @ Agora Theatre #
04/14/2022 — Chicago IL @ Riviera Theatre #
04/15/2022 — Minneapolis MN @ First Avenue #
04/16/2022 — Lawrence KS @ Liberty Hall #
04/17/2022 — Denver CO @ Ogden Theater #
04/20/2022 — Seattle WA @ Moore Theatre ^
04/21/2022 — Vancouver BC @ Vogue Theatre ^
04/22/2022 — Portland OR @ Wonder Ballroom ^
04/23/2022 — Portland OR @ Wonder Ballroom ^
04/24/2022 — Oakland CA @ Fox Theater ^
04/27/2022 — Los Angeles CA @ Hollywood Palladium ^
04/28/2022 — San Diego CA @ The Observatory North Park ^
04/29/2022 — Mesa AZ @ The Nile ^
04/30/2022 — Santa Fe NM @ Meow Wolf ^
05/02/2022 — Austin TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
05/03/2022 — Dallas TX @The Factory Studio ^
05/05/2022 — Atlanta GA @ The Masquerade – Heaven Stage ^
05/06/2022 — Asheville NC @ The Orange Peel ^
05/07/2022 — Carrboro NC @ Cat’s Cradle ^
05/08/2022 — Nashville TN @ Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville ^

* with Spencer & Hotline TNT
# with Joy Again
^ with The Goon Sax

Valentine is out 11/5 via Matador. Pre-order it here.

The Jackass gang has hopped into a ball pit with a live anaconda, gotten a tattoo while off-roading, and been tasered and slapped and launched into the air and punched in the nuts god knows how many times. It’s hard to imagine a stunt too extreme to make the show or movies, but according to Steve-O and Wee Man, it happened at least three times.

The pair appeared on the Hot Ones spinoff show, “Truth or Dab,” where they had to tell the truth or eat wings drenched with punishing hot sauce. They choose truth when host Sean Evans asked if there are any Jackass segments that are “buried in a vault somewhere” because executives “never wanted it to see the light of day.” Of course there are. The first one, “Box Downstairs,” involved ringleader Johnny Knoxville getting in a box with pillows around him. “[We] taped it up, rolled it down a huge flight of cement stairs, and it was violent as hell,” Steve-O explained. In another, Knoxville shot himself with a 38 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun (he was wearing a bulletproof vest under his shirt, but even the cameraman wanted “nothing to do” with this one).

The third scene also involved Johnny. “When he said, ‘I’m Johnny Knoxville and I’m going to get hit by a car real soon.’ Car just came flying, he went through the windshield, rolled over,” Steve-O said. “They asked him, ‘What were you thinking when you got hit by a car?’ And his answer was, ‘I wore two pairs of jeans so that I’d be safe.’”

I missed these lovable fools. Jackass Forever opens on February 4, 2022.

Back in the long-ago year of 2000, when Coldplay were a wee pop/rock upstart act, the band filmed something called “Amsterdam Sessions” in support of their debut album, Parachutes. Now, “Amsterdam Sessions” are available to stream for the first time ever on music-film streaming service The Coda Collection.

According to a press release, “the performance captures a pivotal moment in the band’s early career just prior to their meteoric ascent to global stardom. The session marked one of the first times the band had showcased their music outside of the UK, delivering renditions of standout hits such as ‘Trouble,’ ‘Don’t Panic,’ and ‘Shiver,’ as well as ‘Yellow,’ which was released as a single on the exact same day of the session’s recording.” The release also notes that the sessions have never been seen outside of the Netherlands—until now. Check out the trailer above.

Coldplay, of course, are now on their ninth studio album, Music Of The Spheres, which drops in October and is produced by pop mastermind Max Martin. Come September 24, they’ll release “My Universe,” a collab with K-pop kings BTS.

Music Of The Spheres is out 10/15 via Atlantic. Pre-order it here.

Coldplay is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music.

Activision Blizzard — best known for developing games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch — is currently involved in multiple lawsuits regarding its work environment. The company has come under scrutiny from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing due to multiple allegations against of creating a “frat boy” culture. These allegations have led to the departure of multiple higher-ups within the company and the name change of the DPS Cowboy character in Overwatch.

While this has been going on, Activision Blizzard internally has allegedly not been very supportive of its employees. They are being sued by the employees themselves, as well as the labor union Communications Workers of America, for what they allege are unfair labor practices. The employees and CWA are accusing Activision Blizzard of using intimidation and union busting tactics to prevent the worker’s right to unionize. The CWA shared a statement to the Washington Post in regards to the lawsuit.

In a statement shared with The Washington Post, CWA organizing director Tom Smith said: “Management could have responded with humility and a willingness to take necessary steps to address the horrid conditions some [Activision Blizzard] workers have faced. Instead Activision Blizzard’s response to righteous worker activity was surveillance, intimidation and hiring notorious union busters.”

The employees and the CWA union filed this most recent lawsuit in California with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that Activision Blizzard acted coercively to stop unionization using tactics such as surveilling employees, interrogating them, making threats and promising benefits.

This lawsuit comes shortly after Activision Blizzard recently hired the law firm WilmerHale to do an internal investigation. The decision to hire that firm was met with questions because of, as the Post put it, “the firm’s reputation for defending wealthy clients and lack of a track record in uncovering wrongdoing.”

Although excitement for Lil Nas X’s upcoming debut album Montero is generally pretty high, some fans noticed that the tracklist the rising star shared was short on other Black artists — specifically, male ones. Nas addressed the non-controversy by pointing out that, rather than having an agenda, he was actually being shunned for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with two working brain cells to rub together to form a thought. However, he had one other artist in his corner in the form of Kid Cudi, who replied that he’d love to work with the “Old Town Road” singer.

Today, Nas was revealed as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2021 and to comment on the rulebreaker’s success, the magazine tapped none other than Cudi himself to write a glowing mini-profile. In it, he takes a step further than simply standing in solidarity with Lil Nas X, criticizing hip-hop for cultivating a culture of homophobia and predicting that Lil Nas will be part of a systemic change.

“When I saw the tweet about Nas’ album Montero not featuring Black male artists, and he replied that “maybe a lot of them just don’t wanna work with me,” that made me sad,” Cudi writes. “There’s a homophobic cloud over hip-hop, and he’s going to break that sh-t down. We have to stand with him. I’m going to do whatever I have to do to let him know—you have my support. When we do our song together, however trippy the video is, let’s get sexy with it.”

You can read the full profile here.

(Spoilers for What If…? and the MCU will be found below.)

Disney+’s What If…? keeps killing the same character, over and over again, and it feels not unlike how South Park killed Kenny (“Those bastards!”) for all those years. It’s actually kind-of funny (c’mon, it is, if only because people can be way too invested in make-believe things) because the character is a seriously beloved one, who died near the end of Avengers: Endgame after saving the universe from Thanos’ genocidal madness with a reverse Snap. Certainly, the situation would have been arguably worse if this hero was Peter Parker, but thankfully, it’s only Tony Stark.

I kid, I kid. Tony Stark is right up there with Spider-Man in terms of characters that no one wanted to see die. And we saw Peter come back from the Snap, so all was well there after a one-year wait. Yet What If…? is having a ball with its non-canon status, meaning that there are no long-lasting consequences within its alternate realities, so yup, they’ve totally been killing Tony Stark. This happened for the first time a few weeks ago in a procedural-themed episode, in which a serial killer was running amuck and taking out Avengers, and now, the show has done it again.

During the course of this week’s wild episode, Black Panther‘s Killmonger (who’s arguably the greatest villain of the MCU) takes a different path, and one that goes far back in time to initially save Tony Stark from that injury that started it all, and one that helped to motivate him to use Stark Industries for good. This ends up having tragic results because Killmonger is able to harness Stark Industries’ abilities for his own, anti-Wakanda purposes, and along the way, he actually ends up killing Stark.

Of course, this is not really happening, but it’s still a gut-punch to fans to see Tony die, quite mercilessly, so they’re airing their feelings.

Will they kill Tony Stark again next week? You gotta tune in to find out.

Effective Wednesday, September 15, roughly five million HBO subscribers will no longer be able to access the premium channel through Amazon Channels. While those users were given a heads up before today’s big change, the move is part of the agreement reached between HBO and Amazon back in November 2020 that finally ended the stand-off between the content companies over allowing the HBO Max app on Amazon devices.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO subscribers who lost access to their Amazon Channel subscription will be given a special offer in an effort to fully transition those users to the HBO Max app where WarnerMedia prefers them to be:

Speaking with Bloomberg last month, HBO Max chief Andy Forssell said HBO was willing to lose subscribers in the short-term if it meant cutting out the middleman — in this case, Amazon — and having a direct relationship with consumers instead. (HBO has also done the same with Roku and Apple TV.)

“It’s important for us to own the customer,” Forssell said. “If the viewer is in the app, we can tailor the home page to them. We can tailor what they show them next. We can respond to that in real time.”

While HBO Max was able to close last minute deals with Amazon and Roku just in time for Wonder Woman 1984‘s streaming release and WarnerMedia’s controversial move to put its entire 2021 film slate on the burgeoning app, AT&T made moves to dump WarnerMedia altogether just a few months later. Discovery is now on track to acquire WarnerMedia, which will give them control over the company’s vast media library as well as the HBO brand as it attempts to solidify its presence in the streaming wars.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Time unveiled its annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people this morning, and it features a handful of music icons, like Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Dolly Parton, and more. Also among those icons is Britney Spears, and writing a heartfelt message about her for the list is Paris Hilton, who praised Spears for navigating all the unprecedented challenges she has faced over the years.

In her blurb, Hilton wrote about how Spears has remained joyful as she has endured things like “the tabloid culture of the 2000s” and her conservatorship:

“When most people think of Britney Spears, they think of Britney the superstar. She’s iconic. A legend. One of the most influential artists in pop-music history.

When I think of Britney Spears, I see the sweetest soul. A mother. A friend. A fighter. A young woman who grew up in the tabloid culture of the 2000s, when the paparazzi machine was accepted, unforgiving and cruel.

Yes, we’ve watched Britney break records and deliver to the world hit after hit. But behind the scenes, she survived more than a decade of trauma and abuse from her conservatorship. In 2021, the battle cries of #FreeBritney roared louder than ever from her global network of devoted fans and a concerned public. Our hearts broke when Britney spoke about her pain.

Despite the darkness that has surrounded her life, Britney embodies joy and shares the light of her beautiful heart, forever the superstar. So we stand by her and root for her as she turns pain into purpose, her unwavering spirit stronger than ever.”

Check out the full Time 100 list here.

If you thought the Bad Takes about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were over, I have bad news: Tucker Carlson has logged on.

On Monday, AOC wore a white dress with the words “Tax the Rich” to the swanky Met Gala. “The medium is the message,” she wrote on Instagram about her fashion choice. “The time is now for childcare, healthcare, and climate action for all. Tax the Rich.” If the medium was the message, the message worked: there was a massive increase in Google searches for “Tax the Rich” and she managed to piss off a bunch of conservatives, including Lauren Boebert, Tomi Lahren, and of course, Tucker Carlson.

The pile of rumpled clothes masquerading as a Fox News host used the dress as an excuse to talk about AOC’s body. “If you’ve been awake at any point over the past 24 hours, you have probably seen this picture of Sandy Cortez showing up in a $35,000 a head gala in New York with a dress that says ‘Tax the Rich’ across the back,” he said. “So Cortez claims she wore the dress to start a conversation about what it means to be a working-class woman of color and not at all so we would stare at a picture of her butt.”

He also called her “so dumb and so annoying” (spoken like a middle school bully) before admitting that she’s “also kind of clever… She is baiting us here, obviously. And it’s tempting to rise to the bait.” He then called her a “paid defender of entrenched power.”

Carlson has made sexist attacks about AOC before (like when he told her to “get a therapist, honey” after she expressed her fear that she was going to be killed by MAGA rioters on January 6), but he’s really saying the quiet part loud by talking about her butt.