Who knows exactly where Mindy Kaling finds the time for all the TV and film projects in her post-Office life, but we’re not complaining. Not too long after Four Weddings and a Funeral reboot on Hulu and her Late Night film with Emma Thompson, the Kaling-created Never Have I Ever series is coming to Netflix. The show’s semi-autobiographical and finds inspiration within Kaling’s own adolescence in Massachusetts (she was born in Cambridge). As the trailer shows (with big-bold captions), Kaling is promising to put a “nerdy, extra thirsty” spin on this coming-of-age story.

To no one’s surprise who knows Kaling’s work, the lead character is very much an overachiever like her inspiration, but social circles won’t be a smooth ride. After a casting call that drew 15,000 candidates, newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan landed the role of Devi. The show’s synopsis promises to put an always-comedic spin on “the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl… who has a short fuse that gets her into difficult situations.”

Kaling recently stressed to Variety that she was excited to make a show “about an Indian nerd who’s also badly behaved, to show that because I’m deeply familiar with it.” She stressed that nerds aren’t all quiet and unassuming wallflowers but can have “obnoxious personalities” and get in trouble like all the other teens. Sounds like a good kind of trouble? We’ll find out when Never Have I Ever arrives on Netflix on April 27.

Will Toledo previously teased that his upcoming Car Seat Headrest album, Making A Door Less Open, would be more diverse than previous efforts. With a new mindset, he has so far shared diverse songs like “Can’t Cool Me Down” and “Martin.” Now he has further teased the record with a song called “Hollywood,” which isn’t exactly laudatory about its namesake place.

The lyrics come from a point of view that is not a fan of show business, as Toledo sings, “You got a face that you think / Will last as long as sphinx / But the poster’s painted over in a week if it stinks.” He sums up his feelings on the chorus: “Hollywood makes me wanna puke.”

Toledo previously said of his upcoming album, “I wanted to make something that was different from my previous records, and I struggled to figure out how to do that. I realized that because the way I listened to music had changed, I had to change the way I wrote music, as well. I was listening less and less to albums and more and more to individual songs, songs from all over the place, every few days finding a new one that seemed to have a special energy. I thought that if I could make an album full of songs that had a special energy, each one unique and different in its vision, then that would be a good thing.”

Watch the “Hollywood” video above.

Making A Door Less Open is out 5/1 via Matador. Pre-order it here.

During this weekend’s virtual taping of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update co-host and writer Michael Che revealed that his grandmother Martha had recently passed away after being diagnosed with COVID-19. “As you know Colin, I lost my grandmother this week, and coming back to work really made me feel better — especially with you,” he told Colin Jost before guilting him into telling a racially-charged joke during the recurring “Joke Swap” segment. Che called it his grandmother’s “favorite part of the show” before later disclosing that she never watched SNL, “I just wanted you to do that.”

To honor his late grandmother, Che is paying one month’s rent for all 160 residents of her New York City public housing complex.

“It’s crazy to me that residents of public housing are still expected to pay their rent when so many New Yorkers can’t even work,” Che wrote on Instagram on Wednesday (there are over 111,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York City alone, with nearly 7,000 deaths). “Obviously I can’t offer much help by myself. But in the spirit and memory of my late grandmother, I’m paying one month’s rent for all 160 apartments in the New York Housing Dept. building she lived in. I know that’s just a drop in the bucket, so I really hope the city has a better plan for debt forgiveness for all the people in public housing, at the very least.” He then asked the three titans of New York City politics — Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, and Diddy — to “fix this.” You can read the message below.

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People across the country and the world have been in self-isolation for weeks now as the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, and folks are starting to wonder when large gatherings (like concerts) might start to come back. Yesterday, the mayors of New York City and Los Angeles spoke to that, saying they don’t think big concerts will return to their cities in 2020.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room, “It’s difficult to imagine us getting together in the thousands anytime soon, so I think we should be prepared for that this year. I think we all have never wanted science to work so quickly, but until there’s either a vaccine, some sort of pharmaceutical intervention, or herd immunity, the science is the science. And public health officials have made very clear we have miles and miles to walk before we can be back in those environments.”

Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio also told CNN yesterday, “I’ve got to see in my city real steady progress, even to start to think about relaxing some of those social distancing standards even a little bit. I want to get people back to work, of course. I want to get kids back to school. But I think it will take months to go through that whole sequence. And the last thing I want to do is gather 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 people in one place. That’s like the exact opposite of social distancing.”

This comes shortly after California Governor Gavin Newsom predicted that large-scale events wouldn’t return to California before a coronavirus vaccine becomes available.

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Clever solutions to life’s smaller problems.

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It’s the generation game!

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