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Multiple sketches this past weekend on the Will Ferrell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live either mentioned the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements directly, or indirectly took a satirical view of how culture has either maligned women or promoted an atmosphere that allowed men to take advantage of women sexually. And then …
Oh, Grandma. Barry Lubin, who starred as frontman for the Big Apple Circus as Grandma the Clown from 1982-2012 and again in 2017, abruptly resigned after admitting to coercing a 16-year-old in 2004 to posing for pornographic pictures. Lubin resigned on Friday, and The New York Times reported the news …
On last night’s episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee opened her weekly TBS show by examining how there’s already a backlash against the #MeToo movement, or as Bee jokingly calls the backlash, the #YouTooLoud movement. Bee said the “Shitty Media Men” list that was so popular and anonymous …
Natasha Leggero, eight months pregnant with her first child with husband Moshe Kasher, appeared last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the third season of Another Period, which premieres on Comedy Central next Tuesday. When Leggero jokingly mentioned not naming the baby Harvey Weinstein, Kimmel asked if she, too, …
Aziz Ansari, who just won a Golden Globe last week for starring in his Netflix series, Master of None, and who wrote a best-selling book about “Modern Romance,” has responded to a #MeToo allegation about him from a woman who dated him last September. You can read the woman’s anonymous …
