I saw ‘The Condescending Dildos’ on an outside stage at SXSW before they were huge.

Although worth noting all of her albums have peaked at #1.

It’s quite something - the last time Beyonce had a *solo* single peak higher than #10 was ‘Halo’, in 2009.

More critically, Swift has vastly more personal control over her music and output than Beyonce. Yes, there is a massive following for Beyonce that is much too big to be considered ‘cult’ but she has had only one solo top 10 hit in the past decade - if you can name it without looking it up, props to you because I…

Yeah, that was a strange take.

And he hasn’t broken egregiously in a while, which is a serious improvement. But they’ve also clearly made the move to put him exclusively in pre-taped bits, except the handful of impressions that aren’t lived in but guaranteed to get Gen Z emo college students wet enough to make up for his inability to act or keep a…

My big take-away?

Didn’t Demi Lovato used to make music?  What ever happened to that?

So we agree that the writer, director, and casting were the problems with ‘The Prom’?

I think the old man vote was split four ways and he won for being young.

Ah, I don’t pay attention to the late night wars, that probably explains it.

He was fine in ‘Into the Woods’ and not the problem with either ‘Cats’ or ‘The Prom’ - I didn’t see ‘Cinderella’ so can’t comment on that - so is this just an inexplicable backlash, a la Anne Hathaway a few years ago, or do people have a problem with James Corden for a reason?

I just now learned Rosamund Pike is British.

Mick Lasalle used to have an “Anna Faris Award” he’d give out in his end of year column for the actor who did the best work in the most bad movies in a year.

You missed a key first detail: his role in Van Wilder, which gave him the ‘heat’ to get cast in other things, up to and including H&K.

Dave Chapelle will be FURIOUS to hear this.

I was guessing there was a verbal agreement to the life rights and then Melissa jacked up the price. Seems like her kind of move, she’s got nothing without her mother’s legacy.

I just had a vision of South Africa under apartheid rule referring to boycotts as “cancel culture”.

To each their own, but I don’t think they’ve had a good team up in years. The shine is very much off the apple.

Seeing Sudeikis in his not-realistic but funny-specific Biden next to the very realistic if not yet consistently funny beyond the occasional written bit from the new kid really was a reminder that a good impression need not particularly spot-on so long as it’s specific and funny.