Chelsea Handler has never been one to mince words, and she isn’t starting now. It appears the razor-tongued comedienne has no sympathy for celebrities she routinely mocks on her late night E! series, Chelsea Lately.
“I think the people I talk about are generally so stupid [that] they don’t even know I’m saying bad things about them,”Chelsea told Philadelphia Style Magazine this week. “I’ve run into Paris Hilton and she’s like, ‘Oh, I love your show.’ And I’m like, ‘You can’t love my show if you can hear,’” she added.
Taylor Swift is the host and musical guest on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live — and she hasn’t forgotten the infamous mic-snitching that left her publicly humiliated at the MTV Video Music Awards last summer.
In a promo that began airing Tuesday, the global music sensation and SNL cast member Bill Hader poke fun at the notorious incident and controversial rap star Kanye West. Taylor announces she will be on the sketch show this weekend while Hader stands by her side on the phone. He gets off his cell and says, “Whoops, Kanye West just called. He thinks Beyoncé should host instead.”
As part of The TODAY Show’s “TODAY Gets A Laugh” series, host Ann Curry (”Good Mornin’, Good Mornin’”) took place in a spontaneous musical with New York-based pranksters, Improv Everywhere.
Emmy-winning comedienne Kathy Griffin has been tapped to host on new celebrity dance competition on ABC.
Griffin, 48, has signed on to helm Let’s Dance, a new series which while premiere immediately after the Nov. 23 finale of Dancing With The Stars, TheWrap.com has learned. The new series will feature celebrity contestants reenacting their famous routines from past music videos, movies, and musicals on a live weekly dance-off that will run for just five episodes. “The competition will be hot — and hilarious — as teams of celebrities pay comedic homage to famous dances while competing for a $250,000 grand prize for their favorite charity,” according to a statement from ABC Tuesday. “The show will include single dancers, duos and groups, all competing against each other to wow a panel of judges and viewers across America who will be voting each week leading up to the series finale.”
The panel of judges and celebrity participants will be announced sometime in the next few weeks.
Soupy Sales, the comedian who took more 20,000 pies to the face in front more than 5,000 live TV appearances for half a century, died in the Bronx on Thursday. He was 83.
Soupy — beloved by the Baby Boom Generation — died at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York overnight, his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher, confirmed. The comedy legend many health problems and entered the hospice last week.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and ‘60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation.
“If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy,” Usher said.
Comedian Sarah Silverman has an idea to end world hunger — just in time for the U.N. World Food Day this Friday.
The Jesus Is Magic star is suggesting selling off the Vatican’s assets as a remedy for the food shortage in some of the most impoverished corners of the world! In a profanity-laced YouTube video, the always raunchy Silverman suggests that the Pope — who she refers to as a “caped crusader” “move out of your house that is a city” and use the wealth to feed the world so that she’ll stop seeing the world’s hungriest and most “emaciated people” on her TV screen.
The Catholic League, America’s leading Catholic civil rights organization, blasted Silverman’s video as an “obscene” and “filthy diatribe,” adding that the “Catholic Church operates more hospitals and feeds more of the poor than any private institution in the world.”
Tracy Morgan is bringing his no-holds barred approach to comedy to the pages of a new autobiography. In his tell-all book I Am the New Black, in stores Oct. 20, the Emmy-nominated 30 Rock star fires off at former Saturday Night Live co-stars Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri.
SNL’s “Dominican Lou” writes: “I had my finger on the pulse of urban comedy, but when I brought my act to SNL, those motherf***** just felt bad for me…..None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me. No, sir. All I have to say about that is, where’s Chris Kattan now? Where’s Cheri Oteri now? That bitch can’t even get arrested.”
Gee, Billy Ray Cyrus sure looks a lot like Jimmy Fallon these days! The country crooner wants everyone to know that he “ain’t no Twitter quitter” like his daughter Miley.
The Hannah Montana star left the Tweeners in tears last week when she deleted her Twitter page in a bid to keep her private life more private. Shortly after, she rapped a video explanation to her fans, but you’ve just got to see Billy Ray’s rap response video that aired on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.
It all goes down in another edition of JMZ — The Jay Leno Show’s parody of TMZ on TV! Desperate times for desperate measures for former boybander Lance Bass when he holds up a local liquor store at gunpoint!
