Leslie Jones is going back to where it all started.
The Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters star will host the 2017 Bet Awards, People can reveal exclusively.
“Bet was the first place I ever did comedy on TV, so it’s a full-circle moment of coming home where I started,” Jones, 49, tells People. “I went out in the world and did what I needed to do and now I can come home to my people and say, ‘Yo! Look what I did!'”
Jones has experience mixing politics with comedy thanks to her three seasons on SNL, but don’t look...
The Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters star will host the 2017 Bet Awards, People can reveal exclusively.
“Bet was the first place I ever did comedy on TV, so it’s a full-circle moment of coming home where I started,” Jones, 49, tells People. “I went out in the world and did what I needed to do and now I can come home to my people and say, ‘Yo! Look what I did!'”
Jones has experience mixing politics with comedy thanks to her three seasons on SNL, but don’t look...
- 5/24/2017
- by Patrick Gomez
- PEOPLE.com
"Every girl in my phone hates me," Aziz Ansari laments in the excellent new season of Master of None. "Or I hate them." The sad part: His life only gets more miserable when he turns off his phone and faces the world. In Ansari's Netflix cringe-core comedy, he dissects modern romance as Dev, a thirtysomething semi-employed actor and passionate foodie living in New York, asking himself the same questions over and over. Where is true love? Where is the best taco in town? Will the kitchen at the tapas bar...
- 5/11/2017
- Rollingstone.com
What an epic Lip Sync Battle!
Shaquille O’Neal helped kick off Jimmy Fallon‘s weeklong taping of The Tonight Show in Orlando, Florida on Monday by going head-to-head with the late night host in the show’s wildly popular pretend-singing contest.
To start off the showdown, Fallon, 42, hyped up the crowd with House of Pain’s 1992 smash “Jump Around.” Meanwhile, the retired Hall of Fame basketball player, 45, channeled Bobby Brown for a rendition of the New Edition band member’s 1988 hit “My Prerogative,” with a little help from Pitbull, who was the night’s musical act.
For the second and final round,...
Shaquille O’Neal helped kick off Jimmy Fallon‘s weeklong taping of The Tonight Show in Orlando, Florida on Monday by going head-to-head with the late night host in the show’s wildly popular pretend-singing contest.
To start off the showdown, Fallon, 42, hyped up the crowd with House of Pain’s 1992 smash “Jump Around.” Meanwhile, the retired Hall of Fame basketball player, 45, channeled Bobby Brown for a rendition of the New Edition band member’s 1988 hit “My Prerogative,” with a little help from Pitbull, who was the night’s musical act.
For the second and final round,...
- 4/4/2017
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
One of the scenes in The Best Man Holiday that’s sure to be talked about (and enjoyed) is when the male cast members entertain their female counterparts with a performance of New Edition’s “Can You Stand the Rain.” Director Malcolm D. Lee sets up the scene, which has its roots in his own lip-synching days at Georgetown. “After dinner, Mia (played by Monica Calhoun), tells the guys that they are not going to have dessert until they do ‘air band.’ This catches them by surprise. She has the jackets, hats and outfits they had circa 1991, and they’re going to … Continue reading →
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The post VOD Spotlight: The Best Man Holiday appeared first on Channel Guide Magazine.
- 2/11/2014
- by Meredith Ennis
- ChannelGuideMag
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