12 Random Bits of Trivia That Are Like a Pop-Culture Charcuterie Board
Nintendo’s New Console: An Alarm Clock
Nintendo’s newly-announced Alarmo comes programmed with 35 “audio scenes” from their most popular Switch games, like Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.
Who Was the Youngest Host in ‘SNL’ History?
Drew Barrymore hosted at 7 years old, after starring in 1982’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
Who Was the Oldest Host in ‘SNL’ History?
Betty White hosted at 88 years old in 2010, after the internet rallied around her in a months-long grassroots social media campaign.
An A.I. Art Thief Says People Are Stealing His A.I. Art
Big dumb piece of shit Jason M. Allen snuck an A.I.-generated painting into an art contest in 2022. He won, and took the opportunity to gloat about murdering human creativity, saying, “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.” He’s now claiming that he’s losing millions of dollars because people are ripping off the A.I. art that he created using Midjourney, a program designed to rip off every professional and amateur artist in history.
Will Smith Farted So Bad They Had to Stop Filming for Half a Day
Men in Black Director Barry Sonnenfeld said that, while filming the scene where they drive a car upside down in a New York City tunnel, they “evacuated the stage for about three hours” after Will Smith farted.
‘Abbot Elementary’ Is Doing a Crossover Episode With ‘Always Sunny,’ and People Have Questions
Chief among them: Will we get a TV-MA-rated version of Abbot Elementary, or a TV-PG-rated version of Always Sunny?
Cool, a Pickleball Movie
Ben Stiller is producing and acting in a movie about Pickleball, called The Dink.
Is the New ‘Rugrats’ Movie Live-Action, or What?
Paramount has announced a new “live-action” Rugrats movie, which sounds insane, considering how nightmarish every Klasky Csupo character is. But they’ve also specified that the babies will be CGI, which doesn’t sound very “live-action” at all.
Colin Farrell’s Penguin Makeup Was Hell
Farrell had to sit for three hours of makeup a day, getting 800 prosthetic facial enhancements, along with human and animal hair plastered to his face.
What Does Lorraine Bracco Think of the ‘Sopranos’ Finale?
Bracco, who played Tony’s therapist throughout the show, has said, “I was also not very happy the way David ended it. I thought it was bad and wrong.” She expounded with a bit of fanfic, describing a scenario in which Tony survived the mysterious final shot of the series, and the two revived their professional relationship: “Honestly, I think they bumped into each other in restaurants and stuff like that.”
Richard Simmons Was Buried in His Signature Workout Gear
His brother said they put his tank top and shorts on him under his funeral clothes: “We made sure that he was going to be in his normal costume that we all know and love to help the saints and the angels get into shape.”
‘Dookie’ Demastered
Green Day is reissuing their seminal album Dookie, not in high fidelity for audiophiles, but on patently insane devices like an electric toothbrush, a Teddy Ruxpin and a Big Mouth Billy Bass.