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Joan Rivers’ estate is getting the last laugh. In this week’s “Well boy, we sure got worked up over nothing,” Variety is now reporting that the planned Joan Rivers Showtime series “The Comeback Girl,” the origin of the “Jewface” controversy that launched a thousand think pieces, will not move forward. Looks like the producers didn’t…
(JTA) — Kavalier and Clay are coming to Showtime. Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” will air as a miniseries next year on the premium cable network Showtime. The critically acclaimed book has been described as “an epic tale of love, war and the birth of America’s comic book…
Looks like someone hurt Roy Moore’s feelings. After being tricked and mortified on national TV by Sacha Baron Cohen, Roy Moore has attempted to salvage his tarnished reputation by slapping a $95 million lawsuit on the comedian. The disgraced judge is demanding that Baron Cohen pay up to atone for the trauma that Moore has…
People doubted him, but in the first season of his new TV show, Sacha Baron Cohen brought the fire week after week. His sensational show “Who is America?” continued to fill us with immeasurable nakhes (and anxiety.) He strategically chose notorious figures to target with sly barbs and sharp-edged guile. Baron Cohen has honed his…
Wonder Woman doesn’t take any breaks. Gal Gadot, our favorite Israeli feminist superhero actress, is in the midst of signing a deal with Showtime to executive produce and star as Hedy Lamarr in a TV series for the network. The series would be written by Sarah Treem, the co-creator, writer and prophetess who is largely…
Sacha Baron Cohen continues to up the shock-factor of his controversial show, Who is America, and we are all for it. In the show’s third episode, he interviewed everyone’s favorite Southern villain, Roy Moore, and basically called him a pedophile to his face, which now explains why Moore has threatened to sue Sacha Baron Cohen….
Jason Spencer, the Georgia State GOP representative who appeared on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America” on Sunday night, has resigned. One could say he was caught with his pants down. The disgraced representative had already been defeated in his primary and was set to leave office in November when footage aired of him on…
The question Sacha Baron Cohen has posed to the nation — Who is America? — was answered in more lurid detail on Sunday night in the second episode of his shocking Showtime project. Several segments vied for the most nauseating of the night, but the winner was one featuring Georgia state representative Jason Spencer and…
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Dec 7, 2022
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A conversation with Julia Haart and her son Shlomo, stars of Netflix's 'My Unorthodox Life,' about the new season and much more.
