“He Seems Wounded”: John Oliver Responds After Elon Musk Said His Comedy Is Woke “Weak Sauce”

Dakota Johnson brought Shark Tank to Saturday Night Live.

William Earl “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” crashing host Dakota Johnson‘s opening monologue as she bantered with the night’s musical guest, Justin Timberlake. Johnson opened the show by noting it was her first visit to Rockefeller Center’s Studio 8-H since 2015, when she first hosted “SNL” on the heels of its landmark 40th anniversary special when the audience was packed with notables such as directors Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Donald Trump, months before he launched his first successful campaign for the White House. On screen a photo of Johnson in that starry crowd flashed.

Michaela Zee Tom Johnson, a writer and comedian whose credits include “The Daily Show,” “Lopez Tonight” and “The Jeselnik Offensive,” died Jan. 14 in his Los Angeles home. He was 55.

Michaela Zee John Oliver was stunned to hear that Jon Stewart is returning as host of “The Daily Show.” The “Last Week Tonight” host and former “Daily Show” correspondent was on NBC’s “Today” when the news broke. “I mean, that’s, that is a surprise,” Oliver said of Stewart’s return. “That’s a show that needs a host.

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The owners of a Cheshire golf club say they are not in talks with Manchester United about the sale of the facility.

Editors note: John Ridley is the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave writer, writer-director of Five Days at Memorial, and the Eisner-nominated writer of the DC graphic novel series GCPD: The Blue Wall. He also hosts with Matt Carey the Deadline podcast Doc Talk, and occasionally contributes guest columns, last of which focused on the dismantling of studio diversity leaders that became popular after George Floyd’s murder.

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Carrying his two new Emmys awards, John Oliver was making his way through the packed HBO afterparty Monday night when he stopped to speak with Deadline about his relationship with fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers.

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John Squire has revealed that a past injury threatened his ability to play guitar, recalling how the setback had concerned him.The former Stone Roses guitarist tripped and broke his wrist while playing basketball with his son in 2020. Recalling the accident during a recent interview with The Guardian, Squire said: “It did panic me.”He continued: “There was a question mark over whether I would get full use of it back.”However, the musician was able to get back to his best form thanks to physiotherapy and a rigorous guitar-playing regime.The publication noted how sustaining the injury “didn’t just force him to play again; it reignited his desire to do so”.When asked if he regretted not releasing more music over the years, however, Squire responded: “There’d be a trade-off.

Elon Musk as having a “thin skin” in response to comments he made about the comedian on social media.Earlier this month, the Tesla CEO criticised Oliver in a post on X, where he accused him of “pandering to wokeness”.“It is rather tragic to see an otherwise capable comedian like @iamjohnoliver become weak sauce,” he wrote. “The reason he is not very funny these days is because he is too keen to pander to wokeness, which is fundamentally a lie, whereas great humour requires revealed truth.”His comments were in response to a segment mocking Musk on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver last month, where the comedian gave an overview of his career.It is rather tragic to see an otherwise capable comedian like @iamjohnoliver become weak sauce.The reason he is not very funny these days is because he is too keen to pander to wokeness, which is fundamentally a lie, whereas great humor requires revealed truth.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 2, 2024After Musk’s comments on X, Oliver has now shared his verdict on their ongoing feud.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Matty Matheson shared a special moment onstage at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards!

Millions of employees are set for a boost in their take-home pay from this month after the main rate of class 1 National Insurance (NI) deductions was cut from 12 per cent to 10 per cent on Saturday, January 6. The change will mean an average worker on a salary of £35,400 will get a tax cut of more than £450 in 2024/25, while an employee earning £50,000 will pay £3,743 in National Insurance after the change, saving about £749.

Sharareh Drury From the Soviets beating the U.S. to the moon to humans finally making it to Mars, Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” imagines an alternate history of space exploration. Joel Kinnaman leads the series as astronaut Ed Baldwin, a role the Swedish-born actor calls “a gift” for being able to portray the conflicted protagonist across decades.

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