Joe Biden may have stumbled yesterday at the US Air Force Academy graduation, but the President had some swagger tonight.
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“Ted Lasso” is in the home stretch as the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series prepares to complete its three-season run at the end of the month.
In a new interview with The Observer, star Jason Sudeikis reveals how Donald Trump and his political ascendancy proved to be the unlikely inspiration for the award-winning series.
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As Sudeikis recalled, back in 2015 he and then-partner Olivia Wilde were discussing how he could revive the Ted Lasso character, first introduced in 2013 in a series of NBC Sports promotional spots for the network’s coverage of Premier League soccer.
According to Sudeikis, his initial portrayal of the character was “belligerent,” but the emerging political atmosphere enflamed by the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump inspired him to flip it upside down.
“It was the culture we were living in,” Sudeikis explained.
“I’m not terribly active online, and it even affected me. Then you have Donald Trump coming down the escalator. I was like, ‘OK, this is silly,’ and then what he unlocked in people… I hated how people weren’t listening to one another. Things became very binary, and I don’t think that’s the way the world works,” Sudeikis continued.
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“And, as a new parent — we had our son Otis in 2014 — it was like, ‘Boy, I don’t want to add to this.’ Yeah, I just didn’t want to portray it,” he mused.
While Sudeikis is leaving the door open to revive the character at some point, he’s adamant that “Ted Lasso”, as it’s existed for the past three seasons, is over.
However, he’s also
Joe Biden may have stumbled yesterday at the US Air Force Academy graduation, but the President had some swagger tonight.
a New Hampshire Journal podcast, called her one of Trump’s “greatest selections” in a backhanded compliment but in certainly more favorable terms than the former president had when he nicknamed her “Milktoast.”“Donald Trump, even his greatest supporters have acknowledged, had a tough time picking good people,” DeSantis said on the podcast published Friday. “He had a lot of terrible personnel decisions.
and was unhurt. Sean Hannity, who was hosting the town hall Thursday night, served up the incident as the first topic of the long Q & A session.“I want to start with the current president … did you see the video of when he fell?” Hannity began, diverging from a longstanding journalistic tradition of leading with the most important and relevant information.But Trump failed – at least by his own standards – to capitalize on the opportunity to trash and smear opponent.
Thursday report, writing: “Some presidential candidates struggle to nail their message. Ron DeSantis is struggling to nail his NAME.
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Having seen his 2024 White House bid embarrassingly misfire on the launch pad last week, Ron DeSantis is once again being mocked by both the Walt Disney Company and Donald Trump for his luckless battle with the Mouse House.
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he said “On day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases, who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we will be aggressive in issuing pardons.”“I mean, he’s not really that stupid,” Scarborough said on Friday morning. “Maybe he’s talking like a third grader? We’re talking about people who tried to overthrow American democracy, and Ron knows that.
Kai Trump is only 16 years old and she has already proved to be a talented golfer. Donald Trump’s granddaughter has won a tournament at Mar-a-Lago and is on her way to winning a college scholarship after showing a promising future in sports.The former president is known for being passionate about golfing, and it seems the skills run in the family, as Kai has been playing golf with her grandfather from a young age.
Jason Sudeikis is enjoying a night out with his son! The 47-year-old actor stepped out on Monday to attend an NBA game with his son, 9-year-old Otis, and his famous pal, Jason Bateman.The trio sat courtside for the big game, which saw the Denver Nuggets complete a sweep against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets will go on the play the winner of the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat series, which the latter team is currently leading 3-0.Though the Lakers didn't come out victorious in the game, the three guys appeared to have a great time, with a tracksuit-clad Otis smiling alongside his dad, and Sudeikis chatting with Bateman.The night out comes amid Sudeikis' custody battle with his ex, Olivia Wilde, regarding whether their kids should live in L.A.
Jason Sudeikis and son Otis, 9, pose for a photo together while sitting courtside at the Los Angeles Lakers basketball game on Monday night (May 22) in Los Angeles.
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her lawsuit against Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll and her attorney, Robbie Kaplan, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” to talk about that case. But of course Maddow brought up a related matter: CNN’s ill-advised, poorly received Trump town hall.At one point, Maddow asked Kaplan and Carroll a question that critics of the town hall have asked since it aired — could the disparaging comments Trump made about Carroll during the event get him sued again? According to Kaplan, “definitely.”You’ll recall that during the town hall, Trump repeatedly defamed Carroll.
Donald Trump inspired him to make changes to the character of Ted Lasso.The actor discussed the origins of the character in an interview with The Guardian, where he explained that Lasso was originally more “belligerent” before the former US president, and the culture surrounding him, prompted changes.“It was the culture we were living in,” Sudeikis said. “I’m not terribly active online and it even affected me.
before reading the post in full. “That is not a parody!” he added incredulously.
McKinley Franklin editor Jason Sudeikis’ affable football coach in the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” would have had a very different demeanor if it wasn’t for Donald Trump. While speaking with The Guardian, Sudeikis dished on the early origins of Ted Lasso. He revealed that the character o was initially conceptualized to be much more “belligerent,” but that observing the behavior of Trump forced a change. “It was the culture we were living in,” Sudeikis said. “I’m not terribly active online and it even affected me. Then you have Donald Trump coming down the escalator. I was like, ‘OK, this is silly,’ and then what he unlocked in people.”
Jason Sudeikis’s award-winning creation of Ted Lasso was inspired, in part, by the arrival of Donald Trump on the political scene.
that he hated Donald Trump “passionately.” But less than 2 months earlier he was singing a dramatically different tune, newly leaked texts reveal. In an exchange with his senior producer, obtained by the Daily Beast — yes, it’s yet more leaked evidence that emerged during discovery in the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News — the recently fired host was so upset about the unusually negative coverage Fox was giving Trump that he said he was “happy to start threating people” to make it stop.The text exchange happened Nov. 19, 2020, as Fox News was suffering a severe drop in ratings caused by the exodus of viewers angry that it had (accurately) called the election for Joe Biden and then — temporarily — refused to support Trump’s constant lying about the loss.