Tag: Comedy

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are apologizing for their $100 million big-budget musical being shelved. The untitled musical comedy film, known internally at Paramount as Whitney Springs, has been placed on the back burner. South Park writer Vernon Chatman penned the script for the movie, a musical comedy about slavery reparations. Kendrick Lamar helped produce and recorded original music for the film.

Legendary singer Chaka Khan has long been entertaining audiences with her powerful voice and iconic discography. But over the last several years, her straight-shooting personality and blunt yet hilarious interviews have been just as enjoyable. Now, it looks like she's at it again, as evidenced by her latest chat with The Observer.

Tiffany Haddish's years-long Georgia DUI case is finally expected to reach a courtroom after her January 2022 arrest in Peachtree City, where police said she was discovered asleep behind the wheel in the early morning hours.

Amanda Seales is denying that she is jealous of Issa Rae, pushing back on claims that she envies her former Insecure costar's career, marriage and Hollywood connections. During a recent livestream, Seales addressed a comment implying that Rae has the life she wants.

Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish changed her plea from not guilty to guilty in her DUI case after four years of fighting it. The 46-year-old appeared virtually in a Georgia courtroom on Tuesday to resolve the case stemming from her January 2022 arrest. She must complete time served and 12 months of probation, plus 40 hours of community service through advocacy work with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Ted Lasso is officially back for its fourth season. While familiar characters made their grand return to the show in the premiere episode on Wednesday, there were a handful of surprising nods to Black culture that delighted fans. The first comes near the top of the show after Lasso is called into the principal's office at his preteen son Henry's school to discuss a disturbing poem he wrote. By the time he and his child's mother got there, they had to stifle their laughter while listening to the words. The joke here is their son's poem was actually him just writing down the lyrics to Public Enemy's 1988 song Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.