It’s Annie with an I, not Anne with an E.
Photo: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon / YouTube in the lead role
Well, well, well, would you look at that? A week after Donald Trump sparked a violent riot at the Capitol, history has made history the only president ever to be charged twice. Congratulations, Donald, you really earned those earnings. Late-TV television has donated this last little drama piece to deal with Trump as it transitions from the Trump era to the Biden years, and there seems to be change in the air. NBC’s A little late with Lilly Singh returned this week for the first time since the pandemic, with a brand new writers’ room and a refurbished quarantine aesthetic. Let’s see what late-night excerpts stood out on this, Trump’s last full week as president.
Everyone loves (fake) gossip, and Stephen Colbert is no exception. This week, Late show broadcast a previously recorded segment in which the strange icon Aubrey Plaza spilled the proverbial tea on her former co-stars called “Tea at the Plaza”. Plaza, armed with a cup of tea (likes to see an actor using her own props), starts inventing costly costs like Amy Poehler, Zac Efron and Robert De Niro and spreads absurd and false rumors about them. The tea at Poehler? “She sleeps every night with a Justin Bieber doll between her legs,” Plaza said, adding “What a crawl.” Plaza further noted that Zac Efron “has the smallest teeth [she’s] ever seen, ”which will fall out of his mouth and into your throat if you are ever so lucky to film a kissing scene with him. And De Niro apparently likes to dress up as a postman and deliver mail, even though ‘he is not capable of it’ Plaza’s pit stops The Late show serves as a good reminder that Colbert has carved out a niche for himself as one of the most aggressive political hosts of the late night, but that he can still entertain outside the political sphere. Also good for Miss Piggy because she did work on her tail if that’s what she wants. Her body, her choice.
Back in the political sphere, the last days of the Trump administration somehow end with both a bang and a whimper, as Republicans quietly try to distance themselves from their rebellious, twice-accused president. Full frontal simply did not have it and dedicated a two-part segment to Republicans aptly named: “It’s a little too late for Republicans to denounce Trump.” Bee started the segment by rightly shouting at Eugene Goodman, the Black Capitol police officer who took an angry crowd off the Senate floor. Wow, an officer named ‘Goodman’ saves the day? You simply can not make up this stuff! Bee went on to call not only the insurgents but also the 147 members of Congress who voted to block the election results. “They liked to support Trump when it helped them reduce taxes for the rich and fill the Supreme Court with these adults of the wheat,” Bee said. I believe the real Children of the maize would have made sense to expose Trump well before inciting a deadly riot – they are whimsical, but they were not dumb.
After almost a year out in the air, A little late is back and maybe better than ever. The entire show was completely refurbished while in quarantine, with a brand new writing staff led by Chelsea Davidson. The studio audience has been replaced by a ‘house in Los Angeles’, and Singh’s whole atmosphere is now much more relatable to YouTuber as a late night presenter, matching her origins as an incredibly successful YouTuber. As such, it makes sense that one of her first guests would be a fellow YouTuber like Brie Larson. Larson dropped by Singh’s hype house on Tuesday, and after receiving some helpful advice on best practices on YouTube from Singh (you need to tell your viewers to like and subscribe to every video!), Larson Singh sang with some musical versions of her rude YouTube comments. It was fun, because anyone worth knowing knows that Larson was a prospective musician before she became an Oscar-winning actress. Scott Pilgrim against the world. Things seem to be moving (YouTube pun intended absolutely) in a positive direction for Miss Singh!
One of the things I miss the most about life before the pan Demi Lovato goes to a party and meets someone who’s incredibly interesting, who you’ll almost never see again, or if you do, it’s completely random and completely unexpected and a pleasant surprise. On Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, I finally got a taste of the feeling again when Kimmel dropped by Frederick “Freddie the Stoner” Miller, a sweet young man who had been on the program a year earlier while waiting online for the first cannabis pharmacy in Michigan to open. . Since he shared his plan to sit on the couch, smoke a bowl and look at the new Dracula On Netflix (he heard good things!) With Kimmel about a year ago, Freddie did a lot, and as fate would have it, he now works as a weed ambassador for Cannavista Wellness in Buchanan, Michigan. Asked how he worked at a marijuana store, Freddie said he gained 30 seconds of notoriety Jimmy Kimmel Live! last year his life changed for the better. “I went with your showman and the next thing I know, I’ll call left and right from pharmacies,” Miller says. “I mean Jimmy, I lived unemployed with my mother – God bless her,” Miller says before starting what can only be described as the perfect stone laughter. Wow, dreams come true.
Everyone has the right to be called by whatever name they wish or desire, and Ann (i) e Hathaway ultimately exercises that right. On Tuesday, the actress, formerly known as Anne, popped in The Tonight Show and reveals that she prefers to be called Annie. “Can we talk about my name for a moment?” she said before embarking on the saga of how Annie became Anne. Apparently, when she was 14, she was in an ad (of course she booked), and on her SAG card, she chose to go by her real first name, Anne, instead of the nickname she goes by, Annie . A rookie bug. “Feel free to call me anything but Anne,” she told Fallon. As someone with a confusing naming experience – my first name is * snag * Derek, but I’ve always gone by my middle name Chris – I feel for Annie, but I have to say that this change is a little difficult for me. I saw Anne Breaking away in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement at a mall with my cousins in OBX. I read about the time then Anne Hathaway returned a poached egg not once, not twice, not three times four times and thoughts, Atta girl. I defended Anne Hathaway’s performance as Fantine (she killed) in the (underrated) Les Misérables film for my best friend at university and we did not talk for about three weeks (we finally decided to agree not to agree). But now I have to say goodbye to it all, and you too. Goodbye to Anne Hathaway, and nice to meet Annie Hathaway. It’s like Donny Hathaway, but with an Ann (s).
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