Big news on the late night front: David Letterman is retiring in 2015. Big news! That means a coveted and rare spot is opening up in the dude party that is late night TV. Could it be that the time has finally come to let a woman sit behind a desk and ask guests questions about movies they're promoting on shows that…
Joan Rivers made her triumphant return to The Tonight Show this week and it was...awkward. She showed up late, made offensive jokes about the holocaust, Bruce Jenner and "ethnic people" and wouldn't let Jimmy Fallon talk. Even when Fallon (who is the host, Joan. He's conducting this interview!) tried to steer the…
In today's Tweet Beat, Katy Perry's stage is a fancy car, Nathan Fillion is talking to his autocorrect and Joan Rivers manages to take a selfie with New York's former Governor without him realizing.
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TMZ is reporting that Bill Clinton took a photo with two sex workers from The Moonlite Bunny Ranch at an elite Unite4Humanity benefit in Los Angeles earlier this week. The photo, tweeted by Madison Graham, features a smiling Clinton in between sex workers Ava Adora and Barbie Girl. TMZ admits that Clinton probably had…
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Until last night, onetime Tonight Show regular Joan Rivers hadn't been welcomed onto the set in nearly 30 years. But new host Jimmy Fallon had her appear during his debut, one of a host of famous faces including Mariah Carey, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Jessica Parker and Stephen Colbert.
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Joan Rivers, the legendary groundbreaking comedian thrice convicted of fashion police brutality, made one New Yorker's Christmas by gifting him with an ornament from her QVC collection and a hand-signed note. New York City is a weird, weird place.
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In today's Tweet Beat, the cast of Parks and Rec really wants you to know they're back this week, Joan Rivers has some choice words for Jennifer Lawrence and Lena Dunham's boyfriend and all-around Fun. guy wishes he was still taking sex ed.
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In today's Tweet Beat, Ice T updates us on the weather in Chicago, Tony Bennett has a wide variety of friends and Dr. Ruth thinks Joan Rivers is more loyal to Shakespeare than to her.
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Wait, "star"? Sorry, I spelled "resort to" wrong. It is written: Joan Rivers and Bristol Palin are going to Freaky Friday life-swap on ABC. (The role of "Boris" will be played by Herman Cain.)
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Kelly Rowland's "Dirty Laundry," a slow ballad about the dark side of fame, her competition with Beyoncé and how it was linked to Rowland's abusive relationship, puts its listeners through the emotional wringer — so you can only imagine how intense it is for her to perform it live.
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Baby weight: A thing that happens, sometimes. Ways to fix/change it: Tuna melts*, not caring, doing Zumba or some shit, more tuna melts, or encasing yourself in a chamber of horrors like Jessica Alba. In an interview with Net-a-Porter's magazine, Alba divulges her post-pregnancy weight-loss secret after giving birth…
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The British anti-child abuse advocacy group Kidscape is pissed off that Gwyneth Paltrow hawks bikinis for four to eight year-olds in her latest GOOP newsletter. She captioned images of the swimwear, a collaboration with designer Melissa Odabash and exact replica of adult bikinis sold on the site, that it's "great for…
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Oh, Goopy. Ever seeking new dark sorcery with which to defy the wrinkle gods, Gwyneth Paltrow admits that she tried Botox once but did not like the results. Apparently it made her face look like a completely different woman's face! An old, ugly woman! Not like beautiful young Goopy at all! THE HORROR.
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In a move that obviously has nothing to do with brother Michael's $2 billion estate, no, nothing whatsoever, LaToya Jackson has swooped in on miniature heirs Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson and taken them under her wing. By which I mean she signed them to her talent agency, Ja-Tail Enterprises—which has no other…
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Here's Joan Rivers calling a Adele a cow, or whatever. The thing is, Joan Rivers is a rare bird, and she's worked her way up the ranks like a motherfucking Terminator. She didn't get where she is by giving out Girl Scout cookies and telling everyone they're pretty. The other thing is, she mocks her own appearance, so…
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Nicki Minaj went on Extra to promote her MAC makeup collaboration VIVA Glam, and said that she's never had surgery on her face. "When people see my makeup they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup." However, Minaj does not mention whether she had any work done below the neck, most…
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Alec Baldwin's yoga instructor wife Hilaria Baldwin née Thomas, who's been teaching at Manhattan's Yoga Vida since 2005, is being sued by a 32-year-old Yale Ph.D. candidate and HuffPo blogger named Spencer Wolfe, who cites an overcrowded class, her' "negligence" and her request that students "perform a dangerous activity…
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According to a source, Prince Harry plans to release an apologetic statement next week regarding his genitals. The thing is, you see, is that he only got his ween fondled on camera because he is about to ship off to Afghanistan to defend freedom! Why do you HATE THE TROOPS!? Says the source:
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In this edition of Tweet Beat, Joan Rivers wants to slap Rihanna, TLC is taking care of business and Jimmy Kimmel might be in a feud with Roseanne Barr.
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Mariah Carey is furious at American Idol execs for courting Nicki Minaj as a possible judge. Apparently she was under the impression that she would be the only woman on the panel, and insiders say that a two-vagina judging panel would certainly throw viewers for a loop, so it's obviously all still in talks. Because…
