Celebrities

Neil Young once stormed the country to sing the First Amendment’s praises.

One obvious way you can tell that CNN is "comfort food" for Trump haters -- to borrow a phrase from Brian Stelter -- is all the clapping and yelling when Amber Ruffin starts trash-talking Trump on CNN's Saturday "comedy" panel show Have I Got News For You.

Sometimes there are early April stories so absurd that you hope they are just April Fool’s pranks, but unfortunately the idea that Netflix might decide to go with a female Aslan in their upcoming adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia appears to be very real.

Ayo Edebiri isn’t a household name yet, but “The Bear” star got plenty of media coverage last month.

Zachary Levi hasn’t been canceled by Hollywood for supporting President Donald Trump. Not yet, at least. The star keeps saying he has new projects that should keep him busy. He’s one of the lucky ones.

George Clooney cemented his auteur status with 2005’s Good Night, and Good Luck. The drama recalled journalist Edward R. Murrow’s clash with Sen. Joseph McCarthy during what later became known as the Blacklist era.

Popular celebrities predictably got political during Sunday’s 67th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS, including the show host, comedian Trevor Noah ––  who took several veiled swipes at President Donald Trump over his recent flurry of executive orders. Within the first 10 minutes of the show, he made jokes about Trump’s executive orders on tariffs and immigration without mentioning him by name.

Whitney Cummings has not been red-pilled. She said so herself.

Actress-turned-filmmaker Justine Bateman (who starred with Michael J. Fox on Family Ties in the 1980s) did not endorse Donald Trump, nor does she call herself conservative. She avoids political labels. She wants a free, robust return to free speech, American style. But The Hollywood Reporter got that all wrong. 

Oprah Winfrey is one of the richest people in Hollywood, and she earned every penny.

The left has made it clear that, in this election, no parodying of themselves are allowed given what they perceive as an existential threat to American lives and the country itself if former President Trump were reelected. Such was the case on Friday’s CBS Mornings Plus with Armando Innucci, the creator HBO’s Veep, complaining about comparisons between his fictional vice…

Thanks to the outsized role that “the media” — that’s the news media, entertainment media, and social media — play in our national discourse, the vacuous and vulgar pronouncements of left-wing celebrities are widely promoted as if they were actually important contributions to the political dialogue.

What did they expect? The team behind Monday’s “Megalopolis” IMAX screening invited two of Hollywood’s biggest Trump critics to celebrate the film’s Sept. 27 release.

On Friday morning, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were almost in state of euphoria over Oprah Winfrey’s Thursday night “star-studded get-out-the-vote effort for” Vice President Kamala Harris that was “classic” work from “the queen of talk”, including “deeply personal and emotional stories” (and utter falsehoods).