[BOOKS] On Howard Stern, Actress Lena Dunham Credits President Trump for Her Weight Loss Success, Debuts New Diet Book
Posted: February 7, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Activism, Americans, Barstool Sports, Books, Democrats, Donald Trump, Executive order, Girls, Howard Stern, Lena Dunham, Obesity, President of the United States, satire, Television, Weight Loss 1 Comment
Rachel DeSantis reports: Most people turn to diets and exercise to lose extra pounds, but Girls star Lena Dunham is sharing a new weight-loss trick you may not want to try at home.
“Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food.”
— Actress and diet book author Lena Dunham
Dunham stopped by Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show Monday morning and revealed that she has none other than Donald Trump to thank for her slim figure.
“Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.’”
“Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food,” she told Stern after he complimented her look. “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.’”
The actress, who was on hand to promote the upcoming sixth and final season of Girls, has not been shy about her dislike for the President, and apparently, the feeling is mutual. Read the rest of this entry »
Louis C.K. Quits Twitter: ‘I Think it’s Why Everything is Kind of F***ed Up and Polarizing’
Posted: April 18, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Alaska, Fox News Channel, Howard Stern, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Louie (TV series), Louis C.K, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, Twitter 2 Comments
Daniel Nussbaum writes: The comedian had long been an ardent (and profane) Tweeter, directing 140-character, expletive-laden barbs at Sarah Palin, ISIS, and Common Core, just to name a few. So it was somewhat surprising when his Twitter account seemed to simply vanish late last year.
This week, Louie visited The Opie Show to explain the motivation behind deleting his account.
“It didn’t make me feel good,” the comedian told host Gregg “Opie” Hughes. “It made me feel bad instead. So I stopped doing it.”
Every time I say anything on here, I wish I hadn’t said it. And then I’ll write a couple things to try to fix it, and then I feel worse. It’s just any time I tweeted anything, I was like, ‘Ugh, I don’t like the way that came out.’ And then four and a half million people saw it. Like it was the worst things I ever said, heard and seen by the most people. It’s like the worst possible scenario.”
“It’s too instant,” the comedian explained, telling Opie that he wasn’t bothered by trolls or criticism. “I don’t think the speed helps dialogue. I think it hurts. I think it’s why everything is kind of f***ed up and polarizing, because people are going too fast, they’re trying to react quickly.” Read the rest of this entry »
REWIND: Louis C.K. Tells Howard Stern He Apologized to Sarah Palin at SNL40
Posted: April 15, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Alaska, Fuck, Howard Stern, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Louis C.K, Megyn Kelly, Rude Jude, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, Tom Hanks, Twitter 2 Comments
Matt Wilstein reports: It’s been close to five years since Louis C.K. got drunk on an airplane and tweeted the foulest things he could think of about Sarah Palin. Since then, he has moved on and deleted his Twitter account, but as the comedian told Howard Stern on 
Wednesday, it was just two months ago that he finally decided to apologize.
As Louis C.K. told it, Palin actually approached him at the afterparty for Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary special to tell him she thought he was “terrific” and “really funny,” though it was unclear if she really knew who he was.
In response, Louis C.K. just said, “I owe you an apology,” telling Stern that he’s never before apologized for anything he’s said and “fuck anybody else who’s offended.” But now that he was face-to-face with Palin, he felt he needed to address the situation.
When he explained to her what he had done, Palin told him, “Well, you’re a vile person,” which made him laugh. Then she invited him to go fishing with her next time he’s in Alaska, which he said he would do in a heartbeat.
Kelly reading a tweet from punditfromanotherplanet right before she goes on the air.
Stern and Louis C.K. agreed that Palin is attractive and they both kind of want to “fuck” her. “It would be fun to fuck a conservative politician,” the comedian said, noting that opposites attract for a reason. This conversation led Stern to admit that he also fantasizes about sleeping with Megyn Kelly and Kimberly Guilfoyle from Fox News. Read the rest of this entry »
Television: ‘This could be the year of the anus’
Posted: January 13, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: Actor, Adam Driver, Allison Williams (actress), Girls (TV series), Golden Globe Award, HBO, Howard Stern, Jemima Kirke, Lena Dunham, New York, New York City, Taylor Swift, Zosia Mamet 1 Comment
HBO Series Goes There
…Lena Dunham, creator and writer of the series, said that she’s proud of Allison for being a “good sport,” and offered some insight as to how personal something like the aforementioned sex act actually is.
“Let me tell you this, when someone puts their face in your butt, whether there’s a barrier or not, their face is still in your butt. And she handled that with aplomb.”
— Lena Dunham
“Maybe that’s one of the cliffs or peaks that we need to begin to incorporate into our societal representation of this revolution, specifically in television.”
— Alex Karpovsky
Zosia Mamet, who plays Shoshanna Shapiro on the show, said she understands that Dunham and the other writers wouldn’t incorporate anything that’s “uncomfortable or scary” into the script, unless it served a purpose….
“Maybe that’s one of the cliffs or peaks that we need to begin to incorporate into our societal representation of this revolution, specifically in television. This could be the year of the anus,” he said….(read more)
‘Aviation Expert’ Pranks MSNBC Host
Posted: July 17, 2014 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Andrew Johnson, Howard Stern, Krystal Ball, Malaysia Airlines, MSNBC, Practical joke, Twitter, YouTube Leave a comment“obviously was not actually an eyewitness.”
I take my eyes off The Corner for one week day, and this is what happens. (read the whole thing here) From National Review Online‘s Andrew Johnson, this is but one of many of today’s news clusterf*#$!’s :
MSNBC’s The Cycle was apparently pranked today when a supposed expert contributor pretended to be an eyewitness to the downed Malaysia Airlines flight in Ukraine, describing the plane as having been shot down by a…
Co-host Krystal Ball, who introduced the call as an exclusive interview with Staff Sergeant Michael Boyd from the United States embassy in Ukraine, asked the guest what he saw….(read more)
Weinstein: “I don’t think we need guns in this country. And I hate it. I think the NRA is a disaster area…”
Posted: January 16, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Harvey Weinstein, Howard Stern, Jackie Brown, Meryl Streep, National Rifle Association, NRA, pulp fiction, Rendition 3 Comments
Weinstein Update: Over at HotAir, Ed Morrissey has comments:
Congratulations, genius. You’re setting out to make a movie that will annoy more than 60 million Americans who responsibly own firearms. What a great marketing strategy that will be! Why, this new project will take … the same oh-so-courageous-and-tediously-didactic path as the anti-war films Lions for Lambs and Rendition, two films which bombed at the box office in 2007, both of which also starred … Meryl Streep.
“I’m making a movie that the NRA will hate…”
— Weinstein
Let’s muse on the irony, though, of Harvey Weinstein making this declaration. How much gunfire went into Pulp Fiction, which he exec-produced? The 2008 Rambo sequel? Jackie Brown?
