Fran Hoepfner

6 days ago | vulture.com | Fran Hoepfner

Can you help this man get rid of a painting? On a recent episode of the 19th season of the British comedy panel show Taskmaster, contestants were placed in a room where a red lightbulb, a clock, a plate of raisins, and a few wooden tokens sat on a table in front of them. The task they had to accomplish was to tell co-host and show creator Alex Horne why the lightbulb — which would flash intermittently — turns on. Were the raisins related? Did the clock have something to do with it?

1 week ago | vulture.com | Fran Hoepfner

They belong to her. “I know, I know. What about Rep TV?” Taylor Swift writes in a letter posted to her site on May 30. The question has rippled across the internet for years, ever since she began her Taylor’s Version re-recordings when she lost the rights to the masters of her first six albums in 2019. Reputation, her angriest and perhaps most divisive album, was begging for a re-release, but her acknowledgement of “Rep TV” was dwarfed by much more significant news.

1 week ago | vulture.com | Fran Hoepfner

Fielder’s hat is also available from mypilotstore.com At the end of his 17-minute interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown on May 29, Nathan Fielder specified that he could have gone somewhere else to discuss season two of The Rehearsalbut didn’t. “These days, a lot of people will go to alternative-news sources or comedy podcasters to get the word out about stuff, like Joe Rogan or Theo Von, but for me, it’s still CNN all the way,” he told the co-host with a little smile.

1 week ago | vulture.com | Fran Hoepfner

Eat the chicken, complain on the subway, show off your apartment, then pray that something pops. As recently as a decade ago, when “movie stars” and “theatrical releases” were in abundance, a press tour was easy: A celebrity would do a magazine cover, give a late-night interview, and maybe host SNL.

1 week ago | vulture.com | Fran Hoepfner

Can someone at the Strategist find me this white T-shirt? Depending on the circles you run in or tweets you read or TikToks you watch, you may have heard whispers upon the release of Lorde’s first single off Virgin that “What Was That” was, for lack of a better phrase, reheating Melodrama’s nachos. “What Was That” and the bulk of the songs on Melodrama make reference to partying and a night gone on too long to still be any good.