Sam Haysom

London

Deputy UK Editor at Mashable

Deputy UK Editor @Mashable | Writer | THE MOOR (@unbounders) | PURGATORY GAMES (Lyrical Media/@AutomatikEnt) | Rep'd by Josh Dove + @vervetla

Articles

'Billy on the Street' returns with a brutal 1-minute game

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

A new episode of Billy on the Street is always a welcome surprise, even if it is only 60 seconds long. In the clip above, host Billy Eichner plays a game called "Immigrant or Real American?", where he essentially bombards his sole contestant with a list of names that they have to sort into either category. The twist? Every single person in the immigrant category is famous and successful, while the vast majority of people in the "Real American" category are murderers.
Watch 4K video of Hurricane Erick from space as it barrels toward Mexico

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

Hurricane Erick, a storm heading towards the Southern Pacific Coast of Mexico, has strengthened overnight to a Category 4 — and you can see the scale of it from space. Footage shared on the official SEN YouTube channel shows Hurricane Erick churning over Earth, captured on 18 June at 20:06 UTC from a 4K camera on the International Space Station.
'The Daily Show' gleefully recaps the viral clash between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

Donald Trump's indecision over whether or not to join Israel's war against Iran has led to some infighting in his own camp, an example of which occurred on Wednesday, when Tucker Carlson sat down opposite Senator Ted Cruz for a TV interview on Carlson's own network. "On the one side is Ted Cruz, who wants war with Iran.
'The Daily Show' gleefully recaps the viral clash between Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Sam Haysom

1 hour agoRoger Stone Joins Ted Cruz’s MAGA Humiliation With a Joke About Why People Dislike HimThe Texas senator has been widely mocked after his heated interview with Tucker Carlson.
Jon Stewart's interview with Pedro Pascal lookalike winner has an unexpected twist

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

Jon Stewart's interview with the winner of the recent Pedro Pascal lookalike contest in NYC isn't like any regular interview, because it turns out the two already know each other — the contest winner, George Gountas, actually works on The Daily Show as a lighting designer.
Jimmy Kimmel spends 3 minutes ripping Trump's T1 smartphone to shreds

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

Donald Trump's newly announced Trump Mobile network and T1 smartphone have been roundly mocked by Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert, and in the video above Jimmy Kimmel joins in. "Their website was a mess from the get-go.
Jimmy Kimmel spends 3 minutes ripping Trump's T1 smartphone to shreds

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Sam Haysom

2 hours agoThe president's comments were "beyond parody," joked one person on social media. President Donald Trump faced ridicule on Tuesday as critics suggested he’d delivered the perfect anti-advertisement for the newly launched Trump-branded smartphone. Just hours after the Trump Organization unveiled its …
Stephen Colbert has a blunt reaction to Trump Mobile and T1 smartphone

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

It's been around a decade since Donald Trump came down that escalator and changed the course of American history, and on Tuesday's The Late Show, Stephen Colbert explained that the president's Trump Organization "marked the occasion with a special anniversary grift." "Yesterday they announced a new cell phone service, Trump Mobile, featuring this $499 gaudy gold tele-bomination called the 'T1 phone,' which for some reason is in quotes on the website — possibly so they can have plausible...
Jon Stewart's interview with John Mulaney is 19 minutes of glorious chaos

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

Comedians interviewing other comedians is always an entertaining genre, and Jon Stewart's Daily Show interview with John Mulaney is no exception. In the clip above the two of them spend a long time discussing Mulaney's recent fight with three 14-year-old boys on Netflix's Everybody's Live, before moving on to a silly game in which Stewart asks Mulaney random questions that he's asked previous guests. We could watch these two talk nonsense all day.
Seth Meyers brutally roasts Trump Mobile and T1 smartphone

1 week ago | mashable.com | Sam Haysom

Donald Trump is launching a $499 gold-colored smartphone, and Seth Meyers is less than impressed. "The president's family debuted a new cell phone company called Trump Mobile, along with a smartphone called the T1 smartphone that comes in gold," says Meyers in the clip above from Monday night's Late Night. "So Trump is personally enriching himself while in office by selling a phone.