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Contestants Are Violating Their NDAs to Denounce/Praise Nathan Fielder’s Fake Singing Competition

2 days ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

After last week’s detour into the Evanescence-filled life of Captain Sully Sullenberger, the newest episode of The Rehearsal began with Nathan Fielder’s bogus singing competition Wings of Voice. Several finalists belted out royalty-free covers of “Amazing Grace” in various musical styles ranging from country to pop punk to hip-hop. All inside of a partial replica of the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, naturally.
Ryan Reynolds Is Such a Fan of Conan O’Brien That He May Have Pushed Jay Leno Down That Pennsylvania Hill

2 days ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

Ryan Reynolds has played Deadpool, Green Lantern and one of two guys who worked at a pizza place, whose name nobody remembers. But his greatest role may be as Conan O’Brien’s private vigilante. Reynolds recently guested on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,and after a long chat about the actor’s career, current North American trade tensions and, oddly, Dan Aykroyd’s history with cocaine and UFOs, Conan attempted to wrap up the show. “Ryan, you are one of my favorites,” the host began.
Here’s Who Left the Biggest Legacies in Springfield, According to ‘The Simpsons’

3 days ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

Of The Simpsons’ many characters, which one left the greatest legacy within the world of Springfield? Krusty the Clown? Mayor Quimby? That inanimate carbon rod? Well, this week’s episode, “Full Heart, Empty Pool” dared to ask this question. And the answers were pretty surprising.
‘The Simpsons’ Just Brought Back a 29-Year-Old, One-Joke Character

3 days ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

Season 36 of The Simpsons certainly hasn’t shied away from bringing back random characters that many viewers forgot all about during the Clinton administration. For example, the White Lotus parody episode “The Yellow Lotus” featured the return of sketchy salesman Nick Callahan.
Eric Idle Wants to Know Why His Beatles Parody Isn’t Available Anymore

3 days ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

Eric Idle is best known for his work/online feuds with Monty Python, but he also produced a number of notable works outside the Python canon. One of the best and most prolific of Idle’s solo endeavors was 1978’s The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. The Beatles parody, about Liverpool’s “Prefab Four,” was the first ever feature-length music mockumentary, predating This Is Spinal Tap by six years. The TV movie wasn’t a huge hit originally.
5 Movie Scenes Made Possible by Torture

3 days ago | cracked.com | Amanda Mannen

We know this is a shock to some people, but movies are make-believe. They’re just actors playing pretend, not real nuclear physicists or secret agents or mall cops. By “some people,” of course, we mean renowned directors, who don’t seem to understand that actors can display emotion without being relentlessly harrowed.
10 Weekend Update Jokes That Might Get Colin Jost and Michael Che Fired

4 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Forget those rumors about Colin Jost and Michael Che leaving Saturday Night Live at season’s end. If they keep it up with these censor-shattering punchlines, they might not make it to next week’s season finale. Here are 10 Weekend Update jokes that come so close to crossing the line that somebody might be looking for a new job…1 JOST: The Vatican has selected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who is from the South Side of Chicago, to be the new Pope.
8 of the Dirtiest Jokes from ‘SNL’s Sleazy Waiter Mother’s Day Sketch

4 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

SNL has a long history of sketches featuring skeezy waiters. The best example is probably Dana Carvey making sweet love to Kirstie Alley’s face in the Il Cantore sketch back in 1991. Alley deserved combat pay for the lashing she took from Carvey’s overly amorous tongue. Host Walter Goggins, shirt unbuttoned to his navel, took on the role of the horny waiter this week. His Albee is looking for love on Mother’s Day, doing his best to romance two moms out for brunch with their adult sons.
Cecily Strong Returns to 'SNL' As Wine-Spewing Jeanine Pirro

4 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Just one month after giving birth to her first daughter, Cecily Strong made her triumphant return to Saturday Night Live in the same way she left the show a few seasons back: boozing it up as Jeanine Pirro. With Donald Trump appointing Pirro as U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. this week, Strong’s return was nearly guaranteed. And she didn’t disappoint. Strong/Pirro immediately broke open her briefcase — er, her cozy for her Merlot-zy — and got to drinking.
Johnny Carson Exposed and Embarrassed a Famous ‘Psychic’ on National TV

4 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Before Johnny Carson was a comedian, he was The Great Carsoni, the 14-year-old magician who entertained youthful audiences in Nebraska for $3 a show. While he ultimately took a different route into show business, he maintained a lifelong interest in magic and how illusionists performed their tricks. But there was a big difference between magicians and so-called psychics, a new breed of entertainer becoming popular in the 1970s.