Amber Ruffin To Become Only Black Woman In Late-Night With New Show

Frank Pesce was a character actor known for roles in movies including “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Top Gun.”One of Pesce’s earliest roles was an uncredited bit part in “Rocky” alongside his friend, Sylvester Stallone. He made early appearances on TV shows including “Kojak” and “Police Story” and in such movies as “American Gigolo” and “Flashdance.” Pesce had a small role at the beginning of “Beverly Hills Cop,” playing a criminal buying illegal cigarettes from Eddie Murphy’s Alex Foley.

Co-parenting is tough, but it’s always important to make sure that exes are on the same page about their kids.Shanna Moakler, 46, opened up about her co-parenting relationship with her ex Travis Barker, 46, in a Thursday February 17 interview with People. Despite their disagreements, Shanna said that the most important thing to her is that her children are being treated well.

Actor/filmmaker Ben Stiller is no stranger to examining the rigors of the American workplace. Ever since he shined a light on everyone’s favorite cable guy in, well, “The Cable Guy,” Stiller has spent some time dwelling on the relationship we have with our work and those who work with and for us.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe Murdochs, the media-mogul family that controls Fox News Channel, are about to be the subject of a new documentary series that will be distributed by one of their main rivals.CNN expects to launch a six-part documentary series, “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” on CNN Plus, the streaming video site slated to launch in weeks to come. The series is produced with The New York Times and Left/Right and is based on the New York Times Magazine article “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” by journalists Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg.

Forrie J. Smith, who plays a ranch hand on Paramount’s Yellowstone, has announced that he won’t be attending the 2022 SAG Awards later this month.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLooking to widen its podcast biz beyond English-language audiences, iHeartMedia inked a deal to use Veritone’s synthetic-voice technology to translate and produce podcasts in other languages.Initially, iHeart plans to use Veritone’s artificial-intelligence system to translate its most popular podcasts into Spanish across the iHeartPodcast Network; the company didn’t identify which shows will be first in the hopper.Overall, Veritone offers stock voices in 119 languages and customized voices in 13: Chinese (Mandarin, simplified), French (Canada and France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish (Mexico and Spain). Its verified synthetic voices also provide different dialects and accents.

If you didn’t see, last night, Pete Davidson went live on Instagram and quickly reached hundreds of thousands of new followers.

wasn’t “difficult” enough, incensed social media users claimed they were unable to win Thursday’s game due to too many vocabulary variations in Twitter rants detailing the puzzle curveball.(Warning: spoilers below).For the uninitiated, the viral brain teaser grants players six attempts to guess a new five-letter word each day. However, these apparently weren’t enough for players of today’s Wordle 243, who complained that the Wordle Of the Day — “shake” — had far too many other alternative options to rule out.Specifically, while many Wordlers were able to complete “S”, “H”, “A” and “E,” they couldn’t guess “K” — one of the lesser-used consonants — and ended up selecting one of the structure’s more common variations such as “shape” to “shave” and “share,” per the angry Twitter posts.“I don’t usually share my #Wordle result but OMG this made me so mad!” vented one outraged Wordler, who lost after getting four out of the five letters correct for five of the guesses.“Nobody talk to me for 24 hours.

Attempting to simply describe “Strawberry Mansion” using a quick sentence does the film an injustice. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney have crafted a film that is strange, funny, scary, and smart.

Vanity Fair’s upcoming 2022 Hollywood Issue (out on newsstands, March 8).“I’m a little oddball. I’m in a state of just being willing to go with the flow,” she told the publication during the splashy shoot featuring her in both a sleek red evening gown and a denim bikini top and miniskirt.“I’m just still in that place of going, ‘I’m not quite sure what defines a movie star,’ ” the stunning mother of four added. “I still approach acting like I’ve just come out of drama school.”VF’s annual tinsel town issue also highlights other A-list stars of the year such as Kristen Stewart, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Penélope Cruz, Andrew Garfield, Simu Liu and Michaela Jaé “Mj” Rodriguez.Stewart dazzled as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s biopic “Spencer,” and the 31-year-old scored an Oscar nom for her efforts.

It's no secret Amanda Holden has been sizzling at 50.

Suffering from Covid may make you more likely to experience depression and anxiety, according to a study.

Terminal V Festival is all set to welcome techno fans back through its gates after an extremely difficult and trying two years through the coronavirus pandemic.

Furious educators at a Scots university have blasted bosses after they said free tea and coffee in staff kitchens was due to be cancelled.

An event to encourage more young people with disabilities to try sport is being held in Linwood next month.

Scots rockers Biffy Clyro have announced details of an incredibly exciting documentary set to be released on Amazon Prime next week.

A new petition is calling on the UK Government to give all legacy benefits claimants backdated payments equivalent to the £20 weekly uplift received by millions of people on Universal Credit since the first lockdown in March 2020 until October 2021.

THIS beautiful 1964 Aston Martin DB5 is set to fetch up to £500,000 and be one of the stars of an upcoming classic car auction.

Former Rangers player Jason Cummings has been living his best life after relocating to Australia last year.

Seth Meyers is heading back to 30 Rock slightly sooner than expected.The “Late Night” host revealed on his show last night, during his “A Closer Look” segment, that he only has three more shows left to film in his in-laws’ attic before heading back to Studio 8G.This comes after “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” returned to 30 Rock a few weeks ago and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Late Late Show with James Corden” returned last week.Meyers, who usually tapes in Studio 8G, has been taping from his attic for the past five months – making jokes out of the talking Sea Captain and a well-worn copy of “The Thorn Birds.” During that time, the NBC show, which is run by Mike Shoemaker and exec produced by Lorne Michaels, hit

Seth Meyers is bringing “Late Night” back to the studio.

Seth Meyers is pulling the curtain back on what it's like shooting late night from home after producing 60-plus shows with no audience after in-studio filming shut down five months ago due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meyers appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show Thursday night, where he and host Jimmy Fallon chatted about early March, before the pandemic shut down non-essential businesses in New York, as well as the challenges of pivoting to a virtual, work-from-home process.

Also Read: Seth Meyers: Republicans Are 'Whiniest Little Babies in the World' About Kamala Harris (Video)On Wednesday, Ellis tweeted “Kamala sounds like Marge Simpson” during Biden and Harris’ first campaign event together, a divisive comment thatMarge’s response to Ellis’ dig was posted on “The Simpsons” social channels by Fox on Friday morning, following “The Simpsons” executive producer James L.

the extremist right-wing talking heads at Fox News after Joe Biden picked her as his running mate on Tuesday.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerSenator Kamala Harris is at the top of the news since her announcement as Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s choice for running mate.Since then, insisted Seth Meyers on his Late Night segment, A Closer Look, the  Republican opposition has “strained to come up with” ways to attack her.Meyers turned his attention to Vice President Mike Pence and contrasted his ethnic background with that of the multicultural Harris. Meyers said Pence’s 23 and Me profile was “93 percent Irish Ghost, and the rest was English ghost.”Pence will send a mannekin and recorder in his place to the VP debates and hope no one notices, Meyers chortled.

her own weekly late night show on NBC’s streaming service Peacock, but she’s still killing it at her current job as a writer on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” And on Wendesday’s episode, Ruffin said something that was definitely very funny: that she agrees with Donald Trump that nobody has done more for Black people in America than he has.“Amber, what did you think when you heard Donald Trump say, ‘Nobody’s done more for Black Americans than I have’?” host Seth Meyers asked to kick off the latest edition of Ruffin’s semi-regular segment on “Late Night.” Meyers referred specifically to Trump’s disaster of an interview with Axios, but he’s echoed that sentiment a few times.“I think he’s correct,” Ruffin replied in her standard faux-bubbly

Also Read: Tucker Carlson: Media Attacked Sturgis Rally Attendees for Being 'Too Masculine' (Video)And that was the calm and restrained portion of the show. It only escalated from there.“So it seemed to inconceivable then, given his current state, Joe Biden would choose someone so transparently one-dimensional as Kamala Harris.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn a special surprise panel at CTAM, comedian Amber Ruffin was joined by Jenny Hagel and Seth Meyers to talk about her upcoming half-hour talk show The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock which according to her, will take the best parts from regular late-night shows. What does that mean exactly? At the beginning of the panel, Ruffin said that the good parts are basically the comedy.Hagel, who serves as an executive producer of the show, said that “all the parts are good” when it comes to late-night.

, where she became the first Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show, Ruffin will host  as she takes on what’s happening in the world with her signature style. In addition to both late-night shows, Ruffin has also written for the Emmy-nominated HBO sketch comedy .Meanwhile, Wilmore will make his return to late night after hosting on Comedy Central. Currently untitled, Wilmore’s new series will feature frank discussions with high-profile people from all backgrounds in media, sports, politics and entertainment as they cover everything from the election to the most important conversations of the week. “Having a late-night show on Peacock is so exciting!” Ruffin said in a statement.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal broadcasts some of the best-known and longest-running programs in late-night TV. Now the company hopes to add two new shows to its wee-hours roster.The company behind “The Tonight Show,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night” and “A Little Late” will launch two weekly programs on its Peacock streaming-video outlet, one led by “Late Night” writer and personality Amber Ruffin and the other hosted by former “Comedy Central” host Larry Wilmore.

Larry Wilmore and Amber Ruffin leading their line up, the new NBCUniveral streaming service announced on Monday. Amber Ruffin, formerly a writer on Late Night with Seth Meyers who is well known for her appearances in a recurring segment called "Jokes Seth Can't Tell," will anchor The Amber Ruffin Show, which was picked up for nine episodes airing weekly starting in September. Each episode will be a half hour and packed full of sketches, songs and jokes — meaning that you'll get all the comedy you're used to seeing from a topical late-night show, without the fat (aka celebrity vacation stories). "Having a late-night show on Peacock is so exciting!" Ruffin said in a statement.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerTalk show host Seth Meyers tonight ran down two of President Donald Trump’s most recent television interviews, bringing forth some highly ascerbic takes on what was really said during the discussions.First, there was Trump’s interview with Axios, which Meyers said “could have doubled as an in-take at a psych ward.”To redeem himself, Meyers said President Trump “rushed back to Fox News.” While there, the President repeated his claim that schools should open. “This thing (coronavirus) will go away.”“Is he talking about a pandemic or a summer romance?” chortled Meyers.