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Emmy winner Kirstie Alley made her final TV appearance just months before she died Dec. 5 after a private battle with colon cancer. It was on Fox’s flagship reality competition series The Masked Singer.

Dominion Voting Systems and Fox attorneys squared off in the next chapter of the landmark defamation case on Tuesday, as each side is seeking a judge’s ruling that would deliver a victory and perhaps forestall a trial.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that a grand jury heard the recording between Trump and the late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston. In the recording, Trump pushed for the speaker to call a special session to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.This revelation of a third audio recording wrote the jokes themselves for Kimmel’s monologue.“Basically, Trump tried to order the presidency over the phone like it was a stuffed crust pizza,” Kimmel said.Kimmel mentioned this might be the last week of Trump being an “un-indicted man,” as the former president is facing legal challenges in New York, as well. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.“We have prosecutors in New York indicating that criminal charges are likely for Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case,” Kimmel said.

Saturday Night Live went with the week’s biggest media stories for its cold open: the revelations from Dominion Voting Systems bombshell filing in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Watch a clip below.

Rupert Murdoch said in a recent deposition that he “would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing” Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election, conspiracy theories that the Fox Corp. executive chairman at once called “bulls— and damaging.”

since it filed suit in November 2021.Dominion says Fox defamed it by allowing guests like attorney Sidney Powell and Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani to repeatedly appear in the weeks after the Nov. 2020 election, suggesting that Dominion’s software was compromised to digitally tilt the election to Biden.A necessary pillar of any defamation case is showing “actual malice” – meaning the plaintiff must be proven to have known it was spreading harmful untruths.

Fox News hosts and executives, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, did not believe Donald Trump’s election fraud claims in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, but the network nevertheless amplified the conspiracy theories as it worried about losing viewers to Newsmax, according to filings from Dominion Voting Systems made public on Thursday.

A New York appellate court declined to toss out Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News and personalities including Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo.

Colin Jost and Michael Che returned to Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” and took several swipes at George Santos and Donald Trump.

th Street before gentrification. As a longtime resident explains, “The S&M bars, the hookers, the meatpackers. That’s what was down here.” Yes, it really was home to meatpacking plants by day, before sex workers took over at night.

#SNLPremiere pic.twitter.com/kH1cttLSts“Oh, good. Trump sketch,” Teller says as Peyton Manning. “Way to mix it up!” The skit made fun of the politically motivated direction the show has taken in past seasons, along with the recent exit of the show’s most beloved cast members.Veteran cast members Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney all made their final SNL appearances on the show’s 47th season finale in May.

Read more about it here.Anyway, as always the cold open began with a news supercut explaining the matter, then came the gag, a fake commercial that begins with repurposed footage from a real The Right Stuff ad, featuring Ryan McEnany (sister of ex-Trump spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany). “The right stuff is all about getting into the right dating pool with people who share the same values and beliefs as you. It’s easy,” the ad promises.

The Masked Singer has hosted plenty of popular actors, athletes and musicians over the years, but producers have occasionally found themselves in hot water over controversial contestants and other mishaps.

wrote, “Rudy, you just shredded the one thing you could have been admired for.”“Rudy Giuliani, for nearly 3,000 Americans including the employees at the Pentagon, 9/11 was not the greatest day of their lives. Especially their surviving family members and friends,” wrote Ken Gordon.

Jenny McCarthy stands by her decision to not walk offstage in protest when Rudy Giuliani appeared on “The Masked Singer” earlier this year.

too open about the struggles of finding new lawyers. Otherwise, Rudy Giuliani might volunteer for the job.Fallon’s words came in response to reports this week that, following the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago — which resulted in the seizure of 11 boxes of classified documents Trump took from the White House — Trump is struggling to put together a new team of lawyers to help him through the impending investigation.

The FBI descending on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, searching it and removing at least a dozen boxes on Monday, continued to fascinate “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert during his second-to-last show of the week.On Thursday, Colbert once again dove into the topic that has been featured in at least three of his monologues so far.“As we continue to learn more details about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, it does not look good for former president Velveeta Voldemort,” Colbert said, opening his show with his latest nickname for Trump.“The former president and his minions have tried to play the victim card here saying, ‘Why he’s just a simple country club owner, and that this whole investigation is a nothing burger,’” Colbert said, doing a slightly Southern accent. “But it’s beginning to look like the investigation is a ‘Something Royale with Cheese.’ Now I’m not gonna get my hopes up.

Newsweek, the search of Trump’s resort “was deliberately timed to occur when the former president was away” and was “based largely” on the information from that currently anonymous informant. On Tuesday night, Fallon lightly implied that it was former vice president Mike Pence who had given the FBI the password to Trump’s safe, which he claimed was also taken.But the next night, Fallon had a few more concrete guesses.

Some men are born great. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And some men seek great positions to avoid legal consequences. According to sources close to Donald Trump, he’s the latter this time around.

When we heard there was going to be a surprise extra January 6 Committee hearing on Tuesday, complete with a secret witness, we figured it would be another whiff. We mean, what have we NOT heard about Donald Trump already?? It’s not like he ever faces any consequences no matter what he does.

President Donald Trump wanted to get to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 – even grabbing the steering wheel of the presidential limousine and lunging at his head of security when he was told he could not go, she said.Trump was also told that the crowd at his rally at the Ellipse ahead of the Capitol riot had guns and other weapons, Hutchinson said. She testified that Trump said «something to the effect of, 'I don't effing care that they have weapons.

This story is developing …Previous Hearings:Day 5 on June 23 included testimony showing that Trump pressured on his own attorney general’s office to overturn the 2020 election – an effort one dissenting Justice Department official called a “murder-suicide pact.” The committee was expected to hear from a documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, who chronicled the final six weeks of the Donald Trump presidency, but Holder’s appearance was delayed. Read about Day 5 highlights here.Day 4 on June 21 included Republican state officials from around the country telling the committee how Trump tried to pressure them to overturn election results, including sending supporters to officials’ homes, waving weapons and shouting insults and threats of violence here.Day 3 kicked off June 16 with testimony focusing on the intense pressure President Trump put on Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election.

A hoarse and angry Rudy Giuliani decried the downgrading of charges to misdemeanors in the Staten Island slapping incident, saying he felt as if “a boulder hit me” at the supermarket. Video showing the suspect backslapping Giuliani is “a little deceptive,” the 78-year-old former Trump lawyer said.

told the New York Post his father was fine after the assault and blamed the Staten Island incident on “left-wing” liberals.“It’s a sad day when New Yorkers’ greatest crime fighter, ‘America’s Mayor,’ is attacked,” Andrew Giuliani said. “I blame the left wing for encouraging violence. This is crazy.”Police were investigating the incident and it wasn’t certain what charges the 39-year-old suspect could face.

“We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence,” Bowers said Giuliani told him prior to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Dominion Voting Systems scored a legal victory in its efforts to hold Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corp. liable in its defamation lawsuit, not just Fox News, after the network featured guests and personalities who amplified false election rigging claims.

“A priest in a pinstripe suit.” That’s how Andrew Kirtzman characterizes Rudy Giuliani early in Jed Rothstein’s “Rudy! A Documusical,” his chronicling of how America’s erstwhile mayor became America’s most embarrassing punchline. Kirtzman, Giuliani’s biographer, makes a reasonable simile.

“I’m just curious how you even know when Rudy Giuliani is drunk,” said Trevor Noah on The Daily Show last night of the president’s former personal lawyer, whom he likened to a “drunk vampire.”

tweeting “I am disgusted and outraged at the out right lie by Jason Miller and Bill Steppien. I was upset that they were not prepared for the massive cheating (as well as other lawyers around the President) I REFUSED all alcohol that evening.

she trusted Barr and respected his opinion. This unsurprisingly ruffled some feathers, prompting Trump to issue a statement not long after stating that Ivanka had “long since checked out.”Noah took issue with that statement.“Wait.

Rudy Giuliani being drunk on election night.In setting up Monday’s hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney noted that “You will also hear testimony that President Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani to just claim he won, and insist that the vote counting stop to falsely claim everything was fraudulent.”“I mean, that is brutal,” Meyers said.

he was very drunk at the time. But there were more than enough Trump insiders on-hand and on-video – to shed light on how this happened – and what went down at the White House on election night.Giuliani has since denied that he was drunk, but it’s likely Kimmel doesn’t believe him.

Stephen Colbert figured out a way to make people care about the Jan. 6 hearings with a trailer ripped from Pro Wrestling or Monster Truck rallies.Hearings begin Thursday night in primetime and are scheduled to last two weeks.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Borat” star Maria Bakalova is going from Rudy Giuliani’s hotel room to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.The Bulgarian actor has been cast in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” starring Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Vin Diesel as Groot and Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterA juicy new documentary about the life and public battles of late real estate mogul Leona Helmsley is currently in production, Variety has learned exclusively.  The film will contain never-before-heard tapes of Helmsley and her archrival Donald Trump, as well as “smoking gun” evidence that will question the tax evasion case brought on her by Rudy Giuliani in 1988.Helmsley was an icon of the “greed is good” era, an owner of luxury hotels and condominiums who left behind a $5 billion estate (which famously included a $12 million trust fund for her dog, a Maltese). Branded the “Queen of Mean” by the New York tabloids for her acid tongue and regal air, she was a bitter rival of Trump — who once called her “a disgrace to the industry and a disgrace to humanity in general.” Of Trump, Helmsley once reportedly said: “I wouldn’t trust him if his tongue was notarized.” Trump notoriously tried to snatch the crown jewel of Helmsley’s property portfolio, the Empire State building.Indie studio Gunpowder & Sky has boarded the project from Filmbank’s Keith Robert Patterson (HBO’s “All About Ann”), who will direct and produce.

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger have announced the birth of their second daughter, who was born on Saturday. The couple took to Instagram to announce the newest addition to their family, who is named Eloise Christina Schwarzenegger Pratt.