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For Anthony Jeselnik, Writing for Kimmel and Fallon Didn't Work. So He Created a Show for Himself

Onstage, Anthony Jeselnik is unlikeable, dirty and downright disturbing. And that's just the way he prefers it. Known for teaching the old-timers a trick or two on the Comedy Central Roasts of Donald Trump, Charlie Sheen and Roseanne Barr, his new TV show with the cable channel, The Jeselnik Offensi ... More >>

Christopher Dorner Sent Anderson Cooper A Package With A Note And Bullet-Damaged Coin

Updated at the bottom: Apparently Dorner had messages for many, including Charlie Sheen, Tim Tebow and even disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahony. First posted at 3:04 p.m. Of all the crazy news swirling around the search for alleged murderer Christopher Dorner, including the LAPD's accidental shooting t ... More >>

Elimination Night by Anonymous: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

Also for Your Consideration

5 Super Bowl Food Commercials Worth Seeing (Sort Of)

Screenshot of the Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt Commercial​Whether you tuned in to cheer on the New York Giants or the New England Patriots, wanted to see Madonna lip-sync or loved the excuse of eating tons of tailgate-type food on this unofficial holiday, Super Bowl Sunday also gave us some memor ... More >>

Oh, Steve

Five Cheesiest Moments in Baseball Movie History

SonyDespite the brilliance of Moneyball as a baseball movie -- a really cheesy moment exists in the film.​ Looking to rally moviegoers this weekend is the feature adaptation of Michael Lewis 2003 tome Moneyball, which dramatizes the resurrection of the 2002 underdogs, the Oakland A's, under th ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Comedy Central Roast: The Fort Knox of Comedy Gold

Charlie Sheen at his roast​If you didn't know better, you'd think that Charlie Sheen spent all this time sabotaging the highest-paying gig in TV just so he'd wind up the guest of dishonor at his own roast, specifically, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, airing Sept. 19. For the show' ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Day: 10 Standard Types of Reactions From Award Show Nominees

Tina Fey got nominated this year! (Or at least we assume -- we haven't checked yet)​ Guess what? HBO dominated the Emmys again. Another way the Emmys are predictable: the nominees' reactions. Or at least how they convey their reactions. We don't really know people's real reactions -- we know ... More >>

An Evening with Men of a Certain Age

Obama Invites Eva Longoria, Rosario Dawson to Talk Immigration (Because Hollywood Millionaires Are Huge Border Experts)

Eva has deep immigration knowledge (we kid).​President Obama is having prominent Angeleno Latinos over to his Casablanca today for a little talk on immigration. Among the invitees are Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, fellow actresses Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera, and local radio hero ... More >>

Jamie Oliver and the LAUSD Call Truce: On Jimmy Kimmel's Show

The Jamie Oliver saga continues, played out -- as it has been since the British chef and television star first came to Los Angeles -- in the media more than in any school, cafeteria or kitchen. Oliver and new LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy sat down together finally last night. On the set of Jimmy ... More >>

Tina Fey and Steve Martin Discuss Comedy, Palin and Fey's New Memoir Bossypants

Jena ArdellTiny Fey and Steve Martin share a few laughs with the audience.​ "The first thing I am going to do is something that Dave Barry, the great comedy writer, said never to do unless you have medical records from a doctor and a medical report from the hospital, and that is ask a woman i ... More >>

Betty White Must Be Stopped!

The Madness of Charlie Sheen

Somebody Stole Guy Fieri's Lamborghini

Food Network/Alan PoulinGuy Fieri​ Ah, the perils of fame, money and expensive cars. And no, sorry, this is not a Charlie Sheen story. Food Network star Guy Fieri (Minute to Win It, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives) had his $200,000-plus Lamborghini sports car stolen, and not just ripped off by an ... More >>

After All That Work, Charlie Sheen's Efforts Finally Pay Off: He's Fired From 'Two and a Half Men' -- Permanently

Sheen.​Update: Warner Bros. sends a scathing "you're fired" letter to the Sheen camp, after the jump. In the span of a month or so Charlie Sheen has gone from being the world's biggest (and arguably highest-paid, besides Seth MacFarlane) TV star to a crazy guy with webisodes who has weed name ... More >>

Drink This Now: January Jones at Drago Centro

Guzzle & Nosh​It won't conjure January Jones in a barely-there red dress, but Drago Centro's frothy January Jones cocktail is perfect for driving out the bitter chill of a Los Angeles February. (We realize how ridiculous the phrase "the bitter chill of a Los Angeles February" sounds to readers ... More >>

Sex Addiction: The New Obsession in Los Angeles

Is Charlie Sheen a sex addict?​Botox? Hair replacement? Christian Louboutin? No. The latest obsession in the City of Angels, it seems, is self-reflection about one's sexual urges. Yeah, sex addiction and treatment of such has become big business, thanks to publicity given to Tiger Woods and m ... More >>

MS. GRIFFIN AND HER BIG CHRISTMAS BALLS

Merrill Davis: Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl!

Bristol Palin's Last Supper: Thank You, TMZ

We owe TMZ so much. News of what William Shatner is wearing. The details of Charlie Sheen's $20,000 text messages. Pictures of Ryan Seacrest doing pretty much everything, from exiting Mozza to walking around Paris with his parents. Now we know exactly what Bristol Palin and the rest of the Dancing w ... More >>

GENTLEMEN, START YOUR LADY SCHICKS!

Groundbreaker: Remembering Gertrude Berg

You Don't Know Jack

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL! CHELSEA PERETTI

Al Gore Was Having Affair With Larry David's Ex, According To Report

​Star magazine reports this week that the reason Al Gore and his wife of 40 years, Tipper Gore, have recently split up was because the former Vice President was having a two-year affair with Laurie David, the ex-wife of Hollywood television producer and comedian Larry David (Seinfeld, Curb You ... More >>

Busty "Mad Men" Star in Broken Bells' Crazy Sci-Fi Video

​The Guardian premiered it in the UK yesterday, but today Entertainment Weekly has finally unveiled here the high-budget sci-fi video for Broken Bells' "The Ghost Inside," starring Mad Men's Christina Hendricks. It's very sci-fi, a little Philip K. Dick, and sort of funny in that Gnarls Barkl ... More >>

5 Best Line Readings in The Hills Final Season Trailer

As you may have heard, The Hills, the glossy MTV "reality" series set in an alternate universe version of LA, that spawned the "careers" of celebusomethings Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Lauren Conrad and Brody Jenner, will come to an end at the end of its upcoming season. MTV has just released a tra ... More >>

A Toast to Mad Men

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Food Dude -- NOTE NEW VENUE!!

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

LOOK WHAT THE MAN'S DRAGGED IN

A thirtysomething Celebration

MORE PROOF THAT MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE CAN LEAD TO A FULFILLING CAREER

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Leslie Uggams Speaks!

Star Trek Fashion Smackdown: Old vs. New, Plus New Movie Trailer

New Star Trek Trailer: Who had better style? The old 1960s Star Trek crew members or the new 2009 Star Trek crew members? By "new" I mean "new version of the old." The movie drops next year. I know you're already in line. Here are some fashion-related things to think about while you're setting up ... More >>

Look What the Gays Dragged In

Nobody’s Baby

Tina Fey’s stillborn surrogate- mommy comedy

Christina Applegate Erases Bundy Past

Samantha Who?

Skinny Bitches, Orange Men and Rockin' Wild Boys

Sick of the post-Emmys coverage yet? Even if you only a watched a smidge of the entertainment shows the past two days, you know more than enough. Where to get knockoffs of Emmy dresses: ABS and Faviana. (They look cheap to me). What was bleeped from the telecast ("god-damn" and "screw"). (Oy vey). ... More >>

A Star Is Boring

Court TV's Star Jones

Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop on Sunday to check out the pooches she has up for adoption, and swear I it was non other than the brit reggae songstress chatting up the dude from Ea ... More >>

Club Emmy

Eeeek! Isaac!

Rating E!'s new red-carpet team

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler