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(NOTE LANGUAGE) At an exclusive performance at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles Thursday night, Dave Chappelle unpacked the onstage attack that happened during one of his shows Tuesday evening.

At one point, Dave was joined onstage by someone who also knows something about getting assaulted on stage: Chris Rock.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chappelle started solo, explaining that the incident, for which 23-year-old Isiah Lee was arrested, left the comedian showered with support. Dave said his teenage son hugged him after the attack and said he loved him.

“A lot of people love me, it turns out,” Chappelle told the unpublicized show’s crowd, which reportedly included Kim Kardashian, Sean “Diddy” Combs, comedian Jeff Ross, and Yasiin Bey.

Dave mentioned those who’d reached out to him after the incident, including Louis C.K., who’s continued to enjoy Chappelle’s support after the Emmy-winning comedian was embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal.

After flying solo, Dave welcomed Rock to sit beside him, and they compared notes on their respective on-stage incidents.

“At least you got smacked by someone of repute!” Chappelle reportedly joked, noting, “I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.”

Rock reportedly countered by dissing Will Smith, saying “I got smacked by the softest n***a that ever rapped.”

Chappelle also revealed he felt he “had” to meet his alleged assailant to learn his motivation. According to THR, Dave said Lee appeared mentally ill, and the suspect admitted he attacked him to draw attention to the alleged assailant’s grandmother, who had been forced out of her Brooklyn neighborhood.

Los Angeles prosecutors have charged Lee with four misdemeanors, including battery. He’s being held on $30,000 bail.

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“Write what you know,” the old adage says, and Pete Davidson has certainly done that for new comedy material for which he mined his “weird year” dealing with Kayne West.

As most everybody on the planet knows, the SNL star is dating West’s estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, and the Donda rapper hasn’t taken too kindly about it on social media.

“I’ve had a really weird year,” Davidson said during a recent performance as part of the streaming service’s ongoing Netflix Is A Joke festival.

“I had an AIDS scare this year,” Pete admitted. “People are like, wow…are you having a lot of unprotected sex? Are you sharing needles?’ And I’m like, ‘No. Kanye told me I have AIDS. And he’s a genius…so I should get it checked out.'”

Pete did, and declares, “My doctor said I don’t have AIDS. I just look like I have it.”

Davidson also sounded off on the custody issues between Kim and ‘Ye, noting, “Doesn’t anyone else secretly hope that Kanye pulls a Mrs. Doubtfire? I come home one day and they’re like, ‘This is the new housekeeper,’ and he’s like ‘What’s up, fam!'”

Pete also noted that given the high-profile nature of the controversy, friends really have no guidance for him.

“‘It looks pretty bad, bro. Good luck, sorry, here if you need…’ No advice, though,” Pete said to laughs.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Thursday’s seventh night of the streaming service’s Netflix Is a Joke festival featured an event called “Cobra Kai, Live and Bada**”, held at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Center.

Cast members were on hand for the celebration of the series, where it was announced that the fifth season of the Emmy-nominated show will be released September 9. 

The trailer for the fifth season was also revealed and subsequently posted online. The new footage shows Thomas Ian Griffith‘s Terry Silver on the march. “Our competition has closed up shop,” he gloats.

“This is what we’re up against, Ralph Macchio‘s Daniel LaRusso says. “…I have to take him down.”

“You’re playing with fire, Danny Boy,” Silver teases.

Netflix teases, “Following the shocking results of the All Valley Tournament, Season 5 finds Terry Silver expanding the Cobra Kai empire and trying to make his ‘No Mercy’ style of karate the only game in town. With Kreese behind bars and Johnny Lawrence setting karate aside to focus on repairing the damage he’s caused, Daniel LaRusso must call on an old friend for help.”

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Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, William H. Macy, Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey have been tapped to star in the multi-generational romantic comedy Maybe I Do, according to Deadline. The story follows a couple, played by Roberts and Bracey, who are contemplating taking the next step in their relationship and invite their parents to finally meet and to offer some understanding of why marriage works. Except the parents already know one another quite well, which leads to some very distinct opinions about the value of marriage. Writer and producer Michael Jacobs makes his feature directorial debut in the comedy based on his script…

HBO Max has renewed the original comedy series Minx for a second season, the streamer announced on Thursday. Set in the 1970s, Minx follows Joyce — played by Elementary‘s Ophelia Lovibond — an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher — portrayed by Jake Johnson — to create the first erotic magazine for women, per HBO Max. Season one also starred Idara Victor, Jessica Lowe, Lennon Parham, Michael Angarano and Oscar Montoya…

FX’s Justified: City Primeval, the limited series inspired by Elmore Leonard’s City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, has added eight people to its cast, according to Deadline. The story picks up eight years after Justified ended, with Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens now based in Miami, where he balances life as a marshal and part-time father of 14-year-old Willa, who will be played by Olyphant’s real-life daughter Vivian. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell — a.k.a. The Oklahoma Wildman — played by The Premise’s Boyd Holbrook, a violent sociopath who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and wants to do so again. Aunjanue Ellis, Adelaide Clemens, Vondie Curtis Hall, Marin Ireland and Victor Williams round out the cast…

(NOTE LANGUAGE) NBC’s Quantum Leap pilot, a sequel to the network’s series of the same name that ran from 1989 to 1993, has cast Kevin Can F*** Himself‘s Raymond Lee in one of the lead roles. The new version takes place 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it, according to the official logline. Lee will star as Dr. Ben Seong — a world-renowned physicist working on a time travel project known as Quantum Leap…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 2022 Daytime Emmy Awards and Three nominees for outstanding drama series lead the nominations: CBS’ The Young and the Restless with 18 nods, ABC’s General Hospital with 17 and NBC’s Days of Our Lives with 11. Peacock’s Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem and CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful were also nominated in the category. Days of Our Lives and Beyond Salem are the first series and spinoff, respectively, to be nominated together. Syndicated talk shows The Kelly Clarkson Show and The Drew Barrymore Show also nabbed nine and six nominations, respectively. Both hosts are up for outstanding entertainment talk show host. ABC’s The View earned nine nominations, while Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk earned four noms, and its Estefans-hosted spinoff earned three. See the full list of nominees here…

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(NOTE CONTENT) Amber Heard spent another day in a Fairfax, Virginia courtroom, detailing — for hours on end — allegations of abuse she said she suffered while with her ex-husband Johnny Depp.

While Depp’s previous testimony was anchored with medical reports and witness statements, and photos, for example, of his severed right middle finger he says Heard caused with a thrown vodka bottle, Heard’s was more freeform, continuous harrowing allegations against the former Pirates of the Caribbean star without input from others.

Heard began by detailing the rosier parts of their relationship, confessing she “had butterflies” at first before things took a darker turn.

Heard claims she suffered a beating after the couple attended the Met Gala for the first time — caused, Heard alleges, because Depp thought she was flirting with a model there. She also claims Depp attacked her aboard a private plane ride, after having accused her of having an affair with a co-star at the time, James Franco.

Depp previously detailed the tumultuous trip as well, claiming it was Heard who picked a fight with him, and he popped opioids and locked himself in the bathroom of the duration of the trip to avoid her.

As court began to wind down for the day, Heard detailed an intense fight that seemed to be her side of the infamous bottle-throwing story, and seemed to intimate that Depp cut his own finger as he hurled bottles at her.

She also said, for the first time, that Depp reportedly sexually violated her with a bottle during that row.

After detailing, for nearly 20 minutes straight, the alleged beating she took that night, her lawyer asked if she took any photos of the injuries she claimed. Heard admitted, “I didn’t think to make a record of any.”

Her attorney did later present a pair photos: one of hair Amber said was pulled out by Johnny in yet another fight, and bruising on her face from that alleged incident.

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million dollars, claiming an op-ed she wrote in 2018 that obliquely accused him of sexual and domestic violence was not only false, but devastated his reputation and career.

The case will resume on May 16, when Heard’s bombshell claims will be cross-examined by Depp’s legal team.

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HBO released a new trailer for its anticipated HBO Max Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon.

As reported, the show is based on George R.R. Martin‘s Fire & Blood book, set hundreds of years before the events of Game of Thrones, and is a deep dive into the history of GoT‘s House Targaryen, ancestors of Game of Thrones‘ tragic heroine, Daenerys Targaryen, who was played by Emilia Clarke.

The series centers on a brutal familial civil war that erupted over control of the legendary Iron Throne. The trailer begins with the families pledging their loyalty to Paddy Considine’s King Viserys Targaryen, and to his heir, Princess Rhaenyra, played by Emma D’Arcy.

But all is not what it seems. “Men would sooner put the realm to the torch than to see a woman ascend the Iron Throne, Eve Best‘s Rhaenys Targaryen warns.

To that end, we see battle formations and hand-to-hand combat, even between female members of the families.

Steve Toussaint‘s Lord Corlys Velaryon voices over, “History does not remember blood. It remembers names.”

The sneak peek ends with Matt Smith‘s Prince Daemon Targaryen coming face to face with a fire-breathing dragon.

House of the Dragon debuts August 21 on HBO.

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Will Smith has been named on the list of guests for the new season of David Letterman‘s Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction — but he won’t be talking about his infamous slap.

ABC Audio has confirmed that the segment with Will was recorded in January — obviously, long before Smith’s infamous Oscars-night outburst.

Letterman’s other fourth-season interviews — with Ryan Reynolds, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Durant, Billie Eilish and Cardi B — were all filmed before March.

Season four of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction debuts on May 20.

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We knew that Selena Gomez‘s pal Cara Delevingne would be one of the actors joining the cast for season two of Selena’s acclaimed Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. Now we know what part the model and actress will be playing.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Only Murders showrunner and co-creator John Hoffman says Cara will portray Alice, a new love interest for Selena’s Mabel. Alice is an art-gallery owner who, as Vanity Fair reports, “puts Mabel in touch with a side of herself she’s been somewhat neglecting since the show began.”

Hoffman says Selena and Cara’s long friendship made their interaction onscreen “amazing,” adding, “It’s a little sparky in all the right ways that makes you feel like, ‘Oh, someone’s opening someone’s world.'” However, Steve Martin‘s Charles and Martin Short‘s Oliver aren’t very happy about Mabel’s new relationship, according to Hoffman.

But, of course, Mabel, Charles and Oliver have to focus on clearing their names after last season’s cliffhanger ending. Season two, which also feature guest stars Amy Schumer and Shirley MacLaine, debuts June 28.

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Stardate: October 13th, 2021: Anson Mount is recording one of the most legendary monologues in pop culture: The opening to the original Star Trek series, famously voiced by William Shatner. The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star, who plays Captain Kirk’s predecessor, Captain Christopher Pike, is having a moment.

“At one point, I said ‘Guys…we’re going to remember this moment for the rest of our lives,'” he tells ABC Audio. That’s when the date, and the Blue Origin launch come into the picture. “And I realized of course…William Shatner is in orbit right now! I was like, oh man. Don’t ever try to outdo Shatner!”

Talk about living up to expectations. The Paramount+ show, set a decade before Captain Kirk takes command of the Starship Enterprise, is rich in Star Trek history and lore, showcasing new and classic characters like Mister Spock, played by Ethan Peck.

“I feel a huge amount of pressure to do this properly,” Peck tells ABC Audio, referring to the legacy of Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock for almost 50 years. “Because it is such an iconic character not just in Star Trek, but I think in television history. It’s forced me to grow personally.”

Rebecca Romijn — who stars as Pike’s Number One, Una Chin-Riley — echoes the sentiment. “You feel that pressure, you want to make sure you’re not letting anybody down,” the X-Men star says, telling ABC Audio the Trek franchise is in good hands when it comes to this outing.

“We ask a lot of questions, we don’t want to get anything wrong,” she says. “Pronunciation is always a big thing with our dialogue! But yeah, I would say I feel like a caretaker first and foremost.” 

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is now streaming on Paramount+.

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While Kim Cattrall made it clear she wasn’t going to return to the world of Sex and the City years ago, in a new Variety cover story, she explained why she didn’t reprise her Samantha Jones for the HBO Max follow-up And Just Like That… .

For one thing, the 65-year-old actress said she “was never asked.”

“I made my feelings clear after the possible third movie, so I found out about [the show] like everyone else did — on social media.”

That said, Cattrall says, “It’s a great wisdom to know when enough is enough. I also didn’t want to compromise what the show was to me.”

Kim also revealed that the third Sex and the City film, which she eventually pulled out of, some elements actually hewed fairly closely to the basics of And Just Like That…, including the death of Chris Noth‘s Mr. Big.

However, instead of development for Samantha’s character, one element of the plot that Cattrall objected to was Samantha getting a dirty pic from Brady, the underage son of Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda. Cattrall called that “heartbreaking.”

While Cattrall acknowledges it’s certainly nice that people miss Samantha, “I haven’t deserted anybody,” she insists. “Can you imagine going back to a job you did 25 years ago? And the job didn’t get easier; it got more complicated in the sense of how are you going to progress with these characters? Everything has to grow, or it dies.”

She adds, “I felt that when the series ended, I thought that’s smart. We’re not repeating ourselves. And then the movie to end all the loose ends. And then there’s another movie. And then there’s another movie?”

After 2010’s Sex and the City 2, Kim recalls, “Everything in me went, ‘I’m done.'”

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