California senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris got some extremely good news last week. According to a Quinnipiac University survey of California Democratic voters, the former San Francisco District Attorney has pulled out ahead of frontrunner Joe Biden by two percentage points, with 23 percent support to the former Vice President’s 21. Of course, […]
We Cannot Unsee These Hilarious Celeb FaceApp Makeovers
If you’ve noticed your social media feeds suddenly taken over with elderly-looking faces, it’s not because everyone simultaneously went to visit their grandparents this week. The source of all those wrinkly versions of your friends is FaceApp, a photo-editing app that’s been kicking around for a while, but has enjoyed a new burst of virality […]
Steve Martin and Martin Short Have No Desire to Kill One Another
Like it or not, Steve Martin and Martin Short are now elder statesmen of comedy. Both survived the wild 1970s—Short as a manic cast member on Canada’s SCTV and Martin as a form-bending stand-up—and forged enduring careers at the movies and on the small screen, somehow managing to avoid scandal and remain lovable into their […]
Celebs Are Using Dating Apps for Promotions and It’s Confusing Users
Erin Gallagher was swiping on Bumble when a picture of her longtime crush, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, popped up. It seemed too good to be true but she noticed the blue check verification next to his name, so it had to be him. Erin swiped right and, to her surprise, it was a match. […]
Jaden Smith Is Basically Doing More Good for America than Congress Is at This Point
Jaden Smith dropped a new album over the weekend, turned 21 years old, and celebrated by rolling a food truck down to Skid Row to serve healthy hot meals to people in need. If a celeb with fewer charitable bona fides pulled a similar move, one might get a faint whiff of “publicity stunt”–but something […]
How a New Batch of Apps Is Boosting the Profiles—and Fortunes—of Unlikely Celebs
Jason Shapiro has a strangely amusing new hobby. For the past few months, the 33-year-old has been booking C-list celebs through the Cameo app to make short videos in which they say random things he comes up with. He estimates that he’s spent $50 to $75, paying people, most of whom he’s never heard of, […]