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Just days after Elon Musk halted the enforcement of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy, the CEO tweeted that leading immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted. But Jimmy Fallon is pretty sure Fauci had some insults to give right back.

On Sunday, Musk tweeted, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” both attacking Fauci and mocking the clarification of pronouns used by the transgender community and its allies. In another tweet on Sunday, Musk posted a meme suggesting that Fauci was begging his “king” Joe Biden for another lockdown.

But, during his monologue on Monday, Fallon was pretty sure he knew what Fauci’s response would be.

“Fauci was like, ‘Yep, much like a Tesla battery, Elon’s on fire,'” the late night host mocked. But Fallon had another comeback loaded up, as well.

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Broadcast networks are devoting their primetime hours to coverage of next week’s midterm results, underscoring the stakes and interest in this year’s election. But the night is also a bit of a prelude to 2024, as all of the news divisions and cable news outlets hope that audiences will return for another momentous presidential election.

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The biggest questions Tuesday — whether Democrats retain control of Congress, and whether Donald Trump-backed election deniers win key statewide posts — will have an impact on the next cycle. And speculation of who will enter the field in 2024, and...

Hours after the January 6th Committee showed behind-the-scenes footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders calling and even begging federal officials and others for resources to stop the attack on the Capitol, CNN showed extended clips throughout much of Anderson Cooper’s AC360.

The clips were riveting, capturing Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell working in unison to try to secure federal and state law and enforcement to quell the violence. As the Capitol was breached, the congressional leaders were taken to a command center at Fort McNair, about two miles away, and it was from there that they called cabinet secretaries and Vice President Mike Pence. They also considered reconvening Congress at that location if the Capitol could not be secured.

In one moment, Schumer shouted into the phone at Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, as...

John Legend has revealed that Kanye West was “very upset” with him as Legend didn’t support his 2020 presidential bid.

The 43-year-old singer said that he and West – who has legally changed his name to Ye – ultimately severed ties after Legend supported Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 presidential election instead of the rapper.

Kanye West announced his US presidential election campaign via Twitter in July 2020. He reportedly spent around £9.2m on this initiative.

In a recent New Yorker profile, Legend, who is expecting another child with his wife Chrissy Teigen, candidly spoke about what ended his friendship with Ye.

“I don’t feel like politics should be everything in your relationships, and your relationships with people shouldn’t only be determined by who they voted for,” he said, in reference to Ye’s presidential run. “But I do believe that certain things you believe in are indicators of your character,...

Musician John Legend, who bagged the award for Best R&b Album for ‘Bigger Love’ at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, is voicing his support for abortion access and reproductive rights, reports CNN. The legend described his own experience with wife, model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen’s 2020 miscarriage. In an interview with David Axelrod for […]...

John Legend insists the Kanye West you see is “pretty much what you get.” During a recent interview, the singer discussed the rapper and entrepreneur’s public antics — and how West’s political ambitions and support for Donald Trump strained their longstanding friendship.

During the chat with David Axelrod — Barack Obama’s former chief strategist and advisor — on his podcast, The Axe Files, Legend opened up about the controversial rapper, saying there isn’t much about West that the public doesn’t already know. “I think he’s been very...

Jon Stewart joined Matt Lauer during the November 14 edition of “Today” to promote his upcoming HBO comedy event “Night of Too Many Stars,” and the comedian took some time during the interview to address Louis C.K.’s sexual misconduct. Stewart says he became aware of the rumors surrounding C.K.’s behavior only a year ago when an audience member asked him about the rumors during a live taping of a podcast. Although Stewart took the rumors seriously, he was also willing to give a good friend like C.K. the “benefit of the doubt.”

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“A year ago I was doing a podcast with David Axelrod and a man in the audience asked me about it. I hadn’t heard at that point of any of it,” Stewart said. “[The audience member] said, ‘What...

Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has come under fire after Politico reported late Tuesday that the Republican politician has used private jets for government business five times in the last week — including for a 125-mile trip from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. “This is a mind-blowing story, coming as Price & Admin are working feverishly to slash health coverage for millions,” CNN commentator David Axelrod tweeted. “A DC to Philly charter flight is one of the most insane expenditures I’ve ever heard of,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes noted. Also Read: Trump Hotels Swap Usual Charities,...

As cries for President Donald Trump's impeachment and removal from office escalate, former Obama adviser David Axelrod says not so fast.

Edgar Wright was, by his own account, "21 years old, living in North London, broke and on the dole – that's British for 'welfare'" in 1995 when he was struck by what he can only compare to a near-religious vision. The filmmaker was in the process of editing his first movie, a low-budget Spaghetti western homage, but the future director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz had nothing lined up and no sense of what he really wanted to do with his life. And then he put on "Bellbottoms," the first...

She packs her own lunch, and he still isn’t allowed to drive. Subscribe now for all about Michelle and Barack Obama’s lives after moving out of the White House – only in People

Cool, even-keeled, no-drama Barack Obama is one of the few people in the country who hasn’t publicly opined on the tweets and turmoil wrought by President Trump. And so a persistent question to those close to the former president is: What does Obama really think of the man now occupying the Oval Office?

“He’s nothing but a bullsh–ter,” Obama told two friends early last November,...

The Axe Files With David Axelrod is heading from podcast to TV for the first time in this one-hour special and his guest is political heavyweight Sen. John McCain. With American politics in a place nobody would have predicted even a year ago, David Axelrod brings his popular podcast to the small screen for the first time. McCain talks about his own career, the state of U.S. politics and also discusses America’s role in the world. With President Trump advocating a more insular policy and tearing up international agreements and trade deals, the kaleidoscope really has been shaken in terms of foreign affairs....read more...

Donald Trump Jr. is feeling the fury of Twitter.

The oldest son of President Donald Trump has been branded a “disgrace” after he sent out a tweet criticizing London Mayor Sadiq Khan just hours after a terror attack at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday.

“You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan,” Trump Jr. tweeted on Wednesday as details were still emerging on the attack that claimed the lives of three people.

He included a link to an article published by The Independent in September 2016 that...

President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump appear to be back on good terms after Trump criticized Obama on Twitter for making “inflammatory” statements during the transition period.

“We had a very, very good talk,” Trump told pool reporters on the steps of his Mar-a-Lago resort Wednesday evening, just hours after he fired of a tweet accusing the president of putting up “roadblocks” to a smooth transition.

The president-elect added, “Our staffs have been getting along very well and I’m getting along very well with him, other than a couple of statements that I responded to and we talked...

President Barack Obama suggested that if he had been eligible to run for a third term, he would have been able to rally Americans behind his message of a more tolerant and diverse nation. During an interview with his former adviser David Axelrod on his podcast “The Axe Files,” Obama referred to a speech by Henry Cabot Lodge, the point of which, Obama said, was “not to bury that ugliness,” that “there’s this thing in this country that is good and unifies us and, ultimately, will win out.” He went on to tell Axelrod that although he saw that spirit of.

Bill Maher spent the opening portion of the first post-election Real Time, and the first episode with President-elect Donald Trump, discussing how the mogul became commander-in-chief despite getting 500,000 (and counting) less votes than Hillary Clinton.

"One other little detail about the election: Hillary won," Maher said in his opening monologue. "She won popular vote, probably by a million and a half. It's just that there were more Trump voters in the places that it counted, like Moscow."

In a sit-down interview with Eric Holder, the former Attorney General said flatly,...

The FBI announced Friday that it had uncovered new emails in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. But The New York Times later reported that the new information is actually being reviewed in connection to another investigation.

According to the Times, the FBI seized electronic devices belonging to top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, as part of an investigation into illicit text messages the former New York representative allegedly sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

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Marvel is set to release the digital soundtrack for the Netflix original series “Marvel’s Luke Cage,” on October 7, 2016. The album features original score composed by Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge. Influences ranging from David Axelrod, Ennio Morricone,… Continue Reading →...

Donald Trump was quick to link rival Hillary Clinton to Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal after the former congressman's wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, announced she was leaving him on Monday. "I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information," the Gop nominee said in a statement. "Who knows what he learned and who he told? It's just another example of Hillary Clinton's bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.

Donald Trump was quick to link rival Hillary Clinton to Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal after the former congressman's wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, announced she was leaving him on Monday. "I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information," the Gop nominee said in a statement. "Who knows what he learned and who he told? It's just another example of Hillary Clinton's bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.

As presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ramps up his calls to fight the barbarism of Isis with more barbarism, CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo has found a fascinating analog to Trump's tough talk: 2008-era Senator Barack Obama. In a discussion with former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod Wednesday morning, Cuomo compared the "visceral appeal" of Trump's torture rhetoric with then-Senator Obama's 2007 declaration that given the opportunity, he would unilaterally strike Osama bin Laden even if he were hiding in Pakistan.

Hillary Clinton had a triumphant Super Tuesday. The Democratic hopeful won seven states - Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Texas, as well as American Samoa - to Sen. Bernie Sanders' respectable four: Vermont, Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota. Clinton's early wins in Tennessee and Alabama were called by the Associated Press moments after the polls closed at 8 p.m. Taking direct aim at Gop front-runner Donald Trump, who solidified his own lead on the Republican side with big Super Tuesday wins, Clinton said in her victory speech that the work of the country's next president "is not to make America great again.

Hillary Clinton is off to a good start on Super Tuesday. The results are still rolling in but so far, as of 9:25 p.m. Et, the Democratic hopeful has won all but two states - Vermont and Oklahoma. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders easily won his home state and also managed to score a win in Oklahoma. Clinton, meanwhile, claimed victories in Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, as well as American Samoa. The early wins in Tennessee and Alabama were called by the Associated Press moments after the polls closed at 8 p.m. Clinton appears poised for a...

After Chelsea Clinton entered the campaign fray with a controversial swipe at Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan, mom Hillary Clinton is coming to her defense. "First of all, you know, I adore my daughter and I know what she was saying," Clinton said on Good Morning America Wednesday. "Because if you look at Sen. Sanders' proposals going back nine times in the Congress, that's exactly what he's proposed. To take everything we currently know as health care - Medicare, Medicaid, the Chip Program, private insurance, now of the Affordable Care Act - and roll it together." Clinton charged...

After Chelsea Clinton entered the campaign fray with a controversial swipe at Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan, mom Hillary Clinton is coming to her defense. "First of all, you know, I adore my daughter and I know what she was saying," Clinton said on Good Morning America Wednesday. "Because if you look at Sen. Sanders' proposals going back nine times in the Congress, that's exactly what he's proposed. To take everything we currently know as health care - Medicare, Medicaid, the Chip Program, private insurance, now of the Affordable Care Act - and roll it together." Clinton charged...

Stars: Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Brian Keith, Roddy McDowall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rachel Roberts, Paul Ryan, David Hirokane | Written by Jerry Sherlock, Stan Burns, David Axlerod | Directed by Clive Donner

In Hawaii, master sleuth Charlie Chan unmasks the Dragon Queen as a killer. Before she’s arrested, she places a curse on Chan and his family. Years later in San Francisco, Chan is called out of retirement when the city of San Francisco finds itself in chaos over a series of weird murders. Chan is assisted by his blundering grandson, Lee Chan Jr, who is more of a hindrance than help. Yet the shadow of the Dragon Queen still hangs over the Chan family, when she becomes his number one suspect.

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David Axelrod recently joined CNN as a contributor, and he doesn’t seem to be missing his days as an on-air analyst for MSNBC. Speaking to The Washington Post, the former senior adviser to President Obama criticized MSNBC: “I think that I did not want to be simply a surrogate for the Democratic Party.” Axelrod stressed he was grateful to MSNBC for the experience there, but conceded the network has an agenda. Also Read: Bill Maher Slams MSNBC on 'Hardball' for Covering Donald Trump's 'Brain Farts' “I think that’s the nature of it,” he said when asked if MSNBC is partisan.

David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Obama, will begin as a CNN senior political commentator tomorrow, September 4; he will be unveiled on The Lead With Jake Tapper. It’s presumed this means Axelrod’s tenure as political analyst on MSNBC has come to an end. At CNN, he will add insights and analysis across CNN's domestic, digital, and international networks. CNN’s Washington bureau chief Sam Feist broke the news this morning: Thrilled to announce that @David…...

Amazon has announced that the second season of Alpha House will debut on Friday, October 24th.

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The Second Season of Amazon Studios' Original Comedy Series "Alpha House," from Doonesbury Creator Garry Trudeau, Premieres Friday, October 24

All ten episodes will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video

Guest stars this season include Bill Murray (Groundhog Day), Penn & Teller's Penn Jillette, Andy Cohen (Watch What Happens Live), Former Presidential Advisor David Axelrod, and U.S. Senators John McCain and Elizabeth Warren, among many others

Seattle -- Sep. 29, 2014 -- (Nasdaq:amzn) - Following the strong debut of Jill Soloway's dark comedy Transparent, Amazon today announced it will premiere all 10 episodes of the second season of Garry Trudeau's critically-acclaimed political comedy series Alpha House on Friday, October 24 exclusively on Amazon...

On Fox News Sunday, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) dismissed the indictment handed down by a Texas grand jury this week that he abused his power in threatening to veto funding for an agency run by a Travis County District Attorney he wanted to resign. To show how ridiculous the charges were, he cited a tweet from former Obama adviser David Axlerod, who called the indictment "sketchy."...

Title: Endless Love Director: Shana Feste Starring: Gabriella Wilde, David Axelrod, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby. How can Franco Zeffirelli’s 1981 romantic drama ‘Endless Love’ be forgot? The movie starred Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Tom Cruise (in his first motion picture role) and the film’s theme song, by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie, became a number one hit, that received an Academy Award as well as Grammy and Golden Globes nominations. The remake by director Shana Feste couldn’t pay worse homage to the first film adaptation of Scott Spencer’s 1979 novel. Jade Butterfield in this new version is interpreted by Gabriella Wilde, the [ Read More ]

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Have you seen "The Vow"? "Safe Haven"? "The Notebook"? "The Lucky One"? "A Walk to Remember"? "The Last Song"? "Dear John"? Then you have already seen the trailer for "Endless Love," the latest weepy romantic melodrama that follows the tortured love affair between two uncommonly attractive young people living in a photogenic location. This one stars Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde as David Axelrod and Jade Butterfield, two uncommonly attractive young people with made-up names whose unfolding romance consists mainly of twirling through public fountains, staring lovingly at one another on carnival rides, running through grassy meadows and reciting impassioned tear-stained...

New Delhi, Jan 8: Alex Pettyfer starrer romantic drama 'Endless Love' is set to hit the theatres in India on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014.

According to Universal Pictures International India, the Shana Feste-helmed film, which also stars Gabriella Wilde of 'The Three Musketeers' fame in the female lead, revolves around a young in-love couple who are forbidden to ever unite by their parents.

While Pettyfer plays a charismatic boy David Axelrod in the film, Wilde plays a privileged girl Jade Butterfield.

The movie also stars Robert Patrick, Bruce Greenwood, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby and Joely Richardson..

Few stories are as classic as those of forbidden love. Make your star-crossed lovers a pair of stubborn teens, and you've got a drama that can appeal to hopeless romantics of all ages. Surely this is the hope for Endless Love, a story about the connections formed between two young lovers who won't give each other up, come hell, high water, or parental scorn. Get a taste of this steamy teen romance in its first trailer, courtesy of MTV. Gabriella Wilde and Alex Pettyfer front the film as Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod. She's a brainy bookworm, who has been too busy studying to notice boys. Yet, she can't help but notice the strapping Axelrod, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who has a criminal past and casually steals cars for joyrides. Despite their different backgrounds, the two can't fight their shared attraction. Jade's parents won't stand...

The trailer for Endless Love touts that its star-crossed lovers (and presumably us folks in the audience, too) will “say goodbye to innocence.” It’s a surprisingly easy pill to swallow, especially when 75% of the trailer consists of lead actress Gabriella Wilde taking her clothes off. Let your emotions soar as she disrobes in a car! In a field! On a boat! There’s a story to Endless Love amidst all the frenzied garment removal. Jade Butterfield (Wilde) and David Axelrod (Alex Pettyfer) come from wildly different households, but fall in love despite (or maybe, just maybe, because of) the vast gulf between them. Forces will seek to keep the two young lovers apart; forces like parents and teenage stupidity chief among them. But when Jade and David’s love spurns on an act so stupid and dangerous that their relationship is threatened forever, can the two persevere? We’ll have to see the film to find...

Last week, after President Barack Obama addressed the breaking revelations regarding the National Security Agency’s sweeping monitoring of Americans’ communications and said that all members of Congress had been briefed on those programs, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-co) contradicted that claim. On Friday, former White House advisor David Axelrod said that it turns out Merkley was too busy doing another MSNBC interview to attend the Nsa briefing.

Former senior White House advisor and MSNBC contributor David Axelrod appeared on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday where he defended and distanced the White House from the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups with undue scrutiny. Axelrod noted that anyone “with a modicum of political sense” would not have done what the IRS did, implying that the White House could not be directly involved in the scandal.

Rodham, an upcoming film about Hillary Clinton’s younger years, basically has “Oscar” written all over it. The movie’s screenplay won the number 4 spot on last year’s Black List of best unproduced scripts, an annual roundup that has cited future Best Picture winners like Slumdog Millionaire and The King’s Speech in the past. It’s a period biopic about a complicated political figure, which is a long way of saying “Academy catnip.” And it’s stuffed with meaty roles — future president Bill Clinton, future Massachusetts governor William Weld, Hillary herself — that are sure to attract a plethora of big-name stars.

Universal's remake of the 1981 romance Endless Love is coming together. Last summer, the in-development project with a script by Gossip Girl scribe Josh Safran kicked into gear as Country Strong writer-director Shana Feste was hired for a rewrite and helming duties. Then, after a bunch of aspiring ingénues and inge-dudes were screen tested, Gabriella Wilde and Alex Pettyfer won the coveted leads of Jade and David. Just last week The Hunger Games' Dayo Okeniyi signed on to play David's playful best bud. And now The Wrap reports Bruce Greenwood and Robert Patrick are the latest to join the growing cast. Based on the film inspired by the novel by Scott Spencer, Endless Love unfolds the tumultuous romance of teenagers Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod. In the original movie, her parents were bohemians, his wealthy political activists. But one of the first signs of distinction we're seeing with the remake...

New York, May 8: President Obama celebrated his inauguration with some of the A-listers from Washington and Hollywood, it has been revealed.

According to The Hill, former President Bill and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actress Kerry Washington, producer Harvey Weinstein and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel all attended the president's secret post-inauguration party at the White House, the New York Daily News ported.

A mix of additional top musicians, actors, donors and friends also attended the high-end soiree, including actor Jamie Foxx; Obama adviser David Axelrod, singer Kelly Clarkson, actress Eva Longoria; singer.

Conniving, scheming, pint-sized and baggy-eyed.

That's one interpretation of the way Conan O'Brien characterized Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in a video spot during Saturday's annual White House Correspondents' Dinner in D.C. (embedded above)

(See photos below of the 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner.)

Most of the jokes on political power players like Secretary of State John Kerry and Fox News President Roger Ailes were simple sight gags, though plenty can be read into O'Brien's comparison of Emanuel to a certain diabolical "Family Guy" character.

Though he left life on the Beltway for a crack at governing the Windy City, Emanuel is still considered by many to be a power player in Washington — hence his inclusion in the comedian's spoof based on the popular Netflix miniseries, "House of Cards," which had its own brilliant parody during the night.

(Skip straight to Conan O'Brien's riff on Rahm.

At the White House Correspondents' Dinner President Obama took a few humorous swipes at all three major cable news networks -- MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. He included a joke about how his former senior campaign advisor, David Axelrod, took a job as a senior political analyst at MSNBC and NBC News in February.  "Some of my former advisors have switched over to the dark side. For example, David Axelrod now works for MSNBC, which is a nice change of pace since MSNBC used to work for David Axelrod," Obama quipped, according to the official transcript.  Video: Obama

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Washington, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite.

Joined at the dinner by his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, the president gently knocked Republicans for not working with him on policy priorities and made a rare reference to his race when urging the opposition party to be cooperative.

"I know Republicans are still sorting out what happened in 2012, but one thing they all agree on is they need to do a better job reaching out to minorities," Obama said.

"And look, call me self-centered, but I can think of one minority they could start with. Hello? Think of me as a trial run, you know?" he said.

Obama, a Democrat and the first black U.

C-Span insistently stamped the hashtag “NerdProm” on their coverage of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but the annual political roast looked more like Washington’s answer to the Golden Globes. By which I mean, there were several pointed jokes and untold gallons of booze. Conan O’Brien was the official comedy diplomat of the night — a return trip for the late-night host, who slung jokes in President Clinton’s direction back in 1995. But O’Brien was overshadowed by his opener: President Barack Obama, who took the opportunity to make several jabs at NBC, CNN, and even Taylor Swift.

3Rd Update – Final: (See Conan and Obama videos here and here.) We warned you not to expect much from tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. And true to form it failed to deliver. Bland to a fault Conan O’Brien didn’t lay a glove on celebrity-in-chief Barack Obama. (Bring back Seth Meyers…) But the President got an easy laugh with a showbiz joke that couldn’t have made Comcast too happy. (He noted that, of 22 recent basketball shots, he had 2 hits and 20 misses. “The executives at NBC asked, ‘What’s your secret?’” Potus said.) O’Brien’s best line of the night was comparing the relationship between Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner to a blind date between Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow. (“In theory they understand each other’s positions. But deep down you know nothing’s ever going to happen.”) Obama got in the nastiest media dig.

-- Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, "Twelve Reasons to Die" (Soul Temple/Red Distribution)

"Twelve Reasons to Die" unites Wu-Tang Clan vet Ghostface Killah with Adrian Younge, one of music's brightest young composers. The album's 12 cinematic tracks trace the trials of a masked Mafioso who is resurrected after his remains are pressed into a dozen vinyl LPs.

Playing like a graphic novel, the Ghostface persona jumps off the page. But aside from the requisite gear gloating (lion skin Wallabees, Black Panther hoodie made of panther skin), his signature impromptu patois is all but absent. Instead, Ghost is in the type of pure storyteller mode last heard on the breakneck hood-noir of his song "Shakey Dog."

Ghost's controlled and committed wordplay is the ideal accommodation for Younge's lush accompaniments. Probably best known for composing the score of the classic Blaxploitation spoof "Black Dynamite," an emphasis on stuttering organs and bleating brass carries over here,...

• Seth Rogen just got a whole lot busier. The This Is the End actor and director has signed on to direct, produce, and star in a comedy that he co-wrote with Evan Goldberg — Rogen’s collaborator on Superbad, Pineapple Express, and The Watch, among others. The Interview is about a talk show host and a producer (Rogen) who somehow find themselves involved in an attempt to assassinate the North Korean prime minister. This will be Rogen’s second time in the director’s chair. And, don’t get too excited just yet, but apparently Columbia Pictures wants James Franco to...

MSNBC's decision to hire former top Obama advisers Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod has resulted in more pearl-clutching than a Polaner All-Fruit audition, but the network's treatment of Gibbs, thus far, belies the most common criticism. While the Lean Forward network's detractors try to pose the hirings as evidence that they're "worse than Fox News," and that Gibbs and Axelrod won't be "independent" enough, Gibbs has dispelled that notion in short order by volunteering a major admission about the Obama administration's drone program, and MSNBC's anchors have responded by pressing him on it.

David Axelrod, the former White House senior adviser and senior strategist for both of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, has signed on with NBC News and MSNBC as a senior political analyst, NBC said Tuesday. In his new capacity, Axelrod will be a frequent contributor across all broadcasts and platforms for both outlets. Also read: NBC News President Steve Capus Steps Down Axelrod, who has worked on political campaigns for almost 30 years, started his career as a journalist with the Chicago Tribune, spending eight years at the paper as a political writer, columnist...

Former White House senior advisor David Axelrod joins a flurry of erstwhile politicos making the leap to television news punditry. Axelrod, who was a key strategist for President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, joins NBC News and MSNBC as a senior political analyst. The announcement came Tuesday from NBC News and follows last week’s news that 2012 Republican presidential aspirant Herman Cain has joined Fox News Channel. The network also recently hired former Republican Senator Scott Brown while parting ways with Dick Morris and Sarah Palin at the conclusion of her three-year contract. Story: Fox News Adds Hermain Cain to Contributor

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