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Live from the Lycett Arms review: Joe Lycett’s rambunctious Channel 4 boozer is a missed opportunity

Live from the Lycett Arms review: Joe Lycett’s rambunctious Channel 4 boozer is a missed opportunity

Published by Daniella Wilson

We are only a couple of years away from the centenary of the moment when Scottish inventor John Logie Baird broadcast live television for the first time via the BBC. For the first two decades of TV’s existence, the technology to pre-record shows didn’t exist, and so comedy was dominated by revues and variety hours, sketches and songs. With the dawn of the sitcom, however, live telly became largely the preserve of rolling news and breakfast chat shows. Recently, however, British comedy has started to return to its own live roots, with SNL UK a surprise hit, and now Joe Lycett embracing the spontaneity with his new Friday night variety hour, Live from the Lycett Arms. Looking like a traditional boozer – albeit one with studio lighting and an unusually photogenic cast of regulars – the Lycett Arms, the comedian Joe Lycett announced last night, is “your favourite local pub”. He twirled onto the stage with a gloriously camp musical number, introducing his first guest, comedian Guz Khan, as well as his “actual biological aunties …

Joe Russo Says Watching ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Required for ‘Doomsday’

Joe Russo Says Watching ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Required for ‘Doomsday’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Marvel fans are being given some homework. Avengers: Doomsday director Joe Russo says watching Avengers: Endgame is “required” to understand the upcoming film. Russo told Fandango that the upcoming Avengers: Endgame Encore — a re-release of the 2019 blockbuster featuring additional footage — is “going to connect the story of the two movies. There’s a natural progression from Endgame into Doomsday, which is also inclusive of all the other stories that have been playing out. But I think it’s important to see Endgame again in theaters for two reasons: One, you’re going to have a lot of fun … and two, I think it’s required viewing for following the story in Doomsday.” His brother and directing partner Anthony Russo added, “If you saw Endgame when it was originally released, you couldn’t see this coming.” With its 185 minute runtime, Endgame Encore has roughly four minutes of extra footage and includes a sneak peek at Doomsday. The film will be released on Sept. 25. Endgame currently stands at $2.79 billion at the global box office, one …

Joe Rogan on democratic socialists’ ideology: ‘It sucks’

Joe Rogan on democratic socialists’ ideology: ‘It sucks’

Published by Sam Flores

Joe Rogan said Wednesday that democratic socialists’ entire ideology “sucks” and accused those supporting the progressive movement of being “Marxists” fueled by what he described as manipulative social media rhetoric.  “It sucks. … People are really [arguing], ‘Oh maybe being socialist is cool.’ Like, this is all coming out of social media. One hundred percent,”… Source link

Hunter Biden says Joe Biden’s cancer has spread

Hunter Biden says Joe Biden’s cancer has spread

Published by Sam Flores

Former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden told the BBC on Friday that his father’s cancer is spreading, describing it as “very debilitating” and “painful.” “It’s really hard,” Hunter Biden told the British broadcaster about his father’s condition in a televised interview. “It’s really sad to watch.” “I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good. The cancer has spread, it has metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful, and it’s very debilitating in many respects, but he’s still out there and he’s still doing his thing,” he added. His remarks come after former first lady Jill Biden told NBC News in June that Joe Biden would live with cancer forever. “He’s doing OK,” she told “TODAY” show co-host Craig Melvin. “I think if he had just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, that’s one thing because that can be cured, but the fact that it metastasized to his bones, that makes it a whole different story. And so I think Joe will live with cancer till the rest of his life.” In …

All of Life | Joe Dunthorne, Aleander Santos

All of Life | Joe Dunthorne, Aleander Santos

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the Review’s June 25 issue, Joe Dunthorne writes about a recent oral history of the New York School poets and poses himself a challenge: “How to analyze a poetics of irreverence and improvisation—of life experienced in a perpetual present—without stifling precisely these qualities?” His essay suggests that the poetry in the scene, by writers ranging from Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery to Alice Notley and Eileen Myles, emerged in part from their social and family lives. The vivacity of their work drew from the eclecticism of their world, or, as Dunthorne quotes Notley, “We’re inside each other’s lives.” “Despite the disputes and grievances that run through these pages,” he continues, “there is a sense that what survives of these poets, apart from their poetry, is the generative and spiky sociability that brought them together in the first place.” Dunthorne is an eclectic writer in his own right. He is the author of three novels, including his debut, Submarine (2008), which was adapted into a film by Richard Ayoade; a collection of poetry, O Positive (2019); …

Machine Aesthetics | Joe Bucciero

Machine Aesthetics | Joe Bucciero

Published by Jenni Sidey

The thirteen paintings in Altoon Sultan’s exhibition at Hoffman Donahue take up little of the gallery’s wall space. Hung low, with varying distances between them, the works never exceed fourteen inches on a given side. But what they show is big. Big in a literal sense—Sultan paints cropped fragments of large agricultural machines that she has digitally photographed near her home in Vermont—and in a symbolic one. Craft and mechanization, the collective and the individual, country and city: farm technology exemplifies the far from frictionless process by which each of those terms gives way to the other, by which the old world becomes the new. These transformations have preoccupied painters for well over a century. In a series of essays from the 1920s Fernand Léger wondered if “the mechanical element,” often seen as an existential threat to artists, could in fact offer an opportunity. Machines can be beautiful—Léger muses about farm equipment “decked out like a butterfly or a bird”—but their beauty serves commercial functions. Art, by contrast, Léger argues, is harder to instrumentalize; it …

Joe Joe Manchin’s Work-Around Democracy | Bryce Covert

Joe Joe Manchin’s Work-Around Democracy | Bryce Covert

Published by Jenni Sidey

If one were to imagine an alternate timeline in which Kamala Harris won the 2024 election—persuading voters for whom pessimism about the economy was often the dominant issue—perhaps the decisive episode to revisit would be the death of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislative package. This, as much as any, may have been the moment when reality forked. Under the plan an estimated 3.4 million Americans would have gained health insurance, families would have saved thousands each year on childcare, and 35 million households would have been able to rely on monthly payments from an enhanced child tax credit, among many other provisions to make life more affordable. Its collapse helped convince voters who wanted solutions to the insecurity created by inflation and the long-simmering crisis of inequality that Democrats lacked the necessary fighting spirit. The legislation passed the House and had support from every Democrat in the Senate—except one. Joe Manchin opens his memoir, Dead Center, with a meeting in the White House. In stilted reconstructed dialogue, the now retired Democratic senator from West …

Hillary Clinton Blasts Joe Biden After Endorsing Him Twice

Hillary Clinton Blasts Joe Biden After Endorsing Him Twice

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears to be suffering from buyer’s remorse about the 2024 race. After repeatedly praising former President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign, Clinton now says his decision to seek re-election was a “terrible mistake.” “He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country,” Clinton said Monday of Biden’s decision to run for a second term. She made the scathing remarks during an interview with a New York Times editor in Manhattan. Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden made a “terrible mistake” by running for re-election. “He made a terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country.” Clinton said that had Biden said he was not running, the winner of the primary “would have… pic.twitter.com/Un1O9Q09Cy — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 16, 2026 The comments are at odds with Clinton’s repeated endorsements of both Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris during the election cycle. A Headline USA review of Clinton’s social media found that she spent much of 2024 urging voters to …

When the Rents Were Low | Joe Dunthorne

When the Rents Were Low | Joe Dunthorne

Published by Jenni Sidey

One of the few things New York School poets agree on is that the New York School never really existed. “You can join the New York School for $5 if you want” was how Ted Berrigan often put it. Part of the lasting appeal of this loose group of poets is their disinterest in assessing their own legacy. Frank O’Hara wrote that he preferred the movies, and Eileen Myles quotes Joe Brainard on his deathbed: “Well, one good thing about dying, you don’t have to go to any more poetry readings.” All of this makes them a challenge to write an academic book about. How to analyze a poetics of irreverence and improvisation—of life experienced in a perpetual present—without stifling precisely these qualities? In Conversations with New York School Poets, the editors Rona Cran and Yasmine Shamma find a solution by presenting stripped-back interview transcripts with twenty-five poets, blissfully free of footnotes or commentary. Reading these conversations feels like attending a party at which each new guest talks over the one before, disputing and undermining, …

Mister Rogers’ Handyman Joe Negri dies days before his 100th birthday

Mister Rogers’ Handyman Joe Negri dies days before his 100th birthday

Published by Daniella Wilson

Joe Negri, the jazz musician known as Handyman Negri on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, has died days before his 100th birthday. The beloved guitarist appeared on Fred Rogers’ iconic children’s show from 1968 until Rogers stopped producing new episodes in 2000. Negri’s oldest daughter, Lisa, confirmed to Pittsburgh local outlet TribLIVE that her father died Saturday of natural causes. He would have turned 100 on June 10. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Joe Negri, a beloved member of the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood family whose warmth, incredible musical talent, and gentle spirit brought endless joy to viewers for decades,” Fred Rogers Productions said in a statement shared with People. “As Handyman Negri, Joe taught children that everyone’s contributions matter, and off-screen, his mastery of jazz and dedication to education inspired countless musicians.” Legendary jazz guitarist Joe Negri has died at age 99 (Getty) On Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the educator appeared as the fix-it man in the Land of Make-Believe, as well as the owner of Negri’s Music Shop. He regularly gave performances and music …