Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words to its dictionary this year, and one of the words is Rickrolling. The transitive verb is defined as “to trick (someone) into hearing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by English singer Rick Astley.”
The word is joined by glow-up, promposal, looksmaxxing, letterboxing. compute, California sober, Yacht Rock, superfood, trash panda, and Mandela Effect.
I don’t know if this makes us smarter as a whole or dumber. Did you know that dumb is spelled with a b? Only a dumb man who claims to have a “high IQ” does not know that.
Before CBS made Stephen Colbert a missing person, he guest-starred on Missing Persons. He looks the same now as he did when he was 29 in that 1993 episode.
This season, Saturday Night Live lost Chloe Fineman and Martin Herlih. Today, we found out who will be replacing them for season 52. They are Saidah Belo-Osagie and Grace Reiter.
Saidah Belo-Osagie joins the cast of “Saturday Night Live” for her first season. Belo-Osagie wrote and directed the short film “Tinge” and is the creator of the event series “Afrobeats Futura” and solo show “Saidah Gets Closure.” Belo-Osagie is from Queens, N.Y.
Grace Reiter joins the cast of “Saturday Night Live” for her first season. Her credits include the upcoming series “Minimum Wage,” on which she also wrote and directed, “The Chair Company” and the online parody “The Hunger Games (but Better).” She’s originally from Chippewa Falls, Wisc.
SNL returns to NBC on September 26th with NY Knicks Jalen Brunson as the host and musical guest KATSEYE.
I am imagining that somewhere on Sesame Street, a bunch of writers were gathered around a table and were like, “We need to write a song that will get toddlers to go potty.” And they tried out all different tunes until someone was like, “I got it! Let’s turn Chappell Roan’s HOT TO GO to GOT TO GO.” And with that, we got Cookie Monster’s most addictive single since C is for Cookie.
Because of that, I am so grateful that Netflix saved the educational show because I can’t stop singing it. It is better than the original version! Don’t you agree?
