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New York Post
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Andy Samberg reacts to Lorne Michaels 'SNL' retirement rumors
Weekday update. Former 'Saturday Night Live' star Andy Samberg is weighing in about the rumors that his former boss, Lorne Michaels, 80, may retire. 'He's going to do it when he decides to do it, and we're all just sort of like – no one wants him to [retire],' Samberg, 46, exclusively told The Post while promoting his Comedy Central show 'Digman!' (airing Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m.). 7 Andy Samberg and Lorne Michaels at the premiere of 'Hot Rod' at the Chinese Theater on July 26, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images 7 Andy Samberg talking to the New York Post in a video interview about 'Digman.' The New York Post 'He'll just do it until he decides he absolutely can't anymore,' Samberg added. 'And then, the show either will end or he'll ask someone else.' When asked if he would want the job, Samberg said, 'No. I could never do that. That job is very specific. But I loved working there, and I loved going back.' The actor returned for the show's 50th anniversary special, 'SNL50,' which aired in February. Other names such as Tina Fey have been suggested as Michael's replacement. In September, 'Weekend Update' hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che told Howard Stern: 'Could you imagine having to do that? I don't know that any – I don't know how – you do that job and not be Lorne.' Che quipped: 'To me, it's like, imagine being the stepfather of a 50-year-old! It's just impossible.' 7 Bowen Yang and Andy Samberg in the 'Andy's Song' sketch on Sunday, February 16, 2025. Holland Rainwater/NBC via Getty Images 7 Keenan Thompson, Darrell Hammond, Lorne Michaels, Andy Samberg, and Bill Hader at the NBC Univesal Cable portion of the Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 16, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. Getty Images 7 Lorne Michaels at the 2025 Met Gala. Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Samberg's 'Digman' co-creator, Neil Campbell, went on to joke who should takeover for Michaels. 'Weren't you telling me you thought A.I. should do it?' he asked Samberg. The actor replied: 'I don't remember saying that – but now that you've brought it up, it is a really good idea.' Samberg was on 'SNL' from 2005 to 2012, and became popular for his iconic 'Digital Short' sketches such as 'Dick in a Box' with Justin Timberlake, and 'Lazy Sunday,' his rap about his quest to see the 'Chronicles of Narnia' movies. His career after 'SNL' has been successful, with cult hit movies such as 2016's comedy 'Popstar: Never Stop Stopping,' the 2020 sci-fi rom com 'Palm Springs' with Cristin Milioti and his hit police sitcom 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' which ran for eight seasons, from 2013 to 2021. 7 Seth Meyers Andy Samberg, Lorne Michaels, and Colin Jost at the New York premiere of 'Staten Island Summer'l on July 21, 2015 in New York City. Getty Images 7 Andy Samberg during the 'Finest Girl' sketch on May 21, 2016. NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Michaels created 'SNL' in 1975 and has helmed it ever since – save for a brief departure from 1980 to 1985 – and his comeback Season 11 nearly got the show axed. Although Michaels hasn't announced retirement plans, he told Gayle King on 'CBS Mornings' in 2021 that he thinks he's 'committed to doing the show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years… I'd like to see that through, and I have a feeling that would be a really good time to leave.' The show is currently airing its landmark 50th season, and he hasn't made a retirement announcement. Michaels told the New York Times in a June 2024 interview, 'I'm going to do it as long as I feel I can do it. But I rely on other people and always have.' 'SNL' vet Dan Aykroyd, 73, meanwhile, told The Post in November: 'That ain't happening No. Lorne is not retiring.' 'He's got the greatest gig in New York City. He has influence and power,' the 'Ghostbusters' star went on. 'And he works in a job that keeps him laughing every day. So why would he want to leave that?'
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Donk, Pro Street, VIP: The Fascinating Details Behind 3 of Custom Car Culture's Most Striking Styles
Modifying and repurposing cars goes back nearly as far as the automobile itself. And whether the changes are made with the intention of increasing performance and speed or for purely aesthetic personalization, the result is a specific look that sometimes gives rise to an entire automotive subculture. These cars have their own vernacular and rules, their own artistic practices. They are trend makers and arbiters of style, and they reflect the environments that birthed them. They're about so much more than themselves. Road & Track dug into the origins of three such car movements, following their narrative arc right up to today. This story originally appeared in Volume 30 of Road & Drag Scene As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for cruising and stoplight hijinks. Scott Sullivan's blue '67 Nova won Hot Rod magazine's Street Machine of the Year in 1979 and is commonly referred to as the first Pro Street car. Within a few years, the combination of elements from real-deal Pro Stock drag cars with less racy interiors and painted Eighties graphics firmly cemented Pro Street as a distinct subculture. Another blue Nova, Rick Dobbertin's '65, won Street Machine of the Year in 1982. It showed up with a twin-turbocharged, supercharged, and nitrous-injected 454, as well as 33-inch rear tires and a stubby little Dana 60 rear axle. According to Hot Rod, it was 'easily the most visually stupefying vehicle we've seen for the street in a long while.' That Nova ran and drove, but from then on, Pro Street veered toward show cars that demonstrated a builder's ability to realize the freakiest notebook sketches in metal. Read The Full Story Low And Lavish What came to be known as VIP, or its Japanese equivalent, bippu, began as a response to a changing environment. Namely, police crackdowns on outlandish performance cars. 'Everyone kind of points back to the origins of the culture being in the Osaka area,' says Myron Vernis, co-author of A Quiet Greatness: Japan's Most Astonishing Automobiles for the Collector and Enthusiast. 'Basically, as a result of the drifter guys and the sports-car guys getting harassed by the cops. They went to the other end and bought these very conservative-looking cars so that they could still have cool cars and not get abused by the authorities.' The earliest VIPs were 'rear-wheel-drive Nissans primarily, like Presidents, Glorias, Cedrics,' Vernis says, 'and then it kind of evolved into the Toyota Centurys and Crowns and things like that.' Read The Full Story Swagged Out Like Kleenex for tissues, Donk has become a generic term for custom cars riding high on big wheels. Within the scene, however, this generalization is frowned upon. Donk refers to a 1971–76 Chevy Caprice or Impala, exclusively. 'That's it,' says Sage Thomas, better known as Donkmaster, whose shop, In & Out Customs, is in Charleston, South Carolina. 'It can be a two-door or convertible, or four-door, or station wagon, but it has to be that year, specific. No other one.' There are no arguments about the preferred nomenclature, even if the origin of the word itself is uncertain. Read The Full Story A car-lover's community for ultimate access & unrivaled NOW Hearst Owned You Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
New York Post
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
The tantalizing AEW possibilities after MJF's eye-opening MLW return
MJF has always looked up 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, and 'Hot Rod' would have been proud of what the AEW star pulled off on Friday night. Even before we had all the answers, he's changing the questions. We wondered in this space last week why MJF ripped off the masks of luchadors. Two weeks ago, he committed what felt like the ultimate disrespect by purposely losing to Mistico by disqualification at AEW Grand Slam and then proceeded to take off his mask and wear it in the middle of Arena Mexico. Advertisement The larger endgame for this seemed unclear and left you wondering if just Mistico getting his revenge was good enough. Maybe they do a classic mask vs. hair match and we get to see a bald MJF.
The Drive
31-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Drive
Check Out This Weird SOHC-Converted Chevy Small Block for Sale
The latest car news, reviews, and features. If the only thing holding you back from a GM V8 swap is some sort of social-media-hardened dislike for overhead-valve (OHV, aka pushrod) motor designs, Bring a Trailer may have just the thing for you: a single-overhead-cam-swapped small block Chevy V8. It's not some oddball motor from a limited-production race car, but a garden-variety 327 with a purpose-built SOHC conversion. Pretty wild, huh? According to the accompanying Hot Rod article, the upgraded motors were good for 350 horsepower after the cam swap alone—or about the same amount you got from the L84 package engine in 1963, and that was the top-of-the-line engine with mechanical fuel injection. The low-compression (and carbureted) version offered only 250 horses. Sure, the power's nice, but there are plenty of other ways to get that from a small-block V8 without performing a lobotomy. Why go through all the trouble then? An overhead-cam engine benefits from a tighter valvetrain package with less reciprocating mass. Pushrods are simple, but they're long and heavy, and along with the rocker arms, they both contribute a good bit to an OHV engine's overall parasitic losses and limit their ability to rev higher. The overhead-cam setup eliminates them from the design while also allowing for lighter valve springs, and less mass is always good when you're trying to make top-end power. This particular conversion kit was produced by Pete Aardema. If that name rings a bell, that's because he's always doing something crazy with internal-combustion engines. Remember the land speed record car we featured a while back with a home-built V12? Yep, same guy. While a conversion kit is certainly less ambitious than a home-built engine, this thing is nonetheless impressive. It's effectively a bolt-on upgrade, and it even preserves the factory camshaft to continue functioning as a distributor drive. This could all be done with the heads in place, and all signs point to it being completely reversible. In this case, you get the kit pre-installed on this 1963 Chevrolet 327. And for such a novelty, it's pacing to go for a bit of a bargain. Those numbers always go up near the auction's end, of course, but this little bit of obscurity may not necessarily fetch top dollar. Got a tip? Send it in: tips@
Time Out
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
What are those colorful sculptures popping up around the Upper West Side?
If you've recently strolled up Broadway uptown and thought, ' Wait, was that giant pink blob always there?', you're not hallucinating. Five vibrant, large-scale sculptures have officially taken up residence on the Upper West Side, courtesy of a new public art installation titled Broadway Hubbub. The eye-catching outdoor exhibition, which opened Friday, is a collaboration between sculptor Carl D'Alvia, the Broadway Mall Association, NYC Parks' Art in the Parks program, and Tribeca's Hesse Flatow gallery. The works are scattered across five central Broadway malls, stretching from 64th to 117th Streets, specifically at Dante Park (64th Street), Verdi Square (72nd Street), 79th Street, 103rd Street and Columbia University -adjacent 117th Street. View this post on Instagram A post shared by HESSE FLATOW (@hesse_flatow) The sculptures are part of D'Alvia's Liths series, known for blending monumental scale with playful, human-like forms. Made from aluminum and coated in gleaming auto paint, the works range from 5 to 12 feet tall and boast names like Hot Rod and Tandem. Think monolithic meets whimsical—more Calder in a wind tunnel than classical marble god. 'I've always seen these large works being out in the world with us,' D'Alvia said of the project, in a statement released by the gallery. 'Itinerant characters who slouch, bend and wander… while holding a sort of sculptural mirror up to us.' And what better runway than Broadway itself? 'There's only one Broadway,' he added. This is the 15th installation in the Broadway Mall Association's Art on the Malls series, which has brought bold, contemporary sculpture to the leafy Broadway median since 2005. Past artists have included Chakaia Booker, Frank Benson and Sean Scully. The BMA, which maintains the 83 central malls from 70th to 168th Streets, aims to use public art to reflect the eclectic neighborhoods of the Upper West Side and beyond. The Broadway Hubbub sculptures will be on view through November, so you've got time to take a stroll and a selfie or two. Whether you're a seasoned art lover or just passing by on your coffee run, it's worth looking up: Broadway's got a few new characters—and they're anything but subtle.
