because the Indy 500 was delayed four hours by rain, preventing him from racing in a rain-shortened event at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
“You just saw a billion jokes,” says Chad Nackers, who was raised Catholic and now presides asthe satirical site that heralded
with an image of the smiling pontiff encased in a poppyseed-dotted bun.“Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope,” read the headline.The pageantry of the church and the idea of a man who acts as a voice for God, Nackers says, combine for fertile humorous ground no matter the pontiff. Having him hail from the U.S., though, and
opens up a whole new world of funny.“It’s just kind of ripe for humor,” Nackers says.
“DA POPE!” blared the front of the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, one of countless spins on the city’s unique accent, immortalized
No matter how Pope Leo XIV actually appears, in this realm of humor, he’s a mustachioed everyman who swaps his Ts for Ds: “Despicable Me 4” arrives on Peacock, the political series “The Diplomat” starring Keri Russell and Rupert Sewell, drops its second season on Thursday and the concert film “Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour” on Tuesday.
— Coralie Fargeat’s provocative body horror “The Substance” is streaming on MUBI on Halloween. The filmas Elisabeth Sparkle, a faded Hollywood star who is fired from her aerobic television show on her 50th birthday. In a moment of distress she decides to take a black market injectable called The Substance which promises to take her back to her younger self (Margaret Qualley).
Krysta Fauria wrote that “what begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie.”— Two new documentaries focused on familiar names are coming soon. First up, Netflix has the