Jon Stewart on Donald Trump: ‘Something is up with his health’

Late-night hosts react to speculation over Donald Trump’s health and the newly released screenshot of Trump’s alleged lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.Jon Stewart returned to his Monday perch for The Daily Show’s new season amid rampant speculation over the president’s health, after he wasn’t seen in public for several days over Labor Day weekend. “You people, you reporters, have no chill!” Stewart mock-scolded after several clips of talking heads wondering if Trump had died. “Guy can’t take a few days for some R&R and a non-surgical breast reduction without everybody suddenly pulling out the toe tags? It does say something about the ubiquity of Donald Trump in our lives that we don’t hear from him for 20 minutes and we’re like: ‘He’s dead!’”“Of course Trump didn’t die in office,” he added. “But I wouldn’t put it past him, trying once again to take credit for something Biden had already accomplished

Before Knives Out, there was Brick: Rian Johnson’s alluring, hard-boiled debut

Before Benoit Blanc, there was Brendan Frye.At first glance, the teenaged gumshoe at the heart of Brick doesn’t share much with the gentleman sleuth from Knives Out, Glass Onion and the upcoming Wake Up Dead Man. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) styles himself as a lost Agatha Christie character, while Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a jaded teen who spits Dashiell Hammett dialogue before starting fights he can’t win.But dig deeper and you’ll find two detectives caught in cases that contort around their own genre conventions. Both, of course, are creations of Rian Johnson – the writer/director who induces either delight or unspeakable rage, depending on what type of nerd you are

Billy Porter recovering from ‘serious case of sepsis’ as Broadway show closes early

Billy Porter is “recovering from a serious case of sepsis”, forcing the early closure of Broadway’s revival of Cabaret in which he played a leading role.The show’s producers announced on Sunday that Porter “is recovering from a serious case of sepsis” that will prevent him from returning to the stage.“His doctors are confident that he will make a full recovery,” they added, “but have advised him to maintain a restful schedule these next couple of weeks”.Porter has yet to issue a statement on his health.The 55-year-old actor had been playing the role of Emcee since July, when he and Marisha Wallace took over from Orville Peck and Eva Noblezada as Emcee and Sally Bowles respectively

‘Most of the time I was only wearing tiny shorts’: how Devendra Banhart made I Feel Just Like a Child

I wrote I Feel Just Like a Child when I was 18, but it wasn’t until I was 23 or 24 and making the Cripple Crow album that it made sense to record it properly. As a teenager I’d thought of myself as an old blues guy and demoed it on an unplugged electric guitar as a slow blues. When we recorded it for Cripple Crow I’d found my musical family, people like [producer-musicians] Andy Cabic from Vetiver, Noah Georgeson and Thom Monahan. Along with the likes of Joanna Newsom and Adam Green from Moldy Peaches, we were doing a sort of anti-folk that was labelled “freak-folk”.We were living in Woodstock in upstate New York in our own mini 60s world, a utopian bubble where it felt like music from any period was up for grabs

Post your questions for Jared Harris

You might know British-born Jared Harris best for playing Lane Pryce in Mad Men, King George VI in The Crown, or Valery Legasov in 2019 mini series Chernobyl, for which he won a Bafta for best actor. On the silver screen, he’s due to play Mikhail Gorbachev in upcoming American historical political drama Reykjavik with Jeff Daniels and JK Simmons, as well as a flunky fearful of nuclear Armageddon in Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite. Before then comes his latest film, coming of age drama, Brave the Dark, in which he plays a compassionate high school teacher in 1980’s rural Pennsylvania.Harris, who played Andy Warhol in 1996’s I Shot Andy Warhol, was the antagonist to Adam Sandler in 2002’s Mr Deeds, and pops up in everything from Natural Born Killers to Ocean’s Twelve, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Guy Ritchie’s The Man from UNCLE. The son of original Albus Dumbledore Richard Harris, he’s one of those actors who, if not in the main part, seems like an old friend, whether he’s playing the archetypal polite Englishman, a horrible villain like Moriarty in Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes, or Kenneth Branagh’s doppelganger in How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog