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Aereo Streaming Struck Down 6-3 In Supreme Court Aereo is officially and irrevocably toast. As I wrote earlier this week, once I learned that Aereo was using tiny little symbolic antennas at its main facilities to back up the claim

Lisa Lampanelli may call herself the Queen of Mean, but Joan Rivers wrote the book on toxic humor. River’s latest book offers up more of the same. The comic memoir, Diary of a Mad Diva, takes aim at alleged “It

On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, host John Oliver conducted a semi-serious irreverent interview with cosmologist Stephen Hawking with questions ranging from life on other planets to Oliver’s chances of a date with Charlize Theron… Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter

On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on HBO, Chris Matthews was mocked for his repeated claims of having worked as a speechwriter for former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill…

NEW YORK–Miguel Cotto entered the ring in silence and darkness. He exited it bathed in the limelight and saluted by the roar. Miguel Cotto knocked Sergio Martinez down four times en route to punishing the champion into a defeat on

Friday night on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher used the controversy over President Barack Obama decision to do a secret prisoner exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to attack one of his favorite targets — former Gov. Sarah

Floyd Mayweather, prize fighting’s king of prizes, has dumped Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. The move comes in the immediate aftermath of chief executive officer Richard Schaefer’s resignation from the company. “After more than 10 years with Golden

On his Sunday night broadcast of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, host John Oliver railed against the major Internet providers for their push against so-called net neutrality, which he argued was enhanced by their ability to spend money on lobbying

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the Got Your 6 initiative was launched two years ago to enlist Hollywood in the effort to help military veterans, it focused on benchmarks in crucial areas including jobs, housing and education. Some of the

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher ended his show with a monologue about political correctness.  He pointed to a number of incidents including the ill-advised comments Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the remarks from “Duck

On his Friday “Real Time” HBO show, host Bill Maher used his closing monologue to double down on a dare to the Republican Party in which he suggested they attempt impeachment of President Barack Obama to bolster his approval ratings

In an appearance on Ora TV’s “Politicking” hosted by Larry King on Wednesday, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher was asked by King for his thoughts on the House Select Committee on Benghazi. According to Maher, there’s a potential upside

The Duck Dynasty clan is coming back next month, and they’re bringing along a powerful pal to christen the show’s sixth season. The show muscled past the brief suspension of family patriarch Phil Robertson late last year, and now Louisiana

On HBO’s Sunday broadcast of “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took on President Barack Obama’s latest pivot to the so-called climate change issue. Oliver, who aligned himself with the global warming alarmist side of the debate, showed he was

President Barack Obama’s fundraising pilgrimage to California included all the liberal stations: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and La Jolla.  Two patterns stood out: first, that Obama continues to be heckled even by friendly audiences; and second, that America’s richest political donors

HBO’s John Oliver wasted no time trashing the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Oliver’s new show, Last Week Tonight, airs on Sunday, and the WHCD festivities wrapped earlier that morning. That gave him enough time to mock the so-called “nerd prom”

D.C. Councilman Marion Barry is going to war with HBO for the channel’s upcoming movie about his political life. The former mayor took to Twitter today to blast HBO’s plans to chronicle his turbulent life in the public arena. Barry

When “Project Greenlight” first aired on HBO in 2001, it was Ben Affleck whose career was in trouble. After 1998’s “Armageddon” it was all downhill. Between cameos and small parts in films like “Shakespeare In Love” (1998) and “Boiler Room”

Beloved Sopranos star Steve Schirripa, the man known for playing Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri on the HBO hit mob series told quite a story recently on national radio. Schirripa was hawking his organic tomato sauces on the Imus in the Morning program, when

Have no fear, John Oliver will soon take his place as another liberal voice in HBO’s lineup of left-leaning stars. The New York Daily News dubbed him “as progressive as they come.” The Daily Show alum John Oliver still used

In the opening monologue of the debut of his HBO show, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver railed against the “f@$#ing idiots” in Oregon over the state’s ObamaCare exchange and wasting $250 million on the failed website…

On the Sunday debut of the HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” Ret. Gen. Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command made an appearance to discuss potential rebranding efforts for the National

Friday night on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher attacked Republicans arguing they can only win elections by cheating and tapping into average American’s hate of “obnoxious” liberals who are “political correctness Nazis”… Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

HBO Blinks: Cuts Streaming Deal with Amazon For a time, HBO swore it would never feed the streaming beast that threatens its very existence. Variety reports that all changed with the announcement that HBO cut a deal with Amazon to

Aaron Sorkin is apologizing for The Newsroom. No, the liberal screenwriter isn’t making amends for unfairly mocking the right via the HBO drama. Instead, he’s trying to mend fences with the same media scribes he captures–for better and worse–on the

TMZ Sports reports that former IBF junior middleweight champion Kassim “The Dream” Ouma remains behind bars for assaulting a man who allegedly made repeated sexual advances toward him on early Friday morning. According to law enforcement sources, Ouma went to

John Oliver should fit in just fine at HBO. The former Daily Show correspondent and fill-in anchor starts his own political series at the pay network April 27, and it appears his left of center bona fides are firmly in

Stephen Colbert will soon be the first openly partisan comic with a late night show on network television. It’s just one reason why today’s news that the liberal host of The Colbert Report will take over for David Letterman on

A sexy, attention-getting cover photo of a beautiful and talented woman whose HBO show is slipping in the ratings and could use some attention-getting. All good. But if anyone in the “Rolling Stone” editorial machine had bothered to crack open

Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis & Butt-head, Idiocracy and Office Space, is often ahead of his time with his comedy. Sometimes, he has to wait a few years for his audience to catch up. Sunday night, the crowd was

Mike Judge saw the connection between music videos and couch potatoes, and a crudely animated show called Beavis & Butt-head was born. Judge’s comic crystal ball, as it turned out, was just warming up. Now, as his new HBO comedy

During the online-only “Overtime” portion of Friday night’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the HBO host brought up the controversy surrounding Brendan Eich [pictured], the Mozilla CEO forced to resign over a 2008 contribution to California’s Proposition 8, the successful

Two co-hosts from The View went au naturel Monday in an attempt to mimic HBO’s sexually charged dramedy Girls. Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd took their tops off while discussing Girls, the show famous for co-star/creator Lena Dunham’s frequent nudity. You

The media would have us believe the HBO series Girls represents the voice of today’s 20-somethings. Lena Dunham’s signature show is a ratings dud, plain and simple, no matter how many media outlets pretend otherwise. Now, The University of Iowa

Friday night on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher berated Democrats. He said to “actually own your ideas,” “stand your ground” and defend ObamaCare. He claimed the majority of Americans supported the Affordable Care Act and would back Democrats in