The office of House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote a disapproving email to Seth Meyers over how the late-night host characterized the American Health Care Act, the Republican bill to overhaul the US healthcare system. So Meyers decided to answer it on his show.

"Unlike Republicans and their healthcare bill, we actually read the whole email," Meyers said on Monday's "Late Night," a reference to the acknowledgement by several members of Congress that they hadn't read the AHCA in full.

"This is great, because we genuinely appreciate the engagement and would love to have Speaker Ryan on the show," he continued. "Suffice to say, we don't agree with the email and we thought it'd be helpful if we took a second to respond to some of their claims point by point."

The host then discussed a few of his comments that Ryan's office took issue with, including the assessment that the bill was rushed and represents a huge tax break for the wealthy and its allowance for states to waive protections for those with preexisting conditions.

"The bottom line is this," Meyers said. "Republicans rushed this bill through for ideological reasons, despite the fact that every analysis showed that it would cut taxes for the wealthy, raise premiums for the older, sicker people, and take millions off insurance. If they really wanted to solve our healthcare problems, they could start by looking for examples from other countries."

Meyers then showed a clip of President Donald Trump telling Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a meeting last week, "You have better healthcare than we do."

Australia has universal single-payer healthcare, a version of which the US has in the form of Medicare, which Meyers said "insures everyone for a fraction of the cost."

Watch Seth Meyers respond to Paul Ryan's email below:

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Almost a year and a half since she was first indicted on 20 counts of fraud, former "Dance Moms" host Abby Lee Miller was sentenced on Tuesday to one year and one day in prison by a federal judge in Pittsburgh. After serving her time in a facility close to LA, Miller will have an additional two years of supervised release, Chief Judge Joy Flowers Conti told the crying defendant and a packed courtroom Tuesday morning. She will also have to pay a fine of $40,000 and $120,000 for the currency reporting violation charge the feds hit her with last summer.

With the rarely low key Miller having hidden more than $755,000 in earnings from the Lifetime reality series from the courts, the nearly two-dozen charges of fraud and more from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh were made public in October 2015. The deeply detailed charges carried with them up to $5 million in fines and possibly five years in jail.

The ruling by Chief Judge Conti on Tuesday morning comes after the government laid out their final argument and Miller herself took the stand in her own defense. “'Dance Moms' became a hit and I became the laughing stock of Reality TV,” the former host tearfully told the judge of the perils of sudden fame that plagued her and lead to the situation she found herself in today. Chastising herself for her behavior, Miller promised the judge she would not be back in a courtroom if given leniency. It should be added that Miller also expressed a desire to go out for lunch with Conti “after this” – which now looks like it would be in 2020, if at all.

Earlier in the day, a couple of character witnesses for the defense told the court that the argumentative and combative Miller of "Dance Moms" is not the person she really is.

On Monday, the court held a  long session where the defense partially laid out its side of things with numerous witnesses outlining Miller’s bankruptcy. As a prelude to Tuesday, the May 8 hearing also saw Chief Judge Conti formally deliver the sentencing guidelines of 10-16 months and a $5,000 to $55,000 fine for the fraud charges and 18-24 months and $7,500 t0 $75,000 on the currency reporting charges.

The U.S. Attorney’s office had wanted to see Miller behind bars for 2.5 years while her lawyers sought probation for the first time offender. Tuesday's proceedings come as Miller is seemingly off TV for the next little while, sort of.

The sometimes explosive instructor announced in late March that she was leaving the Lifetime series after several often contentious seasons due to dust-up with a "Dance Moms" producer on the Collins Avenue Entertainment show. Having said that, there seems to have a been a lot of activity of late at Miller’s ALDC LA facility on Santa Monica Blvd in West LA. Additionally, sources say that never camera shy Miller filmed a "Dance Moms" clip show recently for the Lifetime series.

Like Tuesday, Miller was in court for Monday’s hearing, with her sometimes on-air adversaries Christi Lukasiak and Kelly Hyland sitting behind her. Their presence sent mixed messages, especially with Hyland having sued the now ex-host for assault, defamation and destruction of her property in early 2014.

Almost overlooked, the shifty details of fraud that saw Miller in court again on Tuesday  in the Pennsylvania city only came out by accident. If bankruptcy Judge Thomas Agresti hadn’t nonchalantly turned on the then relatively new "Dance Moms" on TV one night a few years ago, the buried big bucks might have never been dug up. Judge Agresti was overseeing Miller’s pre-"Dance Moms" bankruptcy case, which looked to be winding up. However, while watching the Collins Avenue Entertainment produced show, the judge started wondering why money from the show wasn’t being included as a part of the bankruptcy proceedings, which had Miller claiming a total income of $8,899 a month.

A subsequent investigation by the feds revealed there were a lot of reasons why Judge Agresti hadn’t seen anything about that money in the bankruptcy case. Among the many deceptions she employed, Miller had Collins Avenue pay her mother some of the thousands of dollars in fees that were due to her from the show to escape the court’s notice.

After first pleading no guilty in November 2015 and putting up a very public fight, the then increasingly embattled "Dance Moms" host spun around and entered a guilty plea on June 27, 2016 as she now also faced a new charge of violating currency reporting laws.

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President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. It's big news everywhere, so of course late-night hosts were all over it on Tuesday night, including Jimmy Kimmel. 

"It was yet another crazy day in the United States of America," Kimmel said on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!""Donald Trump — who you maybe haven’t heard is the president now — a few hours ago, he fired James Comey, the director of the FBI. Which is kind of like O.J. firing Judge Ito halfway through the trial.”

The latter comment references O.J. Simpson's infamous murder trial, over which Judge Ito presided.

Kimmel pointed out that Comey’s firing came while he was leading an investigation into the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia and the country's interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

“This is the kind of thing that dictators do. This is the kind of thing reality-TV hosts do. They fire someone every week,” Kimmel said. “Maybe that’s what happened — he still thinks he’s on ‘The Celebrity Apprentice.’ It was between James Comey and Meatloaf. And, well, Meatloaf won again.”

Kimmel also noted that the officially stated reason for firing Comey was his mishandling of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation.

“Which is hilarious, because that would mean Trump fired James Comey for making him president,” Kimmel said.

"This is outrageous," the host continued. "And when something outrageous happens, I don’t just sit on my hands. I do something about it."

And then Kimmel showed off a T-shirt with James Comey’s face on it that says "Comey Is My Homey."

You can watch Kimmel on Comey's firing below:

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Stephen Colbert on Tuesday assembled an elite group of "Daily Show" alumni to walk down memory lane and weigh in on current events.

In addition to former host Jon Stewart, who's also an executive producer on CBS's "Late Show," Colbert brought former correspondents of the Comedy Central show Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Rob Corddry, and Ed Helms to "The Late Show." (Colbert also got his start appearing on "The Daily Show.")

"This arrangement we have right now is exactly something we would have made fun of on 'The Daily Show,'" Colbert said as the stars took their places on the sofa. Still, it likely was a joy for anyone who fondly remembers the show's glory days.

Bee, who now hosts TBS's "Full Frontal," spoke of the many far-flung destinations she traveled to for "The Daily Show" and what it took to pull off the show's humorous sketches based on the news.

"I would spend days with the worst people you could possibly imagine," she said. "You'd have to engage in this big sketch you've done. You have to be really nice to them all day."

Many of the other former "Daily Show" stars also have moved on to fruitful careers. Oliver hosts the HBO show "Last Week Tonight," while Helms and Corddry have shifted to successful film and TV careers. Helms starred in the "Hangover" film franchise, and Corddry has been on beloved shows like "Ballers" and "Childrens Hospital."

Colbert acknowledged Stewart's role in their careers.

"I wouldn't have this gig or any gig if it hadn't been for this man," he said.

The last time all five people appeared on TV together was during Stewart's "Daily Show" farewell in 2015, which featured most of the correspondents from the show's history.

Stewart referenced the 1995 movie "Mr. Holland's Opus" in describing his more mature appearance compared with the former correspondents' younger looks.

"This really does look like a group of students coming back to see Mr. Holland," Stewart said. "It's the end, and I've done it all."

The crew also put together a "flashback" sketch, going back to Colbert's last day on "The Daily Show" in 2005, before "The Colbert Report" started during the Bush administration, and got in some sharp jokes about how things have changed.

Watch the "Daily Show" reunion:

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Stephen Colbert started "The Late Show" on Tuesday night with the news that just hit before he took the stage: FBI Director James Comey had been fired by President Donald Trump.

“Did Trump forget about the Hillary emails that Trump talked about?” Colbert said, referring to Comey telling Congress last October that the FBI was reopening and investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over emails recovered from former Representative Anthony Weiner's computer. Weiner was married to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Colbert then read a portion of Trump's letter (in a Trump voice) to Comey notifying him of his firing:

"While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau."

“Does everything have to be about him?" Colbert said of Trump mentioning the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. "While I greatly appreciate that I’m an amazing lover, I’m leaving you for a younger woman on the advice of the Department of Justice.”

This then led to Colbert touching on recent reporting that when Trump met President Barack Obama days after the election, Obama warned Trump about hiring retired General Michael Flynn as national security adviser, due to his ties with Russia.

“It was just as effective as Obama warning America about hiring Trump,” Colbert said.

Watch the entire Colbert opening monologue below:

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Netflix just released the first full trailer for the upcoming season of "Orange Is the New Black," which premieres Friday, June 9.

The trailer for season five shows a riot break out after Poussey's (Samira Wiley) untimely death on season four. The inmates have found a common cause in the beloved convict's death and they've found a common enemy in the guards and the prison administrators.

All of that leads the prisoners to joining in the shared goal of taking over the prison.

Season five takes place in real time over three days and shows how the prisoners' newfound unity builds into what could only be an explosive ending to the season.

Watch the first full-length trailer for season five below:

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“Deadpool” is heading to TV — in animated form.

FXX is working on an animated series for Marvel’s “Deadpool,” which will be created by Donald Glover and Stephen Glover, Variety has learned.

The untitled show has been given a straight-to-series order, with a 10-episode first season expected to debut in 2018.

“Atlanta” creator and Golden Globe winner Donald Glover and his brother, “Atlanta” staff writer Stephen Glover, will serve as showrunners, executive producers and writers of the series. Marvel’s Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory are executive producers. The untitled series is produced by Marvel Television in association with FX Productions and ABC Signature Studios for FXX.

“How much more fun could this be? Deadpool, Donald and FX – the perfect fit for the Merc with the Mouth,” Loeb said. “We’re thrilled that our relationship with FX that started with ‘Legion’ continues with what is sure to be a groundbreaking show in adult animation.”

Donald Glover is repped by Dianne McGunigle of MGMT Entertainment, WME and Lev Ginsburg. Stephen Glover is repped by WME and Lev Ginsburg.

20th Century Fox’s “Deadpool,” which hit theaters February 2016, was a gigantic box office success, raking in nearly $800 million internationally off of a $58 million budget. The movie cemented Ryan Reynolds as an A-list star and reinvigorated the R-rated superhero genre, alongside Hugh Jackman’s “Logan.” No word on whether Reynolds will be affiliated with the FXX series, which like the film, will also based off of the Marvel comic book heroes.

While no voice actors have been announced for the series, in a funny turn of events, “Atlanta” actress Zazie Beetz has been cast in the sequel film, “Deadpool 2,” as Domino.

Donald Glover is also already in the Marvel family. Coming up, he’ll star in “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” which will be released this July.

For FX Networks, the sure-to-be-hotly-anticipated series is the latest animated project for the FX portfolio, following the likes of the Emmy-nominated “Archer.” Last year, FX boss John Landgraf announced that FXX will be moving “really aggressively” into more animated series and short-form series in the adult animation format — and “Deadpool,” the raunchy comic book character, surely fits that bill.

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Big TV companies like Disney and Discovery are lining up for a fight over a sports-free online TV package that could cost a mere $8 to $20 a month.

Last month, Bloomberg broke the news that several cable networks were trying to put together a sports-free package for under $20, cutting out high-cost channels like ESPN, which alone cost $6.10 in carriage fees per subscriber in 2016.

And on Discovery's earnings Tuesday, CEO David Zaslav laid out a bit of the case for such a bundle.

"Skinny bundle in the US is a fiction,"he said. "The idea that you have a $40 offering filled with regional sports, sports and all these — an incomplete package, really, and then you have to buy broadband on top of it, so the skinny bundle is $60 or $70. So it's really not a skinny bundle. It's a bundle. It's a bundle that may be attractive to a small group of people. But, in the end, I think the market will be rationalized."

His central point was that there's room in the market for a sports-free package that costs $8 to $12 a month.

Broadcaster wrath

The main problem here is that the parent companies of the major broadcast networks — NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox — have paid a lot for sports rights, so they want no part of a bundle that makes sports seem less vital. The cable networks they own are also out. So no FX, USA, or Fox News.

That means the bundle will have to be constructed of companies like Discovery, Viacom, AMC, Turner (though it does have some sports rights), and Scripps. Those five put together could indeed make a pretty compelling cheap bundle at $20 or less. You could potentially get a spread of programming from CNN's news, to AMC's dramas, to Comedy Central or the Food Network. There would be holes, but at the right price people might be willing to overlook it.

The notion of this type of package, however, rankles media executives whose companies rely on sports.

On ESPN parent company Disney's earnings call Tuesday, CEO Bob Iger scoffed at the idea of such a bundle.

"Someone was out there today talking about a $10 bundle that didn't include sports,"Iger said. "I don't know how many channels you could fit into a $10 bundle, but I would imagine there wouldn't be any channels that were particularly attractive. Maybe someone will go out with a very-low-cost set of channels that can't drive the kind of fees that [the more popular ones do] ... But I don't see how that's practical in terms of gaining much penetration."

You should take that position with a big grain of salt.

Disney has been very proud of how many of the new online TV bundles ESPN is on, and it sees the medium as a major way to grow in the future. In fact, on the same call, Iger listed them: "Sling TV, Hulu, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV and YouTube TV."

"The substantial growth we're already seeing makes us bullish on the future of these nascent offerings," Iger continued. "Right now, they are a small part of the pay TV universe, but we believe they'll be a much bigger part of the business going forward." Disney sees these bundles as a way to stave off the decline in subscribers that has plagued ESPN for years.

ESPN is losing subscribers, and it certainly doesn't want to be left out of any new packages that enter the market. And its wrath could spell problems for distributors that might want to sell a no-sports bundle.

Why? Some of the contracts cable and satellite providers have signed with heavyweights like Disney and Fox are loaded with fine print designed to stop new bundles like these. And in 2015, ESPN sued Verizon over a sports-free bundle, saying it violated distribution deals.

So even if Iger is publicly poo-pooing the very idea that anyone would want a sports-free bundle, that doesn't mean ESPN won't come out swinging if someone tries to bring one to market.

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Penny Hofstadter isn't a successful actress in "The Big Bang Theory." But the actress who plays her, Kaley Cuoco, is one of the highest-paid on television.

She's been the lead actress in "The Big Bang Theory" for all of its ten seasons so far. At her peak, she made $1 million per episode.

Her life and career have been filled with a few twists and turns, including a stint voicing animated characters and a horse riding accident where she almost lost her leg. Here are 16 things you didn't know about Kaley Cuoco.

Cuoco acted in Barbie commercials when she was five years old.

Cuoco's "The Big Bang Theory" character tried to become an actress while working as a waitress, but Cuoco herself started acting from a young age.

Like many actors, she started in commercials. Two of her notable commercials were for Barbie and Oscar Meyer, around 1990.

She starred alongside Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson in her first TV movie.

The actress was in the little-known 1992 movie "Quicksand: No Escape," about an architect framed for a murder. Sutherland plays a private detective, Tim Matheson plays the architect, and Cuoco plays the architect's daughter.

A few years later, she played a younger version of Ellen DeGeneres.

In a flashback scene of a 1996 episode of DeGeneres's sitcom, "Ellen," Cuoco played Ellen herself. It's part of a reverie where she's remembering the bullying social dynamics of summer camp. The scene is short, but she already shows off her comedic chops and impeccable timing.

NBC has selected “Jesus Christ Superstar” as the next live musical to head to the network, Variety has learned.

The show follows in the footsteps of NBC’s successful run of live musical events, including “Sound of Music Live,” “Peter Pan Live,” “The Wiz Live” and most recently, “Hairspray Live.”

All of NBC’s former live musicals have aired during December as a holiday special. In contract, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!” will air on Easter Sunday next year, April 1, 2018.

Based on the 1971 Broadway rock opera, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!” will be executive produced by original creators Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, who will also provide music and lyrics for NBC’s show. In addition to the duo, musical vets Marc Platt, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who have all worked with the network on past musicals, are also on board as executive producers. 

“As we continue to expand the profile of our live musicals, we are thrilled to be partnering with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to bring a new live staging of the iconic ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ to NBC,” said Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment. “Casting has just begun, but we want to fill out this classic show with as many recording artists as possible to give proper voice to what is the original rock opera score.”

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President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday is one of the biggest scandals yet to rock his administration. Which means another thing the late-night hosts can weave into comic gold.

And Samantha Bee did just that on Wednesday's "Full Frontal" when she recapped how the firing went down and what she described as the "clusterf---" that ensued.

"As of yesterday afternoon, the only FBI drama most Americans expected to unfold on TV were the upcoming seasons of 'Twin Peaks' and 'The X-Files,'" Bee joked. 

But instead we witnessed a barrage of incredible details: Comey learning of his firing on television screens while in Los Angeles and being followed by news helicopters as the SUV he was in slowly crawled down the freeway back to his plane. Trump meeting with, of all people, former Secretary of State in the Nixon administration Henry Kissinger, the day after the firing, underlining the Nixion comparison made by many (Nixon fired a special prosecutor investigating Watergate). Russian President Vladimir Putin being interviewed about the firing while dressed to play a hockey game in, apparently, some kind of futuristic ice rink. And White House press secretary Sean Spicer hiding in bushes at the White House to keep away from the press.

Also, as Bee pointed out, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appearing on just about every show on the network saying that everything that's happening "is not normal."

But outside of all this, Bee noted that Trump has been relatively mild on Twitter, and it's "practically presidential."

"That's where we are!" she said. "The president is meeting with a war criminal, Putin is playing space hockey, and the press secretary is hiding in some shrubbery."

Watch Bee's entire segment on the Comey firing below:

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Much of the United States is trying to piece together why President Donald Trump unexpectedly fired FBI Director James Comey. But Stephen Colbert is pretty sure he knows Trump's motive.

"Firing Jim Comey, head of the FBI, really feels like Authoritarianism 101, which, by the way, a very difficult class. The professor is a total Nazi," the host said during his "Late Show" opening monologue on Wednesday.

Trump fired Comey on Tuesday with a letter to the FBI chief and attributed the action to his questionable management of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. But Colbert, and many others, suspect that's just the cover for Trump's real reasoning. In the letter firing Comey, Trump also oddly mentioned the ongoing investigation into ties between Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and Trump associates.

"The question is, 'Why did Trump do it?'" Colbert said. "Now, while it looks like Donald Trump fired James Comey to stop the Russian investigation... That is why. I'm pretty confident, because one thing we've learned from the last two years of Donald Trump is that what it seems like he's doing is exactly what he's doing. There's no grand strategy! He's not some puppet master. He's not some wizard playing three-dimensional chess. He's playing Hungry Hungry Hippos."

How could Colbert be so confident that Trump is trying to shut down the FBI investigation into Trump's team and Russia? Colbert claims to have obtained the early drafts of Trump's letter firing Comey.

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Seth Meyers took a lot of time on Wednesday night's "A Closer Look" segment on his "Late Night" show to talk about the firing of former FBI Director James Comedy, which he described as "a surreal and chaotic development that felt like something out of a dictatorship."

Meyers got into his reasoning for the comparison.

“While Trump may have the legal authority to fire Comey," Meyers said, “it’s the timing of this firing that’s obviously troubling because of the current FBI investigation into the Trump campaign ties with Russia. And it’s possible for an action to be suspicious because of its timing. For example, you buy your wife jewelry, it’s a lovely gesture. If you buy her jewelry after a boys’ weekend in Vegas, there’s gonna be some follow-up questions.”

After Comey learned of his firing via TV at an FBI office in Los Angeles, an official letter signed by Trump was hand-delivered to FBI headquarters by Trump’s personal bodyguard, Keith Schiller.

“Wow, that’s even worse than breaking up with a girl by text," Meyers said. “That's like breaking up with a girl in the chat feature on Words with Friends."

Meyers also showed actual news footage of Comey’s car being followed on a Los Angeles freeway, an image that resembled the O.J. Simpson chase, but was way less interesting.

“Because nothing says the press is keeping calm more than filming a car on an LA freeway,” Meyers said as an image of Simpson’s infamous white Ford Bronco appeared on the screen. 

Meyers then said that “nothing could top the truly laughable justification that Trump’s White House offered for firing Comey. They claimed it wasn’t Russia, but that they were upset with how Comey handled the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails during the election.”

After that, Meyers showed a clip of a CNN correspondent saying, “It’s like the White House is peeing on our leg and telling us that it’s raining outside.”

In a reference to notorious unverified intelligence memos, Meyers replied, “Said Trump, ‘That’s ridiculous, I don’t pee on people’s legs. You pay hookers for that. Ask Comey.’” 

Meyers pointed out that when Trump was first elected, he commented on how much attention Comey was getting from media. Meyers showed a clip of Trump blowing a kiss to Comey earlier this year, and referred to it as The Fredo, a "Godfather" reference.

“I knew it was you, Comey,” Meyers said. “If I had a heart, you would have broken it.”

And because the word “Nixonian” has been thrown around since the Comey firing, Meyers ended the segment by showing that “even the Nixon Presidential Library felt compelled to distance itself from Trump.” A tweet from the library's official account said, “FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian.”

“Here’s another fun fact,” Meyers said. “You know it’s bad when even the Nixon library thinks you’re bad for their brand.”

You can watch the segment below:

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Anthony Atamanuik — the host of Comedy Central's new hit late-night series "The President Show"— says he was surprised at Alec Baldwin's behavior during their recent feud over impersonating Trump.

Atamanuik publicly feuded with the "Saturday Night Live" Trump impersonator after Baldwin made some disparaging comments about Atamanuik on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Both were lobbying to play the president at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

"He was being a bit of a wiseass. And so I was a wiseass back on Twitter, considering we knew each other in some fashion," Atamanuik said during Wednesday's episode of Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.""And he blocked me and kind of got harsh. It was intense."

The comedian says he previously met Baldwin when he was an extra on "30 Rock."

Despite Baldwin's "harsh" reaction, Atamanuik added, "I hope Alec knows that I respect him and love him and I don't have any animosity at all."

That said, Atamanuik wanted to make sure Cohen understood that his impression isn't a copy of Baldwin's.

"That's impossible, because I was doing it before he did it," the "President Show" host said. "I'm not going to screw around."

Watch the video below:

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The evolution of Kathryn Hahn from the frumpy friend in romantic comedies like “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and “The Holiday” to the scene-stealing revelation in “Step Brothers” and “Bad Moms” has been a lot of fun to watch. But Hahn is about to take another big step as the lead in the latest Amazon series from the creator of “Transparent.”

The upcoming “I Love Dick,” based on the Chris Kraus book of the same name, is showrunner Jill Soloway’s latest envelope-pushing series to come to the streaming giant (it premieres May 12, but you can watch the pilot now for free). It follows Chris (Hahn) as she moves with her husband Sylvere (Griffin Dunne) from Manhattan to the mellow Marfa, Texas. There they meet the charismatic professor Dick (Kevin Bacon), who puts a fire in Chris and Sylvere’s relationship that was thought to be extinguished long ago.

As in “Transparent,” which also stars Hahn as Rabbi Raquel Fein, Soloway fills “I Love Dick” with risqué subject matter and unconventional storytelling that you’d never see on network TV (or most cable channels).

Hahn talked to Business Insider at the recent Sundance Film Festival, where the show was given a world premiere sneak peek, about how working with Soloway changed her career, why she wants another “Step Brothers” movie, and what to expect from the “Bad Moms” sequel, “Bad Mom’s Christmas.”

Jason Guerrasio: Were you familiar with the Chris Kraus novel before going into this?

Kathryn Hahn: No, I was not. Like so many of us, I had been horribly unaware of the brilliance of Chris Kraus and that book. Jill, I guess it was two summers ago, had mentioned a couple of books to me, one of which was this. I was immediately intrigued because of the title. I dug into that first and I was just blown away. I couldn't believe how bold and bombastic and fearless and sexy and vulnerable it was and I knew if anyone was going to be able to unwrap that and cut into it as a series it would be Soloway. I was so excited, I didn't even see a script before I said yes. It happened very fast and very organically. All the sudden we found ourselves in Marfa, Texas, like what?

Guerrasio: So you didn't worry that much about preparation it sounds like — you were in from the get-go.

Hahn: For sure. There's no other circus I would rather join than Soloway's. I had been in it for a while and I knew it was going to be the same people and the same process as “Transparent.” And I also knew it was going to be such a departure from Raquel, which I was excited by. 

Guerrasio: Has it been a revelation for you with what Jill and Amazon have been able to do? The material they have given to actors?

Hahn: Yeah, sometimes we would all look at each other and basically giggle because we couldn't believe we got to make this. And it wasn't like there was a team of executives behind the monitors and questioning it. They just let us do this crazy deep dive into this world.

Guerrasio: You've had such an incredible evolution in your career, going from being in romantic comedies playing the awkward friend or third wheel —

Hahn: HOW DARE YOU! No, I'm joking — [Laughs]

Guerrasio: But was there a moment where something clicked for you, or was it just grinding it out until you started getting better roles?

Hahn: I certainly feel that having kids did something, for sure. I was so grateful to be invited to the party for a while. I just could never imagine as a kid from Cleveland who loves theater more than anything and ensemble work to doing this. I was a theater nerd. So back then it was really always looking for that kind of feeling I had onstage. So there was a weird separation between the work I did onstage and the work I would be asked to do on camera. And so I think it was finding Jill and connecting with her for [Soloway’s 2013 debut feature] “Afternoon Delight” that I was able to find that feeling of creative risk that I had onstage. Those three weeks of making “Afternoon Delight” cracked that open for a lot of us. 

Guerrasio: Is there a character you've already played that you would love to go back to explore? And before you answer, let me just say, please say Alice from "Step Brothers"—

Hahn: I was just about to say that! [Laughs] It’s funny, I did "Step Brothers" the same summer I did "Revolutionary Road," which are completely different. And Adam McKay, with that cast, though that was pre-Jill, that was another movie where I had like an "oh" moment. That working on a movie could feel creatively fun. I just didn't know on camera that we were allowed to just do those things. [Laughs] I always was just on my mark and say the line as written and make sure the script supervisor was happy and all that nonsense and that all was getting in the way of making something special on camera. 

Guerrasio: Adam McKay has always said that he would love to explore the characters from "Step Brothers" years from now and see what they are doing. Is that just one of those things that sounds cool or has it ever gotten back to you that he's serious about it?

Hahn: There was a rumor for a second of maybe revisiting it and then I think "Anchorman 2" happened. But I would love to do it. And I also just love those people and just want to hang out with Adam Scott — I'm sure his Derek character is in prison by now or something. Or Alice would be, who knows.

Guerrasio: Another character we have to bring up is Carla from "Bad Moms." What can you say about the sequel?

Hahn: We are looking to shoot in the spring and I know it's out there that it's a Christmas theme.

Guerrasio: Yes. 

Hahn: And when we all heard that, we were just like, “Of course!” Because there just doesn't seem like another time of the year that's more right for that. There's so much craziness. As a kid it's just the magic of Christmas but behind the scenes of course mom is trying to get breakfast together as you're ripping through the presents and then the family comes over. It's never magical for the mom. So we're excited about doing this.

Guerrasio: Have you gotten a script yet?

Hahn: No. But just ideas we've been told, we are very excited, and what I can say is they are right on board with the spirit of the first movie.

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Former "Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels is celebrating a $5.8 million win in her legal battle with Lionsgate that could have implications for the future of free videos on YouTube.

Michaels sued Lionsgate in 2015 over it posting her workouts for free on its YouTube channel, BeFit. She claimed that because the workouts were offered for free, her fans would be less likely to pay for her content.

On Wednesday, an arbitrator agreed and ordered Lionsgate to pay Michaels about $5.8 million for lost past and potential future profits, as well as attorneys' fees and arbitration costs.

"This is an important decision for not just me, but for all experts, artists, and content creators finding their work devalued and revenue lost in this digital age," Michaels told Business Insider in an exclusive statement on Thursday.

"I am thrilled with the opportunity to provide healthy-lifestyle content to the masses through digital media and want it to be accessible and affordable for fans," the fitness guru added. "It is a win for the consumer and the experts and how I hope the digital media landscape can continue to evolve."

She created the streaming network FitFusion, which allows members to view all of her fitness content along with that of many other fitness experts.

Michaels' attorney, Richard Busch, called it a "landmark" ruling since it could affect how companies promote, share, and license content in the future, in addition to protecting the talent.

"This decision represents a firm pronouncement that placing work on YouTube for free devalues it and damages artists, like Jillian, who created it," Busch told The Tennessean.

Lionsgate didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

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Stephen Colbert didn't seem troubled while addressing President Donald Trump's insults directed toward him in a recent interview.

"The president of the United States has personally come after me and my show," Colbert said on Thursday night's episode of CBS' "The Late Show.""And there's only one thing to say: Yay!"

In an interview with Time magazine, Trump said Colbert's "show was dying" before the host began to focus on criticizing the president. Trump also referred to Colbert's recent inflammatory insults directed at Trump that led some to call for Colbert's firing and an FCC investigation, saying Colbert was a "no-talent guy" and "what he says is filthy."

"Mr. Trump, there is a lot you don't understand, but I never thought one of those things would be show business," Colbert continued in a sharp, punchy response to Trump's comments. "Don't you know I have been trying for a year to get you to say my name? And you were very restrained, admirably restrained. But now, you did it. I won!"

Colbert conceded that he did "occasionally use adult language," but he said "I do it in public, instead of in the privacy of an 'Access Hollywood' bus," a reference to the video that leaked before the 2016 election showing Trump lewdly boasting about his sexual advances toward women.

Colbert also shot back at Trump's statements that Colbert's ratings went up when he went harder on the president: "It's almost as if the majority of Americans didn't want you to be president."

And correcting Trump's claim that his appearance on "The Late Show" was its highest-rated episode, the host said former presidential candidate Jeb Bush's appearance got higher ratings than Trump's.

"That's right. You got beat by 'low-energy Jeb,'" Colbert said. (Bush appeared on Colbert's debut episode of "The Late Show.")

But after all that, Colbert did offer Trump a solution to their conflict.

"Since all of my success is clearly based on talking about you, if you really want to take me down, there's an obvious way," Colbert said. "Resign."

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Kevin Bacon doesn't mind being the object of desire on his provocatively titled new television series, "I Love Dick."

"Look, to be objectified at my age is not the worst thing," Bacon, 58, told Business Insider earlier this week.

He plays the titular Dick on Amazon's show, which premieres on Friday. Adapted from Chris Kraus’ 1997 cult feminist novel of the same name, the series from "Transparent" creator Jill Soloway follows frustrated filmmaker Chris (Kathryn Hahn), who travels with her writer husband Sylvère (Griffin Dunne) to a writing residency in Marfa, Texas. Amid a sexual dry spell with her husband, Chris becomes infatuated with Dick, an acclaimed sculptor and the residency's benefactor.

"I thought that it was a really interesting idea," Bacon said of Chris' obsession with Dick. "I like the idea that this show is so female-driven, with no men in the writers' room. And Jill Soloway talked about the idea of the female gaze as like a piece of art."

Bacon spoke with Business Insider about the new series, why he's in love with TV, the state of the film industry, and why he's gotten a reputation for shedding his clothes on camera.

Jethro Nededog: How do you feel about being sexually objectified for "I Love Dick"?

Kevin Bacon: I thought that was a very interesting idea. I also felt like to be able to do the show for hopefully multiple seasons and over a long period of time, we needed to have something more than just objectification. And so we talked about ways that you can see inside this man, what his experiences were, what was troubling to him, and what he was struggling with. Over the course of the show, especially toward the last few episodes, we definitely get there.

Nededog: Dick initially dismisses Chris, her talents, and her obsession with him. Is that a front for what he really feels for her?

Bacon: Yeah, I think that his dismissal of her — at least my backstory — is that he's immediately kind of taken with her. She's a very powerful presence. And when you look at the very first scene that we meet, before he finds out she has a husband, it's very clear that he's attracted to her. But he has made a decision as a character, in my mind, that he's no longer going to break up marriages. It's something that I think this guy has done before. So when he finds out that her husband is a fellow there at the institute, he pushes away. But I think underlying the whole thing, the whole series, is his kind of undeniable attraction to her.

Nededog: The original inspiration for the Dick of the novel, British writer Dick Hebdige, has famously expressed that he's not at all pleased about being its subject. Can you understand where he's coming from?

Bacon: Yes, I can. At one point — in episode six or something — the Griffin Dunne character says, "Oh, come on. You love this. You gotta love it." And Dick says, "I'll tell you the truth: It's humiliating." And I think that part of what's interesting about that is that it's a little bit of the insight into what the female experience must be. It's kind of like when somebody says to a woman, "Well, come on. If I tell you you look hot, how can you not like that?" And I think that there's a statement there, when this guy says "I don't like the way this feels."

Nededog: You have some nudity in this role and, notably, you haven't been shy about getting naked in your movies in the past. Now that you're at this stage in your career, how have your feelings toward being nude for a role changed?

Bacon: I think it's become something that really goes job to job. Does it work to see something? My problem with nudity though — I did a movie called "Wild Things," it was full-frontal nudity. And I didn’t have a problem with it, because it's a scene getting out of the shower and it was just that kind of movie. What I did have a problem with was the fact that when I went to promote the movie — and even to this day — that's all I talk about. So it kind of ended up being, I don’t know, just kind of boring to me as a topic of conversation. In the case of "I Love Dick," the last scene in the pilot, I go out and I get in the water. It's a beautiful place, a scene of kind of a baptism for the character. He's in a way starting life over again with new ideas and change and I think it's a really nice shot and it looks good and it makes a lot of sense for that thing. I did a little thing, I think it was for Mashable, where it was a public service announcement saying that we needed more male nudity. And the amount of people that saw it seriously blows my mind. They said, "You said it in that thing," and it's so clearly a joke. I mean, I'm so clearly being a smartass. It's strange.

Nededog: The setting of the show, Marfa, Texas, is a pretty tight-knit artist colony. Set in that kind of place, can the story still be universal?

Bacon: The story is about love, art, desire, sex, marriage. Marfa is kind of like a character on the show. And I think what Marfa gives us is a chance to see, from my standpoint, a world where a man has gone there and created a kingdom where he can be king. And now he's a reluctant kind of ruler of that kingdom. He's starting to have doubts about his power and about whether or not he's comfortable in this situation. I think that it also is a place where art is extremely important to the show. And also the show is made in an artistic, arthouse kind of way. The way it's shot, the use of film technique, the use of female filmmakers dispersed throughout the show. And I think that a cowboy persona works really well for us. I think originally the show was set in upstate New York. And when I think about that, I'm really glad they found this incredible place to make things jump.

Nededog: The show premiered at Sundance, and the reviews weren't all positive. How do you feel about that?

Bacon: I don't read reviews. I haven't read reviews in 25 years.

Nededog: That's amazing. How do you avoid them?

Bacon: Well, it's difficult to avoid them. I mean our conversation is an example of how difficult it is. People tend to, whether you want it or not, they sort of give you the headlines. But I don't want to see specifically, because I grew up in a tough town. And there was a street, I'd walk down that street every day. If I walked down that street and I risk that somebody was going to kick my ass, then I'm gonna stop walking down that street, you know? So that's the way I feel about reviews. I read other people's reviews. Sometimes I'm interested to see what people think about a project, but I just can't put myself through that.

Nededog: People know you as a movie star, but you starred on Fox's "The Following" and now you're doing "I Love Dick." What's the appeal of TV for you?

Bacon: I think that TV is where the writers went. When the writers went to television, the actors kind of followed. I turned around a few years ago when I decided to do "The Following." I looked at the material that I was talking to my friends about and consuming, and it was all on TV. And I said, "I want a piece of that. I wanna be a part of that." Also my wife [Kyra Sedgwick] was having a lot of success and enjoyment on "The Closer," which is the show that she did for a few years, a lot of years on cable. Eight years, I guess. And I saw how satisfying that was for her, so that's where I decided to go. 

Nededog: You're like the poster child for prolific careers. I mean, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" has been a thing for over 20 years. Is there a role you still wish you could play?

Bacon: I don't know if there's one specific role. It's kind of like, when I read something, I say, "Okay, this is where I go next." There's no time where I'm going, "I've never done a fireman," or whatever the person would be. Not specifically, no. 

Nededog: Last week on "Saturday Night Live," host Chris Pine made fun of how interchangeable he is with a bunch of other actors named Chris, like Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth. Over your long career, have you seen that kind of shift in the movie industry?

Bacon: I never thought about it. That's really interesting. I don't know. What I think is it's partly that the industry has changed. Movies, I mean there's been a lot written and said that studios make way fewer movies and they spend more money on them individually. There's a lot of good work and good writing going to television. Somebody said to me once that years ago, kids stayed home and watched TV and grown-ups went to the movies. And now that's kind of turned on its ear. Kids go to the movies and grown-ups stay home and watch interesting series or challenging or more violent or more sexually explicit ones. Just envelope-pushing content is often not in the theater. It's at home on your TV.

Nededog: You're well-known for taking complicated parts and indie-film roles. Would you want to do a movie franchise that may contract you for three or four films?

Bacon: Yeah, sure, of course I would. The only one I've ever done that's sort of like that was "X-Men: First Class." The part didn't repeat, but I'd do it for sure. It's not that I don't like those kinds of movies when they're good. "Guardians of the Galaxy" is fantastic. "Logan" is also a great movie. When they're great, like anything else, you can have a comic book that works really, really well as a franchise. So, sure, I would, yeah.

Nededog: "Footloose" is obviously a hallmark of your career. Are you always game to do the "Footloose" dance?

Bacon: No, no, no.

Nededog: But you're still proud of it?

Bacon: Yeah, absolutely. It changed my life in a lot of ways. I was really grateful to have it. 

Nededog: There's something about the "Footloose" themes that remain relevant over the years.

Bacon: There always seems to be somebody on Twitter saying, "Hey, they just banned dancing — you gotta come to our town."

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 This interview was edited for clarity and length.

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Seth Meyers found the shifting stories from President Donald Trump and his team surrounding the sudden firing of former FBI Director James Comey disturbing.

Since Comey's dismissal earlier this week, White House spokespeople have been scrambling to explain the chain of events and backing up Trump's explanation that he made the decision based on the recommendations of both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. That is until Rosenstein reportedly threatened to quit over being cast as one of the central players in Comey's firing.

"Trump gave an interview to explain it was his decision to fire Comey, contradicting every argument his team had made on his behalf," Meyers said on Thursday's "Late Night."

Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Thursday that he had already decided to fire Comey on his own and discounted the recommendations from Sessions and Rosenstein, even though in his letter firing Comey he specifically referred to Rosenstein's rationale.

"So he just admitted everything the White House has been saying since Tuesday is a lie," Meyers said. "Trump’s ego is so huge, he can’t even let somebody else have the spotlight in his alibi! He’s like a Scooby-Doo villain: 'That’s right, it was me! I was the ghost in the amusement park!'"

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Aziz Ansari called out Hollywood about its minority representation while promoting the first season of his Emmy-winning show "Master of None."

The Netflix comedy, which debuts its second season on Friday, follows the misadventures of lovelorn actor Dev (Ansari) as he weathers a storm of casting calls, dating, friends, and family.

"We just kind of wrote about our own experiences,""Master of None" cocreator Alan Yang recently told Business Insider. "A lot of that stuff was based on what an Indian person growing up in the acting world goes through, and the kind of stuff Aziz was getting offered."

The former "Parks and Recreation" star wasn't shy about sharing his experiences in landing roles, and he made headlines when he shared what he believed to be Hollywood's unfortunate formula for casting minorities, which included a racial quota of no more than one Indian or Asian actor on a project. 

"I've been blessed with really just unbelievable working experiences, but it is true that there aren't that many Asian comedy writers or just Asian screenwriters in general," Yang, whose writing/producing credits include "Parks and Rec" and "The Good Place," said. "And so we are just writing from our specific experience. We don't have any axes to grind."

For Yang and Ansari, creating "Master of None" was part of the solution. And Yang does believe that the attention the show has gotten from the entertainment industry has made a dent in its awareness of minority representation.

"I'd like to think it is changing," Yang said. "I would never say, well, that problem's solved! I think we're in the process and the first step of awareness has been happening. 'Friends' looks like a totally different era now. It's a great show, but you watch it and you're like, this is a very white show. But that's just how things were then. So the fact that you watch a show like that and it does seem a little weird that Jerry [Seinfeld] dates like 200 white people, or whatever it is, shows it was a different time. I think things are gradually changing. I'm an optimist, so I'll always believe that things will improve if we just work at it."

The second season of "Master of None" takes a break from Dev's acting career on its first few episodes by giving him a new locale: Italy. Fans will remember that Dev proclaimed he was going there at the end of season one. Among the many reasons for the move, Yang said that it wouldn't be "satisfying" for the audience if the show didn't follow through on that storyline.

"There's also other compelling reasons," Yang said. "The opportunity to take this guy out of his comfort zone. He's been this guy who in season one was too timid to make decisions and then to make his big decision — I think it's a nice payoff to see how that impacts him. And it was an awesome opportunity to shoot in a beautiful place with kind of a stranger in a strange land-type feel. And on top of that, we got to pay homage to all these amazing Italian films and shoot in this beautiful city and put him amongst all these new characters and explore these new dynamics."

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