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Emmy-winning Obama speechwriter Kevin Bleyer who helped pen infamous roast of Donald Trump dies in car crash aged 54

By JACQUES PETERSON, US ASSISTANT SHOWBIZ EDITOR Kevin Bleyer, a four-time Emmy-winning writer who worked on The Daily Show and wrote speeches for Barack Obama, has been tragically killed in a car accident. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bleyer died on October 25 in an accident on a rural road in Millrift, Pennsylvania. He was 54. His death was announced in a statement from his wife Nella Vera, which was shared with Deadline. 'Kevin spent his life finding the perfect words to make people laugh, think, and see the world a little differently,' Vera said. 'I was lucky enough to know the humor, curiosity, mischief, and tenderness behind those words—and to be loved by a man who made my own world more joyful, more adventurous, and infinitely more beautiful.' Bleyer's work for Obama included penning some of the former president's speeches at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner.…

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Is Ali G racist?

A new Ali G film is out, and the old argument is back. Campaigners are pressing cinemas to pull Ali G: Who Iz I?, calling the character a racist caricature. Defenders say the joke was never targeted at the people it appears to mock. Both sides assume the character must be one thing or another. That assumption is overly simplistic. Media scholar Simon Weaver offers a better description: Ali G is an example of what he calls “liquid racism”, using humour that can be read several ways at once, so it slips away whenever someone tries to pin it down. Audiences end up divided, each side certain that their reading is the correct one. Part of the difficulty is who Ali G is. Sacha Baron Cohen, a British Jewish comedian, plays a “wannabe” rapper from suburban Staines who presents as Black, perhaps Asian (usually meaning South Asian in British usage), perhaps neither. Ali G first appeared on…

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Durham’s First Fringe Festival Platforms Local Artists Across Town

Halloween weekend is, of course, the perfect time to go out in search of the offbeat and unusual. This year, Durhamites won’t have to look very hard. October 30 marks the first day of the Durham FRINGE Festival, a 10-day festival that will feature 50 performing artists across a sprawling 25 venues, from downtown to Golden Belt and back. There will be dancers in the bars, musicians in the bookstores, and more than one flash mob. This inaugural festival is part of the Carolina Theatre’s year of celebrations, marking 100 years since the venue opened in 1926. There was a moment when the theater almost didn’t make it past 50: In the late 1970s, the theater closed and was nearly demolished, and it is only thanks to volunteers that it remained open and, in the early ’90s, was established as a nonprofit. Theater President and CEO Randy McKay takes this history to heart. Centennial celebrations…

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'Every Moment Counts': Andrew Durand Reflects on His 3 Years of Nonstop Work

After Dead Outlaw, Rocky Horror, and Benjamin Button, the Tony nominee wants to prioritize his personal life. October 26, 2026 By Margaret Hall Andrew Durand is determined to get everything out of life that he can. The industry favorite has been contorting himself into every manner of man over the last three years, moving in swift succession between Shucked, Dead Outlaw, High Society, Titanic, Bat Boy, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, and now The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (running through December 20 Off-Broadway at the Public Theater). For many, this sounds like an artist’s dream. In a career where every job could theoretically be your last, Durand is one of the most booked musical theatre leading men of his generation, working overlapping contracts with no gap for years at a time. That isn’t a typo. Durand rehearsed Sam Pinkleton’s Broadway revival of The Rocky…

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