I don’t watch 2 Broke Girls. As I understand it, this show is notorious for its bad taste. The writers delight in racist remarks and even rape jokes. There’s a running joke about the girls’ Asian boss and how funny it is that he’s short and cannot pronounce Rs correctly. They mock rap culture because broken English is somehow hilarious. It’s one of those shows that believes anything “offensive” must automatically be funny. The Guardian has long called the show “so racist it’s baffling.” What’s worse is that the show is so widely watched that it’s now in the fourth season.

The show moved on to poking fun at indigenous Australians. The episode, which already aired in the US, played down under last night. The joke people are talking about involved Han (the Asian character) musing about online dating. He remarked about a potential candidate: “She’s part Aboriginal but has a great personality.” Twitter is on fire with the #2BrokeGirls hashtag, and the Aussie media is really upset:

Australian fans of the American comedy show 2 Broke Girls responded in uproar over the racist joke about Indigenous Australians.

During the season four episode, titled And the Fun Factory, a male character is shown chatting up an Australian woman online before explaining, “She’s part Aboriginal but has a great personality,” to a friend.

Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit have been swamped with angry people, and those defending the racial slur joke.

“How dare you make such a racist disgusting joke about Aboriginals. If it had been said about an African American it would never have made it to screen. Not impressed!” wrote an Adelaide-based fan posted to the show’s Facebook page.

“So, I like your show, but as an Aussie viewer, I was a little shocked by the ‘she’s half Aboriginal, but she has a great personality’ line. Being politically incorrect for the sake of comedy is one thing. But the only punchline of THAT joke is ‘aboriginal women are all ugly’. It was racist. It was clearly intended to be ironic, or ‘so racist it’s funny’. But it was not funny,” wrote another.

[From Sydney Morning Herald]

The article quotes showrunner Michael Patrick King, who (in 2012) defended the show’s offensiveness because the jokes are a hit. “People pull away from something if it’s not in good taste. More and more people are leaning in to 2 Broke Girls. It is ballsy. It is right in your face, and hopefully funny.” I don’t know how a show can claim to be funny when it heavily relies on a laugh track, but — ugh — people do tune in.

This was a dumb joke and the laziest form of humor. A casual remark by one of the show’s racist characters, which meant to incite controversy against another race. Why do people reward this nonsense by watching it?

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Whatever we may think of it, Fifty Shades of Grey is an unqualified hit, with $300 million at the worldwide box office and counting. In some respects, that’s a good thing: A movie by women, about women, for women is a monster success. Every time we clock a win like this, it gets that much h…      

Hugh Grant is in NYC to promote his latest movie, The Rewrite, which is probably another mediocre but not outright awful vehicle. On Wednesday night, he appeared on Watch What Happens Live, which is increasingly becoming a go-to stop on so many actors’ promotional trails. I’m not sure how I feel about that! But Hugh was actually somewhat charming. It was during the “Plead the Fifth” part of the show that Hugh made the most news:

First question: Andy Cohen asked Hugh when he last watch p0rn. Hugh said: “I’m rather proud of this. About three years. I went cold turkey… I now have three children, so I think there’s a correlation.” Yes, he does have three children. With two different women, with their pregnancies overlapping. Classic. And is “cold turkey” a weird kind of fancy p0rn? Because he’s totally still watching p0rn.

Cohen also asked him about his 11-year relationship with Elizabeth Hurley back in the day, when they were one of the hottest British couples in the world. The question was “Why didn’t it work out?” and Hugh thinks for a moment and says, “It did. She’s still my best friend. The sex bit probably fizzled out, but now she’s my absolute best friend. [She’s] the number one person I call in a crisis.”

Then Sarah Jessica Parker called in and asked him who he would prefer not to work with again and Hugh had to plead the fifth. It seemed like Hugh and SJP were very awkward with each other, but he apparently does like her, so it’s not like he was going to say “I would prefer to never work with SJP again.” He actually listed his favorite leading ladies as SJP, Sandra Bullock and Marisa Tomei. Besides, in another part of the show, he said that he doesn’t stay in touch with Julia Roberts and that’s because “I’ve probably made too many jokes about the size of her mouth. She might hate me by now.” He made a joke about how he “was aware of a faint echo” as he kissed Julia but, “She is actually… she was great and very, very beautiful.”

Oh, and Hugh also talked about Jon Stewart. A few months ago, Stewart said Hugh was the worst guest he’s ever had. Hugh said on WWHL: “He wasn’t entirely wrong. I did have a tantrum backstage. About once a year, I have a really mega tantrum and sadly he witnessed one. So, he’s absolutely right…I get very annoyed when people think that I’m sort of nice or diffident or [a] polite English gentleman — all those phrases make me gnash my teeth. I’m a nasty piece of work and I think people should know that. It’s enraging.”

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After screening at Sundance, HBO has released the first trailer for Going Clear, the documentary about Scientology. There are no faces. Just voices. And reviews from major media outlets. And images of… machinery. Machines for minds. Machines for brainwashing?

And words like the ones in…      

Earlier this week, Bedhead covered some of dispute between Tyga, Kylie Jenner, Amber Rose, Khloe Kardashian, Jonathan Cheban and whoever else is in that same orbit. Long story short, Amber Rose gave an interview about how Tyga shouldn’t be hooking up with 17-year-old Kylie Jenner, and then Amber and Khloe got into it on Twitter. I’ve read stories that Kim Kardashian asked Khloe to cool it and just ignore Amber, because Amber might know some dirty secrets about Kanye and Kim, although I think the only “secret” Amber really has about them is that Kim cheated on various boyfriends/husbands with Kanye while Kanye was with Amber.

Cut to today, when Kanye West did an interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. He ended up chatting about the Amber Rose situation, Beck and a lot more. Some highlights:

Kanye on Amber Rose’s tweets & comments: “She’s just soaking in the moment. If Kim had dated me when I wanted, there would be no Amber Rose… It’s very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that’s with Amber Rose…I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim.”

Kanye on Tyga and Kylie: “I think he got in early. I think he was smart. They closer in age than a lot of relationships I know.”

On Kim’s relationship with Beyonce and Jay-Z: “Naw they love each other, they respect each other. When Beyoncé’s working on an album, she has a picture of Kim on the wall” because she represents powerful women, and Kim is always playing Beyoncé’s song “7/11,” he said.

Why he’s stayed quiet about Ferguson: “My dad e-mailed me and told me to stay out of it, that’s my only parent, so I have to listen to him. … I think he was trying to be protective of his son. I can’t run in front of every bullet…I’m always gon’ talk about what’s going on, like Marvin Gaye said.”

On Beck & the Grammys: “The other day I went to dinner and sat down with Taylor Swift. Ironically, they were playing the Beck album. I was like, ‘Man, this is kind of good. I ain’t gonna lie.’ I bet you that album is really good. I’m going to listen to that album and maybe it was potentially Album of the Year. I got his number, I was supposed to call but I keep forgetting.”

[From BET]

He said a lot more about Beck, like Beck should be thanking him for making Beck’s Album of the Year win a bigger story. Like, Kanye thinks if he hadn’t been such an a—hole, Beck wouldn’t have gotten the press he got post-Grammys. Which is kind of true.

As for the Amber Rose stuff… not classy. Not nice. It’s all pretty trashy, actually. I think this is sort of funny/mean: “If Kim had dated me when I wanted, there would be no Amber Rose.” Further proof that Kanye wanted to date Kim a really long time ago.

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A radiant CaCee Cobb stepped out for lunch in Los Angeles, Calif. last week. Donning a light blue maxi maternity dress, the expectant mom, 37, accessorized with flip flops and shades.

On Thursday (February 19), the mom-to-be was dressed in a denim top and black leggings while walking with an empty box outside a post office in L.A.

Cobb – who is Jessica Simpson’s BFF – and her husband, The Exes star Donald Faison, are expecting their second child. They are already parents to 18-month-old son Rocco.

Faison is also dad to Kobe, 12, twins Dade and Kaya, 14, and Sean, 17, from prior relationships.

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The BBC aired a super gossipy documentary yesterday called Reinventing The Royals amid reports that the royal family pushed to delay the original air date after learning that the film alleges that Prince Charles had his advisors exploit his sons to boost his popularity and reputation after Diana …      

We haven’t written about Chelsea Handler in months. Hasn’t that been such a relief? Chelsea said goodbye to her E! show, Chelsea Lately, late last summer. She had spent months bitching and moaning about the show was beneath her talents, and she was trying to hustle her way into some kind of “smart” gig, openly talking about how she would love to do something like The Daily Show. She even tried to hustle her name onto the shortlist for David Letterman’s replacement. I can’t tell you how pleased I am that she failed at all of that. Nowadays she’s so desperate for attention, she keeps posting topless selfies on her social media. She allegedly has a Netflix talk show (or something) but that doesn’t start until 2016. And that’s about it. Still, she was invited to the Code/Media conference and she ended up biting the hand that fed her yet again. Unprofessional dumbass.

Onward and upward! Chelsea Handler spent seven years of her life hosting E!’s Chelsea Lately, and now that it’s over, she’s ready for something bigger and better — emphasis on the latter. Speaking at the Code/Media conference in California on Wednesday, Feb. 18, the comedienne couldn’t help taking a few shots at her former gig.

“The subject matter I was dealing with on E!, you know, it was a fun way to get started and kind of have a great time,” she told hosts Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka of the late-night program, which ran from 2007 to 2014. “And then after a while, I just was like, I’m so much smarter than that show was, and I wanted to be doing a show that was smarter than I was.”

That’s what she hopes to accomplish with her Netflix deal, which includes a new talk show in 2016. Handler said she chose the streaming service (now a major TV programmer thanks to hits like Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards) because she didn’t want to just “go fill in someone else’s shoes” at an already-established show on another network. “I wanted to create my surroundings,” she explained.

She’s still working out the specifics of what her new show will entail, but so far, at least, the Netflix partnership has been a success.

“It’s nice to be involved in a show where I do respect their opinions,” she said. “I respect Netflix. So it’s like going out with a guy that you’re proud to be seen with.”

The stand-up star also spoke at the conference about her recent streak of topless photos on Twitter and Instagram. “I’m not trying to look fantastic. That’s just a by-product,” she joked. “I’m also not trying to sexualize myself in any way.”

What she is trying to do is make a point about the nudity rules on various social media platforms. (Instagram, for example, does not allow nudity and will take down any photo it deems inappropriate.)

[From Us Weekly]

“I just was like, I’m so much smarter than that show was, and I wanted to be doing a show that was smarter than I was…” How many different times and ways can she complain about a show that she created out of thin air, by sleeping with (then married) boss? And I’ve heard Chelsea’s stand-up and I’ve read more interviews with her than I care to admit, and I’m here to tell her something. Dear Chelsea: you are not smarter than Chelsea Lately. Chelsea Lately was your cash cow and the best vehicle for your marginal talent. And you let your ego and your yes-men tell you that you could do better, and now you’re posting topless selfies for attention. Maybe it’s time to stop bitching?

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Scandal Season 4 Episode 14 recap

We did it! And inexplicably Liv has all of her coats with her! Hooray for coats!

No, seriously, I didn’t see this coming at all. I did think she’d manage to weasel her way out of a buy from Iran, because she knows how to push buttons, although…      

Congratulations are in order for Eric Church and Katherine Church.

The country crooner, 37, and his wife welcomed their second child, a son named Tennessee Hawkins, on Sunday, Feb. 15, he announced via Facebook Thursday.

The baby boy, who they call “Hawk,” weighed in at 9 pounds, 12 ounces and was 21 inches long. The couple, who announced their pregnancy news this past September during one of Church’s concerts, are already proud parents to 3-year-old son Boone McCoy.

“I’m thrilled that Hawk and his mom are doing well,” the Cold One singer shared on his Facebook page. “We aren’t sleeping very much, but we are enjoying every part of this incredible journey. I’m very blessed and thankful.”

Church and Katherine were wed in January 2008.