The New York Film Critics Circle expelled cantankerous freethinker Armond White this morning, as punishment for his alleged heckling of 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen. White, steadfastly rejecting any critical consensus, disputes the prevailing interpretation that he did wrong, or that it was heckling at all.
Critic Armond White has denied heckling Steve McQueen at Monday's New York Film Critics Circle awards. "I was misquoted, lied about...I didn't yell anything. I was talking among my friends at the table," White said regarding his behavior during McQueen's speech. So he was rude, but not that rude.
Critic Calls 12 Years a Slave Director a "Garbage Man" at Ceremony
Last night, notorious film critic Armond White (dubbed The World's Most Contrarian Film Critic by Time) continued his tradition of howling, transparent public spectacle at the New York Critics Circle Awards. This time, his heckling was aimed at 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen. You know how Lady Gaga sings, "I…
Infamous "Tiger Mom" Returns To Troll the Entire World
If you can think all the way back to 2011 you may remember Amy Chua, the Yale professor and "Tiger Mom" who set your Facebook feed on fire with a book excerpt that argued for maniacally strict parenting lest your kid become a massive failure. Well, she's back and she's coming for us all.
Doug Ford, a Toronto city councilor and brother to crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford, is calling on the city's chief of police to resign because he watched a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.
Twitter Trolls Mourn Lou Reed's Passing with a Lou Bega Death Hoax
Late-90s pop sensation Lou Bega, known to fans of fleeting fame as the Mambo No. 5 guy, resurfaced yesterday after years of obscurity...to shoot down rumors that he had died.
Hunter Moore on California's Revenge-Porn Law: "You Fucking Retards"
Earlier this week, California passed a law designed to criminalize revenge porn. Under this immediately effective legislation, any person who privately takes a consensual photo of another person nude, but then maliciously distributes the intimate image can be punished for up to six months in jail and/or $1,000 in…
Racist sports-team names really do divide us. Before ESPN's Rick Reilly stood up for using "Redskins" and denounced the current "wave of PC-ness," Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly denounced "Redskins" as one of "the antiques of that old racism."
If you're in the TriState area and would like to boat-rave with an Internet troll who's gotten a woman to brush her teeth with poop, tonight's your big chance. Rated R for "ratchet."
Local Detroit News Reporter Outs Internet Troll In Hilarious Fashion
Local TV news has produced many of the classics in the "out of touch news reports about the internet" genre. (Remember Pedobear Panic?) Fox 2 Detroit's hysterical exposé of internet troll "Ebayisajoke" is another amazing specimen:
Sarah Palin Might Run for Senate in 2014
Everyone's favorite failed politician might attempt a comeback next year. In an interview with the constantly confused Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin said she was considering a run against Alaskan Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat, in the 2014 election.
Is Animal Planet Real?
This week's re-airing of the fake documentary Mermaids: The Body Found followed by the premier of yet another fake-documentary Mermaids: The New Evidence, has relaunched an internet conversation about whether or not mermaids are real (they are) and whether or not the documentary is "real" (it's not, Animal Planet is…
iPad Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer Is Still Trolling From Prison
The last we heard of notorious troll and hacker Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer, he was partying in New Jersey before being sentenced to three and a half years for his role in hacking AT&T. But being locked in federal prison has not completely silenced him.
Troll Doll-Loving Woman Talks and Flirts Like a Troll Doll
This 38-year-old gymnastics instructor was profiled on last night's season finale of My Crazy Obsession for her Troll doll affinity. She goes by the name of Michelle Kerrins, but she is such a Shelly. Her obsession is amusing enough, but it's really her delivery that makes her story so riveting (her "Troll 2" license…
The 20 Best Trollings in Modern History
From the Spanish-American War all the way up to the 40 Hottest Women in Tech, the past century has borne witness to some epic trolling, bro. This amoral art form—loosely defined as "the media fucking with you on purpose"—has defined our modern era of outrage. It is time that we honored the very best trollings of the…