Watch what happens when two NBC icons link up for a drive through the West Village. On this episode of Joy Rides, Hoda Kotb and Andy Cohen talk raising children as single parents, Hoda’s run-in with Beyonce at The Today Show, and Andy’s favorite person to share a New Year’s Eve toast with (besides Anderson Cooper, obviously).
Emmy-winning actress, producer, author, and transgender rights trailblazer Laverne Cox s Monica Lewinsky this week on Reclaiming for a live taping at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival in Seattle.
With her new memoir, Transcendent, out in the world, Laverne opens up to Monica about what it means to finally tell her story in her own words—from childhood trauma and self-worth to fame, healing, and the complicated cost of visibility. She retraces her path from growing up in Mobile, Alabama, where homophobia taught her early lessons about shame, to finding freedom, community, and creative purpose in New York City.
Laverne also reflects on how, after nearly 20 years spent struggling as a working actress, Orange Is the New Black changed everything, making her the first openly transgender person nominated for an Emmy in an acting category. Together, she and Monica explore vulnerability, the difference between being seen and being safe, and how Laverne continues to reclaim dignity for trans people everywhere.
Professional hockey player Luke Prokop s Canadian talk show The Social for an interesting and candid interview. Prokop is the subject of a new documentary, The Hockey Player, which explores his personal journey as the first player under contract with an NHL team to come out as gay. He talks about why he chose to come out, the outpouring of he received from figures like Justin Trudeau and Elton John, and how coming out has impacted his career.
I’ve been a Dave Karger fan long before he became one of the main faces of TCM. Dave spent many years as a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly when it was a can’t-miss magazine I would get in my mailbox every week. I’d get home after a long day at the Los Angeles Times covering a double homicide or something else deadly serious and just get lost in the EW articles written by Dave and others. In 2000, I decided to leave The Times and The Hollywood Reporter then later became entertainment columnist for the LA Daily News.
But enough about me!
Here is what Dave had to say on social media today about his TCM milestone: “It’s mind-boggling to me that exactly 10 years ago today was my first night as a guest host on @TCM. The last decade has been the most exciting and rewarding of my career and I’m so grateful to everyone at TCM past and present (particularly Robert Osborne who gave the blessing for me to fill in for him in the first place) as well as all the viewers for giving a new guy a chance. The last photo is from my first-ever shoot back in 2016.”
Before Margaret Cho became a legendary comedian, Emmy-nominated actor, and one of the most influential voices in stand-up comedy, she was a 15-year-old kid who had just been expelled from one of San Francisco’s most prestigious high schools for truancy and bad grades, with parents who had essentially given up on her.
Then James Jackson, an English teacher with a Southern drawl, a speech impediment, and a vintage motorcycle, started writing notes in the margins of her essays that changed everything: A+, so great, brilliant, funny.
In this deeply personal and unguarded conversation, the trailblazing comedian sits down with David Begnaud to share the story of the man who believed in her when she was just trying to blend into the walls. Margaret opens up about meeting Mr. Jackson at the School of the Arts in San Francisco, a teacher who rode a motorcycle, wore a leather jacket with cigarettes in the sleeve, and spoke like a Southern Barbara Walters. She talks about the composition book he gave her at the beginning of the year, how his handwritten encouragement in the margins reignited the excellent student she had forgotten she was, and why his gentle belief felt so tender it was almost poetic.
She shares what it was like to watch him get bullied by jocks in the classroom for being gay, how that made her feel as a closeted teenager herself, and the day she and her best friend Jerry walked out of school forever after those same jocks mocked Mr. Jackson’s murder.
Billy Eichner sings (literally) the praises of the TOOTSIE score, talks about Barbra Streisand as a “North Star for anyone unconventional trying to make it in show business,” and shares the moving experience of watching MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE with his family at a young age.
Emmy-winning television host Karamo Brown s TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones to discuss the challenges he faced behind the scenes of “Queer Eye,” his rift with the other cast , how his sons saved his life and what his next chapter looks like. He also shares his new wellness app Kē inspired by his own journey of unlocking his best self.
Andy Cohen welcomes Architectural Digest to tour his colorful beach home in the Hamptons. Designed with architect Gordon Kahn and interiors by Jackie Greenberg, the Bravo legend’s colorful oceanfront retreat blends indoor-outdoor living, panoramic Atlantic views, and playful family spaces for the perfect summer escape.