“I'm here because the next President of the United States invited me,”Empire co-creator Lee Daniels said today from the Philadelphia stage at the Democratic National Convention. “I was a little scared at first,” he added. “I wondered if Hillary [Clinton] really knew who I was. Not just the work I do in entertainment…

Broadway’s Hamilton and Hollywood’s Orange is the New Black joined politicians and a city of revelers in today’s New York City Pride Parade, mixing joy with solemn moments of reflection and respect for the 49 victims of the recent Orlando massacre. Kicking off the parade at noon, in a moment of silence, was a group of…

Barely Famous, VH1’s reality series parody created by and starring Sara and Erin Foster, has changed the title of its upcoming episode and slightly tweaked its content in the wake of the Orlando shooting that took the lives of 49 people at a gay nightclub. The episode, which airs on June 29, was originally titled…

4TH UPDATE, 10 AM: House Democrats’ sit-in is coming to a close. “John Lewis and I started out this journey on October 1960 seeking the right to vote,” Rep James Clyburn (D-SC) said in the hall. “Here we are today, asking for the right to vote. that’s all we want; we want the right to vote. We will bring to a…

UPDATED with video: Stephen Colbert tried a new approach to late-night-TV grieving after a mass shooting and inevitable congressional inaction – hopefully signaling a daypart-wide change from the pause for heartfelt monologu-ing that has become de rigueur in in daypart. “After the attacks in Orlando, I thought maybe…

One week to the day after the YouTube star and The Voice contestant was tragically killed by an obsessed fan in an Orlando, Florida night club following a performance, the family of Christina Grimmie posted a poignant tribute to the late singer on her Youtube page. Set against the singer’s performance of Jason Mraz’s…

Since its debut on TBS on February 8, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee has been full on in claiming its space in the late-night solar system. The TBS Monday night show has been tackling issues like rape in the military, abortion, the backlog of untested rape kits, guns and mass shootings and, of course, Donald Trump…

Seth Meyers and NBC’s Late Night got a second night out of his Ban On Donald Trump. “Last night in the wake of Donald Trump pulling the press credentials of The Washington Post I announced here last night that until he rectified that situation he was banned from appearing on this show. We did this, we instituted this…

Anderson Cooper spent a good chunk of his show tonight responding to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who this morning accused Cooper of editing an interview with her in the wake of the shooting death of 49 patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando. Bondi told talk-radio’s WOR she thought they were going to talk about…

Seth Meyers banned Donald Trump from appearing on his NBC late-night show last night because, Meyers said, Trump had reached a new low by pulling press credentials of the Washington Post over a headline. But Meyers also noted, Trump had banned other media outlets in the past, and Meyers forecast that by the time of…

The Walt Disney Company has announced a donation of $1 million to the OneOrlando Fund. The fund will not go directly to the victims but rather to the non-profits in the community. The move was in reaction to the horrific attack Saturday night on patrons of an LGBTQ dance club that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded…

Less than 24 hours after choking up while reading the names of all of the victims at the gay nightclub in Orlando, CNN’s Anderson Cooper grilled Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about her role in what he called a fight against the LGBT community. Forty-nine people were killed early Sunday morning by a gunman who…