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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while he made jokes about President-Elect Donald Trump saying California doesn’t manage vegetation back during his first term, “Just because Trump says it doesn’t mean it’s automatically wrong.”

During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while climate change makes wildfires worse, “that’s largely out of our control. What are we going to do? Pass a ballot measure to make sure [the] Chinese stop burning coal?” But it’s “not wrong to associate some of the unforced errors our government made with the things normies see as hallmarks of uber-progressive politics, questionable budget priorities, high taxes that get you nothing, making everything about identity politics, virtue-signaling overseas instead of tending to the nuts and bolts at home.”

Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” host Jordan Klepper mocked TikTok users expressing their outrage over the U.S. banning the Chinese app this Saturday. One TikTok user called the decision the worst thing the United States has ever done.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sting, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the performers slated to take the stage at FireAid, a benefit concert for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief.

Iconic horror author and far-left activist Stephen King is calling for the Academy Awards to be cancelled amid the wildfires still raging through the Los Angeles area.

Hollywood veteran Bruce Willis made a rare public appearance during his battle with frontotemporal dementia this week to thank the first responders for their efforts amid the horrific wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles.

Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher tore into his fellow liberals this week for defending politicians and demanding people not criticize them in the wake of the horrific wildfires that ransacked Los Angeles last week.

Nearly 200 of Hunter Biden’s art pieces — some of which were priced as high as $500,000 — were destroyed in the raging Los Angeles wildfires, the New York Post reported.

Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are being targeted in a $400 million defamation suit by Justin Baldoni, Lively’s co-star on bleak romance “It Ends With Us” — the latest caustic twist in the legal battle engulfing the film.

Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, blasted the “really disturbing” celebrities she says have been using the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires as a “photo op.”

Rocker Tommy Lee slammed fellow musical artists for promoting their music during the Los Angeles wildfires. “Jesus Christ, leave it all alone,” the Mötley Crüe drummer proclaimed.

Insurance giant State Farm, one of the last remaining large insurance carriers in California, has canceled its Super Bowl ads this year citing the tragedy of L.A.’s wildfire devastation.

Filmmaker David Lynch, whose mind-bending and surreal creative vision enraptured mainstream audiences and elite cinematic connoisseurs alike, has died. The Oscar-nominated director of “Mulholland Dr.,” “Blue Velvet,” and the TV series “Twin Peaks” was 78.

President-elect Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood great again and has named a triumvirate of entertainment industry veterans  — Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone — as his special envoys to carry out the formidable task.

A host of big-name performers including Kid Rock and country singer Jason Aldean will be making their way to Washington, D.C., to perform at various presidential inauguration events over the weekend. The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee unveiled most of the lineup Wednesday.

A Los Angeles firefighter combatting the area’s devastating fires told Mel Gibson that he wasn’t made aware of the county’s depleted water reservoirs, sayings it was “surprising” to run out of water so early in their fight.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men convicted of lesser crimes connected to the killing of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor were sentenced to state prison on Wednesday.

Actor-comedian Bill Burr scolded “fu**ing idiots” who deem city officials and the Los Angeles Fire Department failed to act responsibly to the ongoing wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and elsewhere across the fire-ravaged city.

Iconic late-night talk show host Jay Leno whipped up about $21,000 worth of ribs, chicken, and other food to hand out to the emergency workers and volunteers who responded to the raging Los Angeles fires — and he is not done.

ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar has attacked Carrie Underwood for agreeing to perform at the second inauguration for President-elect Donald Trump, calling into question the country music star’s patriotism,

A hip-hop superstar beef was cranked up another notch Wednesday when Drake sued Universal Music Group for defamation over rival Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Netflix’s response to President-elect Donald Trump’s reelection victory is the scheduled premier of a documentary on Duchess of Sussex Megan Markle, a symbol of Hollywood wokism. Netflix, a streaming service giant that openly works with the Obamas, does not appear to be willing to shift its left-leaning corporate scope following Trump’s reelection as did Meta and Amazon.

Transgender “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón has scored a BAFTA nomination for lead actress — another bellwether of an increasingly likely Academy Award nomination for the  breakout star who is a man who identifies as a woman.

Former comedian Jon Stewart proved himself insulated and tone-deaf Monday as he raged against Republicans who want conditions attached to any federal wildfire aid sent to California.

Winston Marshall, the former banjoist for the band Mumford and Sons, has called out his native Great Britain for creating a two-tier justice system that holds conservatives, populists, and other anti-establishment thinkers to a different standard than the rest of the population — one of the many unfortunate consequences of the country’s far-left swerve in recent years.

Comedian and actor Michael Rapaport blasted California’s Democrat Gov. Gain Newsom and the state legislature for dedicating $50 million to “Trump proof” the state even as the wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles.

Mikey Shulman, CEO and founder of AI music generator company Suno AI, has sparked debate with his recent comments suggesting that the majority of people do not enjoy the process of making music.

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling compared “Sandman” author Neil Gaiman to disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein after multiple women accused him of sexual assault.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Best-selling British author Neil Gaiman released a statement Wednesday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual sex after a magazine this week published allegations from several women, accusing him of sexual assault.

The Oscars remain as scheduled, but it’s certain that they will be transformed due to the wildfires, and that most of the red-carpet pomp that typically stretches between now and then will be curtailed if not altogether canceled. With so many left without a home by the fires, there’s scant appetite for the usual self-congratulatory parades of the season.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs labeled the prosecution against the hip-hop star as “sexist and puritanical” on Tuesday, saying nine recordings of sex acts considered important evidence in the case show only consensual sex between willing adults.

Catch an arsonist responsible for contributing to the Los Angeles wildfires and expect a $5,000 reward. That is the solemn promise of actor and comedian David Spade.

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts that Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) saying there could be strings attached to aid for the California wildfires was “beyond shameful.”

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” Joy Behar told her co-hosts that she is concerned because “people don’t seem to be taking climate change seriously” during a discussion on the California wildfires.

The Walt Disney Company has been sued by an animator who claims the studio’s hit “Moana” and “Moana 2” animated movies ripped off his original screenplay. He is seeking $10 billion — yes, “billion” with a “b” — in damages.