Anna Faris is engaged to cinematographer Mike Barrett, she confirmed on February 11 to James Corden. The Scary Movie actor sparked engagement rumors earlier in February, when she posted a photo with Jason Biggs in which she shows a massive ring on that finger. Corden asked Faris about the ring on The Late Late Show.
“This is quite the ring, congratulations,” Corden said, to which Faris replied, “Thank you” and then asked him whether he’d consider officiating the wedding.
“You would want me to officiate your wedding?” Corden asked, and Faris cheekily responded, “Well, I would love it if you auditioned. If you came in and read!”
Faris told Corden she wants someone to officiate her wedding who’s “humorous that also brings heartfelt sentiment and doesn’t talk too much about themselves.”
That’s when she made the best joke ever: that she could officiate her own wedding. At least, I think it was a joke. Can someone officiate their own wedding? If that’s actually allowed, Faris should be the first one to do it.
“I could [officiate my wedding],” Faris quipped. “I need a lot of attention, James!”
Watch the interview for yourself, below:
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Anna Faris and actor Chris Pratt were married for eight years and announced their split in December 2017 (they share a son together named Jack). Pratt is now married to Katherine Schwarzenegger. Last year Faris revealed on her podcast, Unqualified, that Pratt actually texted her after he popped the question to Schwarzenegger.
“Chris texted me this morning and he was like, ‘I proposed to Katherine last night,'” the Mom actor said. “And I was like, ‘Ahh, that’s amazing.’”
She continued, “I’m so happy for them. I knew that it was gonna happen and I love her and I love him and I’m just so happy that they found each other…. I so subscribe to the idea of, like, expanding, like, family and love with [my son] Jack. [Katherine’s] awesome.”
Exes Anna Faris and Chris Pratt are on good terms—such good terms, in fact, that he texted her the morning after proposing to his girlfriend of over a year, Katherine Schwarzenegger.
Faris revealed this tidbit Monday (January 14) on her podcast, Anna Faris Is Unqualified. “Chris texted me this morning and he was like, ‘I proposed to Katherine last night,'” the Mom actress says, according to Us Weekly. “And I was like, ‘Ahh, that’s amazing.’”
If you thought that’s where the good vibes ended, you’re wrong. Faris then took things up a notch and offered to ordain Pratt and Schwarzenegger’s wedding. Granted, this was probably-definitely a joke—but even joking about officiating your ex-husband’s wedding is a level of chill we should all aspire to.
“And I texted [Pratt] back like, ‘I just wanted to remind you I’m an ordained minister.’ I’m not very good at it,” Faris also said on her podcast.
She continued, “I’m so happy for them. I knew that it was gonna happen and I love her and I love him and I’m just so happy that they found each other…I so subscribe to the idea of, like, expanding, like, family and love with [my son] Jack. [Katherine’s] awesome.”
Faris’ actions absolutely match this. Over Halloween last year, she, her new boyfriend Michael Barrett, Pratt, and Schwarzenegger all took Jack trick-or-treating. (Pratt and Faris welcomed Jack in 2012.)
“Sweet Katherine, so happy you said yes! I’m thrilled to be marrying you. Proud to live boldly in faith with you. Here we go,” Pratt posted to Instagram on Monday confirming his new engagement.
“I’m so happy for you both!! Congratulations!” Faris commented on this post shortly after it went live, according to Us Weekly.
Anna Kendrick is just like the rest of us when it comes to meeting our idols. While making an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new movie A Simple Favor, Kendrick explained just how nerve-wracking it was to meet former President Barack Obama. In fact, she was so nervous she accidentally called him an “asshole” to his face.
As Kendrick explained to Colbert, back in 2012, “I got an email saying, ‘Hey do you want to meet the President?’ Naturally, I said, ‘Of what?'”
It took her more than a few moments to realize the person on the other end of the email meant the President of the United States. “I was very excited to have the opportunity to go to an event and meet him. I showed up, and I was the first person there.”
While standing around waiting for others to arrive, Kendrick explained how she began chatting with one of Obama’s secret service agents. The two soon realized they were both from Maine—a point Kendrick noted would be important to the story later.
Next, she said, Obama got up to make a small speech and was “doing that thing of making eye contact with everybody but not really. But then he’s actually looking right at me, which is very different.” Obama then pointed to her and said, “Actually, Anna, was in one of my favorite movies, Up in the Air, which talked about the economy and the recession.”
Following the speech, Kendrick was allowed to take a photo with Obama and shake his hand. The President then said to her. “I hope I didn’t embarrass you earlier?” The actress quickly replied in a sarcastic tone, “Yeah, you’re such an asshole.”
Kendrick then continue the awkwardness when Obama asked her “Oh, and you’re from Maine aren’t you?” Thinking back on her earlier conversation with the secret service agent she explained how she was the first one to arrive and chatted with her fellow Mainer, the agent. “Are people from Maine really punctual?” Obama asked, to which Kendrick replied, “You don’t know that? You’re the president.”
And that, she said, is how she made Obama go into a complete laughing fit. Which thankfully was captured on camera.
It’s good to know Barry still has the best sense of humor in politics. Watch Kendrick’s full confession here:
It seems like Blake Lively‘s character Emily has the perfect life in the upcoming film A Simple Favor—but then she suddenly disappears, leaving her husband, son, and new friend Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) reeling.
As seen in the film’s first full trailer, which arrived Friday morning, it’s difficult to tell whether Emily was more indecipherable before or after her disappearance. All that’s certain is that she’s always been a “beautiful ghost,” per her husband Sean (played by Crazy Rich Asians‘s Henry Golding), and that she owned at least three impeccably chic menswear-inspired suits, including one perfectly tailored tux that she pairs with wrist-length red leather gloves.
Before Emily Gone Girls herself, she befriends Stephanie, a mommy vlogger with a child in Emily’s son’s class. Though Emily invites Stephanie to her gorgeous home to sip on midday martinis and “trade confessions,” she continues to keep her earnest new sidekick at arm’s length, demanding that Stephanie delete a photo she took of Emily and advising her, “You do not wanna be friends with me. Trust me.”
PHOTO: Courtesy of Lionsgate
Not long after that ominous warning, Emily calls Stephanie to ask her for the titular simple favor, at which point Stephanie and Sean discover that Emily is nowhere to be found. The search to figure out what happened to Emily leads Stephanie to cover the town in “Have You Seen Me?” posters, discover that Sean may have taken out a $4 million life insurance policy on his wife before she vanished, and travel to a “Bible Camp” to meet with an artist (Linda Cardellini) who once painted a portrait of Emily in a Jessica Rabbit-esque red wig and matching red leather boots. “She is not a normal person like you or me. I’ve never seen such a beautiful girl wanna be so invisible,” Cardellini’s character says. So, yeah: a beautiful ghost.
A Simple Favor hits theaters September 14. Watch the full trailer below.
In a world short on joy, humor can be a unifier and a survival tool. In that spirit, we bring you our Comedy Issue, a month-long celebration of funny (and fearless) women and the enduring power of a good laugh.
Until the age of 17, I was a hyper-Driven student: 4.1 GPA, high SAT scores, and way too many extracurriculars. I had a plan to go into the Marine Corps, like my father, and become a veterinarian, which I’d been diligently working toward as long as I could remember. Anyone who knew me could see: I was going places.
But by 19 I hadn’t laughed for two years, and my free time read like a DARE program’s worst-case scenario. I was drinking myself into blackouts every night, regularly dropping acid or taking Molly (often alone), smoking up to eight joints a day, and refusing to go to college. I was depressed and dragging myself through a hopeless existence with drugs and alcohol to pass the time.
That shift from ambitious student to desperate escape artist happened after I lost my little sister to suicide during my senior year of high school. My family will never know why she made that decision, and it certainly left us with a plethora of mindfucks to sort through.
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To deal, we mainly cohabited in denial. Though we have a family history of both addiction and depression, mental health was not something we talked about. (Years later, when I first went on Lexapro at 26, my parents handed me a bag of vitamin B3 and said, “Depression goes away with old age.” Oh. OK.) My point: I had the odds stacked against me and zero coping skills.
But I needed a sense of purpose, bad, and I went looking for it on Comedy Central. I was high (as usual), and Margaret Cho came on my TV. For the next 30 minutes, I forgot my sister was dead. I forgot that my family was fucked up. I forgot who I was, how sad I was, and how painfully hopeless life felt. For that half hour, I laughed and escaped in a way that felt a million times better than any high I’d been chasing. It changed everything.
And so I decided I wanted to do that. I pursued stand-up with the same tenacity I’d previously tackled academics: performing and watching several open mics a night; inhaling special after special, from Whitney Cummings to Rodney Dangerfield; scouring Comedy Central and Netflix archives for more. I dug into obscure routines posted on YouTube and spent hours writing jokes, rewriting jokes, and rewriting them some more. As I dived headlong into comedy, one thing became clear: Many of the people around me were depressed and struggling too. The stories of my fellow comedians blew me away. Some had cancer; some were orphans—some were orphans who had cancer! We each had a sob story, and we were trying to turn our tears into other people’s laughter. Because nothing felt as good as those laughs from the darkness. That was hope. That was love.
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Some might say it was also a drug. Sure, I may have replaced one high with another, but this one makes the pain in my life seem manageable. To write punch lines about your darkest moments means you have to find what’s funny about them. You have to find a new perspective, a unique angle; you have to take an honest look at the worst seconds you’ve ever seen. Writing jokes about my sister’s suicide (yeah, I go there) forced me to have a new relationship to it. It made me laugh about it, something I never thought I could do, and look at it head-on and explore it with an open, curious mind. Whereas I once cringed whenever someone casually said, “Ugh, I wanna kill myself,” I was now trying to make others comfortable enough to laugh at that exact pain.
Instead of running away from my sister’s death, comedy asked me to walk slowly, to look around and take notes. It asked me to work through what I was going through and find—not necessarily a bright side—but a side that, when looked at in the right light, could make you shrug and laugh. And I did.
Onstage I’ve joked openly about my depression, losing my sister, and the aftermath of our shattered family. I’ve relayed the story of when I told my best friend that my sister had died and he blurted out: “Oh no! Is she OK?!” Well, no. She wasn’t. Nine years of exploring that loss in front of an audience has finally made me OK with it.
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Comedy also let me internalize my struggle with depression as a part of my identity in a positive way: I’m no longer a victim. I no longer see my life as a tragedy. Labels like “clinical depression” or “suicidal” no longer scare me. They are simply part of my story. All of this makes me who I am, which I finally understand is someone worthy. The hard stuff? I now have the emotional endurance to poke fun at it, to look it right in the face.
More important, I’m able to tilt my head to see it in just the right light—and laugh.
Anna Akana is a comedian, author, and executive producer and star of the YouTube Red series Youth & Consequences.
There’s no denying that Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson, and the rest of the Barden Bellas love the Pitch Perfect movies. They wouldn’t have made three films—and even discussed the possibility of a fourth—if their passion wasn’t there. The behind-the-scenes pics from the Pitch Perfect sets show just how much these gals enjoy getting their acapella on with each other. It’a sisterhood, simply put—a sisterhood that rakes in boatloads of cash at the box office.
But that doesn’t mean the Bellas can’t roll their eyes—playfully, of course—at the franchise every now and then. I mean, Pitch Perfect is pretty ridiculous if you think about it. It’s about college-level acapella singing, which I didn’t even know was a thing.
And the promotion for each of these films has been stacked with “pitch” puns, both naturally and forced. The tagline for the first movie was “Get pitch-slapped.” The second one was pretty obvious: “We’re back, pitches,” But the third one takes the cake in terms of cheesiness and awkwardness: “The Night Before Pitchmas,” one of the posters advertising the film reads. Yes, “Pitchmas”—as in “Christmas” with the word “pitch” in place of “Chris.” It’s official: We’ve now reached maximum levels of “pitch” wordplay.
Kendrick agrees with me, too—if her most recent post on Instagram is any indication, that is. The actress posted a photo of the film’s “Night Before Pitchmas” ad and captioned it with something pretty hilarious and shady (in the best way possible). “Feels like we might be forcing the word play at this point BUT I DON’T CARE. #Pitchmas #WhateverThatIs,” Kendrick wrote. See it for yourself, below:
Of course, Kendrick wasn’t actually being snarky here—this was most likely just a silly joke. However, we’re living for the fact a Pitch Perfect cast member said something fans have been thinking for years. Now that’s the ultimate “pitch-slap,” TBH.
