Pop Culture Crap+ : Will Forte’s Prank Gone Too Far

Will Forte learned that “not everything is funny” when he was 14 years old, and tried to trick his mother into thinking he’d killed himself.  (Full Story)

Paul Rudd loved recreating his 1991 Super Nintendo commercial for a Switch 2 ad.  (Full Story)

Dave Coulier learned that he was cancer-free and a new grandpa on the same day.  (Full Story) 

Conspiracy nuts now think the Blue Origin space flight with Katy Perry and Gayle King was faked.  (Full Story) 

Movies and TV:

The creators of “Tremors” have regained the rights to the movie and are working on a sequel that they hope will star Kevin Bacon.  (Full Story) 

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood have joined the cast of the “Ready or Not” sequel.  (Full Story)

Sydney Sweeney and Michael Bay are developing a movie based on the video game “OutRun”.  (Full Story) 

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025 will be announced Sunday night on “American Idol”.  (Full Story) 

Netflix is launching a reality show on the WWE writers’ room, called “WWE: Unreal”.  Check out a teaser. 

On her show yesterday, Drew Barrymore comforted an audience member who was crying because she’d recently lost her sister.  (Full Story) 

Music:

Kendrick Lamar appeared to mock Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music during the opening of his Grand National Tour.  (Full Story) 

SZA’s “SOS” has overtaken Adele’s “21” for the record of most weeks in the Top 10 among albums by women.  (Full Story) 

“Luther” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA is still #1 on the Hot 100.  (Full Story) 

Remember when Sammy Hagar claimed he wrote a new song with Eddie Van Halen in a dream?  Well, it’s coming out on Friday.  It’s called “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight”.  (Full Story) 

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen is still dealing with trauma from being randomly attacked two years ago.  (Full Story) 

Alice Cooper’s next album is called “The Revenge of Alice Cooper”.  It’ll be the first with the original Alice Cooper band in 51 years.  It comes out in July.  (Most of the original band, anyway.  Guitarist Glen Buxton died in 1997.)  (Full Story) 

Check out the new Puddle of Mudd single “Beautimous”.  (Full Story) 

In between their two Coachella headlining sets, Green Day played a show at a small club in Pioneertown, California.  They performed as The Coverups, and played 31 cover songs.  Check out some videos.  (Full Story) 

Sports:

A woman has filed a $50 million rape and battery lawsuit against Shannon Sharpe.  So he released some explicit texts from her that supposedly prove she’s lying.  (Full Story)