This picture was snapped by the New York Postfrom the Brooklyn set of Girls. Yep, that is Donald Glover smiling really big and Lena Dunham smiling a normal size. It's a photo that might single-handedly explode the Internet. As Lena said earlier this month on Fresh Air, with her show's second season she aspires to expand the diversity of the cast but no one would have guessed that meant The Don of Gloves. It will be interesting to see if a famous person will be distracting in the hyper-real universe of the show. If you want to stand in the background of these two while the'yre [...]
At Coachella this weekend, Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover aka Chilly Gumbo rapped and sang and jumped around for a seemingly endless sea of people, despite an apparent broken right foot. How did he break his foot? We’re hoping it has to do with whatever epic season finale Community has in store for us.
Unlike Donald Glover’s past and current shows, his stand-up specials, cultclassicfeature, sketch videos, and blockbuster cameos, his rap alter-ego Childish Gambino is not meant to funny. Gambino’s new record, Camp, is an outlet for all the thoughts and feelings that only get hinted at in the quadruple threat’s stand-up. These include growing up poor, being bullied, feeling misunderstood, and generally not having a place. In other words: serious shit. That didn’t stop Glover from penning some zingers that both lighten the mood and give his comedy fans something to hold on to as he rises to the [...]
Full disclosure, I don't really know what it means to "go hard in the paint" but I know it's a rap thing and oh my god oh my god oh my god. I'm literally shivering with anticipation at how happy this preview of tomorrow's Community Christmas episode is going to make all of you. Especially you, Childish Gambino fans. Yeah.
Halloween ain't over till you watch the video for "Bonfire" by Childish Gambino (a.k.a. comedian and Community actor Donald Glover). The video is legitimately spooky, but if you get scared, just focus on the lyrics and how silly the PG-rated version sounds when you're expecting the not-so-PG words. "I love-, I love-, dude I should be running PETA." It's so radio-friendly!
Thursday is 30 Rock's second annual (maybe?) live show and the most talked about part is that Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino aka Chilly Gam Gam aka Dish of Gumbo is going to be playing young Tracy Jordan. In the above interview, we learn this is not a new thing. When he was writing on 30 Rock, The Donor of Gloves used to do the voice when Tracy Morgan "accidentally" missed table reads and "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" recording sessions. The question remains, however, what is young Dot Com going to be called, considering his current nickname would be completely meaningless at the time?
Community’s Donald Glover will play a young Tracy Jordan on the live 30 Rocklater this month. Fun! Right? Right! The Don of Gloves was a writer on the show for it’s first three seasons, until he quit to pursue performing. Days later he audition for Community and that turned out okay. It’s a nice story, where we get to picture our favorite funny people as friends. Hopefully, he’ll also get to reprise his role as rushed PA from season 1:
Successful people get that way because they're talented. Very talented, in a lot of different ways. So talented that they make you question why you even bother doing anything, because quite frankly, you'll probably never do one thing as well as they do everything.
On November 15th, Donald Glover released Camp, his first studio as a rapper under his pseudonym Childish Gambino, making him look like an impossibly talented comedy wunderkind. But in reality, Glover is just one in a long line of crazy talented comedy people who have also seen success as serious musicians. I've collected here a list of people so talented, they make you question why [...]
Yikes. Pitchfork seriously gives it to comedy's rapper Childish Gambino with this review of Camp, rating it a 1.6 and calling it "one of the most uniquely unlikable rap records of this year (and most others)." The review criticizes the joke integrity of Gambino's "hashtag rap" (lines like "You can kiss my ass, Human Centipede"), but its main complaint is that in a post-Kanye rap landscape, the stereotype of the hard black rapper that Gambino rails against doesn't really exist anymore. This might be a legitimate concern for serious hip-hop fans, but luckily it probably won't stop comedy nerds from playing "Bonfire" over and over to psych us [...]
There is a lot to go over in last night’s brilliant episode of Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory,” the show’s most clever way of spending little to no money yet (with the exception of the rights to “Roxanne”), so let’s do this timeline-by-timeline, yes?
Actually, before we get to that, a question: Pierce mentioned that he had sex with Eartha Kitt in last week's episode, when the Seven speaks to Omar, and no one blinked an eye; does that mean these episodes airdates were swapped? That would explain why their apartment is 303, the episode's production order. Also: props to writer Chris McKenna, who [...]
Donald Glover is performing a "secret" show tonight in LA under his hip hop moniker Childish Gambino. If you either don't live in LA or do but don't feel like waiting in line only to be crammed into a small space with a bunch of other sweaty people when it's easier to just stay home, it'll be streaming live on YouTube right over here. It kicks off at 8pm EST/5PM PST. Nice and early so you can still get to bed by 10pm afterwards.
The problem is so much more serious than we thought. No bees making honey? That means no mischievous bears sticking their paws in honey pots, which means no salmon getting snapped up by bears, which means the salmon crowd out the tuna, which means no spicy tuna rolls. No people dying? That means people getting cavalier about their health, which means going outside with wet hair and no coat, which means running a fever and taking their temperature over and over with old-fashioned thermometers, which means people freak out about mercury poisoning, which means no spicy tuna rolls. Are you ready to have those consequences on your hands, [...]
Before Community aired its first episode in 2009, Joel McHale was the guy from The Soup, known to most only as "The Guy from The Soup"; Gillian Jacobs was the girl who had a topless scene in Choke; Alison Brie was the rarely-seen Trudy on Mad Men; Donald Glover was part of a comedy troupe that made the "bro rape" video; Yvette Nicole Brown was a movie theater manager on Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh; Danny Pudi was the Token Indian in movies like Road Trip: Beer Pong; and Chevy Chase was a has-been.
Now, on the morning/afternoon of their 59th episode together — their last until March? April? May? [...]
Ever notice how you never see Donald Glover and Childish Gambino in the same place at the same time? It's almost like they're the same p- Oh, hey, look! It's a video of Glover interviewing Gambino. Aw, that's so cute that they coordinated to wear almost the same thing. Maybe Childish can give Donald Glover some help with his rapping, because it is not amazing.
