Here's the first released clip from The To Do List, a new comedy starring Aubrey Plaza and written/directed by Maggie Carey (Funny or Die Presents) that's set to hit theaters August 16th. Bill Hader, Donald Glover, and Andy Samberg play supporting roles, and you can see them for two seconds each in this clip.
There are a lot of emotions flying around with this one. Donald Glover, who we all know from all his things, has been given a put pilot commitment by NBC for his own sitcom. The show would be co-executive produced by Matt "Hubba Hubba" Hubbard, who Glover worked as a writer with on 30 Rock. TV Guide reports the sitcom "would be loosely based on Glover's life," but which part of his life? Is it a show about a stand-up comedian/rapper dating a variety of Asian females or a show about a Jehovah's Witness who goes to NYU and starts an Internet famous sketch group? OK, so what [...]
Released in 2009, Mystery Team has achieved a certain cult status, especially among the ever-growing group of Gloveheads (the nickname I just made up for Donald Glover's fans). It had a limited theatrical release, so if you haven't had a Netflix subscription it likely has eluded you. But those days are in the past as Mystery Team is streaming for free right now through Hulu. Watch it above, so at least you can end your own personal Mystery Team mystery.
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 Rock later 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:
Illustrator Sam Spratt did the covert art for Donald Glover/Childish Gambino’s latest mixtape, Royalty, but the project soon grew into a series of 10 Norman Rockwell-esque illustrations about the hip hop world. You know how doing the artwork for a hip hop album goes, sometimes these things just happen. I think we've all found ourselves unexpectedly creating beautiful Rockwell-esque hip hop paintings at one time or another. The 10 pieces in Sam Spratt's collection are available now. You can view the rest of the illustrations after the jump.
Yesterday, The Don of Gloves released his newest mixtape of hip hops, Royalty. You can download the album for free over here. It features some of music's biggest names: Ghostface Killah, Danny Brown, Beck, Nipsey Hussle, RZA, and Tina Fey. Waaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, what? Yep, Tina Fey drops a verse in the track above and finally answers the question: What color is your Prius, Tina?
Donald Glover just released a new song under his hip hop moniker Childish Gambino called "Silk Pillow." It's notable because it was produced by and features rapping by famous Scientologist Beck. Depending on how you feel about Glover's rap skills/Beck's rap skills, this is either an awesome mashup of greats or an example of two talented people overreaching a little bit. In any case, you can listen to a stream of the track right here on Glover's website and decide for yourself.
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, [...]
In 2010, former troupe-mates Donald Glover and DC Pierson returned from Los Angeles to perform at The Creek and The Cave, in New York City. Glover was tossed a question from an audience member: What's it like working with Chevy Chase? In response, he described how Chase had delivered a 40-minute lecture to Saturday Night Live cast member Bobby Moynihan laying out the case for why Glover has to be homosexual, which he is not. "That's the only way a guy like Chevy Chase has of processing a black guy who looks like me, talks like me, dresses like me," said Glover on stage that night. "That's how alien [...]
This picture was snapped by the New York Post from 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.
