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Back in 1988, instead of playing the product placement game, Eddie Murphy transformed McDonald's Restaurant into McDowell's for Coming to America, one of the movie's best jokes. If you've ever dreamed of visiting the spoof restaurant, you're finally going to get your chance. A real-life version of McDowell's is opening in the spirit of Halloween. You just have to live, or happen to be visiting Hollywood, this fall.

Coming to America 2 is currently in the works, with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall ready to reprise their iconic comedic roles from the hit 80s comedy. But while fans wait for that sequel to become a reality, they'll be able to revisit the movie in a completely different, albeit much more subversive way.

McDowell's was one of the key locations in Coming to America. Eddie Murphy's young Prince Akeem takes a job at the fast food restaurant to learn more about American living.

Drake, T.I., 2 Chainz and a slew of other huge hip hop stars wouldn't have many of their hits without a producer, who says he was left out in the cold when the money started rolling in ... so he's suing. Arsenio Archer says he teamed with London Holmes -- known in the biz as London on da Track -- and cranked out tons of hit tracks ... including "Section" by 2 Chainz, "Sneakin'" by Drake ft. 21 Savage, "I...

The “Lawrence of Arabia” of half-assed Adam Sandler comedies, “Sandy Wexler” is an epic period piece that spans 10 years and 131 minutes of mildly amusing mediocrity before climaxing with a Rob Schneider cameo where he plays a Middle Eastern man in full brownface — it’s awful, and yet it’s almost objectively Sandler’s best movie since “Funny People.”

Of course, quality has never been a very useful metric for measuring Sandler’s work, and that’s especially true now that we’re knee-deep in an eight-picture Netflix deal which guarantees that, for the foreseeable future, we can expect new Sandler films to arrive with all the predictably of seasonal allergies. Once upon a time, he was a cottage industry — now, he’s an assembly line.

But if “Sandy Wexler” is only the slightest bit funnier than “The Do-Over” or “The Ridiculous Six,” the third of Sandler’s streaming offerings is...

Is Chris Hardwick getting bumped by President Donald Trump?

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Comedy Central on Thursday issued a cryptic press release touting The President Show. The bulletin featured the presidential seal and read, “Late night TV is broken. A Total Disaster. I alone can fix it,” and included the following Twitter handle: @PresidentShow. The account’s bio reads as follows:

#1 show on television, many many millions of viewers. Hosted by @LateNightDonald. Bringing American Jobs back to late night.

The linked @LateNightDonald account is also active, with tweets dating back to Tuesday,...

Sinead O'Connor is taking back what she said.

The 50-year-old singer apologized this week for past Facebook posts she made apparently implicating Arsenio Hall in supplying late music icon Prince with drugs over the years. The "Purple Rain" singer died at age 57 of a fetanyl overdose in April 2016.

More: Arsenio Hall Sues Sinead O'Connor for $5 Million Over 'Outlandish' Prince Drug Claims

“I apologize for my Facebook posts about Arsenio to the extent that anyone thought I was accusing him of acting as Prince’s drug dealer and supplying him with illegal hard drugs, or insinuating that Arsenio had something to do with Prince’s death,” the Irish songwriter said in a statement to Et. “I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally.”

"Arsenio Hall and Sinead O’Connor announce that Sinead has retracted and apologized for statements she made about Arsenio last year, which prompted his defamation lawsuit against her, and...

Sinead O’Connor has apologized to Arsenio Hall for accusing him of supplying drugs to Prince and insinuating he had something to do with the singer’s death last year. “I apologize for my Facebook posts about Arsenio Hall to the extent that anyone thought I was accusing him of acting as Prince’s drug dealer and supplying him with illegal hard drugs, or insinuating that Arsenio had something to do with Prince’s death,” she said in a statement obtained by TheWrap. “I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally,” she continued. In...

Sinéad O'Connor is backtracking after claiming comedian Arsenio Hall gave Prince drugs. The Irish singer took to Facebook shortly after Prince's April 21 death to make the allegations against Hall. "Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.... Arsenio Hall (Aka Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch)...Arsenio I've reported you to the Carver County Sherrif's office. Expect their call. They are aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie Murphy's house. You best get tidying your man cave. [sic]." In response the Coming to America actor filed a $5 million libel lawsuit against O'Connor. "Desperate, attention-seeker Sinéad O'Connor has...

Sinead O’Connor apologized to comedian Arsenio Hall on Wednesday for claiming he gave Prince drugs and insinuating that had something to do with the music legend’s death.

The singer, 50, retracted her claims and apologized in a statement, writing, “I apologize for my Facebook posts about Arsenio Hall to the extent that anyone thought I was accusing him of acting as Prince’s drug dealer and supplying him with illegal hard drugs, or insinuating that Arsenio had something to do with Prince’s death.”

“I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally,” she continued.

Sinead O'Connor is issuing a full mea culpa for accusing Arsenio Hall of providing drugs to Prince, and saving her ass from a $5 million lawsuit in the process ... TMZ has learned. Arsenio and Sinead tell TMZ, in a joint statement, "Sinead has retracted and apologized for statements she made about Arsenio last year, which prompted his defamation lawsuit against her." TMZ broke the story ... Arsenio sued the crap out of the singer after she went...

ABC and Arsenio Hall are making a straight-up* play for viewer nostalgia this summer. (*See what we did there?)

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The network announced on Wednesday that it’s launching Greatest Hits — a concert-style series reliving the biggest songs of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. (Tick tock ya don’t stop!)

Hall and current country chart-topper Kelsea Ballerini will serve as hosts for the six-episode, one-hour series, premiering Thursday, June 30 at 9/8c.

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Earlier this week, singer Sinead O'Connor made headlines when she accused talk show host and comedian Arsenio Hall for the untimely and unexpected death of musical icon Prince. Now, Arsenio has responded by slapping the woman with a $5 million lawsuit. Hall is suing O'Connor for libel due to the accusations pointed towards him.

In a Facebook post on her official page, Sinead O'Connor accused Arsenio Hall of being Prince's longtime drug dealer. She also claimed that Hall had spiked her marijuana while visiting Eddie Murphy's home several years ago. Though Prince's cause of death has not been confirmed or announced, there have been plenty of rumors swirling that either painkillers or hard drugs lead to Prince Rogers Nelson's passing. This was cause for alarm according to Sinead O'Connor, who had this to say in her initial statement.

"Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.

Arsenio Hall is suing-mad at Sinead O’Connor over the singer’s claim that the former talk-show host was Prince’s drug dealer. Hall has filed suit against “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer O’Connor, after the singer made the claim on social media this week. “Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades…. Arsenio Hall (Aka Prince’s and Eddie Murphy‘s bitch),” O’Connor wrote Monday on Facebook. “Anyone imagining prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land. Arsenio I’ve reported you to the Carver County Sheriff’s office.

Arsenio Hall just clapped back at Sinead O'Connor with a $5 Million defamation lawsuit over her claim he was fueling Prince's habit. His lawyers, Marty Singer and Lynda Goldman, filed the suit Thursday morning, in which Arsenio calls Sinead a "desperate attention-seeker" for posting an incendiary rant on Facebook earlier this week. She called Prince a "longtime hard drug user" who got his supply from "Arsenio Hall (Aka Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch)." In the suit,...

Two weeks ago, the world was shocked to learn that legendary musician Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, had passed away at the young age of 57. While the Sheriff's Office later released details behind the untimely death, no cause of death has been confirmed at this time. As the world awaits word of what actually killed the singer, another musician claims to know the culprit behind his passing. In a statement on her official Facebook page, which has not yet been deleted, singer/songwriter Sinead O'Connor is firmly pointing the finger at talk show host Arsenio Hall. She had this to say, claiming she's reported the comedian to the Carver County Sherrif's office.

"Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.... Arsenio Hall (Aka Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch) Anyone imagining prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land.

Sinead O'Connor is blaming Prince's drug problems on his good friend, Arsenio Hall -- but he says the Irish singer is totally full of it. Sinead went on the attack, saying ... "Two words for the DEA investigating where (sic) prince got his drugs over the decades ... Arsenio Hall (Aka Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch)." She went on to say on her Facebook page ... she's actually reported Arsenio to the Carver County Sheriff's department, which is investigating Prince's death.

What do you get when you put together a roomful of comics and a television to watch Tracy Morgan's triumphant return to Saturday Night Live? Well, a slumber party, of course!

"It really was!" comedian Kathy Griffin told People on the red carpet Oct. 18 at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., before the taping of the 18th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, this year honoring Eddie Murphy, 54. "We were watching Tracy host SNL and [Dave] Chappelle was in there, and Arsenio [Hall] was there, and it just was so much fun. I was in comedy heaven."

She added that they "were arguing,...

When asked about Stephen Colbert replacing David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show,” former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno quipped, “A white guy on late night, this is revolutionary.” Leno made the comment during his appearance at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour to promote his own new CNBC series “Jay Leno’s Garage,” but took the time to put in his two cents about the ongoing public discourse about the lack of diversity in late night hosts. “I would like to see a bit more diversity in late night,” he continued. “We’re certainly ready for a female host,...

The future of Dan Harmon's "Community" remains very much up in the air (at this point, if Yahoo orders another season, it would likely be a "Community: The New Class" approach, with Joel McHale, Jim Rash and a bunch of newbies). The future of Harmon and Justin Roiland's Adult Swim series "Rick and Morty," on the other hand, seems so secure that, in an interview earlier this week, the two creators made several casual references to things they intend to do in season 3. "Rick and Morty" began in Roiland's mind as an R-rated "Back to the Future" parody where Doc Brown relationship with Marty McFly is much darker and crueler. As Harmon explained to me last year, it evolved into its current imaginative sci-fi form where Rick is the drunk super-genius grandfather of Morty (both voiced by Roiland), forever taking his grandson on disturbing adventures across time, space,...

The image of Icon to the left was on Arsenio Hall’s Facebook page last week. There’s a funny story behind that. Well, its funny to me.

I like Arsenio. I like him a lot. I’ve met him a few times but we are by no means boys. Whenever I see him I’d like to think he remembers me but I think he’s just being polite. Each and every time I run into him, what strikes me is how polite and straight up real the man is.

Polite, straight up and real is raised to another level by a woman of his staff. What level? Putting it as politely as I can, she’s a straight up bitch, for real.

That level.

I was invited to the Arsenio show some months ago. Guests on the show that day included Don Cheadle and Billy D. Williams. It...

“The term ‘deranged sociopath’ gets thrown around a lot by the media these days,” Arsenio Hall said in 1989 when introducing Jason Voorhees on his show, “but it really applies to my next guest.” This was the year of Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan, and a peak-of-his-popularity Jason came out to a nice round of applause. Then he sat down and sat behind his expressionless mask barely moving while Arsenio fired off a barrage of questions to the silent hulk. “I see all your movies man, and you know what I’ve noticed?” No response. “You’re angry.” It’s […]...

“The term ‘deranged sociopath’ gets thrown around a lot by the media these days,” Arsenio Hall said in 1989 when introducing Jason Voorhees on his show, “but it really applies to my next guest.” This was the year of Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan, and a peak-of-his-popularity Jason came out to a nice round of applause. Then he sat down and sat behind his expressionless mask barely moving while Arsenio fired off a barrage of questions to the silent hulk. “I see all your movies man, and you know what I’ve noticed?” No response. “You’re angry.” It’s […]...

CBS has named English actor James Corden as the new host of "The Late Late Show," where he will succeed the departing Craig Ferguson sometime in 2015. Corden won a 2012 Tony for the play "One Man, Two Guv'nors," co-stars with Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo in "Begin Again," has appeared twice on "Doctor Who" and co-created and stars in the Hulu series "The Wrong Mans." On the whole, though, it's fair to say he's even less well known to U.S. TV audiences than Ferguson was when he took over "Late Late Show" a few years after the end of "The Drew Carey Show." In this case, CBS is clearly betting on talent over celebrity, while also doing nothing to diversify the ranks of network late night talk. As somebody who doesn't watch any of these shows anymore, the Corden news merits a shrug, unless CBS gives him license to throw...

“Just be careful. She doesn’t suffer fools.” That was the advice a publicist gave me just before they put me on the phone with Lauren Bacall about 20 years ago. She was promoting a TNT movie, The Portrait, and as a writer-producer on The Arsenio Hall Show I had persuaded the powers that be to book her on the show — even if, on the surface, she wasn’t the typical kind of contemporary guest we often had on the show. Quite frankly, I just wanted to meet Lauren Bacall, to just hear that legendary sultry voice on the other end of the phone. So I set about doing the pre-interview and apparently passed the “no fools” test because I found her to be a pussycat.

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Still it wasn’t like Arsenio (or even our studio and TV audience) was exactly the kind of fan I was,...

I didn’t see Robin Williams‘ attempt at a new sitcom, CBS’ The Crazy Ones. I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to think that the great Robin was, at only 62, already making the trip back to weekly TV half-hours after such a stellar, Oscar-winning career in films and such a bright, unhinged light on comedy stages for all of his career. It’s just too constricting for this kind of talent. It’s even sadder to think the show got cancelled after one season, a failure that must have been hard to take. No, my most recent memories of Robin Williams are on the big screen, where he seemed to be heading for a place of renewal, not only as the funnyman everyone knew, but really a fine dramatic actor. In this year’s The Face Of Love he played a supporting role as a man heartbreakingly...

The late-night TV landscape is undergoing yet another shift with The Arsenio Hall Show getting canceled after just one season on the air. Variety reports that CBS made the announcement on Friday, citing the show's failure to draw in enough viewers.

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"While there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue," CBS said in a statement. "Arsenio is a tremendous talent and we’d like to thank...

Adios, Arsenio! Arsenio Hall's late-night talk show has been cancelled after one season, Variety reports. "Unfortunately, The Arsenio Hall Show will not return for a second season; while there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue," CBS said in a statement. "Arsenio is a tremendous talent and we'd like to thank him for all the hard work and energy he put into the show. We'd also like to thank Tribune and all our station group partners for their [...]...

Remember last February, when Jay Leno made his first post-Tonight Show appearance to tell his friend Arsenio Hall that his show had been renewed for a second season? Well, CBS Television Distribution has changed their mind. They've cancelled The Arsenio Hall Show after one season.

The series had a very positive launch last year but the ratings started falling quickly and they never recovered. The studio tried replacing the executive producer and inviting some big guests but it just wasn't enough.

A spokesperson for the studio said, "While there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue... Arsenio is a tremendous talent and we’d like to thank him for all the hard work and energy he put into the show. We’d also like to thank Tribune and all our station group partners for their support of...

Well, this is kind of awkward. The Arsenio Hall Show has been canceled after just one season by CBS Television Distribution, E! News has confirmed. But wait, didn't Jay Leno make a surprise appearance on Arsenio Hall's talk show to announce its season two pick-up?! It looks like the network had a change of heart after a decline in ratings. "Unfortunately, The Arsenio Hall Show will not return for a second season; while there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue," a spokesperson for CBS Television Distribution said. "Arsenio is a tremendous talent and we'd like to thank him for all the hard work and energy he put into the show....

Looks like Jay Leno might’ve spoken too soon. Though the recent late-night retiree swung by The Arsenio Hall Show in February to announce its renewal, CBS Television Distribution has chosen not to move forward with a second season of Hall’s syndicated gabfest. Related | TBS Renews Conan Through 2018 According to Variety, which first reported the cancellation, the network said […]...

Looks like Jay Leno might’ve spoken too soon. Though the recent late-night retiree swung by The Arsenio Hall Show in February to announce its renewal, CBS Television Distribution has chosen not to move forward with a second season of Hall’s syndicated gabfest. Related | TBS Renews Conan Through 2018 According to Variety, which first reported the cancellation, the network said […]...

Jay Leno’s touch couldn’t help pal Arsenio Hall make it beyond one season in his return to late-night. After weeks of speculation, CBS Television Distribution has made a decision not to proceed with a second season of the syndicated Arsenio Hall Show, despite renewing the show for Season 2 in February after securing a two-year deal with the Tribune stations pre-launch. Leno surprised Hall in February when he made his first TV appearance after departing The Tonight Show to give him the news of the show’s renewal. But, after a stellar launch (1.9 in households, 1.0 in adults 18-49), The Arsenio Hall Show quickly faded in the ratings and never bounced back, despite a boost from a highly-rated Prince episode in March and appearances by Leno and Eddie Murphy. Cbstd tried righting the ship with an executive producer change in October when Eric Pankowski replaced Neal Kendall at the helm.

Conan O’Brien launched his late-night show on TBS in November 2010. Fifteen months later, the show was extended though April 2014. Now TBS is making a big statement that O’Brien is there to stay, renewing Conan through 2018. With Jay Leno retiring this spring and David Letterman set to follow him, O’Brien next year will become the new doyen of late night where he recently marked his 20th anniversary. Year to date, Conan is averaging a modest 862,000 viewers in Live+7. His strength is in younger viewers, topping a number of late-night competitors among adults 18-34 including The Late Show With David Letterman, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Arsenio Hall Show, Chelsea Lately and Watch What Happens: Live. Conan also has been a digital juggernaut, with O’Brien counting 10.7 million Twitter followers, more than any other late-night star on cable. Last year, O’Brien expanded...

Legendary comic Paul Mooney got downright racial during a taping of the Arsenio Hall show Monday night ...  spitting the N-bomb at an audience member in a performance that's being hailed as "the most embarrassing, disrespectful standup bombing ever."Mooney -- who famously appeared on "Chappelle's Show" and wrote for Richard Pryor -- was booked to do a short standup bit on Arsenio ... but rambled on for more than 14 minutes in a bizarre routine that touched...

Arsenio Hall says he's trying to raise $1 Billion to buy the L.A. Clippers ... and last night he got his first Real donation ... a wad of cash from Katt Williams. While Arsenio's campaign might be a joke, the wad of cash Katt gave to Arsenio was not -- sources tell us he gave Hall $1,100 in $100 bills ... and did Not ask for it back when the cameras turned off. Katt told Arsenio on the show,...

Billionaire Donald Sterling made headlines last week when TMZ posted audio recordings of the Los Angeles Clippers owner making racist comments. Specifically, the audio captures Sterling telling his mistress that he doesn’t want her associating with black people in public and asking her not to bring “them” to his games.

Everyone from President Obama to Snoop Dogg have offered their two cents on the controversy — and on Monday night, it was late night’s turn. See what each host had to say about Sterling, including what kind of animal he resembles, below:

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For a generation of kids, Saturday morning at 11am was appointment-television time. You put away your cereal bowl and switched from cartoons or pro-wrestling to a channel a little further down the dial. After a minute or two, you'd finally see that signature animated train — a funky, pulsing engine grooving down inner-city elevated tracks (and later, around the world), puffing out rainbow-colored smoke. Then a high-pitched voice screamed out the words you'd waited all week to hear: "It's the Sooooouuullll Traaaaaiiiiiinnnn!"

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Somehow this doesn't surprise us. During an appearance earlier this week on Chelsea Lately, Wiz Khalifa was asked by guest host T.J. Miller just how much he spends on marijuana each month. "None now," the rapper said. "I get it for free." In fact, Khalifa not only revealed that he actually has a marijuana company that sponsors him, but they also have a strain of weed named after him (Khalifa Kush) as well. "It's an indica," he explained. "It wakes you up...Indicas wake me up. I like to be really, really high." Earlier this month, the subject of marijuana came up (naturally) when Khalifa stopped by The Arsenio Hall Show. When asked what it...

TerRio Harshaw is in first grade, and nearly as wide as he is tall. He’s also the most recognizable star on Vine, despite not having an account. Instead, the Riverdale, Georgia, native stars in clips taken by his teenage neighbor Maleek — or that’s what he did before leaving home to travel the country as a viral sensation, showing up at nightclubs (reportedly earning $8,000 per appearance), Super Bowl Media Day (where he drew the attention of cheerleaders), music-video shoots, and The Arsenio Hall Show, all under the care of a 25-year-old manager from Florida. TerRio controls no aspect of the business that’s grown around him, not even the camera-phone. TerRio is known for a dance, first recorded by Maleek last summer in a Vine post that collected more than 300,000 “likes” and even more re-Vines. Maleek commands, “Ooh, kill ’em!” — which would become the TerRio catchphrase — as...

Less than a week after David Letterman announced his retirement from The Late Show, CBS has announced his successor: Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report host has signed a five-year agreement with the network and will step into the role following Letterman's departure in 2015, but the current Late Show host has not yet decided on a timetable with the network for when he will say good night.

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"Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career," Colbert said in a statement.

News of David Letterman's impending retirement rocked the late-night TV world this week, and the development seems to have hit home with Jimmy Fallon. The Tonight Show host took a moment on Friday's show to reminisce about the influence Letterman had on his own career, noting that Letterman had asked a young Fallon to fill in for him when the veteran host got shingles. That's where he got "the bug" (not shingles, he clarified).

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When we think of the Late Night Wars that erupted when Johnny Carson retired in the early ’90s, we tend to recall the conflict as fought between two fierce adversaries: David Letterman and Jay Leno. There was, however, another dog in the fight as well: Arsenio Hall, who came out guns blazing in 1989 and, once Leno had officially taken over Tonight, memorably promised to “kick Jay’s ass” in the pages of Entertainment Weekly.

Of course, by now, all that bad blood is ancient history. Leno and Hall would eventually make up, enjoying a mutual friendship and respect — and clearly,...

Following David Letterman's surprise retirement announcement yesterday, many late-night talk-show hosts, all of whom began their careers during the three decades Letterman has been on the air, have begun paying their tributes.

Jimmy Fallon, who hosts The Tonight Show – the show that Letterman was vying for when Johnny Carson said his final good night after three decades – told The Hollywood Reporter that Letterman was "the greatest." "[He is] one of the true innovators in TV history," he said. "He's made us all better."

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Jimmy Kimmel – who, like Fallon,...

Just as Wichita State fans were starting to heal ... Arsenio Hall ripped open the wound again with a pretty funny spoken word take on all the March Madness carnage.Arsenio did an awesome tribute to Def Poetry on his show last night ... debuting a poem about all the Ncaa bracket busting -- and taking jabs at the Shockers, the Syracuse Orangemen, and degenerate gamblers in general.Check it out ... the highlight might actually be his shot at Lauryn Hill.

Here’s your requisite ’90s flashback for the day.

Ginuwine (along with Tank and Tyrese) stopped by The Arsenio Hall Show Tuesday night — and, caving to crowd demand, performed the 1996 hit “Pony” alongside Tgt. Come for the memories; stay for the thrilled audience members’ dance moves when Ginuwine makes his way into the crowd.

Watch below:

The only question: Donna Meagle couldn’t snag a ticket?...

Joined by the other members of supergroup Tgt, Ginuwine performed his 1996 hit "Pony," signature grind song of lonely bachelors, competent jockeys and horse men, in a performance that aired on The Arsenio Hall Show. Ginuwine's pipes aren't what they used to be nearly two decades on, but no one can say he doesn't still have the moves. Maybe Donna Meagle would say it, but that's just because she's family.

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The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder is delivering a new series to Adult Swim, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Black Jesus follows a modern-day Jesus living in Compton and trying to “spread love and kindness” in the neighborhood.

I know some of you were disappointed that Mason Dye wouldn’t be sticking around for the Flowers in the Attic sequel, but E! has some news that should make up for that. Dye has joined the cast of Teen Wolf. Even better, he’ll be playing a new, gay member of the lacrosse team. Dye isn’t the only new cast member who will play a part of the lacrosse team, Khylin Rhambo and Dylan Sprayberry are also joining the supernatural drama.

Does this mean we’ll finally get to see more of Danny?

Gabourey Sidibe will have a recurring role on Empire, the hip-hop drama from Precious director Lee Daniels and Danny Strong.

Rick Ross appeared on "The Arsenio Hall Show" last night (March 6) to play “Sanctified,” a personal favorite from his new album “Mastermind,” but no one was prepared for Kanye West to show up for his verses on the song. Watch the clip below. Hall billed Rick Ross’ performance as featuring “very special friends,” which turned out to be West and Big Sean. The crowd goes nuts when Ye comes out at the 1:30 mark, rocking a thick gold chain and growling his bar about being “too aggressive!?” This week, Hall hosted another musical legend — Prince. Below the Rick Ross video, check out the Purple One and his band 3rdEyeGirl perform a new song, "FunkNRoll," which will likely appear on his forthcoming album “Plectrumelectrum.” "The Arsenio Hall Show" disappeared for nearly 20 years before returning in late 2013, but it's safe to say Arsenio is back.

He’s always up for rocking the microphone, and Kanye West gave the folks over at “The Arsenio Hall Show” a little extra thrill last night (March 6).

The “No Church in the Wild” rapper showed up during Rick Ross' performance of “Sanctified” along with fellow emcee Big Sean, and the crowd went wild.

Arsenio kicked things off, “Y’all good? I can’t hear you. Are you big Rick Ross fans? He’s gangster ain’t he? Rick Ross is so gangster his beard has warrants.”

“Kicking it off tonight performing ‘Sanctified,’ here is Rick ‘The Boss’ Ross and some very special friends. Go, y’all!”...

It's not every day Kanye West just so happens to show up on late-night unannounced! But on Thursday's Arsenio Hall Show, the rapper and Big Sean did just that when they hopped onstage to assist Rick Ross on "Sanctified," a track off his new album Mastermind. (A source confirmed Yeezus' surprise performance to E! News exclusively hours before Arsenio aired, saying the unknowing audience was "in shock" when Kim Kardashian's love appeared.) Mr. West brought his typical swag to the stage, pairing sneakers, jeans, a simple shirt and jacket with his a super sized gold chain. The audience went wild when 'Ye appeared (it's around the 1:30 mark in the clip above), and as you can see, he...

Kanye West is a fan of Arsenio Hall ... so much so that we're told he was watching Wednesday night when Prince appeared and loved it so much he made a surprise appearance Thursday night.Kanye appeared with Big Sean and Rick Ross and they were pretty amazing together.  Our "Arsenio" spies tell us no one from the show even knew Kanye was coming until an hour before the taping.Even if you don't like rap ... this is a great performance.