Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Somehow Donald Trump has managed to transform the stock market into Kanye West’

Late-night hosts recap Donald Trump’s escalation of a trade war that many expect will lead to a global recession.“What a crazy country we live in. It’s hard to remember what things we used to be worried about,” said Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday evening, as the markets once again roiled with Trump’s escalation of his tariffs on nearly all countries. “The Dow, the Nasdaq, the S&P all down again today. Somehow Donald Trump has managed to transform the stock market into Kanye West

‘HillmanTok’: how The Cosby Show inspired resistance to Trump’s war on Black education

In 1987, the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World made its US TV debut and followed the elder child, Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet), as she studied at her parents’ alma mater. The fictional historically Black college (or HBCU), Hillman, would go on to become a byword for Black excellence. “The influence of kids wanting to go to school, period, I think is very powerful,” one of the stars of the series, Jasmine Guy, said while touring HBCU campuses with her former castmates in 2024, 35 years after the sitcom ended. “Because they could see themselves there.”The Guardian’s journalism is independent

A hit wheel and a pottery flop: what happened to UK millennium projects?

As the former National Centre for Popular Music goes on the at-risk register, we look at what happened to some other millennium projects.Now known as the London Eye, when it opened to the public in 2000 it was the world’s largest ferris wheel.It was praised for its design and engineering and has won more than 85 awards for national and international tourism. The Eye remains one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, visited by millions of people each year.The National Wildflower Centre opened in the borough of Knowsley in 2000

Jon Stewart on Trump’s tariff crisis: ‘Your economic policy has the same tagline as season three of Squid Game?’

Late-night hosts reacted to market panic over Donald Trump’s tariffs and the new Maga party line that money actually isn’t important, anyway.“Our economy is in the midst of a beautiful metamorphosis, turning from a simple caterpillar into … a dead caterpillar,” said Jon Stewart from his usual Monday night perch at The Daily Show.In the days since Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every country, the stock market saw its worst downturn since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. “This turmoil could have lasting effects on the global economy, on everyday Americans, and most worryingly, the stock portfolios of members of Congress,” said Stewart. “Mr President, now is the time to soothe a worried nation!”Stewart pointed to Trump’s attempt, a Truth Social post that read: “Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid

Val Kilmer was electric as Jim Morrison in heroically ridiculous biopic The Doors

My favourite moment in Oliver Stone’s exhilarating, grotesque, heroically ridiculous biopic The Doors isn’t even in the movie itself: it’s in the parody that appears during Wayne’s World 2, in which Mike Myers’s Wayne, having been visited in a dream by the ghost of Jim Morrison, relays his experience to the veteran roadie Del Preston, played by Withnail & I’s indelible geezer Ralph Brown. “Didn’t you think it was a trifle unnecessary,” reasons Del, who had the same vision of the Lizard King and his Native American guide, “to see the crack in the Indian’s bottom?”The scene might goof on Stone’s film – in which Morrison believes himself possessed by the spirit of a Navajo man – on its wobbly mysticism, gonzo indulgence and rock ’n’ roll bacchanalia, but it also pays tribute to a movie that succeeds precisely because it leans into those very qualities. As an account of the 1960s West Coast icons who soundtracked the demise of the decade, The Doors is a film perfectly synchronised to its subject, staggering down the road of excess in search of a palace of wisdom, or maybe just the next whisky bar. And none of it would work, of course, without the electrifying lead performance by the late Val Kilmer.Critics love to talk about actors losing themselves in roles, and it’s true that Kilmer seems to commune with Morrison, to the extent that the surviving band members, upon hearing Kilmer’s vocal recordings for the soundtrack, were said to have wondered whether they were listening to the actor or the singer

From Classic Penguins to One Man Musical: the best live shows to see at Melbourne international comedy festival and beyond

The Melbourne international comedy festival is under way, leaving the city so crammed full of comedy that it is possible to see two or even three shows in a single night. With so many acts heading up to the Sydney comedy festival, then Brisbane comedy festival, it’s impossible to catch them all – but here’s a few that are worth taking a chance on.When’s it on? Melbourne until 20 April; then Perth 10 May; Brisbane 15-18 MayLou Wall was nominated for best show at last year’s MICF and for good reason: their style is slick and fast-paced, full of lighting cues and PowerPoint slides. Though light and frothy on the surface, their themes are often dark: in their 2024 show, Wall spoke about experiencing sexual assault in a sequence filled with pithy jokes and colourful lights – and, like that one, this is directed by Zoë Coombs-Marr. Weaving together trauma and heartbreak with jokes about Facebook Marketplace is a tricky tightrope but one Wall manages masterfully