President Donald Trump received some glowing reviews for his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, his first major address as president since the inauguration, with people noting that he sounded "presidential."

But Stephen Colbert aired his "Late Show" live after the address and had less nice things to say about Trump's talking points, which Colbert mocked one by one in his opening monologue.

"Now technically this was not a State of the Union becaue I think in this timeline the Confederacy won, right?" Colbert said to open the show.

As Trump was introduced as the "President of the United States" to Congress, Colbert chimed in with some Oscar-related thoughts: "Any chance there's a mistake and 'Moonlight' is the president?"

Pundits pointed out the optimism of Trump's words, which surprised some used to his more off-the-cuff remarks, but Colbert was more skeptical of the tone.

"Now, the theme of the speech was 'renewal of the American spirit,' which I got to say really just sounds like a Chinese bootleg of 'Make America Great Again,'" the host said.

Trump touted the ways his administration will beat back government corruption with limits on lobbying.

"Adding, obviously, 'Yours truly excepted. I got your back, Vlad,'" Colbert joked in a reference to Russian president Vladimir Putin and questions over Trump's ties to Russia.

Trump also spoke about the "deregulation task force" he's set up in every federal agency. Colbert, again, wasn't convinced.

"We're going to reduce government by adding people to the government," Colbert said. "It's like how the key to not getting hungover is just to never stop drinking."

Of Trump's hiring freeze on "nonessential federal workers," Colbert said, "So Kellyanne Conway is out?"

And the "Late Show" host managed to make another dig at Trump's move on trans bathroom rights when the president brought up his trade policy.

"Yes, the Trans Pacific Partnership is just one of the trans the administration is withdrawing support from," Colbert said, to groans from the "Late Show" audience.

Trump expressed the belief that immigrants should be able to "support themselves financially."

"Just like the Statue of Liberty says," Colbert mocked. "'Give us your tired, your poor, but not so poor they can't afford a two-bedroom apartment and, like, a Mitsubishi.'"

Trump sounded a warning about terrorist attacks "all over the world." Colbert added, "And just because we haven't seen the attacks in Sweden doesn't mean they didn't happen. Invisible terrorists are everywhere."

Colbert also needled Trump for saying the country could have been rebuilt several times over with money that went to the Middle East, saying, "Maybe even rebuilt it ten times if we had people who refused to pay their contractors."

And of Trump's endorsement of American manufacturing, Colbert said, "Unless you're making Trump ties, then the Chinese do an amazing job."

Trump got a standing ovation from Republicans when he reiterated a promise to "repeal and replace Obamacare," but Colbert saw things another way.

"That must've been hard on Trump," he said. "People got so excited just hearing Obama's name."

Trump finished his remarks with can-do attitude, telling Congress that "every problem can be solved."

"Well there's one problem we can't solve for four years," Colbert said.

Watch Colbert's stinging take on Trump's speech to Congress below:

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Casey Affleck addressed the years-old sexual-harassment allegations against him, which resurfaced in the months ahead of Sunday's Oscar ceremony, where Affleck won the best-actor Oscar for his work in "Manchester by the Sea."

In recent months, Affleck had been embroiled in controversy surrounding news that he had been sued by two women who worked on his 2010 indie mockumentary film, "I'm Still Here," claiming the actor sexually harassed them.

Those allegations entered the spotlight once again on Sunday when presenter Brie Larson was celebrated by some viewers for not clapping for Affleck after giving him his Oscar.

In an interview with the Boston Globe after his win, Affleck made it clear that those involved in the lawsuits, including himself, are barred from commenting on them and that the public doesn't know the full details of the cases, which were settled.

"I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent," Affleck said, "and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.

"There’s really nothing I can do about it, other than live my life the way I know I live it and to speak to what my own values are and how I try to live by them all the time," Affleck added.

After Affleck was nominated for the Oscar in January, "Fresh Off the Boat" actress Constance Wu called out the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that awards the Oscars, for favoring a "good acting performance" over "human integrity," and for the message she believes Affleck's nomination sent to men.

The allegations against Affleck took on a new life after critics wondered why Oscar hopeful Nate Parker, who wrote and directed 2016's "Birth of a Nation," was being vilified for a 1999 rape charge (Parker was acquitted), and Affleck seemed to be getting a pass from media and activists.

In an interview with Variety last October, Affleck addressed the sexual-harassment suits.

"People say whatever they want," he said of the accusations. "Sometimes it doesn't matter how you respond... I guess people think if you're well-known, it's perfectly fine to say anything you want. I don't know why that is. But it shouldn't be, because everybody has families and lives."

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YouTube star Casey Neistat, who has a whopping 6.5 million subscribers, is getting a live daily digital show for CNN, which will run at 5 p.m., he told The Hollywood Reporter.

It will be hosted on a new YouTube channel Neistat will launch in March.

Neistat rose to prominence through authentic and unfiltered videos of his adventures in New York City and around the world.

In November, CNN bought Neistat's social-sharing app Beme for around $25 million. But the acquisition wasn't for the app, which CNN shut down, but rather for Neistat and his team, who CNN thought would help the company package news in a way that appeals to younger audiences.

Neistat's new startup within CNN will try to tackle news, particularly through mobile video, but won't be a traditional news network.

"A huge part of my particular audience sees news and media as largely broken," Neistat told The New York Times in November. "My dad sees it as the word of God, but I think the young people definitely do not."

CNN chief Jeff Zucker told THR that he learned about Neistat through his children. He described his first meeting with Neistat two years ago, which Zucker brought his 16-year-old son to. "My son says that you're the only person who matters in media," Zucker told Neistat at the time, he told THR. Zucker offered Neistat a TV on CNN, but Neistat turned it down.

It's still unclear what exactly Neistat's new content for CNN will focus on.

"The new company will be devoted to filling the world with excellent, timely and topical video and empowering content creators to use technology to find their voice," CNN said in a statement in November. "It won't be what most people think of as 'news,' but it will be relevant to the daily conversations that dominate our lives."

The app Beme, which was shuttered, focused on unedited, user-generated short videos. While Neistat's startup will exist inside CNN, he will be given "full creative control" to build something different, according to The Times.

CNN did not get ownership of Neistat's personal YouTube channel in the deal.

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The television ratings for President Donald Trump's first major congressional address failed to beat those of former President Barack Obama's speech.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Trump's hour-long address, which was broadcast Tuesday night across all four major TV networks and the cable-news networks, earned a 27.8 rating in early numbers. Total viewer numbers and final ratings are still not in.

Trump's early ratings are a huge 17% fall from Obama's first congressional address in 2009, which earned a 33.4 early rating. Final numbers showed that 52.4 million total viewers tuned into the 44th president's speech.

After the first congressional address, the annual televised speech is referred to as the State of the Union in the remaining years that a president serves. Trump's lower ratings don't bode well for the future as history proves that the ratings for State of the Unions rarely improve upon those of the first congressional address.

As for the networks who carried Trump's address, Fox News topped both broadcast and cable-news ratings. NBC was the winner among broadcast networks.

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On Tuesday, Microsoft announced Xbox Game Pass: A Netflix-style service where Xbox One gamers get access to over 100 titles for $9.99 a month.

Following that news, GameStop shares took a tumble, falling just about 8% by the closing bell. Wall Street seemed to be showing concern that Xbox Game Pass would take a bite out of the retail chain's lucrative used game business.

Now, Microsoft Corporate VP of Xbox Marketing Mike Nichols says that the two companies are in touch and now plan to come up with a way for GameStop stores (and other retail establishments) to resell Xbox Game Pass to their own customers.

Nichols tells Business Insider:

“We’ve been extremely happy with the response to yesterday’s announcement of Xbox Game Pass. We also know that our fans look for a variety of ways to purchase and try games and services, and I’m happy to announce that we are working with retail partners, such as GameStop, on offering Xbox Game Pass to their customers. We’ll have more details to share in the future.” 

Without those further details, we can only guess, but it seems likely that GameStop and other stores will sell prepaid cards, the same way you can buy Netflix or Hulu subscription credit at the cash register.

While it's still up in the air to what extent the Xbox Game Pass service will lure budget-conscious shoppers away from used games, Microsoft is signalling that it's not willing to leave its retail partners entirely out in the cold while it works this new service out.

That is important, too, because Microsoft still relies on stores like GameStop to sell Xbox hardware and software to customers — for lots of gamers, GameStop is how they get their fix.

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Terry Crews, actor, former NFL player, and the host of Netflix's "Ultimate Beastmaster," discusses the diet he's followed for the last five years to stay in great shape.

Full Transcript:

My first meal is at 2 p.m. And then I eat from 2 to 10.

Over the last five years, I have been doing intermittent fasting. And, so what happens is I work out very very early in the morning, but then I don’t eat. My first meal is at 2 p.m. And then I eat from 2 to 10. Now, within the times I don’t eat, the fasting period, which is a 16-hour fasting, I drink amino acids drinks. I’ll have coffee maybe tea. Sometimes I’ll have a little coconut oil on a spoon that makes you feel a little satiated, that kind of thing. But it’s never a meal. And then, once I get on my meals, it’s good.

Now, the problem with intermittent fasting is that you never want to have a bad meal. Cause you’re like, “I waited all day, 16 hours for this?”

Over the last five years, it’s really kept me in great great shape. They found scientifically there’s a thing called autophagy. Autophagy is when the cells in your body are rebuilding themselves. It’s one of those things where you go without the food, it's — it really strengthens your cells.

The cells are trying to rebuild and they’re trying to do their thing and it’s a wonderful thing. It’s kind of like renewed. Once it’s done digesting, the body’s done working with food, it starts to work on other cells in the body. I can feel the difference. I literally can put pictures of myself now versus pictures of myself at 22 years old and I look and feel much better right now.

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Amy Schumer brings her trademark raunchy style to her first stand-up comedy special for Netflix, which debuts Tuesday, March 7.

In the first trailer for "Amy Schumer: The Leather Special," the comedian describes in detail the smell of her genitals ("like a small barnyard animal") and the compliment she didn't want to hear after posting a nude photo on social media ("brave").

She also explained the inspiration for the show's title.

"Every comic has some special where they wear all leather and regret it later," Schumer, who directed and performed the special at Denver’s Bellco Theater, said. "This is my f---ing moment. Leather special!"

According to Netflix, the special also features "the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedian's take on binge drinking, her relationship with her boyfriend, and navigating the unknown terrain of being a newly famous woman who looks like someone you grew up with."

Netflix has been inking deals with big-name comedians for the past year. In addition to Schumer's special, Netflix subscribers can expect new specials from Tracy Morgan, Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and David Chappelle.

The trailer promises "0% shame."

Watch the trailer for "Amy Schumer: The Leather Special" below:

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Microsoft's big plan to conquer the next big battlefields in tech, namely virtual reality and augmented reality, is starting to come together. And it seems like the Microsoft Xbox has a surprising role to play.

In a presentation at this week's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled a new VR headset, made by Acer and designed specifically for developing apps in virtual reality.

It starts shipping later in March. And in a move designed to get developers excited, everyone in the audience at Microsoft's GDC session will be getting the headset for free. The goal is to drive people toward building VR apps for Windows 10.

Better still, the new headset is also the first and best showcase for Microsoft's killer edge in the battle for VR supremacy with Facebook, Google, Sony, and HTC — it uses technology pioneered in the Microsoft HoloLens "holographic" headset to provide free range of motion without external cameras or sensors tracking you. Microsoft calls it "inside-out" tracking.

I got to try a prototype headset with the inside-out tracking enabled, and frankly, it was super nifty. In a demo that placed me in a hot air balloon over Maachu Pichu, I was able to poke my head over the side of the basket and look down. I could even lean over and look into a telescope's eyepiece. It sounds small, but it's freeing.

Future Microsoft-approved headsets from companies like Dell and Asus will have the same inside-out tracking enabled. Microsoft is now referring to this big push for AR and VR in Windows 10 as "Windows Mixed Reality," and support for it will be arriving with the Windows 10 Creators Update this spring.

Most high-end virtual reality headsets, like the PlayStation VR, rely on a camera by your TV or monitor so the system can "see" when you turn your head and move your virtual vantage point accordingly. It works well, but it's not exactly portable, and it limits the places where you can use it. Alternatively, phone-based headsets like the Samsung Gear VR are more portable, but often lack horsepower, positional tracking, and an easy method of control.

But when Microsoft built the HoloLens, the company worked hard to make it both powerful and self-contained, so you don't need to hook it to a PC to function. These new Windows Mixed Reality headsets aren't quite there yet. Inside-out tracking makes them more self-contained than HoloLens, but you'll still need to have the new headsets hooked up to a PC.

And speaking of the PC, these headsets require a slightly less beefy computer to run, meaning more existing machines will be able to use them, and people buying in won't have to spend as much. That, too, could be a big win over Facebook and other rivals.

The Xbox connection

Buried in Microsoft's official announcement of that Acer developer kit is an interesting tidbit about its Xbox One video game console and Windows Mixed Reality: 

We’re also excited to share that Windows Mixed Reality experiences will light up on other devices over time, beyond desktop and HoloLens.  Our plan is to bring mixed reality content to the Xbox One family of devices, including Project Scorpio, in 2018.  

This is particularly interesting, and here's why. We've known for a while now that Microsoft is working on Project Scorpio, a souped-up version of the Xbox One video game console that the conventional industry wisdom holds will host powerful enough hardware to support high-end virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift.

But Microsoft's word choice here is telling — the company is saying that the plan is to bring mixed reality, as in virtual reality, to the "Xbox One family of devices." That would seem to include the original Xbox One console, and/or the more recent Xbox One S model. 

So while Microsoft has nothing else to share (I asked, repeatedly), it sure sounds like in the next year or two, the Xbox One you might already own could be getting some kind of VR support. If Microsoft is trying to take over virtual reality, weaponizing the existing Xbox install base would make a lot of sense.

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On Tuesday, YouTube announced its own $35-a-month competitor to cable TV called YouTube TV, and the company thinks it has a secret weapon: its popularity with young people.

YouTube TV delivers a package of around 40 channels over the internet — to your smart TV, phone, computer — primarily based on deals with the big broadcast networks. There are some big programming holes, which we explored here, but YouTube says it's not trying to recreate the big cable bundle.

What YouTube is trying to do is convince young people to sign up for a pay TV package for the first time, not try and get older people to ditch their expensive cable packages. “This is TV reimagined for the YouTube generation,” Christian Oestlien, the director of product management at YouTube, told Bloomberg.

YouTube is well-suited to go after this market. In fact, YouTube is actually more popular with teens than cable TV, according to a survey in October by Piper Jaffray (and only trails Netflix).

Piper Jaffray's last semi-annual survey of 10,000 US teens showed a whopping 26% of teens watched YouTube every day, putting it over cable TV for the first (25%). This continued an upward trend for YouTube and a downward one for cable.

Here is the full chart from Piper Jaffray:

Though teens won't likely be the ones signing up for a $35-a-month subscription, its popularity with them bodes well for YouTube's future in selling products as they age into their 20s.

“With younger viewers, we feel like you should fish where the fish are, and YouTube has a young audience,” John Skipper, president of ESPN, told Bloomberg. 

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A survey by the US Energy Information Administration reveals some startling details about television use in American homes.

The amount of homes that don't own a TV has at least doubled since 2009. According to the USEI survey, 2.6% of American homes didn't have a TV in 2015. That's a huge increase from the 1.3% of American homes that didn't have a television in 2009.

In fact, from 1997 to 2009, the percentage remained stable at 1.3%, except for 2001, when the percentage was 1.2%.

The huge surge in homes without TVs proves that companies making TV content can't ignore that viewers are turning to other screens, such as computers and mobile devices, to access their video.

The survey also shows that homes that do own TVs are using fewer of them. There is an average of 2.3 TVs in an American home, down from 2.6 per household in 2009.

It isn't a surprise that the group that uses the least amount of TVs in their homes is people younger than 25 years old. The group that uses the most amount of TVs at home are those older than 75.

Next to peripheral TV equipment — such as cable boxes, digital video recorders (DVRs), and video-game consoles — smartphones are the most-used non-TV gadget and most popular among those aged 34 years old and younger — basically, millennials.

TV networks have been fearing this shift away from traditional viewing for years and have been slow to act on it. Streaming offerings like Netflix and Hulu are providing fans with their favorite shows and availability across multiple devices.

Amazon Prime Video and Netflix then took that a step further by making content available for download to watch offline.

There's also a growing battle among DirecTV Now, Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, and now YouTube to offer all the diversity of a cable subscription with a streaming product.

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If there's one thing most "Jeopardy" champions have in common, it's that they find everything — even the stuff you consider weird and boring — interesting.

That's according to Ken Jennings, who broke records back in 2004 when he won 74 "Jeopardy" games in a row, ultimately walking away with over $2.5 million in prize money.

Jennings explained that having a "wide-ranging curiosity" is key to remembering obscure facts. 

In fact, while most people think memory has a limited capacity, Jennings argued that our memory is continually expanding to make room for the stuff that fascinates us.

Here's Jennings: 

"People wrongly think there's a [memory] capacity and you can fill it up like a gas tank or an attic. That's not true at all. The complexity can just keep increasing and increasing. 

"But what drives it — and this is what people get wrong — is interest, not effort. It's not the number of hours you spend studying; it really is going to be how engaged you are in the thing."

Today, Jennings is a freelance writer; he's written several books for kids and adults and is currently finishing up another. He recently partnered with employee-learning platform Bridge by Instructure to create an online course about memory skills. 

On his personal website, Jennings writes: "I apparently have a pretty good memory for things I'm interested in—like everybody else I guess, but maybe I'm just interested in more subjects than is normal."

As an undergrad, he led Brigham Young University's Quiz Bowl team, and wrote and edited questions for National Academic Quiz Tournaments.

"A lot of people think, 'Oh, I'm not one of these people, with one of these 'Rain Man' type memories that you see on 'Jeopardy,'" Jennings told Business Insider, referring to the 1988 movie featuring a savant character with an incredible memory. 

He went on:

"The people you see on 'Jeopardy' are not savants, either. They are just normal people who are less specialized than us. 

"We all get into our little career niches and our little hobby niches, but the people you see on 'Jeopardy' are trivia buffs, which means they think everything's interesting.

"If you can convince yourself of that by having a wide-ranging curiosity, then really you become one of them. That's all it takes."

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In the latest chapter of the Oscars best-picture fiasco known as #Envelopegate, Variety published a story on Wednesday that breaks down in photos and a timeline how PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant Brian Cullinan mixed up the envelopes that led to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway going onstage and announcing the wrong winner for best picture.

One of those photos, above, shows Cullinan holding two envelopes nearby Beatty backstage, as Beatty was preparing to present best picture. Cullinan gave Beatty the wrong envelope.

The story also shows that Cullinan was on his phone tweeting a photo of Emma Stone with her best-actress Oscar when Beatty and Dunaway were already out onstage to present.

Here's a breakdown of what happened:

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8:53 pm PST — After Casey Affleck wins the Oscar for best actor he goes backstage and hugs Warren Beatty. This photo clearly shows Cullinan alongside the two holding two envelopes and his phone in one hand.

9:03 pm PST — Emma Stone walks backstage after winning the best-actress Oscar. Cullinan has handed what he thinks is the best picture envelope to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who are now walking onstage to present.

9:04 pm PST — As the best-picture montage of nominees is playing, Stone is still backstage being photographed with her Oscar. Cullinan takes a picture of her with his phone.

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Nintendo's first brand-new console in five years, the Switch, is launching on Friday, March 3. That's this week! 

The Switch is a hybrid home console and portable console in one. As such, you might expect it to cost a lot of money — quite the contrary, it costs just $299.

At least that's what the console costs, but if you want to have a great experience with the Switch, you're going to need more — much more. That $300 price for the Nintendo Switch doesn't include the cost of games, storage, screen protectors, extra controllers, and carrying cases. Indeed, there are a ton of hidden costs disguised behind the consumer-friendly $299 price point. 

Here are the many hidden costs of the Nintendo Switch.

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First up: Games!

The Nintendo Switch doesn't come with any games. 

There's no equivalent of "Wii Sports" (a pack-in with the Wii) or "NintendoLand" (a pack-in with the Wii U) on the Switch. You buy the console and you have the console, sans games. 

The "good" news is that there aren't many games worth buying at the launch of the Switch. The one game everyone will be talking about, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," is a true delight. It's also $60. 

The same price applies to games like "Skylanders Imaginators," though there are a small handful of lower-priced games ("Snipperclips" is $19.99, for instance). But let's be honest: You're going to want "Zelda."

Total cost for one game: $60

Storage: You're going to need at least one microSD card.

The Nintendo Switch comes with a measly 32GB of internal storage, but that's barely enough for a few games. 

Thankfully, the Switch has a microSD card reader built-in, and you can use microSD cards to store your games (and game saves). You can even play games right off the microSD cards! 

It's a nice bonus, no doubt, but it's unfortunate that you more or less have to buy a microSD card if you're looking at downloading anything more than a few small games. The good news is that microSD cards are relatively inexpensive, even for large ones. You could get by with something in the range of 64GB, though we'd suggest at least 128GB to start.

Total cost for one microSD card: $20 - $100 (or higher, depending)

You're going to want a way to charge the Nintendo Switch's primary controller:

The Nintendo Switch comes with a device called the "Joy-Con Grip," which turns the two handheld Joy-Con controllers into a sort of gamepad. Unfortunately, the Grip cannot charge the Joy-Con.

Out of the box, you can charge the two Joy-Con by sliding them on to the Switch tablet and then sliding the tablet into the Dock. It's a fine solution if you're putting away the console for the night, but it's a pretty terrible solution if you're in the middle of "Breath of the Wild" and your gamepad starts running out of juice.

What if you want to keep playing? The sad news is, out of the box, there's no way to play the Switch on your TV while simultaneously charging the Joy-Con. You could slide the Joy-Con onto the Switch tablet and play the console as a handheld, which will charge the controllers, but what if you want to play it on the TV? 

In that case, you have one option: buy something. Nintendo's selling a $30 piece of plastic that enables you to slot in your Joy-Con controllers and charge them while you're playing games on the TV. Keep in mind this isn't a second gamepad, but simply a means of charging the one you already own. Ugh indeed.

Total cost for one Joy-Con charging Grip: $30

HBO’s “Insecure” was a breakout hit of 2016, scoring a 100% on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and a Golden Globe nod for its star, Issa Rae.

But the version of the show that HBO subscribers saw was very different from the initial version of the script, according to HBO EVP Amy Gravitt, who oversaw its development.

The big change was that “Insecure” initially revolved around the work life of Issa (the character), at “We Got Y’all,” a very white, though well-meaning, non-profit focused on education. That was the center the show was built around.

But over the course of development, the friendship between Issa and her best friend Molly just kept being referenced over and over, and eventually the team realized that was actually the heart of the show. They rewrote it around that.

“The friendship is really refreshing,” Gravitt told Business Insider. It has conflict but it's also "emotional, real, and supportive ... I miss my best friend from college when I watch the show,” Gravitt laughed. She contrasted it with many shows that simply portray "women taking swipes at each other." Issa and Molly's relationship is complicated, but ultimately successful.

"Insecure" is a big step for Rae, who rose to prominence in 2011 with her hit YouTube series, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” but had a few frustrating years in Hollywood trying to get a TV show made. She had a potential ABC show with Shonda Rhimes killed before eventually teaming up with TV comedy veteran Larry Wilmore and HBO to write (and star in) “Insecure.”

For more on that, see our full look at how "Insecure" transformed a YouTube series into an HBO hit.

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CULVER CITY, California — We recently spent a day on the set of the iconic game show "Jeopardy!." Alex Trebek joined the show as its host in 1984. Trebek and his staff invited Business Insider to be a fly on the wall during one of the show's production days.

"Jeopardy!" is filmed on a soundstage at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, Ca. According to the 76-year-old Trebek, the show is a "well-oiled machine," staffed with loyal writers, producers, researchers, and stage crew members — many of whom have remained on the show for decades.

Here's a snapshot of how the show is produced: five episodes are taped per day, two days per week, three weeks per month. Trebek reportedly earns an annual salary of $10 million, but a representative from "Jeopardy!" would not confirm this amount. 

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On Wednesday, Seth Meyers addressed many in the media who gushed over President Donald Trump's controlled and steady tone during his address to Congress Tuesday night, the president's first major speech since his inauguration.

"Trump has spent the last year and half lowering the bar when it comes to public speaking," Meyers said in his "A Closer Look" segment on "Late Night," "so the fact that Trump managed to sustain a muted tone that for any politician would be considered unremarkable and even a little boring was itself seen as a huge victory last night."

Meyers then ran clips from the pundits on all the news networks who echoed the reaction that the speech made Trump finally look "presidential."

"Although, I bet there are some Muslims and undocumented immigrants that would tell you he became president back in f---ing January," Meyers said.

Meyers then pointed out that this isn't the first time the media has thought Trump had finally fit into the role of a politician. Like back in the primaries when the press gave high marks to Trump for that fleeting moment when he didn't call Senator Ted Cruz "lying Ted."

The "Late Night" host also pointed out that many Americans are still likely to be troubled by what they heard in Trump's address to Congress.

"Trump's tone may well have been restrained, but the substance of the speech was as divisive as before, from his rhetoric about cracking down on immigration to his pledge to appeal Obamacare," Meyers said.

"Look, Trump did manage to sustain a more moderate tone last night," Meyers went on to say, "but he also offered the same empty solutions to nonexistent problems. Let's not get fooled again. We've been here with Trump before."

Watch Meyers' entire "A Closer Look" segment below:

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The White House Correspondents' Association said it would go forward with its annual dinner without President Donald Trump in attendance, a break with tradition for the event. But it looks like the orgagnization could get the next best thing.

Alec Baldwin, who has been celebrated for his Trump impersonation on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," appeared on Wednesday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and hinted he wouldn't be opposed to standing in for the president.

Earlier this week, Trump said on Twitter that he won't be attending the April 29 event, which raises money for college-journalism scholarships. That decision followed several news organizations announcing that they wouldn't attend in protest of the Trump administration's treatment of the press.

"It’s interesting. There are people who, now that he's not going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, there are people who are lobbying to play Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner," Baldwin said.

"You are not one of those people?" Kimmel asked.

"Well, I wouldn’t say I’m not lobbying," Baldwin said. "People would say, 'Would you do it?' And there's a couple of guys on the internet who say, 'No, please. I'm the only many who should play Trump.' And there's a lot of Trump competition sucked into this."

After Kimmel told Baldwin that he really has no competition when it comes to impersonating Trump, Baldwin answered, "Well, tell these guys. They say I suck. I can't say bad words, because I gave it up for Lent. F--- them!"

"It should be the one the president hates seeing do it the most," Kimmel said. "And that's undoubtedly you."

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Have you noticed a lot of head-banging, purple birds in your social media feeds lately? A sticker pack for iOS and Facebook has become an international sensation in the past few months. People are spamming comment sections and creating their own interpretations of a cartoon pigeon that the creator calls a "Trash Dove." Here's how it became one of the biggest memes of 2017.

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Jordan Peele is best known for his comedic work alongside Keegan-Michael Key on their Comedy Central show "Key & Peele" and in their movie "Keanu," but his directorial debut "Get Out" (opening February 24) will show the world that he's also really good at scaring us.

And it's a mission he plans to continue for a while.

In "Get Out," a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) finds himself in a very messed up situation —actually a massive understatement — when he goes out to the country to visit his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family. We won't give anything else away, but if you've seen the trailer, you can get a hint of how Peele created a unique chiller that explores real ideas and attitudes about race, some of them quite ugly.

See for yourself:

But this is far from a one-and-done for Peele. He recently told Business Insider that "Get Out" is the first in a collection of movies he wants to direct that examine what he calls "social demons."

"I have four other social thrillers that I want to unveil in the next decade," Peele told Business Insider. "The best and scariest monsters in the world are human beings and what we are capable of especially when we get together. I've been working on these premises about these different social demons, these innately human monsters that are woven into the fabric of how we think and how we interact, and each one of my movies is going to be about a different one of these social demons."

Peele's examination of race and alienation in "Get Out" is an impressive, confident directorial debut. We can't wait to see what he will throw at us next, though we're also pretty afraid.

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Jimmy Fallon brought out his impression of President Donald Trump again on Wednesday's "Tonight Show," and Fallon's Trump spent his time commenting on his own speech to Congress on Tuesday.

"Thank me. Thank me very much," Fallon's Trump started out on "TNN," the late-night show's fake Trump News Network.

In between snorting, Fallon's Trump showered himself with praise for the positive reaction to his address, which was widely seen as "presidential."

"Today's top story: me. I was big last night. So big. So so big big," Fallon's Trump said. "Everyone's saying I was so presidential because I started... talking... like... this...

"Wasn't I presidential?" Fallon's Trump added to applause. "There's gonna be so much presidential, you're going to get sick of me being president."

He also confessed that before his speech, "Steve Bannon shot me up with a horse tranquilizer. Those things are fantastic."

Fallon's Trump also played a clip that he says he "didn't edit," in which we can clearly hear him inserting his own words of praise over video of people at the congressional speech.

Finally, Kellyanne Conway (played by writer Jo Firestone) made a cameo, appearing to be lounging all over an Oval Office couch.

"It was so good. You didn't tell lies or whatever," Conway said of the speech. "Oh my God, yeah, you're the best president ever."

Then Fallon's Trump got very excited, but not before being shot up with a syringe by someone offscreen.

Watch Fallon's Trump compliment himself below:

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