"Shark Tank" investor and entrepreneur Robert Herjavec has called Tipsy Elves, an ugly Christmas-sweater company, his best investment on the show yet.

Herjavec invested $100,000 for 10% equity in the business in 2013. Two years later, the company pulled in over $10 million in sales and has expanded to other holiday apparel.

There's an important lesson to be learned from the founders' pitch: They brought energy. Herjavec says if entrepreneurs are able to entertain him, they have his attention.

"Investors are tired, they're cold, they're hungry. They hear boring pitches all the time," Herjavec tells Business Insider. "You have to entertain me."

We spoke with Herjavec while he was participating in a hackathon for kids, called "Invent-athon," at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. It's part of Frito-Lay's Dreamventioncontest, which will award $250,000 to the dreamer — age seven and up — who comes up with the best invention. (They need only submit a drawing to apply.)

Herjavec said most kids have a knack for pitching because they bring tons of energy.

When Tipsy Elves cofounders Evan Mendelsohn and Nick Morton appeared on the show in 2013, they gave a quick spiel about their company, then launched into a surprise fashion show.

Models wearing goofy Christmas and Hanukkah sweaters strutted their stuff for the sharks, while Mendelsohn and Morton provided commentary on the looks.

It was silly, but certainly entertaining — which may have helped the former dentist and lawyer grab Herjavec's interest. Look at that smile on Herjavec's face.

Herjavec tells Business Insider one of the worst things an entrepreneur can do in a pitch is appear bored. If a founder is excited, an investor will be ready to listen, he says.

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Stephen Colbert compared President Donald Trump's battle to get his healthcare plan passed to HBO's "Game of Thrones."

"It took the GOP forever to release this thing. They're like the George R.R. Martins of health care," Colbert said, referring to the author of the novels "Thrones" is based on, during his monologue on Wednesday's "Late Show"

"And just like in 'Game of Thrones,' a lot of your favorite characters are going to die without warning," he continued.

Since the healthcare plan, which repeals and replaces President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, came to light earlier this week, many of its opponents have spoken out, including many Republicans, such as Senator Rand Paul, who called the plan "dead on arrival."

"And Rand Paul knows 'dead on arrival,' because I believe that was his presidential campaign slogan," Colbert joked of Paul's presidential election run.

Trump has even threatened a "bloodbath" if Republican House members don't push his plan through to getting passed.

"Which would be terrible," Colbert said, "because their healthcare plan does not cover bloodbath. Again, 'Game of Thrones.'"

Watch Colbert mock Trump's battle to pass his healthcare plan below:

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The trailer for the raunchy comedy "Rough Night" went online Wednesday night, and we cannot wait to see Scarlett Johansson take a break from big-budget blockbusters and be in this kind of movie.

Starring alongside Zoë Kravitz and comedy heavyweights Kate McKinnon, Ilana Glazer ("Broad City"), and Jillian Bell ("Workaholics"), Johansson and the gang play best friends who press pause on their busy lives to fly to Miami for Johansson's character's bachelorette weekend. But things change when the stripper they hire dies.

Written and directed by the tandem heavily involved in "Broad City," Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs, this one looks to be a must-see summer comedy.

Watch the trailer below. The movie opens in theaters June 16.

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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting another baby girl, the Facebook CEO announced on Thursday.

The baby will be their second child after their 1-year-old daughter, Max.

"After our difficult experience having Max, we weren't sure what to expect or whether we'd be able to have another child," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.

"When Priscilla and I first found out she was pregnant again, our first hope was that the child would be healthy. My next hope was that it would be a girl. I cannot think of a greater gift than having a sister and I'm so happy Max and our new child will have each other."

After their daughter Max was born in December 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan announced their philanthropic Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to give away 99% of their wealth. They've since made investments in education and committed to spending billions on scientific research to cure the world's known diseases.

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"Better Call Saul" fans are really pleased that the "Breaking Bad" spin-off is bringing back Gus Fring, but the actor who played the role originally turned down offers to reprise the beloved villainous character.

"My reaction was no," Giancarlo Esposito, who played Gus for two seasons on "Breaking Bad," told Vulture of his initial response to being asked to come back.

Esposito said that he didn't feel confident about his ability to bring that character back to life. After turning down the show's producers, Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, the actor said he even turned down the head of Sony Pictures, which produces "Better Call Saul'."

"It’s like when you make a really good soufflé," Esposito said. "You know what I mean? It’s very, very difficult to have it rise without falling and also have it be remarkable. So for me to try to recreate that soufflé without it falling was almost impossible... Yeah, I was pretty cooked!"

Esposito is referring to the explosive way the drug kingpin died at the end of the fourth season of "Breaking Bad."

"And for me, that was it. I was done," Esposito said. "I don’t like to repeat myself. I try to always be original in my work. So to come back and create a character I’d already created was... difficult."

It took "a lot of time" and a phone call with Gilligan to finally convince Esposito to return for the upcoming third season of "Better Call Saul."

During the Television Critics Association press tour in January, Esposito said fans will meet a more immature Gus on "Better Call Saul" that hasn't quite yet developed the thirst for revenge he had on "Breaking Bad," yet Gus will still retain his "mysterious" quality.

“I’m excited to be back," the actor said at TCA. "Vince described a situation — as he put it to me — Gus is a very cagey character. Again, I go back to the original stage direction Vince wrote, which was ‘hiding in plain sight.’”

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HBO created an event out of the premiere-date announcement for season seven of "Game of Thrones."

Though plagued with technical difficulties, more than 100,000 fans waited for a painfully long amount of time before HBO revealed via Facebook Live that "Game of Thrones" will be back on July 16, 2017.

In the lead-up to the announcement, HBO released two pieces of artwork teasing the potential "Fire and Ice" battles to come. Accompanying the premiere-date announcement was a photo of a block of ice on a platform surrounded by fire.

In the Facebook Live video, sudden bursts of fire melted that block of ice to reveal the premiere date. It took a while, but the date finally showed up.

HBO also released the first teaser for season-seven, titled "Sigils Tease":

And earlier on Thursday, HBO released a poster ahead of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. It shows the elements of cold and heat intermingling, once again a reference to the "Fire and Ice" theme.

Here it is below:

While the announcement of season seven's premiere date will thrill fans, that doesn't erase the facts that the wait for a new season will be longer than usual and the number of episodes will be fewer than in other seasons. Due to the fabled winter finally arriving in Westeros for next season, the show delayed production to wait for the appropriate cold weather for filming. The later premiere date also means that the show will miss the entry date for the 2018 Emmy Awards.

Additionally, there will only be seven episodes on the show's penultimate season as opposed to the typical 10. Presumably the shows eighth and final season will also be a shorter one.

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There are dozens of ways you could put together a list of the best video games ever made.

You could look to classics, like "Super Mario Bros." here. You could look at impact on the medium, or highest sales. You could write down your personal favorites on a bunch of pieces of paper, then throw them into the air. Where the pieces land? That's your list.

But what we've got here is something a teensy bit more scientific. Reviews aggregation site Metacritic compiles all reviews of games, then it averages those scores into an overall average. What you'll find below is the top 50 highest-rated games of all time, based on the averages obtained by Metacritic. We made one small change: Since there are a handful of duplicates on the list (multiple versions of the same game, released on multiple platforms), we've just taken the highest-ranked version of the game to make room for a handful of games that wouldn't have otherwise made the list.

Without further ado, these are the 50 best video games of all time:

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50. "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare"

Critic score: 94/100

User score: 8.4/10

Plot summary (from Metacritic): "As Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's single player campaign unfolds, the player is introduced to new gameplay at every turn – one moment you are fast-roping from your Black Hawk helicopter after storming into the war zone with an armada of choppers, the next you are a sniper, under concealment, in a Ghillie suit miles behind enemy lines, the next you are engaging hostiles from an AC-130 gunship thousands of feet above the battlefield. Mixed with explosive action, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare also delivers special effects, including use of depth of field, rim-lighting, character self-shadowing, real time post-processing, texture streaming as well as physics-enabled effects. Infinity Ward deployed a dedicated team from the start to deliver a new level of depth to multiplayer. Building on the hit "Call of Duty 2" online experience, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's new multiplayer provides the community an addictive and accessible experience to gamers of all levels."

49. "Devil May Cry"

Critic score: 94/100

User score: 8.6/10

Plot summary (from Metacritic): "In a large American metropolis, a man named Dante, a private investigator of the supernatural, is seeking revenge for the death of his mother and brother. The world is waiting, for Dante is no ordinary man, and with his father's sword in hand, he must enter the demon realm and avenge mankind."

48. "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4"

Critic score: 94/100

User score: 8.5/10

Plot summary (from Metacritic): "Build your skills, earn respect, and show that you've got what it takes to Go Pro. 190 progressively harder goals. No time clock, no constraints. Pro-specific challenges. Evolving levels. Interact with other skaters. Multi-player modes. Customize your game...Your career is what you make of it."

HBO created an event out of the premiere-date announcement for season seven of "Game of Thrones," but its major flaws truly tested fan dedication.

On Thursday, HBO used Facebook Live to announce the date. More than 100,000 fans tuned in to watch the event, but it was plagued with stops and starts and apparent technical problems.

In the Facebook Live video, fans were told to type "fire" in order to help melt a block of ice with sudden bursts of fire to reveal the premiere date.

Unfortunately, not a lot of melting happened.

After about 11 minutes, the video went down. It took nearly 20 minutes longer to bring the video feed back, only for viewers to find the block hadn't melted much in the meantime. The video went down another time and new video appeared again.

Then some seemingly stronger blasts of fire revealed the premiere date of July 16, 2017.

Fans and critics took the opportunity to make swipes at the marketing failure from HBO, which is normally so precise about how it rolls out "Game of Thrones" materials.

A user on one of the Facebook Live video posts commented, bluntly, "Ya had 400k+ people typing 'fire' fast as their fingers and devices and that block is still frozen solid and we're still in the dark. Y'all might want to resolve that before the fans storm HBO hq like wights and walkers are going to storm the wall." 

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At Atlanta's Fulton County Jail, one out of every five inmates is affiliated with an organized gang.

But behind bars, rival gang members behave a little differently than they do on the outside. In fact, the biggest threat to gang members in jail often comes from within their own gang.

That's what Nate, one of the undercover participants on A&E's documentary series "60 Days In," learned during his stay at Fulton County Jail.

The show, now in its third season, follows nine volunteers who enter the jail for two months under false identities in order to expose problems from within the system.

"I didn't see any issues between opposing gangs," said Nate, who did not use his last name on the show. "Rival gangs tended to coexist."

Much more common was intra-gang violence between members of different branches, or sets, of the same gang, such as east-side Bloods and west-side Bloods. And the gangs would go to great lengths to conceal their internal disputes from the rest of the inmate population, Nate told Business Insider.

"The thing is, the gang doesn't want to show civilians that they are fighting within the gang," he said. "So what they do is they hold a meeting in a cell and make sure no civilians are around. Two individuals have them fight in the cell for a period of time — there's a set amount of time, and then it's squashed.

"They take care of it that way, and you never even know anything happened unless any of them have marks."

On the other hand, when occasional violence between rival gangs did erupt, there was no hiding it.

"If it was another gang, they'd take care of it in the outside so everyone would see it," Nate told Business Insider. "That way it would be a warning." 

Intra-gang fights were arranged by the gang leaders, who were inmates with the most street credibility, or "stain," in the outside world, Nate said. The leaders would call other gang leaders on the outside and get the fight approved. Fights generally lasted 20 to 30 seconds depending on the gang, he said.

Any minor slight could provoke a fight, Nate said, from gossiping behind another gang member's back to publicly disrespecting them.

The two previous seasons of "60 Days In," which were filmed at Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, also highlighted violence among inmates. Some of the undercover participants were shocked by the casual attitude toward violence held by many of the inmates — something that surprised Nate as well.

"You'd give it, like, a good four, five minutes after a fight, and everybody would be back to laughing, back to chilling," he said.

As many as 500 of the jail's 2,500 inmates are affiliated with gangs, according to data provided by chief jailer Col. Mark Adger. His staff goes to great lengths to ensure rival gang members do not get paired in cells together — a safe measure, considering inmates at Fulton County Jail spend 15 hours a day in their cells.

For new inmates, who are constantly being tested and provoked by those higher on the social ladder, the allure of a gang can be tough to resist.

"They desperately want to fit in to keep from being victimized, and the lifestyle starts to grow on them," Adger told Business Insider. "That is usually what happens when people come to jail." 

Episode 2 of the third season of "60 Days In" airs tonight at 9 p.m. EST on A&E.

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HBO has announced it's making a miniseries about the 2016 presidential election that saw Donald Trump win in a historic upset.

The upcoming show, which has no premiere date at this point, will be based on a book to be published by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the third installment in the authors' successful "Game Change" series of books chronicling the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.

HBO previously made the TV movie "Game Change," based on Halperin and Heilemann's book about the election between John McCain and Barack Obama.

Once again, Jay Roach will direct and executive produce the upcoming series, and Playtone’s Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will also be executive producers.

In a statement, HBO Films President Len Amato said the series about Trump's stunning rise to victory "promises to vividly capture the most unique and impactful event in modern American politics."

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Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett announced on Thursday he plans to donate all his 2017 endorsement earnings to charity.

In an Instagram post, the NFL star said he was "inspired by Chance The Rapper," who earlier this week pledged a $1 million donation to Chicago Public Schools.

Bennett says his endorsement money will be directed to "help rebuild minority communities through s.t.e.a.m (science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math) programs, as well as initiatives that directly affect women of color."

He added that 50% of his jersey sales will go towards programs and initiatives that support inner-city garden projects.

"I'm asking all professional athletes to join me by donating a portion of your endorsements this year to a cause of your choice. We can make a difference. It's up to us to help plant seeds of hope and help fuel the future. Power to the People," Bennett signed off.

Chance The Rapper supported the post with a tweet:

The full text from Bennett's Instagram post reads:

"I was inspired by Chance the Rapper to ‘think bigger’ when he pledged one million dollars to Chicago kids and their school system. So I’ll be joining him by investing in the future of our youth.

“The system is failing our kids, and it will be up to the community and our leaders to help keep the hope alive by focusing on improving our education system and the future of our kids. Any company that decides to invest in me, just know that you’ll be investing in opportunities and providing inspiration for these families — many who feel unnoticed or go unmentioned.

“I have decided to donate all of my endorsement money in 2017 to help rebuild minority communities through s.t.e.a.m programs, as well as initiatives that directly affect women of color in hopes that we can create more opportunities for our youth and build a bright future.

“In addition, 50% of the proceeds from my jersey sales this year will go to programs and initiatives to support inner-city garden projects, as it’s not only about providing opportunities and art, but to help provide the right nutrition and access to healthy living to all.

“I’m asking all professional athletes to join me by donating a portion of your endorsements this year to a cause of your choice. We can make a difference. It’s up to us to help plant seeds of hope and help fuel the future.

Power to the People,

Michael Bennett"

Bennett already carries out community work with his charity "The Bennett Foundation," which was set up to help fight childhood obesity. The Foundation says it has spent more than $240,000 on educational programs.

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While Netflix is most famous for promoting the concept of "binge-watching," another area it has innovated in is helping unlock the commercial power of documentaries.

From smash hit "Making a Murderer," which actually seemed to have a real impact on the murder cases it documented, to a string of nominations for Oscars and Golden Globes, Netflix has emerged as a powerhouse in documentary film.

One reason, according to Netflix's head of docs Lisa Nishimura, is because of the way Netflix works as a service.

“Television ratings exist because of ads, which we’re free of, and box office has become so reliant on Friday night returns that it’s warped perceptions of what audiences want,” Nishimura told The New York Times. “Just because a person doesn’t go see a documentary on a Friday night, it’s not a reflection on the film; it’s just a reflection that maybe a documentary isn’t a film that a couple is going to want to see on date night. What we’ve discovered is that we can elevate storytelling and bring it to a global platform and create a cultural moment.”

That theory is reflected in Netflix's stats. Netflix said that 73% of its subscribers watched at least one documentary in 2016. That means over 68 million people watched a Netflix documentary in 2016, according to The Times.

That kind of audience can mean documentary films are able to spark a real global conversation in a way that would have been harder with traditional documentary distribution. Last year when Business Insider spoke to "Making a Murderer" documentarians Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, they said a big goal of theirs was to start a dialogue about the American criminal justice system. They certainly accomplished that, and the series also likely helped in overturning the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey, one of the subjects. 

Nishimura described the conversation around "Making a Murderer" as a “global watercooler moment.”

That happened again with "13th," Ava DuVernay's Netflix documentary about racial inequality in the US and the prison system, and will likely continue as Netflix provides an outlet for more and more documentary filmmakers. 

Documentary filmmakers "want to be fairly compensated, which we completely agree with, and they want to be heard,” Nishimura told Business Insider last year. “They want their story to reach an audience. That is why they do what they do.”

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As a new hit podcast has reinvigorated the mystery surrounding Richard Simmons' absence from the public eye for three years, the Los Angeles Police Department reports that the diet guru is safe and well.

“He is perfectly fine and he is very happy," LAPD Detective Kevin Baker told People magazine this week. "I don’t know what he is going to do, but right now he is doing what he wants to do and it is his business.”

Baker said that the LAPD has made periodic visits to Simmons' home and found him to be "welcoming" of them at each visit.

The podcast, "Missing Richard Simmons," was created by a former fitness client and friend of Simmons, Dan Taberski, in the hope of discovering why Simmons hasn't been seen in public since February 2014. One of its guests, Simmons' former assistant and masseuse, Mauro Oliveira, alleged that Simmons is being controlled and potentially being held hostage in his home by his longtime housekeeper. Baker said that Oliveira's accusations are false.

“There was something about his housekeeper holding him hostage and not allowing people to see him and preventing him from making phone calls, and it was all garbage, and that’s why we went out to see him. None of it is true,” the detective said. “The fact of the matter is we went out and talked to him, he is fine, nobody is holding him hostage. He is doing exactly what he wants to do. If he wants to go out in public or see anybody, he will do that.”

After the allegations from the podcast began making headlines, a representative for Simmons also said that the accusations weren't true and that Simmons is very much in control of his life.

“He made a choice to take a break from public life, which he has the right to do,” the rep said. “People need to respect that and not surmise that there’s something wrong, when there’s nothing wrong... For 40 years, he took care of everyone else but himself. And so it’s not that he’s being selfish, he’s just being a person, a regular person, taking care of himself.”

This isn't the first time Simmons' public absence caused people to worry about his well-being and question whether he was being held hostage in his home. In March of 2016, Simmons called into NBC's "Today" show to quell the rumors.

"No one is holding me in my house as a hostage,'' Simmons told co-host Savannah Guthrie. "You know, I do what I want to do as I've always done, so people should sort of just believe what I have to say because, like, I'm Richard Simmons!"

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We recently had the opportunity to visit the set of "Jeopardy!" on a taping day and got to talk to the iconic host of the show, Alex Trebek. 

We also spent some time with the show's team of writers and researchers, who talked to us about their process for coming up with clues for every episode.

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There's a lot to love about the new "Legend of Zelda" game, "Breath of the Wild." It's a gorgeous, massive world that's full of adventure! It's a fantastically smart, challenging, and delightful game to play, whether exploring or fighting or solving puzzles.

This is stuff you've probably heard by now.

Less spoken about is how tremendously silly the game is. "Breath of the Wild" is riddled with ridiculous characters who are more than happy to share conversation. 

Just as silly is the world itself. Because Nintendo created Hyrule as a living world — with a physics engine that reacts to Link's actions realistically — there's a tremendous amount of silly stuff to do at any given time.

Like this, for instance:

There's a lot to unpack in the GIF above.

• That's Link on a raft, with several "Octo Balloons" attached, floating into the sky.
• Then, in an attempt to propel the flying raft, a "Korok Leaf" is fanned.
• Thus: Tipping over the raft, and Link's descent to the water. And the eventual descent of the raft, sideways, into the water.

It's just one of the many, many ridiculous larks you can devote your time to in "Breath of the Wild." That GIF is pulled from an excellent video by YouTube user "videogamedunkey," who went all in on some very silly experiments in the game's physics engine. 

Did you know, for instance, that if use a flame-enhanced weapon to kill an animal, it produces seared steaks? Or how about using your "stasis" rune to freeze an enemy's weapon? 

There's much more in the video below — beware that there is some mild swearing:

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This weekend, theatergoers will be entertained by one of cinema's classic monsters, King Kong, in the latest film from Warner Bros.'s MonsterVerse franchise, "Kong: Skull Island."

A departure from the 1933 original and remakes, this one is set in the disruptive Vietnam-era and follows scientists and military as they travel to Skull Island to see what lives on it.

Starring Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, and John Goodman, many critics were in favor of this entertaining depiction of Kong, as the movie is currently sporting a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the movie certainly has its problems (see our review). It's projected to earn between $45 million to $50 million this weekend.

Here we break down what the top critics like and dislike about "Kong: Skull Island":

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At its core, the movie is extremely entertaining.

From director Jordan Vogt-Roberts' great sense of comic timing to the insane happenings on Skull Island, the movie is fun and thrilling.

"'Kong: Skull Island' enters with lofty ambitions and style to spare," wrote The Playlist. "Whether or not it completely succeeds is open for subjective debate, but damn if it isn't a hell of a ride."

"...the only thing at this movie’s heart is the (admittedly accurate) belief that when a giant ape punches a giant lizard in the face with a boat motor, it looks totally freaking awesome," wrote ScreenCrush.

Don't worry, there's a lot of Kong screen time.

WB got a lot of heat for not showing a lot of Godzilla in its standalone 2014 movie. They corrected that error for Kong.

"As soon as the Vietnam-era helicopters enter the Skull Island airspace, they are greeted in a very rude manner by Kong, who effortlessly swats them out of the air," wrote Uproxx.

"If you are a monster movie fan that disliked or felt lukewarm to 'Godzilla' then 'Kong: Skull Island' is the attempt to win you back before both monsters eventually square off," wrote Collider.

The monster fight scenes are worth the ticket price.

Yeah, this is pretty much why you should go see this movie.

"People die in creatively graphic ways, and the spectacle of brawling beasts in beautiful, forbidding settings is at times as captivating as it probably was in 1933, when audiences first gaped at Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper's original 'King Kong,' wrote The Village Voice.

"Fully realistic creatures are now nothing new, but the filmmakers, notably led by visual effects supervisors Stephen Rosenbaum and Jeff White, have engineered scenes of bestial combat that are not only hyper-credible but shot through with unexpected, and often gruesomely funny, moves," wrote The Hollywood Reporter.

Donald Trump is well-known for splashing his name on casinos, hotels, and private planes, but Stephen Colbert found it funny that he doesn't want his healthcare plan referred to as "Trumpcare."

"Trump is all in. He'll pulling out all the stops on this healthcare bill, except when it comes to the name, because the White House is asking, 'Please don't call it Trumpcare," CBS's "Late Show" host said on Thursday's episode.

This week, several Trump administration spokespeople tried to distance Trump's name from the healthcare plan, which is finding opposition from both sides of the political aisle. Then on Wednesday, a White House spokesperson made it clear.

“It’s not Trumpcare. We will be calling it by its official name," the spokesperson said Wednesday of the American Health Care Act.

"[Trump] just doesn't want you call it Trumpcare," Colbert said. "When it comes to whether you should call it Trumpcare, that is one thing about which Trump care."

Clearly, there's a tradition of including the name of the person introducing a healthcare plan in its nickname. There's "Obamacare," "Hillarycare," and when former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney presented his healthcare plan in 2012, it was called "Romneycare."

But while Trump doesn't like his name associated with the plan, Romney's former spokesperson explained that conservatives actually don't like the word "care" either, something Colbert found funny.

"Yes, very important, Conservatives don't want to be associated with caring," Colbert said.

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The spring semester for college students is slowly winding down, which means students in their senior year are getting ready to graduate.

Many US colleges have lined up impressive commencement speakers, landing leaders in business, entertainment, and politics.

We've compiled a list of college commencement speakers below and will continue to update this list as more speakers are officially announced:

Brooklyn College — Senator Bernie Sanders

Dartmouth College — CNN anchor Jake Tapper

Harvard University — Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts — Congressman John Lewis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Apple CEO Tim Cook

The University of Notre Dame — Vice President Mike Pence

University of Pennsylvania — Senator Cory Booker

Skidmore College — Media personality Oprah

University of Southern California — Actor Will Farrell

Virginia Tech — Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg

Wellesley College — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

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Major League Soccer in the US is coming to Facebook.

At least 22 matches from the 2017 regular season will be live-streamed for free in the US via the Univision Deportes Facebook page, MLS announced on Friday.

The streams will show specific angles for mobile phones and feature "Facebook-specific commentators, interactive graphics, and fan Q&A and polling features." The MLS Facebook page will also stream 40 Facebook-only “Matchday Live” shows that feature highlight reels of past games and commentator analysis.

Facebook's deal with MLS underscores the social network's effort to become a destination for longer, more premium video content. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has described video as a "mega-trend" for the company, and Facebook recently released a standalone TV app for watching videos.

Besides inking sports partnerships, Facebook is seeking to bankroll original shows in categories like pop culture, science, and teens, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal and Digiday.

Facebook has pitched entertainment companies on creating shows around the 30-minute mark, a person familiar with the discussions told Business Insider. The social network wants to show shorter clips in the News Feed that drive viewers to watch longer shows in the Facebook app's standalone video tab, the person said.

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