Trying to watch Netflix in tandem with a friend or significant other across the country always seems like a good idea, but it can be frustrating. Coordinating pressing play the first time is easy enough, but when you get up to get more popcorn, or you miss what someone was saying, it’s annoying to get back in sync.

Now Showgoers, a new Chrome extension, is here to solve that very simple problem: syncing up your Netflix with someone else’s.

Once you install Showgoers on Chrome, you select a 3D glasses graphic at the top right and click “Start a sync session.” The extension will then create a unique link, which you can send to as many friends as you want. Once you’ve done that, you just click “Begin sync” and off you go.

Once you are synced, anyone with the link can press play and start watching at the same place. And when one person pauses or rewinds, it does the same for everyone who is watching.

There's a chat function in case you need to explain your movie choice to your watching partners, though it could use a bit of beefing up (you can’t customize your name, for example).

The creator of Showgoers, San Francisco coder Alan Jones, created the extension so he and his girlfriend could watch Netflix together while on the West and East Coasts, CNN Money reports.

Right now, the extension is only for Chrome, but Jones plans to released a version for Firefox and Safari, and to update the quality of the current version.

You can install Showgoers for Google Chrome here.

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Country super star Kenny Chesney gave an incredible concert on Saturday night with Jason Aldean at MetLife stadium in New Jersey. There were more than 54,000 fans in attendance, including myself. But one fan in particular stood out.

During his hit song "I Go Back," Chesney invited a girl on stage.

Things started out normal. The young girl swayed and sang along with him.

Chesney tried to part ways with her to finish the song, but the fan stood there looking sad. So Chesney grabbed her hand and ran with her to the other side of the stage, then danced with her until he finished.

The young fan gave the country singer a big hug, and her time on stage seemed to be winding down. But really, it was just beginning.

The fan asked Chesney if she could tell him something. Chesney leaned down then handed her the microphone.

"Kenny Chesney is my true love," the fan said when she got hold of the mic. "He inspires me and I'm gonna kiss him right now on the lips!" she stated, matter of fact. 

Chesney smiled, and the crowd began to cheer, "Kenny! Kenny! Kenny!"

"Let me wipe the sweat off!" he joked. "It takes a lot to embarrass me." Then he walked over and obliged with a quick peck and the crowd erupted.

For most fans, that would be more than enough. But not for this girl. She asked for the microphone again, and spoke to the audience some more.

At this point, the fan had been on stage for five minutes, and Chesney realized getting both his microphone and his concert back was going to be tough. But instead of calling security, he just bent over and laughed. 

When Chesney finally got his mic back, he tried to send the fan on her way one more time. But again, she followed him. "You can't stay with me," Chesney told her kindly. "I've gotta go to work!" Chesney waved for his band to start up again, but the fan chased after him.

The fan got stopped by security before she could reach Chesney's band, but Chesney came and got her. He invited her to stay on stage for the entire next song, "Wild Child," swaying back and forth with him.

All in, the fan stayed with Chesney for more than ten minutes before the concert really continued.

Here's a video one audience member caught of the first four minutes and the epic kiss.

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When season six of "The Walking Dead" premieres in October, the zombies will be more gruesome than ever. 

In stark contrast, when the series' companion show "Fear the Walking Dead" premieres August 23, we'll be introduced to the zombies, or walkers and roamers as they're known to fans, all over again from a different perspective.

However, the challenge this time around was more than just going back to season one of "The Walking Dead" and reimagining the looks of walkers from five years ago. Zombies on "Fear the Walking Dead," a sort-of prequel series to AMC's hit series, won't look like the ones viewers were first introduced to in 2010.

Instead, the new show will go back even farther to when the zombie apocalypse first started spreading. This was a time where people weren't aware friends and family members were returning from the dead. They were just "infected" with some mysterious illness. 

One of the big challenges with "Fear" was figuring out how to create zombies which looked gruesome enough to pass as the undead, but which could also pass for human from afar.

"One of the things that was important that [showrunner] Dave Erickson and [creator] Robert [Kirkman] had mentioned to me was in an effort for this outbreak to sweep across society so quickly, you have to have situations where someone’s not gonna look at a walker in the middle of the street and immediately recognize that that person’s dangerous," executive producer and special effects artist Greg Nicotero told Tech Insider. "It’s much more set up where you see somebody and you see someone is sick but you’re not gonna immediately assume that that person is going to be responsible for a potential outbreak. They have to look relatively harmless until you get closer and then you start looking at their eyes and you start noticing that there’s some wounds or some dried blood on them or something like that."

So, how do they look?

"We don’t have as much decomposition as we do on ‘The Walking Dead,’ because, clearly, the walkers haven’t been around as much. But you’ll even notice, you’ve seen in the Comic-Con trailer and in the first episode, the first walker that we see has a knife embedded into her chest," Nicotero continued. "That was done strategically to show the audience that, you know, okay, this woman is clearly undead, but when Nick [Frank Dillane] looks at her he sees the knife protruding from her chest but she’s not screaming, she’s bleeding, but she’s not reacting to it. So, he then has to process exactly what he’s looking at. So, we took a much different, cerebral approach to the walkers by playing up some of the damage that’s occurred to them during this sort of outbreak."

A big focus will be on the eyes. Nicotero says they went with a cataract look for the eyes, which stands out any time you see one of the newly undead on "Fear."

"We didn’t go as severe as ‘The Walking Dead’ contact lenses because in ‘The Walking Dead’ the eyes are pretty dramatic," said Nicotero. "I look at the eyes like rotting eggs in that the longer that they sit around, the longer that those zombies walk around, the more decomposed and disgusting the eyes get. But at the beginning, the eyes look a bit more like just hemorrhaging and sort of cataract and that’s what the eyes in the beginning of the ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ look like."

Here's an examples of eyes early on in "The Walking Dead":

And here's how they'll look on "Fear":

Another factor that will play into the look of the zombies is location.

Up until now "The Walking Dead" has taken place on the east coast, down in Atlanta while slowly working its way up to Alexandria, Virginia. The Los Angeles setting of "Fear the Walking Dead" will add a new dimension to the zombies.

"The climate is very different. We began exploring some of the aspects of a much more desert type climate," Nicotero explained. "In Georgia, it’s very humid, but the idea that we will ultimately get to walkers that decompose in a very different way that have a lot of the moisture drawn out of their bodies and sort of simulate a more mummified look is definitely a direction that we’ve talked about."

"Specific to the walkers, it’s a drier environment ...We see it toward the end of the season, but the walkers would be more desiccated," "Fear" showrunner Dave Erickson told Tech Insider in a separate interview. "That was part of the fun part of the conversation, especially with Greg: What would environment do to the dead and how they would look? We tried to reflect that as the season … when we get to later episodes, we’re a little bit deeper into the apocalypse. We have a few opportunities to explore that as well."

Nicotero says fans shouldn't expect to see many zombies in season one of "Fear the Walking Dead." Since he's been doing double duty working on season six of "The Walking Dead," he's okay with that.

"We don’t have nearly the sheer volume of walkers as we do on ‘The Walking Dead’ because we’re still early in the zombie apocalypse on ‘Fear,’" says Nicotero. "If I had to worry about 400 or 500 zombies a day on the spin-off, it would have been a little bit more than we could bite off, but I think we’re gonna go into production on season 2 once six of 'The Walking Dead' [episodes] has wrapped." 

Nicotero was only able to be on set for "Fear" for three episodes. Because of ... Nicotero expects to be even more involved with season two of "Fear."

"Fear the Walking Dead" will premiere on AMC August 23 at 9 p.m. 

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With Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar under its watch, Disney is more ambitious than ever.

During the company's weekend-long D23 fan convention, Disney laid out everything it planned to release through 2017.

Its lineup includes reboots, superheroes, a few animated movies, and multiple trips to desert planets in a galaxy far, far away.

Here is everything you can expect to see from Disney from now through 2017.

Director Peter Sohn and producer Denise Ream showed off Pixar's next animated feature, "The Good Dinosaur."

The film will imagine a world in which the asteroid never hit earth 65 million years ago and humans and dinosaurs live together.

It will feature the voice talents of Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, and Frances McDormand.

"The Good Dinosaur" will be in theaters November 25.

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With Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar under its watch, Disney is more ambitious than ever.

During the company's weekend-long D23 fan convention, Disney laid out everything it planned to release through 2017.

Its lineup includes reboots, superheroes, a few animated movies, and multiple trips to desert planets in a galaxy far, far away.

Here is everything you can expect to see from Disney from now through 2017.

Director Peter Sohn and producer Denise Ream showed off Pixar's next animated feature, "The Good Dinosaur."

The film will imagine a world in which the asteroid never hit earth 65 million years ago and humans and dinosaurs live together.

It will feature the voice talents of Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, and Frances McDormand.

"The Good Dinosaur" will be in theaters November 25.

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Stephen Colbert turned very serious on Tuesday's "Howard Stern Show" when he began to discuss the place crash that killed his father and brother and left his mother broken.

The late-night host was only 10 years old when his father, James, and his two older brothers, Peter, 18, and Paul, 15, were killed in the Eastern Airlines Flight 212 crash on September 11, 1974. It crushed him and his entire family.

"It's built into me the way like, the marble is built into the shape of a statue," He told Stern. "It's kind of, at a certain age, what I was made of."

The loss was especially hurtful to his mother, Lorna, so Stephen, the youngest of her 11 children, would tell her jokes to cheer her up. In fact, he said that's what formed his comedy career.

"I think there's no doubt that I do what I do because I wanted to make her happy. No doubt," Colbert revealed.

CBS's next "Late Show" host also spoke of the plane tragedy in an interview with GQ magazine released this week. He explained how his feelings have evolved to the point where he could still hate that the crash ever happened, but also be grateful that it did because it brought him to comedy.

The realization came to him on the street when he was 35 years old and contemplating something "Lord of the Rings" writer J.R.R. Tolkien wrote: "What punishments of God are not gifts?"

"[It] stopped me dead. I went, ‘Oh, I'm grateful. Oh, I feel terrible.’ I felt so guilty to be grateful. But I knew it was true," he remembered.

“It's not the same thing as wanting it to have happened,” he said. “But you can't change everything about the world. You certainly can't change things that have already happened."

Colbert spoke with Oprah Winfrey about the accident on "Oprah's Next Chapter" back in 2012:

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The body that writes the UK advertising code has released its first ever guidance for video bloggers to help them understand how they should inform their followers when they have been paid by an advertiser to feature or talk about certain products in their videos.

In effect, the rules issued by the Committee for Advertising Practice (CAP) advise YouTubers that they must make it clear, upfront, when they've been paid by a brand. 

That could include the vlogger actually saying verbally that they have a commercial arrangement with the advertiser, or prominent text signposting (as part of the actual video, not just the text boxes you can overlay a YouTube video with) at the beginning of the video could state: "Sponsored by ...," or "commercial," or "Advert," for example. Otherwise, they risk breaking the advertising rules.

But there continue to be gray areas. For example: if a brand's PR team sends an item to a vlogger, but has no control about the video they produce, the CAP doesn't deem this to be applicable to the advertising code because, ultimately, the content is controlled by the publisher, not the advertiser.

How the problem arose 

Working with brands is a lucrative business for vloggers and bloggers. 

While platforms like YouTube share the revenue associated with ads that run next to vloggers' videos, online stars are also entering into marketing deals and earning thousands of dollars every time they mention or show a brand's product in their social media posts.

Online comedian The Fat Jew, for example, reportedly earns $6,000 per brand shout-out in his Instagram posts.

But with brands flocking to work with such stars to target young and often hard-to-reach audiences, issues of transparency arise. Online stars are not always making it clear to their viewers that a commercial agreement has taken place, which could mislead viewers as to the true intention of the content.

That was the issue at the heart of a precedent-setting Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) adjudication in November last year, which saw five "Oreo Licking Race" YouTube videos banned.

The videos, starring popular vloggers including Tom Ridgewell and Dan and Phil, failed to make it clear enough that they were marketing communications, which were paid for by Oreo owner Mondelez.

In May this year, a Procter & Gamble video that appeared on the Beauty Recommended YouTube channel, which featured a model vlogger, was also banned for failing to make clear it was a marketing communication.

Guy Parker, the chief executive of the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA),  said at an event in London March that since the Mondelez ruling, vloggers had been actively asking the advertising watchdog for help on the issue.

Since then, the ASA has consulted with marketers, advertising agencies, trade bodies like the Internet Advertising Bureau, vloggers, and some of the talent agencies and multi-channel networks (MCNs) that work with them, including Storm Management, Channel Flip, Red Hare Digital, and Gleam. 

The new rules, detailed

The guidance issued by the CAP gives a list of eight scenarios of the types of commercial relationships that take place between brands and vloggers, and when the UK advertising rules kick in:

• Online marketing by a brand: Where a brand collaborates with a vlogger and makes a vlog about the brand and/or its products and shares it on its own social media channels.
• “Advertorial” vlogs: A whole video is in the usual style of the vlogger but the content is controlled by the brand and the vlogger has been paid.
• Commercial breaks within vlogs: Where most of the vlog is editorial material but there’s also a specific section dedicated to the promotion of a product.
• Product placement: Independent editorial content that also features a commercial message.
• Vlogger’s video about their own product: The sole content of a vlog is a promotion of the vlogger’s own merchandise.
• Editorial video referring to a vlogger’s products: A vlogger promotes their own product within a broader editorial piece.
• Sponsorship: A brand sponsors a vlogger to create a video but has no control of the content
• Free items: A brand sends a vlogger items for free without any control of the content of the vlog.

The CAP writes the advertising code, but in the UK, advertising is regulated by the ASA, which is independent of the government and the ad industry — it can order advertisers to cease their ad campaigns, although it has no powers to enforce its recommendations or fine offenders (although it can refer cases to organizations with enforcement powers.) Its main punishment comes by way of the bad publicity the adjudications it publishes on its websiteeach week, which news organizations often cover

Speaking to Business Insider at the ASA's headquarters in London, CAP director of committees Shahriar Coupal said the two brands that the ASA has ruled against so far for their vlogging missteps have been global brands, with huge global audiences, meaning any UK guidance may also have a "massive global impact."

He revealed that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had already invited CAP to speak to it about this emerging regulatory issue and to offer advice.

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Rosie O'Donnell's daughter, Chelsea O'Donnell, has been found after her mother alerted the public on Tuesday that the teen had been missing for a week.

The comedian tweeted out an update later on Tuesday:

As Business Insider reported earlier on Tuesday, Chelsea had last been seen on Tuesday, August 11. Nyack, New York police authorities had been searching for her in the Rockland County area since Sunday, August 16.

It was also believed that she had somehow made it to New York City.

She left her home with her six-month-old therapy dog, Bear, a terrier weighing 9 lbs, with brown and black fur.

To add even more urgency to the situation, Chelsea had stopped taking her medicine and was in need of medical attention.

O'Donnell alerted her more than 800,000 followers that her daughter was missing with the following tweet:

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"Straight Outta Compton," the hit biopic about the rise of hip-hop group NWA, leaves out a troubling part about the group's rise to fame, says journalist and rapper Dee Barnes in a recent post on Gawker.

The omission: Dr. Dre's violence towards women.

In 1991, Barnes was viciously beaten by then-N.W.A. rapper Dr. Dre on the floor of the woman's bathroom of the Po Na Na Souk nightclub in Los Angeles.

Barnes says Dr. Dre was provoked by a recent segment which aired on her FOX show "Pump It Up!" in which Ice Cube, who had just left the group, trashed his former colleagues. According to Barnes, Dr. Dre slammed her head against a wall, kicked her, stomped on her fingers, and attempted to throw her down a flight of stairs.

Barnes later filed a civil suit against Dre that was eventually settled out of court.

When the timeline of "Straight Outta Compton" skips over her attack without so much as a mention, she says she found herself "a casualty of Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history."

"[My attack] isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don’t think it should have been, either. The truth is too ugly for a general audience. But what should have been addressed is that it occurred." Barnes writes, adding that "Straight Outta Compton transforms N.W.A. from the world’s most dangerous rap group to the world’s most diluted rap group," by ignoring their misogyny.

Barnes says Dr. Dre — who produced the film along with Ice Cube — should have owned up to his numerous alleged attacks on women in the film, including a 1990 alleged assault on rapper Tairrie B and numerous alleged assaults on his ex-wife Michel'le. Barnes notes that those assaults, along with hers were considered "side stories" by director F. Gary Gray.

“The original editor’s cut was three hours and 30 minutes long, so we couldn’t get everything in the movie," Gray said in a recent interview with Ebony. "We had to make sure we served the narrative; the narrative was about N.W.A. It wasn’t about side stories.”

Barnes finds his comments particularly offensive considering he was the cameraman that filmed her interview with Ice Cube in 1990 that supposedly provoked Dr. Dre's attack on her. 

"I think a huge reason that Gary doesn’t want to address it is because then he’d have to explain his part in history. He’s obviously uncomfortable for a reason," Barnes writes.

She adds that many of the women who worked with the N.W.A. rappers were not featured in the film, and that most women were either "naked in a hotel room or dancing in the background at the wild pool parties."

Overall, Barnes says the movie glorifies N.W.A. by showing how they "articulated the frustrations of young black men being constantly harassed by the cops." However, the movie fails to acknowledge the flipside of N.W.A.'s guiding philosophy by explaining the connection between the oppression of black men and the violence perpetrated by black men against black women.

"It is a cycle of victimization and reenactment of violence that is rooted in racism and perpetuated by patriarchy," Barnes says, adding that "the biggest problem with Straight Outta Compton is that it ignores several of N.W.A.’s own harsh realities."

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Fox News host Bill O'Reilly repeatedly challenged a key portion of Donald Trump's immigration agenda during an interview Tuesday night.

The real-estate magnate and Republican presidential candidate recently unveiled his multipart plan to clamp down on illegal immigration.

Among other things, Trump called for ending birthright citizenship, or the right of anyone born in the US to American citizenship.

As O'Reilly pointed out, however, the Constitution's 14th Amendment enshrines birthright citizenship into US law.

"That's not going to happen because the 14th Amendment says if you're born here, you're an American," O'Reilly said. "And you can't kick Americans out. The courts would block you at every turn. You must know all that."

Trump insisted that the Constitution did not grant citizenship to "anchor babies," a pejorative term used to describe the children of people who enter the country illegally with the purpose of having a son or daughter who would then be granted US citizenship.

"Bill, I think you're wrong about the 14th Amendment," Trump said. "And frankly, the whole thing with 'anchor babies' and the concept of 'anchor babies' — I don't think you're right about that."

O'Reilly was incredulous.

"I can quote it!" O'Reilly exclaimed. "You want me to quote you the amendment? If you're born here, you're an American — period! Period!"

The Fox host later added: "You are not going to be able to deport people who have American citizenship now. And the federal courts will never allow mass deportations without due process for each and every one. And do you envision federal police kicking in the doors in barrios around the country, dragging families out?"

But Trump, citing unnamed lawyers, held his ground on the citizenship issue.

"Bill, I don't think that they have American citizenship," he said. "And if you speak to some very, very good lawyers — and I know some would disagree, but many of them agree with me — you're going to find they do not have American citizenship. We have to start a process where we take back our country. Our country is going to hell."

For the record, the text of the amendment would seem to favor O'Reilly's interpretation in the dispute. It states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

O'Reilly also asked Trump whether he would be interested in changing the language of the Constitution to comport with how he sees the citizenship issue.

"It's a long process, and I think it would take too long," Trump responded. "I'd much rather find out whether or not 'anchor babies' are actually citizens, because a lot of people don't think they are."

Trump has based much of his presidential campaign on his opposition to illegal immigration. His heated rhetoric on the issue — especially his accusation that the Mexican government is intentionally sending rapists into the US — touched off a national firestorm after he launched his campaign.

But the controversy has appeared to only fuel his White House bid. Trump has led in almost every recent poll of the Republican primary.

Watch Trump's Fox interview below:

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With a hit summer movie, an Emmy nod for her show on Comedy Central, and an HBO special in the works, Amy Schumer's career is at an all-time high.

But all that success hasn't affected her spending habits. The 34-year-old comedian is still living in a small apartment in New York City. Schumer has had a bit of a difficult relationship with New York real estate over the years and has lived in five different Manhattan neighborhoods. 

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"Straight Outta Compton" has raked in a whopping $67.7 million at the box office since its release last Friday.

The hit biopic centers on the true story of the rise of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's hip-hop group, N.W.A.

One person who wants to cash in on the film's success is Ice Cube's "Next Friday" costar, "The African King of Comedy," Michael Blackson.

Blackson played "Customer #1" in a memorable cameo in 2000's "Next Friday," in which he tries to return a CD after chewing on it, yelling at the cashier, "This is whack! I can't get jiggy with this!"

Blackson has since acted in a string of unmemorable TV shows and movies, but he tours the country as a stand-up comedian and has an impressive 693,000 Instagram followers and 639,000 Twitter followers.

On Tuesday, Blackson posted a photo of the measly residual check he still receives for his scene in "Next Friday" and jokingly asked Ice Cube to put his newfound "Straight Outta Compton" money towards another "Friday" sequel he could star in.

Blackson wrote in the photo's caption:

"Damn #IceCube ya made $60mil over the weekend with #StraightOutOfCompton so take some of that money and let's make #LastFriday and tell Warner brothers to stop sending me this $14 checks it cost $10 to cash it by the time I buy gas I'm negative $11. Can ya tag that neega n tell him to help his African broda."

Blackson's fans appreciated his humor:

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Donald Trump wants everyone to know that he quit NBC and wasn't fired as some reports claim. In fact, the currently leading Republican presidential candidate said that the network's big guns tried to convince him not to run.

"The primary tension I had was that they wanted me to do 'The Apprentice,' and they were very angry that I didn't do it," Trump told The Hollywood Reporter. "And that was more important than 'Miss Universe' by far, because 'The Apprentice' has higher numbers. I read a story two weeks ago from somebody that didn't understand, where they said 'NBC cut ties with Trump.' They didn't cut ties with me, I cut ties with them out of respect. But they were very upset."

According to the real estate mogul, NBC's head honchos approached him two months before he announced his intent to run for U.S. president and made remarks about Mexican immigrants that would lead to NBC cutting ties with him in late-June.

Trump recalled in the THR interview: "The top people from [NBCUniversal's parent company] Comcast, [NBCUniversal CEO] Steve Burke and [NBC reality chief] Paul Telegdy came up to see me two months before I announced I was running, and they wanted me to do another two seasons of 'The Apprentice.'  [Executive producer] Mark Burnett would call me constantly. I love Mark, special guy, and he said, 'Donald, you're turning down a primetime renewal. Do you know what you're doing?' I said, 'Mark, I want to [run for president].'"

Recently, NBC said that it would continue not to work with Trump for the foreseeable future and is currently looking for his replacement for "The Apprentice."

An NBCU representative had no comment on Trump's claims.

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Unlike many of its most successful alumni, incoming Late Show host Stephen Colbert didn't long dream of attending The Second City improv troupe in Chicago and using it as a way to start a career in show business. As a theater student at nearby Northwestern University, he even shunned it, he told The A.V. Club in 2006.

But after graduating college in 1986, he got a job at Second City's box office and decided to take advantage of the free improv classes he had access to.

Over the next several years he would learn the mechanics of fast-paced comedy, but it was on his first day performing on stage that he learned the greatest lesson of his career, he told GQ for a new profile by Joel Lovell.

Second City director Jeff Michalski told Colbert and his fellow improv students, "You have to learn to love the bomb."

Colbert explained further:

It took me a long time to really understand what that meant. It wasn't "Don't worry, you'll get it next time." It wasn't "Laugh it off." No, it means what it says. You gotta learn to love when you're failing ... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you.

As explained in Shane Snow's book "Smartcuts," Second City employs a rapid feedback technique during training that allows students to act fearlessly, which translates into their performances in front of audiences.

"Performers typically take audience suggestions for topics or backstories for characters, then act out the first thing that comes to mind," Snow wrote. "Amid all the zaniness that ensues, casts can slip in scenes they've been considering for their show and gauge audience reactions. And though sometimes the material is dreadful, it doesn't matter. They can fail without failing."

Colbert told GQ that because he's naturally an introspective person with a "discomfort in society" he developed a habit of creating uncomfortable situations for himself, like singing in a crowded elevator, just to confront that discomfort and realize it didn't need to have power over him.

Combined with his training, this approach turned him into one of America's most electric television personalities.

For more on Colbert's life, including how dealing with tragedy has had a tremendous impact on his career, check out the full article from GQ.

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Now's your chance to own a piece of certifiable rock history.

Kurt Cobain's childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington, is for sale, and it just got a price chop.

Originally listed in 2013 by Cobain's mother, Wendy O'Connor, for $500,000, the home's price was reduced to $400,000 in March. Today it's down to $329,000.

Beyond just being the place where Cobain grew up, the home retains the marks and scars of its famous inhabitant, including drawings of band logos. 

Aberdeen Realty has the listing.

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Kurt Cobain's childhood home is an unassuming house on a lackluster block.

Built in 1923, it looks as if it was updated in the mid 20th century. The entire home is rather rundown.

The one-and-a-half floor bungalow has four bedrooms across only 1,522 square feet.

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In the wake of two theatershootings occurring in the span of a few weeks, concern about the safety of moviegoers at multiplexes is at an all-time high.

A recent study by research firm C4 found that 34% of theatergoers want metal detectors and armed guards in theaters, according to Variety. 

But to implement more security at theaters is a complicated — and expensive— matter.

According to the Variety story, here's a breakdown of the cost for additional protection:

Armed guards cost $25-$35 an hour, metal detectors cost upwards of $200,00 and require trained staffers (who command compensation packages of $150,000 each). Security consultants estimate that outfitting a national chain, like an AMC or Cinemark, would cost up to $40 million over a chain’s hundreds of locations.

The C4 study found that many are willing to go through bag checks before entering a movie house, but only 13% are willing to pay $3 extra per-ticket to help cover the cost for the above added measures.

Jeffrey A. Slotnick, chief security officer of risk consulting firm OR3M told Variety he believes taking action like this would hurt ticket sales. “Movie theaters have to be welcoming,” he said. “How many people like going through TSA security at airports? Put that in a movie theater environment, and people just decide to stay home.”

The major movie theater chains and NATO, the National Association of Theatre Owners, have collectively been silent about taking added security measures in multiplexes since the 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado during a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” which left 12 victims dead.

On July 23 in Lafayette, Louisiana a theater shooting occurred during a screening of “Trainwreck” which left three dead including the alleged gunman. An August 5 incident during a showing of "Mad Max: Fury Road" near Nashville ended with a hatchet-wielding man with pepper spray being shot and killed by police.

Business Insider reached out to NATO and theater chains AMC and Cinemark following these incidents for comment on if they are planning to change their security measures. The chains had no comment or did not respond to our inquiries. NATO directed BI to the statement they released following the Nashville incident, in which it states: "Whether it is in churches, schools, malls, theaters or other public places, people have the right to go about their lives in peace and safety. The safety of our guests and employees is, and always will be, our industry’s highest priority." 

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Bill Cosby can't count Donald Trump as one of his supporters.

"I've never been a fan," Trump answered when asked by The Hollywood Reporter about the sexual assault allegations against Cosby.

"I had one bad experience with him," the real estate mogul continued. "I was on 'Letterman,' and he was following me on the show. He said, 'Oh, I want to buy you a suit.' It was nice, he bought me a suit. And then he was on [NBC's 'Today' show], and my name was mentioned, and he went absolutely crazy. And I said, 'What the hell was that all about?'"

It's possible Trump is referring to Cosby's 2011 appearance on "Today" when then-host Meredith Vieira asked the comedian how he felt about the real estate mogul's potential 2012 presidential run.

“Oh, please with Donald Trump. Take him home with you," Cosby told Vieira.

He then said of Trump's reticence to announce a presidential run: "He's full of it ... You run or shut up ... The only thing he's running is his mouth."

And there has been no love lost for Trump over the last few years.

"I was never a fan," Trump added to THR. "His humor was always, like, slow and stupid to me. I never saw it. And then he's obviously got this stuff. What amazes me is he was so quiet and then you see these depositions. What was he doing? Was he drunk? You see he admitted all this stuff on top of everything else. I think he's weird. And I never found his humor good at all. Just sit in a chair, talk very slowly? And I say to myself, 'What's this all about?'

A representative for Cosby didn't respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

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After selling his gold-mine headphone company Beats by Dre last year to Apple for $3.2 billion, rap mogul Dr. Dre's net worth spiked to an estimated $700 million. He's the second-richest man in hip-hop, according to Forbes. 

But the deal that helped make him so rich almost never happened.

According to an article by Wired, initially Dre's lawyer recommended he sell sneakers instead of headphones.

But one day when iconic record producer Jimmy Iovine was hanging out with Dre, he suggested they get into the speaker business instead.

According to Wired, popular musician Will.i.am had been encouraging Iovine to get into the speaker industry, and he saw this as an opportunity.

"F--- sneakers — let's make speakers," Wired quotes Iovine saying.

Dre initially didn't think selling headphones would work, or that people even cared about sound quality. Competitors such as Apple had such success with cheap headphones Dre didn't believe people would buy in.

But the sneaker industry has even bigger juggernauts. With Nike and Jordan still ruling the sneaker world, success in that field might have been unreachable — even for Dre. And it turned out there was a real need for high-quality headphones.

“It was crazy to see my kids listening to my music on these headphones,” Dre told Wired. “I was like, ‘This is not how it’s supposed to sound. This is not what I spent all this time in the studio for.’ We decided we had to do something about it.”

Billions later, it's safe to say he made the right choice.

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"Straight Outta Compton" made $60.2 million this weekend, but no one saw it in, well, Compton.

The city of Compton doesn't actually have a movie theater. So to watch the biopic of Compton-hailing rap group N.W.A., many Compton residents are going to the Cinemark Carson & XD in Carson, the nearest movie theater.

To meet demand, the Cinemark scheduled screenings all day, at every hour. They've devoted four screens to the film.

"A lot of people seem to like it," Lorreanne Yalung, a box office receptionist at the theater, told Business Insider. "Yesterday was our biggest day. The whole day was sold out."

Ironically, even though Compton residents can't yet watch the movie in their own city, "Straight Outta Compton" was shot on location.

"I haven't lived in Compton for quite a while, but it felt great," Dr. Dre told The Hollywood Reporter. "Everybody was really excited about the fact that we were not only making a movie but making it in Compton. It feels like Compton is another character." Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, is one of the main characters in the movie as well as one of the film's producers.

The city of Compton itself is currently in negotiations to bring an entertainment district to the city, which would include a 16-screen cinema.

“Seventy percent of that would be the movie theater, and then there would be an additional thirty percent retail space,” Compton City Manager Johnny Ford told CBSLA. “As they’re coming in, retailers are making in Compton, and that’s what it’s all about.”

Dre also said he'd donate royalties of his new album towards to the city for an arts and entertainment center for children. He said he was inspired to make the album, "Compton," after he watched an early cut of the movie.

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Stephen Colbert isn't just a comedian, actor, and host. The future "Late Show" host is also quite musical, as well.

On Tuesday's episode of "The Howard Stern Show," Stern mentioned that he had heard Colbert once fronted a Rolling Stones cover band.

Without missing a beat, Colbert stood up right away to show that he definitely has moves like Mick Jagger.

"I was [the lead singer]," Colbert confirmed. "We were called Shot in the Dark. We called ourselves a 's--t in the dark' because we sucked so badly."

Stern then wondered what the band's go-to song was. "'Brown Sugar,'" Colbert answered, only to be asked by Stern to sing the song.

Watch Colbert's fun performance below:

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