It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

He says there are a lot of scientific theories about what makes something humorous – he cites 3 main categories of what works and why.

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Warning: There are spoilers for Sunday's "Game of Thrones."

During Sunday’s "Game of Thrones" episode seven "The Broken Man," fans watched Sansa Stark, Jon Snow, and Davos Seaworth campaign in the North to drum up support for the upcoming Bastard Bowl against Ramsay Bolton.

On their way, they met 10-year-old Lyanna Mormont (played by actress Bella Ramsey), the young lady of House Mormont. Things got rather heated until they won the fiery child over, and fans couldn’t get enough of her sass.

Lyanna had a lot to say to Jon and Sansa, from calling out Sansa for her Lannister and Bolton husbands — "I did what I had to do to survive," Sansa replied — to Lyanna pointing out that Jon is still technically a Snow, not a Stark.

Eventually, Ser Davos gave a rousing speech about how the White Walkers and Night's King were coming, and convinced Lady Lyanna to lend her House to Jon’s cause.

In the end, all she had were 62 fighting men — quite the small army after such a fuss.

"We are not a large house, but we're a proud one," Lyanna Mormont said after a shocked pause. "And every man from Bear Island fights with the strength of 10 mainlanders."

"If they’re as fierocious as their lady, the Boltons are doomed," Davos replied.

So who is she? Fans should remember this is not the first time we’ve heard of Lyanna Mormont. As Jon Snow mentioned during this episode’s scene, Stannis Baratheon sent a raven to ask the 10-year-old Lady of Bear Island to commit her House to his cause.

Her response? "Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark." Even then, she was having none of it.

Lyanna was also named after Lyanna Stark, as Sansa points out, the younger sister of Ned Stark and potentially the mother of Jon Snow. Not only does it show the fealty that Bear Island and the Mormonts have to the Stark family, but it could be another tie in to the upcoming Tower of Joy scene that fans will hopefully see this season.

That’s not the only show character Lyanna is tied to — her uncle’s son is Jorah Mormont, the same Jorah who fled to Essos and was serving a certain Dragon Queen named Daenerys Targaryen and is now searching for the cure to Greyscale.

That would make Jorah little Lyanna’s cousin.

Her mother, Maege Mormont, was the Lady of Bear Island before her. In the books, Lady Maege is still alive and hiding with two of her daughters Lyra and Jory. She also has another daughter, Alysane, who was previously with Stannis Baratheon and Asha Greyjoy. But in the show, it appears the She-Bear, as she's known, may be no more.

"My mother wasn't a great beauty, she was a great warrior though," Lyanna piped up to Sansa during the scene in "The Broken Man." "She died fighting for your brother Robb."

Hopefully, we’ll see even more of House Mormont and the sassy Lady Lyanna Mormont as season six continues.

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What will become of Arya, is the Hound going to seek out vengeance for his slain friends, and what is Cersei up to? Hopefully, all of these answers are coming on next Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones." 

HBO has released the teaser for next week's episode, "No One", and we'll see more of Brienne and Podrick, a reunion with Jaime, and more of that devilish waif. Plus, Cersei will finally say that killer line from the teasers, "I choose violence."

There are only three more episodes of "Game of Thrones" left this season. (We know, it's going fast!) Season six episode eight will air Sunday, June 12.

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Warning: spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," "The Broken Man."

"Game of Thrones" threw in a few major twists this week, including the return of a major character, the introduction of a captivating new young character, and a bloody cliffhanger for a fan favorite.

But which moments had fans talking the most?

Social-media monitoring platform Brandwatch found more than 73,000 "Thrones"-related mentions on Twitter during the one-hour episode and identified the scenes when conversation peaked.

Here are the five most talked-about moments from the latest "Game of Thrones" episode:

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5. Yara Greyjoy pleads with Theon to find new purpose and bring back the brother she remembers.

9:40 p.m. ET — More than 1,200 mentions.

4. The Waif, who is disguised as an old woman, stabs Arya and leaves her for dead.

9:51 p.m. ET– More than 1,300 mentions.

3. Jon and Sansa Stark meet with the sassy Lady Mormont. Fans were intrigued by her young age and the fact that she had just 62 soldiers to offer.

9:31 p.m. ET – More than 1,600 mentions.

Netflix surged up the Fortune 500 this year, rising 95 spots to No. 379.

The Fortune 500 is the annual ranking of the biggest US companies by revenue for fiscal year 2015. Netflix saw the biggest gain in the tech industry besides Salesforce, which jumped 97 slots.

Netflix was also the top-performing stock in the S&P 500 in 2015, but has had a rocky start in 2016.

Netflix continued an aggressive worldwide expansion in recent months, simultaneously launching in 130 new countries in January and working toward the goal of universal availability for its catalog (though as it stands, there are stark differences between countries). International subscriber growth is a key metric for Wall Street.

Netflix has focused on creating compelling original content, which it has characterized as a strength moving forward, especially internationally. The company will release 600 hours of original content this year, including 31 original shows.

Netflix will also see a revenue boost in the coming months from a gradual price increase on grandfathered accounts, which began in May. Wall Street analysts say that the rate of cancellation from this raise will likely be low. UBS pegs it at 3% to 4% of affected subscribers, though when surveyed, a much higher percentage of Netflix subscribers say they will cancel. This price increase will affect more than 22 million US Netflix subscribers, according to Netflix.

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HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on Sunday took another look at presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump and one of his business ventures that's prompting lawsuits and skepticism.

In February, Oliver dedicated an entire show to Trump, which concluded with the comedian unleashing the Donald Drumpf website (one biographer claims Drumpf was at one time the Trump family name).

This time, Oliver directed his attention at Trump University, which has come back into the news as Trump has verbally attacked the judge who is presiding over the lawsuits related to the university. Trump has pointed out that the judge is of Mexican heritage. 

The segment points out that the Trump University cases comprise just a fraction of at least 3,500 lawsuits either Trump or one of his companies has been involved in over the last three decades (unprecedented for any presidential candidate). 

But delving into what went on behind the scenes at Trump University, you can understand why the school is in hot water.

First off, the New York district attorney found that the school isn't even a university and in a deposition from Trump, he admits he didn't "handpick" instructors for the school, as he states in promotional videos. 

In fact, Oliver's segment points out that instructors included a former salesman for Lowe's and a manager for Buffalo Wild Wings.

Then there's the playbook the instructors were given, which includes gems like ways to upsell students to more expensive courses. Instructors facing pushback about prices were told to remind students that "Trump is the best."

The segment highlights one former student, Carmen Mendez, who paid $35,000 for the courses and didn't even get to meet Trump. Another former student noted that though students were promised a picture with Trump, it "turned out to be a cardboard cutout" of the real-estate mogul. 

The segment shows a clip of Trump saying in an interview that 98% of the people who took Trump University courses approved of them.

Turns out, the students filled out cards on what they thought of the courses while "still expecting to receive future benefits from the program."

Oliver closes the segment by stating that the only experience worse than attending Trump University would be realizing, "Oh s--t, he's got 3 years, 364 days left in his first term."

Watch the complete segment below:

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People are pretty excited about the newly crowned Miss USA, Deshauna Barber, who won the pageant Sunday night, when it aired on Fox.

Barber, 26, works for the Department of Commerce and is a Captain in the Army and commander of the 988th Quartermaster Detachment at Fort Meade in Maryland. She's from the DC area.

She stepped up to the mic Sunday night to answer a question from a judge about the Pentagon's recent decision to allow women in all combat roles in the military. The judge asked what she thinks of the criticism that the move "puts political correctness over our military's ability to perform."

"As a woman in the United States Army, I think it was an amazing job by our government to allow women to integrate into every branch of the military," she said, to huge applause.

"We are just as tough as men. As a commander of my unit, I'm powerful, I am dedicated and it is important that we recognize that gender does not limit us in the United States."

The enthusiasm could be felt outside the room, too. People on social media were in thrall to Miss DC, soon to be Miss USA.

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season six episode seven.

The Hound may have returned to "Game of Thrones" in season six episode seven, but he wasn’t the only character book readers were excited to see.

The character Brother Ray (Ian McShane) who show watchers saw with the Hound was based off of Septon Meribald, a fairly important character in George R.R. Martin's book "A Feast for Crows."

Unfortunately, Ray’s time on the show was cut short after only one episode and he didn’t even make perhaps one of the greatest speeches in the entirety of George R. R. Martin’s series.

In the books, Septon Meribald is a priest for the Faith of the Seven who ministers to the small folk in villages around Westeros and comes into contact with Brienne and Podrick in the Riverlands.

His speech about "broken men," or wartime outlaws, discusses what happens to a person during times of war and poverty. Fans were pumped to see the monologue come to the screen, especially because the episode "The Broken Man" was named after the speech itself.

And yet, he died before he had the chance to give it.

Bryan Cogman, the writer of episode seven, as well as McShane both talked about how the speech was cut for unclear reasons.

"The speech itself didn’t make it into the episode, but it inspired the character and some of his dialogue," Cogman told Entertainment Weekly. "So the title of the episode is a nod to that speech – kind of like when we called episode 205 'The Ghost of Harrenhal,' even though that term wasn’t spoken out loud in the show."

“Well, they wrote a two-page speech – so that’s why they invited me,” McShane said about the missing speech to Entertainment Weekly. “It’s a big soliloquy, like in Deadwood, and they needed to get somebody who could do that. It was really well written.”

One can only wonder why it was cut.

If you’re curious, you can read a snippet of the beautiful Septon Meribald monologue from "A Feast for Crows" below:

"There are many sorts of outlaws, just as there are many sorts of birds. A sandpiper and a sea eagle both have wings, but they are not the same. The singers love to sing of good men forced to go outside the law to fight some wicked lord, but most outlaws are more like this ravening Hound than they are the lightning lord. They are evil men, driven by greed, soured by malice, despising the gods and caring only for themselves. Broken men are more deserving of our pity, though they may be just as dangerous. Almost all are common-born, simple folk who had never been more than a mile from the house where they were born until the day some lord came round to take them off to war. Poorly shod and poorly clad, they march away beneath his banners, ofttimes with no better arms than a sickle or a sharpened hoe, or a maul they made themselves by lashing a stone to a stick with strips of hide. Brothers march with brothers, sons with fathers, friends with friends. They've heard the songs and stories, so they go off with eager hearts, dreaming of the wonders they will see, of the wealth and glory they will win. War seems a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know.

"Then they get a taste of battle.

"For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they've been gutted by an axe.

"They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now. They take a wound, and when that's still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from the marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.

"If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron halfhelm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the smallfolk whose lands they're fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it's just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don't know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they're fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad all in steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world . . .

"And the man breaks.

"He turns and runs, or crawls off afterward over the corpses of the slain, or steals away in the black of night, and he finds someplace to hide. All thought of home is gone by then, and kings and lords and gods mean less to him than a haunch of spoiled meat that will let him live another day, or a skin of bad wine that might drown his fear for a few hours. The broken man lives from day to day, from meal to meal, more beast than man. Lady Brienne is not wrong. In times like these, the traveler must beware of broken men, and fear them . . . but he should pity them as well."

When Meribald was finished a profound silence fell upon their little band. Brienne could hear the wind rustling through a clump of pussywillows, and farther off the faint cry of a loon. She could hear Dog panting softly as he loped along beside the septon and his donkey, tongue lolling from his mouth. The quiet stretched and stretched, until finally she said, "How old were you when they marched you off to war?"

"Why, no older than your boy," Meribald replied. "Too young for such, in truth, but my brothers were all going, and I would not be left behind. Willam said I could be his squire, though Will was no knight, only a potboy armed with a kitchen knife he'd stolen from the inn. He died upon the Stepstones, and never struck a blow. It was fever did for him, and for my brother Robin. Owen died from a mace that split his head apart, and his friend Jon Pox was hanged for rape."

"The War of the Ninepenny Kings?" asked Hyle Hunt.

"So they called it, though I never saw a king, nor earned a penny. It was a war, though. That it was."

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J.K. Rowling said that she was prepared for the negative reactions over the casting of a black woman in the role of Hermione in the new play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

“With my experience of social media, I thought that idiots were going to idiot,” she told Bristish newspaper The Guardian. “But what can you say? That’s the way the world is."

The conflict began back in December of last year when the actors cast in the roles of Harry, Ron, and Hermione were announced. That was when the world learned that black actress Noma Dumezweni had been tapped for the Hermione role, which was played by Emma Watson in the "Harry Potter" movie franchise.

Rowling said back then that she never specifically described Hermione's race in the books. And there had been a longtime fan theory that Hermione was black. Regardless, many fans were not happy about the casting.

"I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione ‘turned white’ — that is, lost color from her face after a shock — that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty with," Rowling told the newspaper. "But I decided not to get too agitated about it and simply state quite firmly that Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”

Dumezweni, who won an Olivier award for her role in "A Raisin in the Sun," will play Hermione 19 years after the final book in the "Harry Potter" series. The character is married to Ron (Paul Thornley), with whom she has a daughter, Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete).

"Noma was chosen because she was the best actress for the job," Rowling said.

The play, which will open July 30 at London's Palace Theatre, sold a record-breaking 175,000 tickets in the first 24 hours during pre-sales.

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More than 8,000 celebrities, champagne lovers, and otherwise stylish people turned out to Liberty State Park in Jersey City for the ninth-annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic Saturday afternoon. 

Michael B. Jordan, Rose Byrne, Olivia Palermo, and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were among those who sipped bubbly while watching team Veuve Clicquot take on team Black Watch on horseback. Guests were encouraged to don chic summer outfits and bold hats — and most attendees clearly got the memo. 

Keep scrolling to see what went down at the glamorous, sunny event. 

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VIP guests were served glasses of Veuve Clicquot upon arrival. Entrance to the VIP Rosé Garden cost a whopping $400 a person, though more affordable general admission tickets could be had for $75 each.

Jaimie Alexander walked the green carpet, which was plastered with bottles of champagne.

Model Jourdan Dunn was stunning in white. She later threw out the ceremonial first ball to begin the match.

You can't beat a classic.

"Tecmo Super Bowl" is coming up on its 25th year of existence, and for some, it's still the best football video game ever made. The Nintendo Entertainment System gem was the first sports game to use real National Football League player names and teams, and its pick-up-and-play accessibility has given it an enduring legacy.

So enduring, in fact, that some people to this day regularly go into the game's files and update each team's rosters to reflect their current lineups. One such modder, Dave Brude, recently looked through the game's files and found an unused animation for a false start penalty, as reported by Polygon. This is an especially interesting find, because the game millions grew to love didn't have any penalties at all.

Brude is something of an authority on the ins and outs of "Tecmo Super Bowl," having added a two-point conversion to the game back in 2014 (the NFL didn't adopt that rule until 1994). TecmoBowlers has a full rundown of the crazy programming magic that went into finding the unused false start animation; be warned that it's like reading a different language if you don't know much about programming.

Brude figures the false start penalty would've been triggered randomly, so it was wise for the developers to scrap the idea entirely. Anyone who watches football will agree that nothing sucks the fun out of an important play more than a false start stopping the play before it even happens.

We don't need that in our football video games.

Still, it's amazing that people are finding hidden and unused features in games almost three decades later. Amibitious folks are able to dig their way into the code that makes all of your favorite old games work and figure out what was missing. It's part of what makes video games unique, and we can't wait to see what people continue to discover about the classics.

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Amber Heard is suing comedian Doug Stanhope for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Stanhope wrote a guest column for The Wrap claiming Heard fabricated allegations that Depp, her estranged husband, physically abused her in order to force Depp to agree with her divorce terms.

“My girlfriend, Bingo, and I have known Johnny Depp for a few years now,” Stanhope wrote. “We have watched Amber Heard f--- with him at his weakest — or watched him at his weakest from being f---ed with — for the entire time we’ve known him.”

Stanhope refers to Heard as a "demon" in his piece.

Heard, through her attorney, calls Stanhope's claims false.

"Stanhope is a close friend of Johnny Depp and, as part of a coordinated effort, wrote a highly defamatory article about Ms. Heard, filled with completely false, highly defamatory, and very hurtful statements," said Heard's attorney, Charles Harder, according to THR. "Ms. Heard seeks the maximum possible jury award and will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the lawsuit to Chrysalis, a domestic-violence shelter in Arizona, in an effort to counter the setback made to women by the defendants’ defamatory article and related wrongful acts."

Heard was granted a restraining order against Depp on May 27. 

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Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Preacher" if you're not caught up.

"Preacher" went full-Tarantino Sunday night, soaking the screen in red as Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) faced down the two mysterious men from the premiere episode tracking Jesse. Cassidy unleashes hell on both men, beating one senseless and dismembering the other. Yet miraculously, in the final moments of the episode we see them calmly explaining to Sheriff Root that they're government agents tracking a fugitive.

That's at least half true. Who are these men and how did they survive being killed by Cassidy?

DeBlanc (the shorter one) and Fiore (the taller one) are technically telling the truth when they say they're agents tasked with tracking down a fugitive. The pair are angels sent from Heaven to retrieve Genesis, the divine entity that possessed Jesse in the pilot. 

In the comics, DeBlanc and Fiore are a class of angels called "Adelphi." The Adelphi were tasked with watching over Genesis in Heaven and DeBlanc and Fiore were blamed when it escaped. So the pair descended to Earth to bring Genesis home. There was just one problem. Genesis has chosen Jesse as its host, so they'll have to find some way to separate the two. As we saw, they've prepared two plans to accomplish this. Plan A is to softly coax it from Jesse with a lullaby.

Plan B is a chainsaw. 

When DeBlanc's lullaby fails, Fiore decides to gently remove Genesis from Jesse's body. Jesse, meanwhile, is out cold because he defiantly drank Cassidy's moonshine (mixed with air conditioner fluid!) and blacked out.

Luckily, Cassidy is here to protect him. In the highpoint of the episode, Cassidy rips into DeBlanc and Fiore, smashing DeBlanc's face in, sawing off Fiore's arm, and diving to the rescue when the chainsaw goes rogue with Fiore's dangling arm still attached. 

It's a gruesome orgy of mayhem, that takes place in a church no less, and works both to develop Cassidy and Jesse's bromance and introduce us to the Adelphi angels, who will play a major part in Jesse's journey in the episodes to come. For now, at least, we know that Jesse's powers have put him dead center in a much larger plot that we'll see unfold soon and Cassidy, for better or worse, is along for the ride too. 

You can watch the full scene, released by AMC, below:

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Warning: There are spoilers ahead if you're not caught up with Sunday's "Game of Thrones."

Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" reunited viewers with several characters we haven't seen in a while. There was the return of Bronn (Jerome Flynn) and Blackfish Tully (Clive Russell). Fans also were treated to a big reveal — Sandor Cleagane, better known as the Hound, made his return to the series Sunday evening.

He was left to die in season four after going to battle with Brienne of Tarth.

With so many character returns on the show, it wasn't enough for many fans on Sunday who were hoping we may get to see one other long-lost fan favorite.

We're talking about Gendry, the last known living bastard son of King Robert Baratheon, who has a better claim to the throne than Tommen. 

Many fans were hoping the opening sequence wasn't teasing the Hound, but perhaps Gendry.

There are even those hoping that, with Arya injured, maybe he'll pop up in Braavos to save her. (This isn't really likely if Gendry was last seen heading for King's Landing, but the fandom can hope.)

The last time we saw Gendry was during the show's season three finale in June 2013. The character was seen getting in a row boat per Davos Seaworth and was rowing his way to King's Landing.

Since then, no one has seen or heard from Gendry since. 

It's become something of a running joke for fans online to suggest Gendry is still out there just rowing along. Even actor Joe Dempsie, who played Gendry on the show, has gotten in on the joke.

It's not clear if we'll see Gendry any time soon, or ever again, on "Game of Thrones," but with so many other characters resurfacing on the series, fans can keep the hope alive.

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There's a new video game that everybody's in love with. And when we say "everybody," we mean it.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took time out of his busy life, usually spent fundamentally altering the auto industry and sending human beings to Mars, to tweet his love for the game this weekend:

Not a bad promotion considering Musk's got just over 4 million Twitter followers.

Though the game is available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, Musk told one of his followers that he's playing it on PC, which, ya know, of course he is.

So, what's the deal with "Overwatch?" In short, it's a fantastic new first-person shooter from the brilliant minds at Blizzard Entertainment (the same studio that created blockbusters like "World of Warcraft," "Hearthstone," and many others). 

It's got a glorious, colorful cast of characters that each plays dramatically differently:

It's not your average shooter, though — it's a "class-based" team game, meaning that you play one of four "classes" that acts complimentary to the others. For instance, if you're playing as a "tank" class, your focus is on absorbing damage and dishing out just as much. Another character on your team should be a "support" class, offering an extended line of health to your tank. You protect the support character, and he/she supports you in return. It's a beautiful symbiotic relationship!

How this plays out in-game feels like a combination of tug of war and rock/paper/scissors. It's fast, tactical, smart, and gorgeous. It's no wonder that Musk loves "Overwatch" — it's a fantastic game. Admittedly, it's not as incredible as the gigantic video game simulation we're all living in (according to Musk), but what could be?

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December might seem far away but now is the perfect time to plan for Business Insider's annual IGNITIONconference.

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How much money is there to be made by starring on a reality television show?

If you're Ryan Seacrest, Christina Aguilera, or Gordon Ramsay, that number is in the millions and can exceed $10 million per season of a show.

But those kinds of paychecks actually go to very few people. Most people starring on reality shows are making salaries that supplement the ones that they make at their actual jobs, from their businesses, or from other opportunities afforded them by being on TV, such as licensing deals, book contracts, appearances, or food and liquor products.

Shows that air on broadcast television typically pay their talent larger salaries than those found on cable. And, of course, if the talent is also a producer or gets any cut of the profits, that can take in bigger paychecks.

Business Insider spoke to agents, producers, and development executives on the condition of anonymity to get a sense of what reality TV is paying its talent.

See how much reality stars are making below:

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Star/executive producer: $16 million and up annually

If someone is irreplaceable, created a show, and stars on it, a base salary can be compromised for an executive producer credit and profit sharing. Reality mega-stars in this vein include Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsay.

Cowell, currently a judge/executive producer of "America's Got Talent," reportedly earns an annual income of $95 million. That includes his profits from reality shows and his music label.

Ramsay, who stars on and executive produces at least five shows, reportedly rakes in $4.5 million per season of a show. He adds another $45 million in earnings from his media and restaurant businesses.

Celebrity judges on a broadcast competition show: $300,000 to $17 million per season

The salary for judges on a broadcast competition like "The Voice" or "America's Got Talent" varies widely according to popularity. For example, Christina Aguilera made as much as $17 million a season from "The Voice." By comparison, Blake Shelton makes about $13 million.

For "America's Got Talent," Howard Stern was reportedly paid $15 million a season.

Why so much? In addition to expertise and name recognition, a source told Business Insider that their pay factors in what they could've made during the time they're shooting the show. For example, if they were able to tour.

Hosts of a broadcast reality TV show: $200,000 to $15 million per season

"If you’re hosting a show on broadcast primetime network, you get paid a lot," a source told Business Insider. "You start around 10 to $15,000 an episode."

That all depends on a host's popularity and how long a show runs.

Ryan Seacrest is probably the best example of how the salary for hosting a reality TV show can get huge. Hiring him when he was a popular radio DJ, "American Idol" tripled Seacrest's pay from $5 million to $15 million per season in 2009. Now that the show is over, Seacrest can fall back on other hosting gigs and media productions.

Not everyone has such a great deal. By contrast, "Survivor" host Jeff Probst was reported to be making just $4 million per season for the popular CBS competition in 2014.

Pete Docter knows what it's like to have things go right.

He's won two Academy Awards for his direction of 2009 film "Up" and 2015 film "Inside Out," and has been nominated for four more.

But that doesn't mean he never feels like everything is going wrong.

In the 2014 book "Creativity, Inc.," Pixar Animation and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull recounts the difficult production process of "Up." Catmull writes that Pixar's tenth film went through four iterations, and that only two things ultimately lasted from the original version, including its title.

Docter was the director throughout the process, which took years of major changes. "The path he followed on 'Up' was difficult and unpredictable; there was nothing about where the movie started that indicated where it would end up," Catmull writes. Because of its fluidity, the team "had to be able to roll with that evolution without panicking, shutting down, or growing discouraged. It helped that Pete understood what they were feeling."

 Docter told Catmull:

When this happens, it's usually because I feel like the world is crashing down and all is lost. One trick I've learned is to force myself to make a list of what's actually wrong. Usually, soon into making the list, I find I can group most of the issues into two or three larger all-encompassing problems. So it's really not all that bad. Having a finite list of problems is much better than having an illogical feeling that everything is wrong.

Docter's strategy is one anyone can adopt, and its benefits are twofold: First, it's reassuring to narrow down your problems from "everything" to the actual issues. And second, it's a productive step toward solving them.

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Earlier this year, the screenwriter of cult classic “Idiocracy,” Etan Cohen, said that he never expected the movie to “become a documentary” while observing the rise of Donald Trump — who's now, of course, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

It turns out the people behind the 2006 comedy have now come together to produce an anti-Trump ad campaign leading up to the election.

In “Idiocracy,” an “average American” (played by Luke Wilson) wakes up after a government experiment five centuries later to find that society has gotten dumber and the president is a former professional wrestler named Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (played by Terry Crews).

Cohen told BuzzFeed in a recent interview that he and “Idiocracy” director Mike Judge (also creator of "Silicon Valley") began talking after Cohen’s statement via Twitter went viral. They decided that they should shoot fake political ads satirizing Trump using Terry Crews' Camacho.

“This is what satire is for... to be able to hold up a mirror and say, ‘This is crazy,’” Cohen told BuzzFeed. “‘Idiocracy’ was like that, but this all of a sudden felt like a very immediate need for the true meaning of satire and what it can actually do.”

Judge and Cohen are currently waiting on Fox to clear the rights for Camacho before shooting the ads.

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Ivanka Trump is writing her second book, which will include success tips for women in the workplace.

She signed a deal with Portfolio, part of Penguin Random House, to write "Women Who Work: Redefining the Rules for Success."

Ivanka Trump— who has a fashion line and heads development and acquisitions at her father Donald Trump’s company, The Trump Organization — said the book comes from the content she created for her official website.

"Over the last two years, my team and I have been laser-focused on making IvankaTrump.com the destination for professional women," she said in an announcement on the site Sunday. "Our site is home to inspiring thought leaders, smart content, and solution-oriented tips curated for women who work. Today, I’m beyond excited to announce the next evolution of our message — a book!"

Trump promises to share new insights on the way women can be successful in the workplace today, with what appears to be an emphasis toward millennials.

"Thanks in part to the generations of women who came before and fought hard to earn a seat at the table, today’s working women — among them, tens of millions of millennials — are able to do things differently," the Amazon description of the book reads. "Disappearing are the days of face time for the sake of face time, 9-to-5 hours, and perfectly mapped career paths."

Due out in spring 2017, the book is currently available for pre-order. This is Trump's second book after 2009's "The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life."

Ivanka has been very supportive of her father's presidential run and has defended him publicly against accusations of sexism. That has led to some critiques of her for standing up for him amid controversies over his reported behavior toward women in the workplace.

Most recently, she defended him against accusations that he had groped an employee.

"It’s not who he is. And I’ve known my father obviously my whole life, and he has total respect for women," she said on "CBS This Morning." "He was promoting women in development and construction at a time when it was unheard of. There was no trend towards equality in the real estate and construction industry in the 1980s, and he was doing it because he believes, ultimately, in merit.”

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