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Conan O'Brien Just Randomly Switched Up His Signature Hairdo—And Fans Are Coming In Hot With The Jokes
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One YouTube commentator echoed what everyone was thinking:
“I’m expecting a dedicated segment about Conan’s hair at this point. Really, nobody says a word?”
O'Brien finally addressed the mystery in an exclusive clip shared with Entertainment Weekly, revealing it all stems from his appearance at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park on June 18. O'Brien said he attended the VIP event with his wife, Liza Powel. After learning it would be held outdoors, he applied sunscreen and figured he was prepared.
He recalled feeling pretty proud of his decision:
“It’s three hours-plus, and when it’s over, I’m so glad that I put the sunblock on, and I’m feeling really good about myself. Like, smart move.”
His confidence only grew after spotting fellow guests Stephen Colbert and David Letterman looking "bright, bright red," joking they appeared to have "been playing in a sandbox with plutonium."
Unfortunately, O'Brien soon realized his victory over the sun had been short-lived:
“A day or two later, after the event, I feel like my skull is on fire, and then two days after that, my [scalp] is really itchy, and whenever I itch it, it looks like a snow globe. It looks like confetti—white freckled confetti is pouring off of my head. It’s disgusting.”
At first, O'Brien thought he was "going crazy" until someone told him he'd sunburned his scalp and needed to treat it.
He then explained how the remedy led to his new look:
“I’m not used to [that] because I’ve got so much hair. But this sun just blasted right through my hair, and it roasted my scalp, and someone said to treat this, you’ve got to rub oil into it.”
By the time he recorded his interview with Shannon, O'Brien had rubbed oil into his scalp and combed it through his hair, creating the slick style that puzzled fans.
O’Brien joked about the accidental greaser makeover:
“So this morning, I rubbed oil into it, not thinking about the podcast when we went on camera, and then I come in, and I look like I’m in Sha Na Na. I’m a grease ball. I’m so greasy. I’m Frankie [Valli].”
It's easy to see why viewers were caught off guard. O'Brien's fiery pompadour was even the logo for his former TBS late-night show.
The hairstyle also had O'Brien embracing a completely different persona:
“I really feel different. I just want to fight people on the street. I want to get a hot rod and drive it around. I want to get Rizzo pregnant, so that Rizzo has a bun in the oven. You know what I mean?”
Cohost Sona Movsesian quickly brought him back to reality, informing him he was "not Kenickie," but rather "one of the two extra ones." O'Brien then declared he was actually Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas' character in Wall Street, before leaving viewers with one important piece of advice: Wear a hat.
O'Brien pointed to Hillary Clinton as the smartest person there:
“Hillary Clinton was up there wearing a hat. And it wasn’t just any hat. It was, I mean, it looked like a giant, giant sail on a sailboat. It was a huge hat. She’s smart. She’s laughing at me right now.”
With more than 553,000 views, you can watch the interview segment below:
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Viewers didn't waste any time sharing their reactions:
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Thankfully, O'Brien's famous pompadour has already reclaimed its rightful place. Meanwhile, the comedian voices Smarty Pants in Toy Story 5, which has grossed more than $957 million worldwide and is nearing the $1 billion mark as the highest-grossing film of 2026 in North America. Unlike O'Brien's brief greaser phase, the sequel's success isn't fading anytime soon.
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Mom's Hilarious Hack For Counting Steps During Competition With Her Friends Has The Internet Applauding
Before leaving on a family trip, Bloom's mother committed to a challenge with her friends. They all agreed to compete to see who could get the most steps in during a determined amount of time, and the "loser" would buy the friend group dinner the next time they got together.
In the video, Bloom was laughing before turning her camera to her mother.
Her mother was reclining in a chair on their private jet, sleeping with a face mask on and everything.
Meanwhile, her cell phone was in a stand that rocked back and forth, which in theory would increase her step count while she was sleeping and riding in the plane.
Bloom continued laughing while her family members appeared similarly amused, as her mother continued to slumber, unaware.
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Some TikTokers were impressed by Bloom's mother's level of ingenuity.
Some simply found this to be a hilarious way to win the challenge, even if it was technically cheating.
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Others simply found Bloom's mother's hack hilarious.
While it wouldn't improve Bloom's mom's actual step count, like parking further away or taking the stairs, it at least was a good reminder to laugh about the little things.
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Some imagined the reactions Bloom's mother was going to get when her friends saw her step count.
Since this was a challenge set between Bloom's mom and her friends, there was no telling what would happen if her friends ended up seeing this video and realizing where some of her step count came from.
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Becca Bloom and her family clearly found her mother's hack hilarious, and some viewers were quick to agree, imagining tricking the system to earn more steps and burn more calories.
It's too bad that the hack doesn't actually count as more steps in the day and more calories burned throughout. Unfortunately, it's just for appearances, and possibly a free meal if she wins the friend group's challenge!
Carnival Cruises Responds After Woman Is Caught On Video Using Buffet Fork To Scratch Her Fungus-Riddled Foot
Carnival Cruises is now in damage-control mode, posting about the incident online in a way that has done nothing to help the vile situation.
Carnival decided to make light of the situation with a joking response that has not gone over well with the disgusted public.
It all began with a pair of absolutely vile TikToks showing the woman digging at her fungus encrusted feet while eating on the ship's buffet.
And she was not at all discreet about it. Shoes off, scratching and digging and then waving the fungus crust off her pants and onto the carpet when she's done.
And then she digs right back into her food with the same hand.
The second video is arguably even more revolting.
Clearly unable to get the job done with just her fingernails, the woman then took a fork from the buffet and began raking it over her foot fungus.
At one point she appears to be downright DIGGING into the crust—which of course is surely falling down into the carpet. God help whoever sat there after her.
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The videos of course went instantly viral, because aside from this being gross and unhygienic, people worried about whoever might put their feet on that carpet or use that particular fork next.
Granted, the latter is pretty ridiculous, unless you're assuming the cruise ship doesn't wash its dishes.
But regardless, given cruise ships' notorious reputation for being floating disease vectors—and Carnival itself having been immortalized as such in the documentary Poop Cruise—this requires a careful response, right?
Well, not at Carnival, apparently! The cruise line came out with a public statement on Instagram that made light of the whole situation.
The statement read, in part:
"We can confirm that forks are intended for food, not foot care."
They went on to say that "our crew works hard every day to maintain high standards across our feet," with the word "feet" crossed out and replaced with "fleet."
Hilarious! If, you know, you're a person with no cognizance of how transmissible foot fungus is and how legendarily filthy cruise ships, and specifically Carnival cruise ships, can be.
But even more controversial was Carnival's claim that they had identified the guest and "removed the utensil from service," which people found implausible unless it was Carnival who filmed the videos in the first place! Which it of course wasn't...
So, as you might guess, the response online to Carnival's statement has not exactly been warm.
But the person who filmed the TikToks posted follow-up videos showing that Carnival staff did not seem particularly fazed by the incident—and did not get rid of the fork as they claimed.
And that of course has sparked fresh outrage about the situation.
Carnival has since closed comments on its statement and has not addressed the incident further.
Elon Musk Just Announced His Plan To Make A 'Historically Accurate' Version Of 'The Odyssey' Using Grok AI—And Got Instantly Dragged
Nolan's The Odyssey features a star-studded cast led by Matt Damon as Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca (Ulysses in the Roman translation).
Also in major roles are actors Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o (portraying twin sisters Helen and Clytemnestra), Zendaya, John Leguizamo, Charlize Theron, Samantha Morton, Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Jon Bernthal, Bill Irwin, Benny Safdie, and James Remar.
Early cast announcements for The Odyssey were met with backlash similar to when Disney announced they had chosen singer and actor Halle Bailey for the role of Princess Ariel in their live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
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Some movie fans, mostly White men, took exception to the people of color (BIPOC) in the cast, claiming it was because they weren't Greek. But scholars have noted that records from Homer's era showed Greek cities enjoyed diverse populations due to robust trade with their neighbors throughout western Asia and northern Africa, as well as with seafaring nations from farther away.
Interestingly, Damon, who is of English, Scottish, Finnish, and Swedish ancestry yet plays one of the only verifiably ethnically Greek characters in Homer's poem, hasn't faced the backlash his BIPOC costars have for not being Greek. Nor have any of the other non-Greek White actors.
Also receiving hate online was Elliot Page, but not for his lack of Greek ancestry.
The objections centered on a trans man playing a fictional man of unspecified gender identity. But since transgender people have existed for as long as homo sapiens and Ancient Greek culture acknowledged the existence of transgender and intersex identities, any number of characters in Homer's work could be trans or intersex, but the author found it unnecessary to include such details.
One of the more prominent people having a major crisis about the casting of non-White actors and one trans actor in The Odyssey is South African vocal transphobe and White supremacist Elon Musk.
Despite the box office success and critical acclaim the film garnered—even Musk's fellow bigot Ben Shapiro praised the film after seeing it—the world's first trillionaire nepo baby crashed out hard on his social media platform X.
On July 21, Musk reposted a Grok Imagine AI created digital short from user Heavy Pulp with the caption:
"Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer"
Ironically, the linked AI version of The Odyssey featured characters who still weren't "historically accurate" ancient Greeks speaking lines delivered in dactylic hexameter in the Homeric Greek of the 8th or 7th century BC.
It also had a few other "oops!" moments.
It's almost as if Musk's version of "historically accurate" wasn't about the incorrect language used in the film or the lack of poetic structure or period accurate clothing materials and armor.
Musk's latest tantrum got roasted hard across social media.
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Getting a "historically accurate" depiction of people and places that never existed could be a major challenge.
In addition to none of the mortal characters being real people, Homer's original poem features encounters with the Greek gods Athena, Leucothea, Aeolus, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus, and Helios. Other mythical creatures and characters include Calypso, Scylla, Charybdis, the Sirens, the herds of Helios, the Lotus Eaters, spirits of the dead, Circe, Laestrygonians, and the Cyclopes (plural for Cyclops).
But since this is the same crowd that crashed out over a mermaid with melanin...