Tiffany Haddish's quarantine hobbies include head-shaving, psychedelics with Jon Hamm
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Tiffany Haddish is keeping typically busy during her theoretical pandemic downtime, as evidenced by her gloriously shaven head on Monday’s Tonight Show. Apart from doing her first live standup in months (pro tip: watch the mask-muffled audience’s eyes to see how you’re doing), the Emmy-nominated stand-up star, actress, and person least likely to sit still for any stupid virus told Jimmy Fallon that remaining responsibly distanced doesn’t mean life is boring. Especially when Tiffany Haddish is around.
You just have to make your own fun, as Haddish explained in reference to her newly-bald head, a pandemic project she said stemmed from a “know thyself” spiritual curiosity, plus boredom. Offhandedly telling Fallon that “her man” did the shaving (we know it’s Common), Haddish admitted there was some trepidation at the drastic hair removal, but that things have worked out fine in the end. Sure, she discovered a couple of head-moles she didn’t know about, and the back is a little wrinkly. But wigs sit better and, as she said of her touch-friendly dome enthusiastically, “my head kind of feels like a penis—and it’s kind of nice.”
As to her return to safely distanced stand-up, Haddish told Fallon that she is one of the illustrious (sometimes infamous) entertainers who’ve accepted Dave Chappelle’s invitation to come perform at his ongoing series of semi-secret Ohio events. Telling Fallon that her wildly successful brand of stand-up has been increasingly informed by recent events (social justice protests as well as that whole pandemic thing), Haddish proposed a Lysistrata/Chi-Raq strategy toward shutting down systemic racism, explaining that women “just closing their legs” will bring men to their knees. (You get it.) Saying that the long-missed live energy was akin to getting/giving the Care Bear stare in front of the appreciative audiences of her long-delayed, socially-distanced live shows, Haddish did say that her time at Chappelle’s joint was additionally enhanced by some herbal tea.
Or, beyond herbal tea, as the generally abstemious comic explained that she had been “peer-pressured” into drinking the communal mushroom brew at Chappelle’s event, alongside other illustrious performers in attendance, including Jon Hamm. (She didn’t say whether Hamm partook, but, c’mon.) Noting that she was perhaps drawing upon her own notoriously troubled childhood experiences as inspiration, Haddish related how her unaccustomed drug experience manifested in a particular yet very understandable way. Listening to Jon Hamm talk at one point, Haddish claimed that her fellow entertainer’s manly visage—and that of everyone else around her—gradually but unmistakably morphed into ideal TV mom Phylicia Rashad. (We can still all admire Clair Huxtable—Clair Huxtable is blameless.) Explaining that she’s now planning to write a movie for herself with Rashad as her onscreen mom, Haddish will just have to chill at home for the foreseeable future, along with Common and her cat costar from Keanu, who lives with her now. Just keep the clippers away from Keanu, Common.
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Looking at that top photo, to be fair she can pull off looking good bald,Also when did Jimmy Fallon turn in to Mike Myers??
That is Mike Myers! He recently took over being Jimmy Fallon. It’s like the whole Gong Show thing all over again.
That’s the look of when a famous joke boy sells his soul to corporate comedy factories for far too long.
The warranty on the old Mike Myers ran out, so when he broke we had to get a new one.
When he started stabbing teenagers to death.
They’re both desperately thirsty panderers, but Mike Myers can be differentiated from Fallon by Myers’ possession of moderate talent, and stench of people finally giving up on him. I think we might finally be done with Mike Myers.
Let’s just get Jimmy out the door and we are good.
A shaved head? How many times can we reboot G.I. Jane?!
Go look in the mirror.
Boot camp is gonna be a bitch for me.
Can someone explain to me the appeal of Haddish?
She’s a comedic actress with several works in television and film. Like literally every single other entertainer in music, film, art, etc., her appeal varies depending on the person and their respective preferences. Did that cover it? Perhaps an analogy – she’s like food; take sushi, for example. Not everyone enjoys sushi. Some can’t get enough of it (me). Different strokes, etc. But the great thing is, there are enough types of food that we can all eat what we like and enjoy ourselves without going into restaurants that serve what we don’t like and asking “Can you explain to me the appeal of this food?”
I’d love to see a Graham Norton couch trio with Tiffany Haddish, Miriam Margolyes and Michelle Buteau.I’m just putting that thought out there into the universe …
What’s the thread tying the three together?
Me. My wish is the thread.Some people have dream dinner party guests, I have dream Graham Norton couch lineups.
That’s fair. As a Canadian that’s obsessed over British tv for the last decade (watched way too many panel shows)- of all current late-night variety shows from America or Britain, Graham Norton hails supreme. He is the only one I wouldn’t cherish pushing into a deep hole.
He is the only one I wouldn’t cherish pushing into a deep hole.What, no love for James Corden? (I kid, I kid)Is it wrong that, in this hypothetical scenario, I want Jay Leno to be the first pushed into the hole, (so there’s noone already down there to cushion his fall …)
Regarding Corden, I don’t know what happened- he seemed lovely as an up-and-coming comedian in the UK, but he just seems to have formed into a soulless corporate troll now.And I’m in full agreement with Leno- revisiting him now, with the perspective of how he targeted Monica Lewinsky, he’s a cretin.
Have you seen him on Father Ted? Madness.
I don’t watch a ton of sitcoms, so I’m not familiar. I do see it’s ranked pretty close to Faulty Towers, so I might just check it out!
No rush, I mostly mention it because that’s how I became aware of Graham Norton; it casts a different pall on his talk show career.
Can we add Nicole Byer? Just throw in Mary Elizabeth Winstead to sit in the middle and be overwhelmed to break up the big personalities.
“Just throw in Mary Elizabeth Winstead” should be the philosophy behind every casting decision ever
Is she planning a coup against Okoye to take over the Dora Milaje?
Wasn’t … Wasn’t she in some spoof of Black Panther, or is that just my overactive imagination again?
Listening to Jon Hamm talk at one point, Haddish claimed that her fellow
entertainer’s manly visage—and that of everyone else around
her—gradually but unmistakably morphed into ideal TV mom Phylicia
Rashad.
The producers of 30 Rock have removed this hallucination from syndication and streaming services.
I’m guessing another check from Haddish’s publicist was just deposited in the AV Club account?
Sheesh, don’t assume everyone has to resort to your tactics, Mr John Mulaney’s Publicist.
I’ve bribed classier places than this!
I can’t look at her without thinking of an Uncle Buck line.
TUCA 4EVA!
Boy, Jon Hamm has really fallen off the wagon again, huh? That’s sad. But we can always count on Tiffany Haddish to spill the tea. Pun intended.
Dude, it’s not cool to blab about other people in the room doing hallucinogens.
what i want to know is:do the drapes match the curtains?