Charlamagne Tha God: Last News

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Radio host, podcaster and entrepreneur Charlamagne Tha God and iHeartMedia announced the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, including featured speakers at the event aimed at aspiring podcasters in the Black community. The event is set for Saturday, April 26, from 12-8 p.m.

Wendy Williams’ family has had enough.The TV personality’s loved ones have launched a GoFundMe to raise $50,000 for the talk show host, 60, who has been experiencing “loneliness and deep isolation” amid her guardianship.Williams’ family created the fund-raiser on Wednesday.After the GoFundMe was launched, Williams and her niece, Alex Finnie, called into “The Breakfast Club” to address the claims she is cognitively impaired and wanting freedom from the controversial guardianship.She’s currently in a facility in New York, where she is able to call her loved ones but they are unable to call her. Williams also has no access to the internet via a laptop or iPad.Williams — who was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in May 2023 — compared the guardianship to a “prison.”The GoFundMe campaign has raised $12,171 of its $50,000 goal so far.

rare interview with Charlamagne tha God on Thursday, she jumped on the horn with her longtime pal Don Lemon for his podcast to address the speculation surrounding her alleged incapacitation.“My life is ridiculous,” she told the ex-CNN anchor. “I’ve been with this guardian person for three years. For three years of my life… I’m isolated.

her conservatorship on “The Breakfast Club” Thursday morning. The 60-year-old TV icon called into Charlamagne tha God’s radio show and talked about the court-ordered guardianship that has overseen her health and finances since 2022.Williams, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia in 2023, insisted that she’s “not cognitively impaired,” adding, “Do I seem that way, god damn it?”“I have $15,” Williams said, also claiming that her cats “are gone.”The former talk show host explained that she can’t leave the facility where she’s being held.“My life is f—ed up,” she said. “I feel like I’m in prison.

“Saturday Night Live” alum stopped by “The Breakfast Club” on Thursday to premiere the first trailer for his Peacock series “Bupkis,” which starts streaming on May 4. The comedian revealed the show’s title came from Davidson’s grandpa commonly using the word, which means nothing at all. Radio host Charlamagne tha God, 44, asked the actor if he considered naming the show after something loosely based on Davidson’s life — like his allegedly large penis.

“Tha God Honest Truth” and featured sketches, social experiments and A-list guests, including Vice President Kamala Harris.It’s back now as “Comedy Central’s Hell of A Week with Charlamagne Tha God,” with Josh Lieb, a former executive producer of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” brought on board to help steer the ship.Charlamagne (aka Lenard McKelvey) — a radio Hall of Famer who co-hosts the nationally syndicated “The Breakfast Club” on Power 105.1 with DJ Envy and Angela Yee — spoke to The Post about “Hell of A Week” and about its mission going forward.Why was the show rebranded?The rebrand is literally because that’s what corporate wanted. They do these focus groups and research groups and testings … “Hell of a Week” reads more like a weekly late-night talk show than “Tha God’s Honest Truth.” I’m always a student and trying to learn and I’m also trying to win — so if the network comes to me and says, “We think that with a tweak like this more viewers will come to the show and realize it’s a weekly late-night talk show” … I’m gonna trust the experts.Will the focus on a panel format impact the way you host the show?“I actually think [the panel format] makes me looser because I really do enjoy conversations in a community and I love … exchanging ideas and debating.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRadio host and entrepreneur Charlamagne Tha God is producing the first Black Effect Podcast Festival in partnership with iHeartMedia, aimed at celebrating and amplifying Black voices in the podcast industry.The event will take place Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Brooklyn Mirage’s Avant Gardner venue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Charlamagne tha God, née Lenard McKelvey, is making the jump to the world of late-night television with a weekly half-hour talk show called “Tha God’s Honest Truth,” which debuts Friday at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central.“It’s my God’s honest truth about the society we live in,” McKelvey, 43, told The Post.