39 of the Funniest Tweets from Friday, June 14, 2024

All you need to get ahead in Hollywood is a little bit of delusion, a few connections and a really good Melania Trump impersonation. At least, that was the case for Saturday Night Live’s Chloe Fineman. For Variety, Fineman and Hacks star Hannah Einbinder discussed how Fineman wound up in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. She said that “sometimes people go to weird shows that you don’t expect,” explaining that Coppola saw a 2019 show in which she performed a sketch of Ivana and Melania FaceTiming, which led to the filmmaker offering her a role in the film. 

Whereas one star rocketed from a small stage to the big screen, another’s career went in reverse. Despite being a massive star in hit films like Pretty Woman and The Pelican Brief, there was a role that scared Julia Roberts to no end — “The One After the Super Bowl.” Michael Lembeck, who directed the 1996 two-part Friends episode, recently told the Los Angeles Times that “the night of the shoot I thought ‘I am going to get gangrene if she squeezes my right hand any tighter,’” and the actress herself once described the gig as the “most nerve-racking thing” she had done since auditioning for Pretty Woman.

Meanwhile, stars both big and small are shining on the timeline. Today’s funniest tweets include those about a time to top, Santa Claus cosplay, and a real solution for pollen.