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Daniel Craig recalled a “very funny” joke that the Queen once made to him in private.

On Thursday (8 September), the Royal Family announced that the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral, aged 96.

The James Bond star was one of the first celebrities to pay tribute to the late royal. Elton John, Janet Jackson, and Victoria Beckham are among the others to have remembered the Queen following news of her death.

During an appearance on The Late Show, the actor said that the 95-year-old is “very funny, wants to crack a joke, and crack a joke about me”.

Craig added: “We were having our photograph taken, and she just went, ‘Oh no, he’s the one that doesn’t smile.’”

Host Stephen Colbert asked Craig what the Queen’s pet corgis were like.

“I was rolling around on the floor with them most of the time,” said the actor. “I mean, they’re just there. I think they have their own footmen. They’re very friendly.”

In December 2021, Craig was awarded the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the New Year’s Honours List, an honour typically given to diplomats and spies.

It is the same honour given to his character James Bond, whom he played since 2006 until last year’s No Time to Die.

The honour bestowed on Craig recognises service in a foreign country, or in relation to foreign and Commonwealth affairs, such as the work of diplomats overseas.

The fictional spy has a CMG in Ian Fleming’s books as well as their film adaptations.

You can follow along with live updates regarding the Queen’s death here.

Aren’t cute, funny, and relatable comics the absolute best? Perhaps that’s why a French artist named Juliette is followed by more than 101,000 Instagrammers. In her comics, she depicts a girl going through life and its struggles while living with her cat and boyfriend.

Juliette has been into art since she was a little girl. She remembers doodling at a very young age and always being creative. Now, she’s a 30-year-old freelance webcomic artist, although for the last eight years she has been working as a graphics designer as well.

When creating her masterpieces, Juliette says that her favorite part of art is coloring, while the hardest part is to “set the draft for it to be funny and more important, for it to be funny in English and French.”

Juliette, just like her character, lives with her boyfriend and a snuggly cat. However, she explains that her comics are not representations of her personal life. She depicts things that many of us have experienced, spicing it up to be more dramatic.

The artist is currently living in Paris, and her commissions are closed for now. Have fun while reading her comics! And don’t forget to follow her on Instagram or become a Patreon if you enjoy it.

Need a good laugh? Well we’ve got you covered here at NewsBusters. On CNN’s Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter had on Media Studies Professor David Zurawik who made the preposterous claim that CNN was part of the fire wall that has helped “save democracy.”

During a segment on topics ranging from Rachel Maddow’s scheduled hiatus, to Whoopi Goldberg’s suspension, Zurawik made many crazy comments but none were more loony than claiming CNN has some how “saved democracy”. While discussing Goldberg, Zurawik claimed her comments in which she falsely said the Holocaust isn’t about race is a “case of misinformation rather than disinformation.” 

To his credit he did say “there’s no excuse for Whoopi Goldberg not to be better informed.” However he then proclaimed Goldberg’s ignorance “shows the need for a kind of Critical Race Theory discussion in schools”

While he was on the topic of misinformation and disinformation, Zurawik decided to gaslight the CNN audience and suck up to Brian Stelter by ludicrously claiming “CNN is one of the stations of all the television broadcast networks and cable channels it pushed harder from 2016 to 2020 against Trump and it was part of the fire wall that I think has saved democracy this far under Jeff Zucker.” 

Stelter, who has consistently claimed CNN’s objectivity, never pushed back against Zurawik’s claim that CNN was the network that “pushed harder against Trump”. Instead Stelter agreed with Zurawik:

That is a very important piece of context for the conversations that I’ve been having the last few days about Zucker’s exit. I know a lot of people blame him for enabling Trump, others praise him for holding the line and even taking Trump to court when–here at CNN. 

Zucker, of course, resigned from CNN following revelations of an improper relationship with a colleague. Since his ouster there has been nothing but gushing praise for their puppet master Zucker. 

CNN can’t even keep their own dam from breaking, and their ratings collapsing. How could anyone claim with a straight face that they were the fire wall against democracy?

This preposterous CNN segment was made possible by Febreze, Vicks, & Dawn. Their information is linked so you can let them know about the biased news they fund. 

To read the relevant transcript of this segment click expand: 

CNN’s Reliable Sources
2/6/2022
11:30:22 AM

DAVID ZURAWIK: Well, you know, I think this is a case of misinformation rather than disinformation. 

BRIAN STELTER: Yes. 

ZURAWIK: This is something where someone was ignorant. But there’s no excuse for Whoopi Goldberg not to be better informed. I mean, in one way there was a Washington Post editorial that said this shows the need for a kind of Critical Race Theory discussion in schools and I agree with that. But there’s no reason for her not to be better informed about Jewish identity in this nation and historically. 

STELTER: Yeah.

ZURAWIK: I really think, but it is misinformation. It’s not like the Republican Party calling the horror of January 6 legitimate political discourse. That’s disinformation. But, Brian, we’re — there’s too much of it. By the way, CNN is one of the stations — one of the — of all the television broadcast networks and cable channels it pushed harder from 2016 to 2020 against Trump and it was part of the fire wall that I think has saved democracy this far under Jeff Zucker. 

STELTER: That is a very important piece of context for the conversations that I’ve been having the last few days about Zucker’s exit. I know a lot of people blame him for enabling Trump, others praise him for holding the line and even taking Trump to court when–here at CNN.

Popular actress, Omoni Oboli, has posted a video showing the moment she was taken aback by the fluent American accent of Uche Jombo’s son.

Big Brother Naija Level up ex-housemate, Giddyfia, reunited with his former co-housemates following their recent eviction from the show. Allysn and Dotun, on Sunday night, became the latest housemates to be evicted from the Big Brother House week 8. The duo were not the only casualties of the Eviction show. Chomzy, Eloswag and Doyin, were also escorted out of the house. Biggie earlier decided to treat them as house guests till 18 September. Giddyfia who was the 11th housemates to leave the show, was captured in a viral video reuniting with his friends, Chomzy, Doyin, Dotun, Eloswag and Allysyn. In