Rihanna stirs, Kamala hides, LeBron bails: Stu’s hilarious Met Gala roast



Every spring, celebrities, cultural icons, and public figures dress in themed evening wear and gather at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala, while us normies at home eat popcorn on the couch cheering or chiding the costume circus and elitist antics that are sure to fuel endless memes and hot takes for months to come.

From baby bumps to sneaky appearances and no-shows, the Met Gala 2025 brewed a storm of celebrity drama.

Stu Burguiere dives into three of the biggest stories of the night.

1. Rihanna is pregnant (again)

Singer, fashion mogul, and entrepreneur Rihanna, donning a baby-bump-showing ensemble, announced her third pregnancy with longtime partner A$AP Rocky.

Stu, displaying an image of Rihanna at the Met Gala, reads from a New York Times article: “She seemed to confirm rumor she was pregnant when she met shouts of ‘congratulations’ with ‘thank you.”’

“I think this is funny,” says Stu. “You're supposed to be a news publication. It's pretty freakin’ obvious she's pregnant there. You can just say it.”

Perhaps their “[beating] around the bush” is because Rihanna is “a longtime abortion advocate.”

2. Surprise! It’s … Kamala?

Dressed in a black and white Cruella de Ville-esque gown, Kamala Harris made a low-profile debut appearance, avoiding red carpets and limiting her photo presence.

Stu ponders whether her quiet attendance was due to the glaring hypocrisy of attending an event that costs $75,000 a person while your platform is complaining about inequality.

“Every person who was on the stage and went to this event are the same exact people that are going to tell you, first of all, how you're a racist for being white, but secondly, how your evil wealth is terrible and billionaires shouldn't exist,” he sighs.

“I have no problem with rich people doing things they enjoy,” but “it’s the hypocrisy that bothers me.”

“I want an executive order that just says if you ever go to the Met Gala, you're not allowed to speak any more about income inequality,” Stu jokes.

3. LeBron says Le-Bye-Bye

In honor of his cultural influence and fashion-forward presence, LeBron James was named the honorary chair for the Met Gala 2025 and was set to host the event. However, just hours before it started, he bailed, claiming a knee injury — specifically an MCL sprain he sustained during the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on April 30 — was forcing him to stay home.

“Now, I was watching the game, okay? It's amazing how these injuries for LeBron James and the massive flops that he has all seemed to happen right around the end of losses. It's fascinating,” says Stu.

Granted LeBron “played the rest of the game” that night, and granted it’s entirely possible to attend an event with a knee injury, Stu isn’t convinced physical pain is what caused him to bail.

“I will say, I didn’t understand anything from the Met Gala. I don’t get it. I don’t understand why people talk about it all the time, other than to make fun of it, which, by the way, I will say, is fun and valuable,” he adds.

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The Cynic’s Guide to Wokeness

Most attacks on wokeness come from the right. To conservatives, the woke are dangerous because they’re sincerely committed to bad ideas—make every decision based on identity instead of merit, defund the police, speak in insufferable jargon to top it off—and push them through their positions in HR departments and government bureaucracies throughout the country. Columbia sociologist Musa al-Gharbi comes at the issue from a different angle in his intriguing new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite.

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'Pod Save' Bros Flaunt Wealth, Bust Unions, Sleep With Subordinates: Bombshell Report

Pod Save America? More like Pod Damn America. The former Obama bros who started a podcasting empire have finally been exposed by their employees for flaunting their wealth, sleeping with subordinates, and flouting their progressive ideals like total hypocrites.

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Thomas Sowell, Still on Solid Ground

In economics, the law of diminishing returns states that the benefits gained from an enterprise will be proportionally smaller the more money, time, or energy is invested in it.

Thankfully this is not true in the realm of ideas, as the career of the economist Thomas Sowell attests. Now 93 years old and the author of more than 40 books, Sowell’s most recent contribution, Social Justice Fallacies, tackles the many misguided social experiments of the past few decades and their often-malign fallout.

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Participation Payout: US Women's Soccer Players Pocket $7.3 Million for Disgraceful Showing at World Cup

The U.S. women's soccer team embarrassed themselves and their country by losing to Sweden and being eliminated from the FIFA Women's World Cup. It was the worst World Cup performance in history for the U.S. women's soccer team, but it was also the most lucrative thanks to a controversial "equal pay" arrangement with the U.S. men's team.

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EQUAL PAIN: US Women Eliminated From World Cup After Anthem Protest

Shut up and kick. (Try aiming for the goal next time.)

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A Better Read on the Economy

There's an entire genre of "things are better than you think" books, stretching back at least a couple decades. In these sunny tomes, academics push back against pessimistic claims that, for example, middle-class incomes are stagnant, the poor are getting poorer, and inequality is exploding thanks to the gains of the evil top 1 percent. Think It's Getting Better All the Time from Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon; Myths of Rich and Poor from W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm; Factfulness from Hans Rosling; Enlightenment Now from Steven Pinker; and The American Dream Is Not Dead from Michael Strain.

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Under Biden, Income Inequality Spikes For First Time In Ten Years

Overall income of Americans was stagnant

‘Poor’ Brittney Griner: WNBA Star Is So Rich Obama Wanted To Raise Her Taxes

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced Brittney Griner, the left-wing activist and WNBA "star," to nine years in prison for attempting to smuggle cannabis oil into the authoritarian country. American journalists pounced on the news in an effort to make a political point about sexism and income inequality.

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Oh. My. Gosh. His AOC impression is HILARIOUS



Oh. My. Gosh. Pat Gray makes the best impression of Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez.

In this clip, Pat read the transcript from an episode of "Influencers" with Andy Serwer. The Congresswoman from New York had some rather vague things to say about why she believes capitalism no longer suits America.

Ocasio-Cortez attempted to define "capitalism": "Capitalism at its core, what we're talking about when we talk about that is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental, and social cost. Many of these price increases are potentially due to just straight price gouging by corporations. If we allow a full just continuation of student loan payments, we are talking about a catastrophic development for millions."

"Listen to this sentence," Pat laughs, "What we are talking about when we talk about that." You have to hear Pat read this story in his best "AOC" voice. "And that is people who have so much money that their money makes money and they don't have to work, and they can control industry," Pat mocked.


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