Broadway's Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday has canceled her plans to perform at the presidential inauguration. In an open letter provided to TheWrap, she called her decision to perform a "lapse of judgment."

Holliday had come under fire after agreeing to perform at the event on Friday. At the time of her commitment to the performance, she said, "I’m singing on the mall for the people. I don’t have a dog in this fight — I’m just a singer, and it’s a welcome concert for the people on the mall," according to the New York Times.

Now, less than 24 hours later, she has already decided it's a bad idea. In her apology, she says she was "uneducated on the issues that affect every American at this crucial time in history" and apologized for "causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans."

While initially she saw the performance as just a concert, she was made aware of the political implications when the headlines started flooding in. Holliday has been a longtime ally for the LGBT community, and she says the headline that caused her to rethink her decision the most was a story published on Friday by the Daily Beast titled, "Jennifer Holliday Will Perform at Trump’s Inauguration, Which Is Heartbreaking to Gay Fans."

In her apology letter, Holliday said she was wrong and once again announced her support of the LGBT community: "My only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT Community and to state unequivocally that I WILL NOT PERFORM FOR THE WELCOME CONCERT OR FOR ANY OF THE INAUGURATION FESTIVITIES!"

She closed her letter with a thank you to her LGBT fans who have helped form her career: "Please know that I HEAR YOU and I feel your pain. The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career and I am deeply indebted to you… You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded."

Holliday, who was going to perform alongside Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down, was the only performer keeping the ceremony from feeling like a sad free concert performed in the parking lot of a strip mall.

Whether it's eBay, Craigslist, or the Facebook marketplace, a piece of wisdom so old it's in Latin always applies: caveat emptor, buyer beware. Yet who among us hasn't gotten a bit too excited about the prospect of a good deal—or been in a rush to get their new 55" smart TV home and set up?

Such are the woes of Tiara Chatman, who snapped up what she imagined to be exactly that sort of TV on Facebook and discovered far too late that she'd been sold something else: a big flat wooden board. Luckily, she was able to transform this bad luck into a bonanza of likes and disbelieving comments.

In fairness, this TV set does pick up one channel—but it always comes in grainy.

Aren't those rare occasions where your parents are wrong great? Now, you can feel less bad about using profanity, thanks to a new study that suggests swearing is linked with honesty. Sorry, mom! The study, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, involved three different experiments that worked out the relationship between swearing and transparency, New York Magazine reports.

The three experiments were conducted online and included participants self-rating their proclivity to use curse words, as well as an assessment of their Facebook statuses, and finally by looking at entire states to determine their integrity, using information like the presence of independent ethics commissions. The Facebook status data was combined with the state information to determine which states swore like sailors, and how that related to their ethics. The most cuss-happy and honest state? You won't believe me, but it's Connecticut.

The conclusions weren't a result of grasping at straws either. The first author of the study, Gilad Feldman, wrote that the "relation between profanity and honesty is robust, and that the relationship found at the individual level indeed translates to the society level." Well, fuck. Middle fingers up, everybody!

Never let someone tell you that your idea is too weird or pointless to make into a reality. Why? Because a company called Say It With Beef exists solely to craft beef jerky into edible flower arrangements for your carnivorous friends and loved ones. They're called "broquets," because only men eat meat, duh.

Look, I'm the last one who'd criticize a whimsically shaped half-pound of seasoned, cured beef as a gift. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going to order two of these for a Valentine's Day surprise (because I will eat one myself). But the anecdote behind this bit of entrepreneurship is basically the equivalent of repeatedly saying "no homo." Check it out:

What does one dude get another dude who is in the hospital without it being awkward?

That was the question that one computer systems engineer thought as he sat in his cubicle. When one of his coworkers nearly died and was hospitalized, he wanted to get him something. What do you get for someone who is sick? Flowers, right? Sure, but one dude getting another dude flowers would be just . . . well, weird.

As he pondered, he leaned back in his chair and saw a bag of beef jerky sitting at someone's desk, and a light came on in his head. Jerky flowers. He could totally make flowers out of beef jerky. After a run to several stores and a few hours of time, the first Broquet was born.

Can you imagine? A man?? Giving his sick man-friend?!! FLOWERS?!!! Their relationship would have never recovered from some awkwardness. Still, kudos to our guy on the creative gift, which shows he truly does care—no matter who knows it. Good luck with the meat-roses business, but honestly, do yourself a favor and consider expanding your marketing to the millions of non-vegetarian females out there who might like to send a batch of these beauties to their similarly inclined gal pal. Meat may be murder, but it's gender-neutral.

As adults, we're always in a rush. We rarely take the time to do the things that would make us really happy. And if we're going to the Apple Store, we definitely want to spend the absolute minimum amount of time inside the ultra-white confines of its weirdly dystopian atmosphere.

Meanwhile, one kid in São Paolo, Brazil, is showing us how life is meant to be lived. His stunt at an Apple Store there speaks volumes about his patience, his sense of humor, and his determination to make the world a more magical place for the rest of us. The idea was as simple as it was brilliant: change the background of every display device to a silly selfie.

"I don't know about you, but I already have a new idol for 2017," wrote @kkcamilla on Twitter in posting some snapshots of this inspiring improvised gallery, and it's easy to see why: this kid is everywhere.

On Friday night, Republican students at the University of California, Davis, had hoped to host an event featuring Twitter-suspended trolls Milo Yiannopoulos and Martin Shkreli. That did not happen. According to the school, a massive protest "blocked access to the venue, and it was determined that it was no longer feasible to continue with the event safely."

Yiannopoulos tried to spin the cancelation as the result of left-wing "violence," falsely claiming that windows had been smashed, barricades thrown, and hammers brandished. Campus police reported no such eruption of mass violence, saying only that they had broken up a couple of fights between protesters and supporters and made "one arrest for obstructing an officer and battery of a peace officer." And the real story, as it turns out, was far better: Someone walloped Shkreli right in the face with a handful of dog poop.

As you might expect when a disgraced, indicted, drug-price-hiking young pharma exec whose main hobby is being gross to women on the internet gets dog poop on his insufferable mug, the mood on Twitter was celebratory.

We've yet to learn who threw the dog poop, which dog pooped it, and whether any got in Shkreli's eyes. But he and Yiannopoulos are supposedly mounting a campus march at 1pm PST on Saturday, and there's a good chance someone will be looking to serve him a second helping. Don't you just love freedom of speech?

Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as everyone knows, are the very definition of #FriendshipGoals. But what will life be like for them a week's time, when they're finally free of their executive responsibilities, living life on the "outside"?

The heart-swelling conclusion of beloved '90s prison drama The Shawshank Redemption may hold a clue. In this iconic scene—spoiler alert—Morgan Freeman's Ellis Boyd Redding breaks his parole to come find Tim Robbins' Andy Dufresne, who had dramatically escaped from unjust incarceration, in a small town on the Mexican coast. After years spent trying to maintain their dignity in hellish conditions, they are finally reunited as free men. Sound familiar?

The only question here is which one of them should get the Oscar. Ah, what the heck—they can just share it.

Well, that's all folks. After 146 years of shows, the Ringling Bros. circus will have it's final performance of the "Greatest Show On Earth" this May. The news comes after years of declining ticket sales and protest of the treatment of elephants, CNN reports.

The circus had become unsustainable to maintain, according to Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment, which has owned the circus for the past 50 years. Ticket sales were already down, and with "the transition of the elephants off the road, we saw an even more dramatic drop," he said in a press release about the decision. Well, I for one won't pretend to be sad. Circuses are one of those bad things we used to do, that we all finally managed to get on the same page about. Now, we all agree: this is bad and we should not do this anymore.

Don't get me wrong, we will surely move onto enjoying something else that's mostly unethical, but we just won't realize it until much later. Are people sad about the circus shutting down? Not really. Mostly, they've just been making different iterations on the exact same joke about the subject. Can you guess who or what they compared to a circus? I bet you can't. Here are at least a dozen examples of these jokes. Enjoy!

Haha, good one guys. Oh, and there was also this:

Ann Coulter, everybody!

One Redditor might be guilty of ruining his parents' marriage due to an App Store mishap. After inheriting his dad's old iPad, the Redditor downloaded Tinder for his own uses, not realizing that the iPad was connected to his dad's iTunes account, and therefore also automatically downloaded to his dad's iPhone. That was over a year ago.

This morning, a year later, the Redditor discovered his mistake. "Today I was using his phone and saw the app and that he had actually made an account by creating one through Facebook." Wait, so that means this dad saw an app magically appear on his phone and just decided to open it? Honestly, I'd be more suspicious if that didn't sound like a textbook dad move. The Redditor clarifies, "my dad doesn't know too much about social media, he just uses Facebook."

So, what does his dad think Tinder is for? Probably not for dating. "What makes it worse is that my dad has been happily married for 26 years and is a pretty religious guy," the Redditor explains, which means either his dad is keeping some secrets (read: cheating on his wife) or he's accidentally leading on a lot of people. "He's been on Tinder for over a year in community where he's pretty well known...I'm going to hell."

The Redditor quickly deleted the Tinder app from his dad's phone, but then realized that he messed up yet again because deleting the app doesn't delete your account. It means that his dad's face is still floating out there somewhere, and that he'll probably need his dad's help to delete the account. At least he's found the silver lining: "On the plus side I can check for matches."

This dad has either reached peak dad, or he is just a run of the mill cheater. Let's hope we live in a world where it's the former.

SNL returned last night and tackled Trump's press conference from earlier this week, during which the golden showers rumors and pile of fake manila folders became the centerpiece of the internet's mockery.

It's difficult to make fun of a man as ludicrous as Donald Trump, particularly when most people are already doing so in real time on Twitter. Often, the jokes that crop up in SNL's Trump sketches feel like recapitulations of punch lines we've already heard or memes we've already seen a dozen times at that point. Trump calling his sons Beavis and Butt-head during last night's sketch, for example, is a joke that has been circulating the internet for months. It might get laughs in the moment, but it's not a fresh observation.

The SNL writers' best takes on Trump instead come from extrapolation, where they go a step further to create a fictionalized version of the President-elect that is even more laughable than the IRL version (which is, of course, difficult to do considering how ridiculous his behavior already is). In last night's sketch, this took the form of the numerous pee-related Freudian slips that Trump kept making during his speech. It's not an incisive or edgy joke, for sure, but it at least took the headline of the week and turned it into a funny new behavior that Baldwin's Trump could play with. Ultimately, it pokes fun at Trump's massive levels of insecurity, which is an aspect of Trump's personality that has been a defining aspect of Baldwin's impression this season.

Watch the sketch here to see SNL​'s full take on the press conference:

Wouldn't it be great to have the opportunity to thank all the female figures from history who fought for the rights you have today? That's the question SNL explored last night in a sketch in which five women invoke the ghost of Susan B. Anthony, after a tour of her historical home. And as it turns out, it's only fun until she's super annoying about it.

When McKinnon's Susan B. Anthony first appears, via a Bloody Mary style invocation (but less spooky), the five millennial women are super excited to be able to interact with the ghost of the women who helped win them the right to vote. "It's kind of a hard time right now, but you give us hope," one of them says. It's an accurate reflection of the ways in which our culture has propped ourselves up after Clinton lost the election, by championing feminist icons and buying lots of "The Future Is Female" shirts.

"I paved the way for you, and now you must pave the way for women 100 years from now. You are the future my dears," Susan says to them, inspiring them to keep working for gender equality. They all thank her and shower her with hugs, and then the moment passes as the women turn back to their immediate lives and realize they need to quickly call a cab if they're going to make the last train out of Rochester. The sketch does a great job of demonstrating the push and pull that many of us have felt post-election between wanting to work toward lofty ideals, but being pulled back into the humdrum of our day-to-day lives. Arguing over whether to order one or two cabs seems petty after spending the afternoon getting inspired by an iconic feminist icon, but that's what life is: dreaming big, but living quite small most of the time.

In the age of social media, the habit of preaching about human rights and social issues on Facebook, but being petty in your regular life is even more exacerbated. It's easy to present a version of yourself in which you are compassionate, "woke," and a champion for social progress online, but often that doesn't have much of an affect on the mechanics of your daily behavior. But, because Susan B. Anthony is actually pretty annoying in the sketch—she keeps trying to show them different artifacts and spout of more inspirational quotes—the sketch doesn't necessarily make a point of throwing these types of people under the bus, but more pokes fun at how society at large seems to care about political issues only when it's convenient.

At the very end of the sketch, right before the women leave, Susan offers one last shocking thought, "abortion is murder." It's totally unexpected and hilarious, and a poignant take on the ways in which our culture puts certain influential women on pedestals as feminist icons and refuses to see them as three-dimensional people. They're either "yas queen slaying" the world with their badass female power, or they're anti-feminists who have discredited themselves by saying something opposing the current wave of pop-feminism. Of course, it makes sense that Susan B. Anthony would be opposed to abortion; she died in 1906, well before the sexual revolution.

Watch the sketch here to see just how annoying Susan B. Anthony is and how our feminists react:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and that goes for every International House of Pancakes, too. On Sunday, the breakfast restaurant franchise IHOP, which is known to play a bit fast and loose on Twitter, retweeted a rather severe assessment of former presidential contender Hillary Clinton.

And people were blown away.

There could be no question that IHOP had definitively revealed its far-left, no-nonsense, maybe-socialist, Bernie-would-have-won political stance.

Of course, some people were pissed.

But it seemed far more people were enamored of the move. Nothing in @IHOP's bio states that retweets ≠ endorsements, so this must be how they feel.

And for anyone who wasn't enthused, @poojaslays had a simple response:

Sadly, @IHOP did eventually delete the retweet, but not before we gained a great insight into their ideology. Stay strong, comrades—and don't get fired.

The Scottish newspaper Sunday Herald published perhaps the most accurate description of the upcoming clown show that is the inauguration in their print TV Guide on Sunday morning, Variety reports.

"After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive, and controversial productions in broadcast history," it opens. And it only gets crueler (and funnier) from there.

"Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories — among the most common is the ‘What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War’ setting — but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present." Yikes. We are officially living in an alternate reality fit for a sci-fi show.

The tune-in blurb goes on to explain the reboot of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone by describing the setting as a "nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the U.S. electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president." Crazy to think that this is real life!

Sadly, the inauguration and the next four years, while they might feel like a fever dream, are real life. And already the inauguration is shaping up to be a sad affair, full of dredged up C-list acts who have all been scorned for agreeing to perform, from early aughts alt-rock band 3 Doors Down, to the few Rockettes who needed the cash, apparently. But of course, Trump will continue to be as delusional as possible about his reception, so help him God:

Have fun!

There's nothing remotely real about reality shows, and that goes double for stunt-romance series like The Bachelor: The strained small talk, the pathetic micro-dates, and the ulterior motives are constant reminders of absolute artifice.

But they also prove fodder for some surprising jokes in SNL​'s take on the genre, aptly titled Beard Hunk. Watch as a half-dozen unfortunately ombré women (including host Felicity Jones) compete for one handsome doofus, revealing their worst qualities for no reason and asking "Can I steal him for a sec?" whenever they interrupt another woman's attempt to make a semi-favorable impression. The cycle becomes so familiar you'll wonder if you're not watching the real thing.

Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican representing Colorado's 6th district, decided he'd rather not face questions from hundreds of constituents concerned about congress' impending repeal of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. So he did what any spineless, cowardly political hack would do: He snuck out the back door without telling anyone still waiting to see him.

According to the Daily Beast, Coffman and his team hosts regular events in which he chats with voters—but were clearly shocked when so many showed up to speak with him in Aurora, Colorado, on Saturday.

Coffman ended up leaving the event early unbeknownst to the crowd still waiting to see him. "The Representative didn't have a plan. They expected just a small handful of people to show up," Krondia Siebert told the local station. "We were under the understanding it was a town hall meeting and they were only allowing four people in at a time."

Yes, there's even footage of Coffman making his getaway as he's shamed for ducking questions on the dismantling of ACA, which insures 20 million Americans. Truly a profile in courage.

It's almost as if people don't want to get rid of an imperfect healthcare system if we're just going to replace it with... nothing? But don't worry, Coffman—you can always visit all these people at the hospital later. Bring your checkbook.

The saying "big in Japan" is a great reminder that culture is often global these days—and one never knows what American music, fashion, or even people will prove wildly popular across the Pacific. What we can say for sure, however, is that Twitter user @odysseypeach's uncle, an apparent tourist in the country, is making a very favorable impression. Because one local apparently loved him enough to recreate his likeness in a piece of sushi.

The beautiful, heartwarming purity of this moment was almost too much.

As of this writing, the original tweet is closing in on 200,000 likes, has more than 63,000 retweets, and has required @odysseypeach to turn off her notifications. It's also been stolen by all manner of meme accounts.

But through it all, and no matter what happens next, the sushi uncle and his new best friend remain a shining, hopeful beacon of the joy it is possible to find in this world. Also, of delicious sushi. That sushi looks so tasty, you guys.

The world of professional wrestling felt its first real loss of 2017 when Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka passed away on January 15th at the age of 73. Snuka made his mark in professional wrestling in the 1970s and introduced the high-flying style of wrestling that has become a flashy trademark of many wrestlers in the WWE today. Throughout his career, he became known for developing a number of signature moves including the diving headbutt, the backbreaker and arguably his most famous -- the Superfly Splash.

Even in his older age, Snuka continued to work with the WWE up until late last year when he was forced to quit because of health issues. In December 2016, fans learned that Snuka's health had gotten worse when his lawyer announced he only had six months to live and was in a Florida hospice. At the time he was under investigation for the 1983 death of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino, but was declared mentally unfit to stand trial in June of 2016.

While Snuka's life outside the ring may have been wrought with controversy, he will always be remembered by fans for not only his showmanship in the ring, but ushering in the next generation with his daughter -- WWE Diva Tamina Snuka.

It was Tamina who announced her father's passing on her Instagram and Twitter.

Below is the 101 on Jimmy Snuka's loving daughter Tamina Snuka:

Tamina was born Sarona Snuka in January of 1978 in Vancouver. It was when she entered the world of professional wrestling in 2009 that she would adopt the ring name of Tamina. The first recipient of the Lia Maivia scholarship, she would learn the ropes of wrestling while training at Wild Samoan Training Center in Florida.

Currently, she is a member of the female wrestling group Team B.A.D., a villainous tag team group composed of herself and wrestlers Naomi and Sasha Banks. It was with Team B.A.D. that Tamina had one of her most-watched matches against the Bella Twins in 2015.

In addition to following her father's footsteps by entering the world of professional wrestling she's adopted his most famous move, the Superfly Splash.

She has been married once, but has been divorced from her ex-husband Brandon Polamalu since 2003 and is currently single with two daughters.

In 2014 she made her film debut with a small cameo in fellow wrestler Dwayne Johnson's action film Hercules.