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Martha Stewart Claims Ryan Reynolds Isn’t Funny In Real Life, After Having Him As A Neighbor
By Chris Snellgrove
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One of the reasons that Deadpool & Wolverine has been such a massive success is that Ryan Reynolds is very funny…a natural comedian who always gives “maximum effort” to his onscreen punchlines. After seeing him play the clown in role after role, we always assumed he would be just as amusing offscreen as well. One famous neighbor doesn’t think so, though: Martha Stewart recently appeared on the Rent Free game show and declared that Ryan Reynolds is “not so funny in real life.”
Martha Stewart On Ryan Reynolds
The context for this is that she was asked to predict which celebrities the show’s respondents thought would be fun to hang out with. She quickly responded that her friend Snoop Dogg should be on the list, but she then brought up the Deadpool & Wolverine star. According to Stewart, Ryan Reynolds is “not so funny” and instead “very serious” when the cameras aren’t rolling.
Even with full context, Stewart’s comments seem hilariously mean, although we expected nothing less from the legendarily blunt celeb. After naming Snoop Dogg as a celeb the audience would like to hang out with, she brought up her neighbor without any prompting. “He’s probably on the list just ‘cause he covers himself up in his movies and you don’t see his face — Ryan Reynolds, is he one of those?” she asked about the funny addition to the MCU.
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After that, Martha Stewart mentioned that her own celebrity picks would have been Brad Pitt and George Clooney because “I’d like to hang out with those guys.” When Bilt CEO Ankur Jain brought up Taylor Swift, Stewart admitted that she had only been thinking of men, stating “Taylor Swift is lovely.” She then gave a personalized top three ranking that had Taylor Swift, Snoop Dogg, and George Clooney, the latter serving as Ryan Reynolds’ replacement (“I would take Ryan off it,” she said).
Eventually, the conversation turned back to Stewart’s thoughts that Ryan Reynolds wasn’t funny and she elaborated on her previous comments. She claimed that “he’s a good actor” and someone who “can act funny, but he isn’t funny.” She then speculated that “maybe he can get to be funny again” before expressing that she was going “to get in trouble” for dunking on her famous neighbor like this.
Ryan Reynolds Reacts
When Pop Crave posted news about Stewart’s comments to X (formerly Twitter), her famous neighbor replied with his trademark humor. Ryan Reynolds posted that “I’d disagree with her” about the topic of being funny “but I tried that once.” He then joked that Stewart is “unexpectedly spry” and “really closed the gap after a mile or so.”
In his graceful response, Ryan Reynolds proved he was funny in one very crucial way: he knows how to take jokes at his own expense. As for Stewart’s original comments, they led many of Reynolds’ supporters to point out that the Marvel star has been candid about growing up as an introverted child and later suffering from social anxiety as an adult. Therefore, it makes sense that the guy who makes us laugh in all these hit movies may not always be “on” and want to crack jokes with his neighbors whenever they run into each other.
Speaking of neighbors, whether Ryan Reynolds is funny in real life is a topic that only Martha Stewart seems to care about. The vast majority of the world will never meet the Deadpool & Wolverine star, so the fact that he can reliably make us laugh with his performances means he’s perfectly funny to us. Where we’re standing, Martha Stewart has her fingers on the pulse with at least one thing, though: Snoop Dogg sounds insanely fun to hang out with.
Source: People
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Stuff Your Kindle Day is live now — score 150+ free ebooks for 1 day only
FREE BOOKS: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on April 23. The Cozy Mystery Book Blast, hosted by Cozy Mystery Book Club, isoffering cozy mystery books for free.
This has been such a huge month for Stuff Your Kindle Day. We’ve already been blessed by a number of free giveaways, and we’re not done yet.
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You can find these free ebooks from the Kindle Store and other popular retailers. There really is something for everyone in this latest book blast.
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Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on April 23
We’re almost at the First Quarter which means the Moon is almost half illuminated. Each night it gets a little brighter, and this will keep happening until the Full Moon when the reverse will then occur and each night it will appear less.
What is today’s Moon phase?
As of Thursday, April 23, the Moon phase is Waxing Crescent. Tonight, 41% of the moon will be lit up, according to NASA’s Daily Moon Guide.
If you’re looking at the Moon with just your naked eye, you should be able to catch a glimpse of the Mares Serenitatis, Tranquillitatis, and Fecunditatis. If you have binoculars, the Mare Nectaris and Endymion and Posidonius Craters should also come into view, appearing from halfway up the Moon to near the top. And, finally, with a telescope you’ll see all this plus the Apollo 11 and 17 landing spots, and the Rupes Altai.
When is the next Full Moon?
The next Full Moon is predicted to take place on May 1, the first of two in May.
What are Moon phases?
NASA says that the Moon completes a full orbit around Earth in about 29.5 days, during which it passes through eight stages. Although the same face of the Moon is always turned toward us, the portion illuminated by the Sun shifts as it travels along its path, producing the familiar cycle of full, half, and crescent shapes. These variations are referred to as lunar phases, and there are eight altogether:
New Moon – The Moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it’s invisible to the eye).
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Waxing Crescent – A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).
First Quarter – Half of the Moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-Moon.
Waxing Gibbous – More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.
Full Moon – The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.
Waning Gibbous – The Moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)
Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) – Another half-Moon, but now the left side is lit.
Waning Crescent – A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.
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Tinder responds to viral video about tricking facial scan
Earlier this month, journalist Christophe Haubursin published a YouTube video called “Something very weird is happening on Tinder.” In the video, which has over 1.5 million views as of this publication, Haubursin described a way to workaround to Tinder’s Face Check feature — the facial recognition that is now required for all U.S. users as of Oct. 2025.
What Haubursin and his interviewees discovered is a bunch of profiles that appeared normal, but the last photo on each profile was…off. It was usually a digitally-altered image of a different person in a weird scenario, like on a billboard or in a Victorian painting. And if someone matched with this person and asked about the image, they dodged the question. Instead, they asked to move the conversation to WhatsApp, where it became clear they were romance scammers.
But how did they evade Face Check? Haubursin found that Tinder and Hinge, both owned by Match Group, only need one photo for the facial recognition software. So these people may be the actual person in that odd image, and able to pass the face scan. Then, they could grift images of other people from the internet to use for the bulk of their profile.
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Tinder didn’t respond to Haubursin’s request for comment, but it did respond to Mashable’s.
“We’re aware of the concerns raised about our Photo Verification and Face Check features. In recent weeks, we’ve taken action to strengthen our Photo Verification badging logic, including requiring greater consistency across profile photos and additional reviews to achieve higher confidence in cases that warrant extra scrutiny,” a Tinder spokesperson told Mashable. “Face Check, our more recently launched verification system, builds on Photo Verification to help confirm accounts belong to real users. We are committed to continuously improving and investing in our systems to keep Tinder safe and authentic for our users.”
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Mashable also recently spoke with Hinge’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Ben Celebicic, about this, as Haubursin also replicated this on Hinge (which began implementing Face Check after Tinder). Celebicic hasn’t seen Haubursin’s video, but he did say that there’s a constant battle between trust and safety teams and policy-violating actors.
“They’ll find new ways,” he said. “We’ll find ways to prevent them from accessing the platform.”
There’s not going to be a single product the team builds that will fully prevent people from bypassing our solution, Celebicic continued. He said they have a big team working on these issues, and they’re in tune with new ways bad actors try to penetrate the platform and work to fix them.
Around one-third of Hinge’s workforce is dedicated to trust and safety, the app told Mashable, and Match Group invests $125 million annually in this area.
Trust and safety is a major concern for dating apps. In Sept. 2025, two senators sent a letter to Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, urging him to do something about romance scammers on the platforms. In Dec., a class-action lawsuit against Match Group claimed that a serial rapist was allowed on Tinder and Hinge after several women reported him.
Facial recognition scans have boomed recently thanks to the influx of age-verification laws, which require a robust method of proving someone’s age in order to access certain content, usually explicit content. These methods include uploading a government ID to a platform, using a credit card, or in other cases, scanning your face. But, like with Face Check, people have found workarounds to evade the scan and see the content they want to see.
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