Mike Jones Minute-Con 12/22/25

In the #MikeJonesMinuteCon, we'll talk about Bowen Yang leaving SNL and Brainiac has been found! 

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Movies, video games, tech, he didn't get the nerd news
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It was a big surprise to everyone when Bowen Yang
announced that this weekend was going to be his last
on Saturday Night Live, leaving the show abruptly after seven seasons.
There doesn't seem to be any animosity or bad feelings, though,
as he took to Instagram to say how much he
loved his time on the show and all of the
people that he got to work with, and for his
big goodbye, he did a great sketch with Arianna Grande

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and Cheer as an airport eggnog horror at Christmas. You
should watch that if you didn't get to see it.
And it's not like we won't see Bowen and other things,
though he has movies coming in comedy and plenty of
other projects in the works. Superman's next villain has been found.
James Gunn announced that after an extensive search, German actor
Lars Eidinger has risen to the top. It will be

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Brainiac and Man of Tomorrow. It's surprising that it's taken
this long, though Brainiac is one of Superman's greatest foes,
and while he's been in quite a few animated movies shows,
this is the first time that we'll get to see
a live action version. Man of Tomorrow is set to
come out in July of twenty twenty seven. Get your
daily pop culture run down around four fifty every weekday

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