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Impeccable advice from the Master of None star See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown It’s been a whirlwind year for Lena Waithe. The writer, actor, and producer made waves in the second season of Master of None with the critically acclaimed episode, “Thanksgiving” that she co-wrote and starred in. Her historic win at this year’s Emmy Awards made her the first African-American woman to win for writing in a comedy series. Up next for Lena is her Showtime series, The Chi. We’re ecstatic that Lena offered up some thoughtful life advice to our readers!

Top-notch advice from the singer. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown You already know Carly Rae Jepsen is an amazing singer but she is also a top-notch advice giver! Her most recent project is lending her voice to her character in LEAP!. The recently released movie is about following one’s dreams in the face of adversity. In this edition of Ask a Grown, Carly Rae answers questions about jealousy, break-ups, and more. We’re so excited that Carly Rae graced us with her sage advice. Take a look, below!

“Find something that makes you feel excited.” See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Regina Spektor is best known for her singing and songwriting—though it’s clear from the video below that she’s also an advice-giver extraordinaire. You can catch Regina this fall during her recently announced solo tour. We are thrilled that she graciously agreed to dish out advice to Rookie readers in this installment of Ask a Grown. Take a listen to some of Regina’s on point advice below!

“If you want to be excellent, you must do something you enjoy.” See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Ziauddin Yousafzai is the father of activist Malala Yousafzai and the co-founder of the Malala Fund. A long-time educator, he served as a teacher and school administrator in Pakistan and became a United Nations Special Adviser on Global Education in 2012. In addition to Malala, he has two sons Atal and Khushal. Some fun facts about Ziauddin include: He enjoys cooking breakfast for the family almost every morning before the kids go to school, and Titanic is his favorite film. For Rookie’s Ask a Grown series, Ziauddin offers advice for following your passions, the importance of keeping your personal archives, and how to deal with being unpopular. Listen to his advice below!

“Life is freakin’ radical, and it’s only going to get better.” See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Matthew Gray Gubler stars in the TV show Criminal Minds, although you may also recognize him from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and 500 Days of Summer. As well as numerous acting and directing credits, Gubler possesses a Rookie T-shirt, and a Disney princess-embossed coffee mug (look out for the latter in this video). Without further ado: Matthew Gray Gubler on tackling internet burnout, personal hygiene, and the pressure to be a “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” teen when really your heart belongs to the Sims.

“Take a breath—eat a Kit Kat,” and other A+ life tips. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Chances are, you know Dylan Sprouse from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, on which he and his real-life twin, Cole, played adorable brothers. WHAT A HUGE STRETCH, RIGHT? The guys took a break from TV stardom to go to New York University. They graduate in May, and Dylan dropped some hints to us that this means we’ll probably be seeing way more of them soon, which, YEY. He also made us this rad video, in which he answers advice questions about obsessive crushes, being friends with exes, insecurity, and more…and bashes the Rugrats movie, which, CONTROVERSY ALERT. For more of this Super Sprouse Bro., follow him on Twitter, Tumblr, and/or Instagram. Thanks, Dylan! ♥

“Go ahead and kiss! Go ahead and do it!” Ad-Rock’s got answers. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown In the ’80s and ’90s, the Beastie Boys made music that makes you a more fun person when you listen to it. It was the perfect combo platter of smart, hilarious, and bratty as heck—they are the magnificent goons behind “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party),” for cripes’ sake. We at Rookie are eternally obsessed with their back catalog; if you’re unacquainted, start at the beginning with their 1986 debut, Licensed to Ill, and charge right on through their whole archive. Or? Say hey to the band’s Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, RIGHT THE HECK HERE ON WWW DOT ROOKIE’S MAG DOT BEAST, where Ad-Rock has graciously agreed to share his knowledge as “part of the Ask a Grown Person program,” as he calls it. Tune right in, party animals, and if you’d like MORE of His Excellency Ad-Rock, catch him in the new Noah Baumbach movie While We’re Young, which is out now in theaters and features our dude playing a way stodgier Grown Person. (After watching this video, you’ll understand just how good of an actor this makes him.)

Ken Miller (4ever) answers your queries about crushes, weird hats, and where to find good porn. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown You know Seth Rogen’s charming mug from the wonderful Freaks and Geeks, plus a zillion movies that you keep watching over and over again, e.g., This Is the End, Superbad, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (directed by fellow Grown Man Judd Apatow). This Friday, May 9, you’ll also be able to catch Seth in the new movie Neighbors, in which he plays a Cool Dad™ at war with a frat boy portrayed by Zac Efron. If you’re like, “I pretty much can’t wait that long to watch Sir Rogen talk and move on a screen again,” you’re in luck: He graciously agreed to answer your life- and love-based questions for this latest installment of Ask a Grown. After you watch it, you’ll deffo agree that he would probably make a great Cool Dad™ in reality, too.

Do men prefer “stupid” girls? This guy knows the answer. Paul Feig, as you already know, directed Bridesmaids and The Heat and created Freaks and Geeks. You probably don’t know that he was also Eugene Pool, the biology teacher on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which is neither here nor there, except that Paul wasn’t able to record a video for this month’s Ask a Grown Man, so he wrote out his very wise answers, which you can find below. In the meantime, though, we are of course required by internet law to include a video in every Ask a Grown post. So please enjoy this scene, from 1996, of Mr. Pool basically having a nervous breakdown in front of a student. Here are Paul’s answers to your questions: I have a friend-who’s-a-boy whom I’ve known for quite a while. He’s definitely special to me, but I don’t necessarily want him to be my boyfriend. I think he’d be really fun to kiss, but I feel like if we did, it would cause all sorts of complications. Do you think it’s possible to kiss someone and remain just friends? Or do you think that if I kissed him he would assume it meant I LIKE-liked him, and then our friendship would be over? (Also, I haven’t had my first kiss yet.) —Rachel, 14 When I was your age, if a girl indicated that she wanted to kiss me (which none of them ever did, btw), I would have taken it as one step short of a marriage proposal. But there are definitely guys out there who are “cool” who would happily make out with you and never give it a second thought. The question to ask yourself is, do you really want your first kiss to be with that kind of guy? It’s fine if you do—people mature at different rates and want different things out of life and that’s all right for them. No judgment here. But based on the thoughtfulness of your question, I get the feeling that you want to be careful and not have the result of your very first kiss be that a guy you want to stay just-friends with is now following you around the halls all moony-eyed and depressed. He may even end up writing you some poetry of questionable quality, and then you’ll be avoiding the poor sap like the plague. I personally think it’s best to wait until you meet the person you like as a potential significant other who also likes you as a potential girlfriend, go see a movie or have a meal or spend the day together, and see what happens. However, if you know for a fact that you’re an unsentimental sort of person who just wants to get this first-kiss stuff over with, go with your gut. My feeling is you only get one first kiss in life. No matter whom it’s with, it’d be nice if it were one you’d be happy remembering. Do men like “stupid” girls more? If so, why don’t they like intelligent girls? —M. Look, here’s a secret: A lot of guys are idiots. There, I said it. This is why they don’t like intelligent girls—because they themselves are stupid. Why would they want to hang out with someone who’s only going to remind them how dumb they are? And why would a smart person want to go out with someone who can’t keep up with them intellectually or conversationally? These kinds of guys are usually more interested in things that have no value beyond the surface, like Photoshopped pictures of swimsuit models in magazines. And they will look for people to date IRL who come close to that kind of boring two-dimensional ideal. All of this is fine, since those people need love too. But if you’re really smart, you probably want to spend your spare time with someone who can keep up with you—and I assure you, if guys are what you’re interested in, there are lots of smart ones out there. I would suggest you go after the smart, funny, maybe a little bit nerdy guys. Odds are, they’ll get what you’re all about and will enjoy talking to you and being challenged by you, and, in the best-case scenario, you’ll also end up learning something from them, since they’ll probably be into some interesting things that you’re not aware of. They might not be easy to spot in public, at school or in town, since they’re often not the flashiest guys around. But they exist, and it’s worth the extra effort to track them down. (And since you’re looking for someone with whom you have a lot in common, look wherever someone like you would go). I bet he’ll appreciate the hell out of you for finding him. I appreciate the hell out of my wife, who went out of her way to find me. ♦

Crafty advice on condoms, pubes, and playing hard to get. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Eugene Mirman plays Gene Belcher on Bob’s Burgers, which is basically all you need to know—but if you hunger for more, you can check out his awesome new comedy special, An Evening of Comedy in a Fake, Underground Laboratory, see him tell jokes in the flesh in Northampton, MA on 11/30 or during one of his four East Coast dates in December (with fellow Grown Man Kurt Braunohler), follow him on Twitter, and/or just watch him answer your queries about dating and sexing right here:

“You’re great. We’re all great.” Plus more words to live by from one of our favorite comedians/writers/geniuses. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Tig Notaro has been spreading her comic genius all over the place: in the new movie In a World…; on her latest CD, Live ($5 on iTunes); on her science-y podcast, Professor Blastoff; on tour; at next week’s Bentzen Ball, a comedy festival she curates in Washington, DC; and here on Rookie, answering your questions about making friends, liking yourself, and what to do when the worst happens.

“If a guy doesn’t like a funny girl there’s something wrong with him” and other PEARLS OF WISDOM, live from Rookiefest 2013. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown So a couple of weekends ago we threw a party with Urban Outfitters at their gallery/performance venue Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles. There were cupcakes from Clara Cakes and drinks from Dry Soda and an interview with Rashida Jones and a live set by the Julie Ruin and dancing! And dogs! One of the best things was a LIVE “Ask a Grown Man.” In case you’re wondering what Bill Hader has been up to since he left Saturday Night Live, now you know: answering teenage girls’ questions about boys. (And starring in The To-Do List with Aubrey Plaza and Clear History with Larry David and Jon Hamm and continuing to write for South Park—but probably mostly he answers teenage girls’ questions about boys.) He’s really good at it, too. See for yourself:

How porn is like baseball, why romance should never lead to murder, and other wisdom from two of the giggliest bros we’ve ever met. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Vampire Weekend have been the soundtrack of at least five of your summers, and in May they released Modern Vampires of the City to go for a sixth. The band is currently on tour in the UK and the States, and frontman Ezra Koenig and bassist Chris Baio set aside some time on the tour bus to giggle adorably while doling out advice on porn, staying friends with an ex, and how to ask out your crush.

The best advice you’ll ever get from a guy in a tie next to a houseplant. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown John Mulaney is one of funniest, most adorable people ever, and if you don’t believe us, watch his new show, Mulaney (Sundays, 9:30/8:30C, on Fox), check out his latest comedy special, or just press play on this boy/life-advice video and try not to be delighted! (Photo-on-desk cameos by his wife, Annamarie Tendler, and their doggie, Petunia.)

CNN host Don Lemon appeared on "The Late Show" and claimed his network was never "liberal" while assuring it was not transforming under its new boss Chris Licht. See Also: https://www.tranganhnam.xyz/2022/11/since-cnn-isnt-allowing-their-anchors.html

There’s something pretty powerful about a slash of red lipstick—it says, “I am awesome, and I have awesome things to say.” No matter what your style is—it looks good with a man’s suit or a vintage dress—you can find a way to make red lipstick suit you and what you’re trying to tell the world about yourself on any given day. You might be afraid of bright red lipstick, worried it’s too bold, or that it will smear and smudge every time you talk or take a gulp of a Slurpee and you’ll end up looking like you got a little too into a plate of spaghetti. But fear not! I’m gonna help you learn how to apply the stuff like a pro, and pretty soon you’ll be wearing it like you were born with it on. First, pick a shade. I know that everyone says that certain skin tones and hair colors need to stick to specific shades, but throw those rules in the trash! Wear whatever color you like best—the one that makes you feel most like yourself. Personally, I prefer poppy reds, which have an orangey undertone. (Technically, that goes against the rules prescribed for my pale pinky skin and dark hair, but like I said, those rules = garbage.) All this being said, a blue-toned red like NYX Cosmetics’ Matte Lipstick in Bloody Mary can make your teeth look whiter, and an orange-toned red like Avon’s Ultra Color Rich Lipstick in Poppy Love (one of my all-time favorites) can warm up your face on a day when you’re feeling a bit blah. Next, prepare your canvas. If your lips are dry and chapped, your lipstick is gonna look crummy. A while back I offered some advice on making chapped lips smooth and soft. All good? Then let’s get started.

Love is like cake, and other life lessons. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Kumail Nanjiani is a comedian who acts on TV (Portlandia, Adventure Time, and Franklin & Bash) and hosts a gaming podcast with our very own Emily V. Gordon—listen for her delightful audio cameo in this, the latest advice-filled edition of AAGM.

“Definitely deny the fact that there’s a nanny-cam inside the teddy bear,” and other words to live by. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Alex Karpovsky plays Ray, the cynical guy on our beloved Girls, but you might also recognize him as the mooch from another Lena Dunham joint, Tiny Furniture. Anyway, please allow him to guide you in the dubious prospect of staying friends with an ex and spying on your BF.

They’ve been waiting their whole lives to do this. See: Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown For this two-for-one edition of Ask A Grown Woman, duo Tegan and Sara team up to answer your questions. Catch them again on Letterman on November 20th. You can also listen to their new single, “Closer,” out now, and pick up their new album, Heartthrob, on January 29th.

Plus a bonus Ask a Grown Man. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Ira Glass is the creator of the public-radio show This American Life, but he used to have a really cool job. As a tweenager he performed at kids’ birthday parties as the “Magical Mystifier” (true story), doing magic tricks and making balloon animals. Here, he shares some of his children’s-entertainment skills with you, while answering your questions about haircuts and blow jobs.

“You probably are a gay person”—and other diagnoses from the self-professed Worst Kisser on the East Coast. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Paula Pell has been writing for Saturday Night Live for the past 17 years. This year she’s working on two movie scripts—one of them’s with Judd Apatow. She has a hilarious Twitter, a pit bull named Jezebel, and a horse named Verbena. Basically she wins at life; we’re honored that she shared her secrets with us and you here.

“Dudes are dudes, especially 17-year-old dudes,” and other words of wisdom. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Danny Pudi plays Abed Nadir on Community, whose new season starts on Friday, October 19. He also happens to have very sound advice about cheating boyfriends, disrobing situations, and embracing your own butt dance.

“Do boys like high-waisted jeans?” And other matters of grave concern. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, author, playwright, and, most recently, the writer and director of the laugh/cry-inducing new movie Sleepwalk With Me, which he also stars in. Actually, even more recently, he is the writer/director/performer of Ask a Grown Man, addressing questions of dire concern from you guys. (PROGRAMMING NOTE: There’s a skip in this video around the four-minute mark. Have fun imagining what he might have said there!)

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Closeted girlfriends, crushes, and standing up for your rights. See Also: http://rookiemag.tranganhnam.xyz/search/label/Ask%20a%20Grown Musician Kaia Wilson, co-founder of awesome things (Team Dresch, the Butchies, and Mr. Lady Records), can tell you a thing or two, and she does.