Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys, “Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys” will air on Thursday in honor of World AIDS Day. The day, dedicated to uniting in the fight against HIV, is a fitting one for the Showtime documentary’s debut.

The documentary follows Alicia Keys and five young adults as they visit the Keep a Child Alive funded sites in South Africa.

“I want people to feel like you can do something about this (epidemic), and that you understand it because you find a place inside yourself that connects to the love of another human being,” Keys told CNN.

Applicants were chosen to accompany Keys to South Africa after texting the word that best described their feelings about Africa. Of the 24,000 people who applied five were selected thanks the words heartbeat, resilient, ubuntu, strength and conviction.

Keys said the young adults who made the journey with her, many of whom had never ventured outside America, felt empowered after meeting with some of the 16.6 million children have lost their parents to AIDS.

Alicia Keys Snl

Alicia Keys Snl,Charles Barkley definitely had his funny moments on “Saturday Night Live” — but the best moment wasn’t even on the show. Watch below.

First of all, we realize that Sir Charles does not write his own material. That being said, his sort-of-confused-stilted-deadpan delivery kept cracking us up. His opening monologue had several good lines.

When talking about hosting “SNL” 16 years ago, Barkley said back then he was in great shape and at the top of his game but “now I play bad golf, drink and sometimes get arrested.” He also took a poke at his notorious gambling habit by saying he won 20 grand on the Cowboys-Eagles game. Finally, when hitting on an “audience member” he said, “I been in the NBA a long time, I know a freaky white girl when I see one.” Snerk.
There’s a kinda funny movie-quotes-game-show skit that had a couple good laughs, particularly when the host said, “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid” and Charles responded, “You shouldn’t be lookin’ at kids, Reg.”

The best skits of the night were the on-going “MacGruber” clips where the MacGuyver rip-off got “a black friend” and was continually racist towards said black friend “Da-RELL” (that’s “Darryl”) and the Macintosh “Scared Straight Program” where Kenan Thompson and Charles Barkley kept making butt-3ex-in-prison jokes and cracking up both themselves and their fellow actors.

However, the funniest thing the Round Mound of Rebound did Saturday night didn’t even air during “SNL.” During the NBC coverage of the NFL playoffs they showed a short clip of Alicia Keys performing “Empire State of Mind.” If Alicia Keys weighed 350 lbs and was going bald.