Kevin Smith goes off on Internet troll of teen daughter

Gabby Douglas isn't the only person being unfairly insulted on social media. In fact, if you're on social media, on some feed somewhere - you, too, are probably being insulted.

Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) knows a thing or two about people trolling him and his work, and when he noticed his 17-year-old daughter Harley Quinn Smith (a star of Smith's new movie, Yoga Hosers) being trolled on Instagram, he struck back.

But, according to theWrap.com, Smith acted, uh, mature and avoided the type of language you might expect from one of his characters.

"If you hate me (or my kid) this much, the better use of your time is to make YOUR dreams come true, instead of slamming others for doing the same," Smith wrote on Instagram. "The best revenge is living insanely well - so if you wanna get back at a 17-year-old girl for the grievous crime of enjoying her life, the best way to do it is to succeed in your OWN existence.

"Show the world WHY we should be paying attention to you instead of anyone else," Smith continued. "Because randomly attacking others merely communicates how creatively and emotionally bankrupt you are. You think you have something to offer the world but others are getting all the attention? Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you."

TheWrap.com said Smith concluded his response by calling cyberbullying teen girls "the saddest form of masturbation that exists."

Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is coming to an end.

The late-night humor and talk show, which premiered in January 2015, will conclude its run Thursday, the network announced Monday.

The program replaced The Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert jumped to CBS to take over for David Letterman, but its audience never approached its Daily Show even after Trevor Noah took over for Jon Stewart.

Comedy Central president Kent Alterman praised Wilmore and his team for "crafting a platform for underrepresented voices." He said the show had steadily improved, "but unfortunately it hasn't resonated with the audience in a way that it would need to for us to continue."

With the end of The Nightly Show, which Stewart also produced, Comedy Central's internet-based game show, @Midnight with Chris Hardwick, will air a half-hour earlier, thus confusing people who have trouble telling time.

"I'm really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, and our fans to have had this opportunity," Wilmore said in a statement. "But I'm also saddened and surprised we won't be covering this crazy election, or 'The Unblackening,' as we've coined it. . . . I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well."

Tattle correspondent Jerome Maida recently spoke with Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) about her new Wall Street drama Equity, shot in Philadelphia, and co-starring Haverford's Sarah Megan Thomas.

Gunn said the movie was written, directed, produced and stars women, but she hopes the film isn't viewed as a "female movie."

"I think it's unfortunate that that happens," Gunn said, "but whatever they choose to focus on, whatever gets people to see the movie, I'm fine with."

Gunn said that for research she picked the brains of actual, successful women in the finmancial world, and toured Goldman Sachs, where they did a mock IPO.

"I got to see them in both a professional and social setting and it was a great thing, because having just one or the other-that might not have informed me as much," Gunn said. "But seeing both of them really gave me a full, broader view of what their lives were."

"It was a real sisterhood and kinship between them and so I took pieces of all of them. It was fascinating."

Equity is playing at the Ritz 5 in Center City and the Ritz Carmike 16 in Voorhees, N.J.

* TMZ.com reported that Johnny Depp accidentally cut off his fingertip in a fit of rage when he thought wife Amber Heard was cheating with Billy Bob Thornton.

The incident allegedly occurred in Australia in March 2015 when the couple had only been married a month.

Heard says Depp was drunk and high on ecstasy at the time and used his finger stump to write "Billy Bob" on the wall in blue paint.

Citing Team Amber sources, TMZ says Johnny waited almost a full day to go to the hospital and by then doctors had to stiff him on the tip. Instead, they used a flap from his hand to sew on a new tip.

* Young hottie couple Bella Thorne and Gregg Sulkin have called it quits if you wonder why he's Sulkin.

- Daily News wire services

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