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Surprise! (Not!) Jay Z Is Officially Playing the Super Bowl Half-time Show, as Telegraphed Everywhere for More than a Week — And Beyonce?

By Roger Friedman

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It’s not a surprise, by any means.

Jay Z is the entertainment for the Super Bowl half time show in February.

Everyone’s known it for at least 10 days or more.

Jay just played two warm up shows at SoFi Stadium, where the Super Bowl will be played.

The only surprises will his guests: daughter Blue Ivy again on keyboards? Beyonce for a big finale? Usher? Mary J Blige? John Legend? Alicia Keys?

Could be all of them. It’s a 12 minute segment. You need a lot of entertainment.

And what of his friends like U2? Or Justin Timberlake?

But mostly Jay Z will turn the week into a tedious private party extravaganza all over Hollywood.

This past year, Trump was so angry about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish. Can’t wait to hear his take on Shawn Carter and friends.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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