How movie execs are ruining comedies
Workaholics star Adam Devine says that studios regularly ask ‘Yeah but why should we make this movie now?’
Comedy
Friday
Thursday
What makes a novel funny?
In search of the great American comic novel
Tuesday
Did CNN censor America’s top comics?
Chris Rock, Dana Carvey and David Spade had their jokes cut from the Mark Twain Prize broadcast
Sunday
Woody Harrelson trolls the authoritarian left on SNL
Scandalized critics are branding him an ‘anti-vaxxer’
Sunday
Roseanne is trapped in her own cancellation
What happened to the original?
Saturday
Cunk on Earth perfectly satirizes our era of idiocy
Philomena Cunk doesn’t delight in her stupidity, but sullenly presents it as the status quo
Monday
Elon Musk loudly booed on stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Real life doesn’t have a block button
Wednesday
Blockbuster is the best argument in favor of That ’90s Show
TV’s worst-reviewed show makes you nostalgic for Gen X
Sunday
A comedian explains how to quit social media
James Acaster has not stopped exploring where he might want to go
Friday
This season should be Saturday Night Live’s last
The comedy show should be put out of its misery
Tuesday
Closing the curtain on Norm Macdonald’s comedy
He was willing to pulverize all we hold dear in modern America
Monday
A hazy afternoon with Bill Maher
‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’
Shane Gillis is going places
He’s perhaps the greatest rising comedian, a beer drinker who understands Trump’s appeal
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
It’s the hardest, most unforgiving performance medium on the planet
How Netflix saved comedy
It saturated the market with comics who are on opposite sides of the culture wars
The delight of Only Murders in the Building
In some ways, the series is about itself: the fun of following along with an investigation, however grisly
Friday
Jim Breuer mocks the Covid regime
There’s a reason the audience screamed with laughter
Saturday
No one should be punished for retweeting my jokes
Dave Weigel, Felicia Sonmez, the Washington Post and me
Wednesday
Ricky Gervais, Netflix and clickbait controversy
Audiences are increasingly wise to knee-jerk manipulation
Wednesday
Can right-wing comedy be funny?
The left is more convinced it’s dangerous, which is a joke all its own
