comedy

Bill Burr’s first appearance on The View this week may have marked his final descent into destruction. It’s the latest in a string of television appearances promoting his new Hulu special, Drop Dead Years. Along his media tour, the comedian…

There’s a popular debate series on YouTube called “Surrounded,” where they take a pundit of some stripe — usually an older person with some degree of renown and experience — and put them in a room full of social media savvy youngsters who…

In the immortal words of the then-recently fired “Saturday Night Live” star Norm MacDonald, “the show has gotten really bad!” But “SNL” didn’t always used to be so unfunny and politically unhinged. A new film from director Jason Reitman…

I don’t study politics, but I do study culture, and there have been some signs that a cultural shift leading to this election result has been brewing for years in America. Most of the professional political analysts just completely missed…

Former President Donald Trump’s remarks at the Al Smith Dinner, an annual fundraiser for Catholic charities, won applause and laughter from the crowd. It’s a longstanding tradition for both major party candidates to attend the dinner and…

Perhaps one of the animated show “South Park’s” greatest gifts is its incessant mocking of elite culture, and its new special, “The End of Obesity,” knocks it out of the park. The kids from Colorado are back at it with large doses of…

This past week, a few dozen students at Duke University walked out on comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech in protest of his support for Israel. Accustomed to tough crowds, Seinfeld was unfazed and continued to deliver a funny…

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During a relatively gloomy time for movies, “Ricky Stanicky” on Amazon Prime was a pleasant surprise. First and foremost, it dares to be a comedy at a time when comedies have become an endangered species in popular entertainment. While…

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