This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Jamie Loftuss Year in Mensa

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1393 words  |  Janel Helmers

Jamie Loftus. The comedy-podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy. [Read More]

This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Revisiting In the Dark

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  958 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick their favorites. To read the last edition, click here. Shedunnit: “Nurse Daniels” I just recently stumbled upon Shedunnit, and it has quickly become a new favorite. [Read More]

This Week in Web Videos: Making a Murderer Parodies

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  187 words  |  Janel Helmers

It’s been a week and a half since the holiday Netflix binge concluded, and I’m very surprised there aren’t more quality Making a Murderer parodies.  Last week’s Late Night with Seth Meyers contribution was fun and well-executed, if brief, but there’s not been a ton of company in the space since. After scouring the Internet for a pretty reasonable amount of time, I was only able to find two other noteworthy pieces (and only a few more non-noteworthy ones). [Read More]

Three Cable Nets That Had a Fantastic Year

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  967 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Yesterday, Vulture singled out five cable networks struggling with their identities, either because of ill-defined brands or poor programming. But it’s not all doom and gloom in the land of cable. As we noted in the earlier post, it’s actually been a great year for cable, with record ratings and a near monopoly on pop-culture buzz. You’ve likely read about the biggest milestones: the massive audiences for The Walking Dead and Duck Dynasty, the big numbers for TBS’s reruns of The Big Bang Theory, the Emmy love for HBO and Showtime. [Read More]

Tina Knowles Files for Divorce From Richard Lawson

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  164 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The House of Deréon is severing ties with the House of Lawson. Tina Knowles has filed for divorce from her husband of eight years, Richard Lawson. TMZ obtained the divorce filings, in which she asked to terminate spousal support rights for both her and Lawson. Miss Tina and Lawson married in April 2015, at which time she changed her name to Celestine Lawson. She is now seeking to change it back to Celestine Knowles, after her first husband and father to Beyoncé and Solange. [Read More]

Toad Is Asian

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  563 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Isn’t it obvious? Mushrooms are so hot right now. The Wall Street Journal recently observed fungi’s “star turn” in the culture of late, with mushrooms popping up all over fashion, television, even book publishing. We just went through a whole thing with the successful video-game adaptation The Last of Us, which, as you know, was heavy on shrooms, even if it did demonize our mycelial buds. Then came another step forward in fungal-Hollywood-video-game relations, one that broke box-office records over the weekend: Chris Pratt’s The Super Mario Bros. [Read More]

Todays the Day When Today Goes Hard

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  409 words  |  Aldo Pusey

“If she’s got blue eyes, I will surmise that you’ll probably date her.” Today is not a show that’s known for half-assing it. Whether it’s the deep wine pours or the Halloween costumes, these hosts go hard. For Halloween 2020, they all put on elaborate Broadway-themed costumes; in 2018, they were ’80s ladies (and dudes); and last year, they went for Las Vegas. In 2023, they’re taking a page from their NBC compatriot Kelly Clarkson and are going as singers that Clarkson has performed the work of on her “Kellyoke” segments. [Read More]

Tours - Vulture

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  24 words  |  Janel Helmers

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Who Runs the Trains? Beyoncé.Extending D.C. Metro service after weather delayed her concert.

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Toward a Working Theory of Zac Efrons Down to Earth Looks

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2387 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Zac Efron has taken many forms over the course of our (my and Zac Efron’s) shared lifetimes. When we were first introduced, Zac was a petite, elfin hunk, his shellacked hair fitted perfectly into the arc of his head like a Lego piece. For a few years thereafter, he embraced a windswept teen-idol look, his locks perpetually flowing sideways as if he were very slowly being sucked into an industrial fan. [Read More]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Talk About Why The Book of Mormon Isnt Actually Offensive, and the Fut

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  15 minutes  |  3126 words  |  Zora Stowers

South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone describe their Broadway Musical, The Book of Mormon, as an “atheist love letter to religion.” The show, which opens March 24, tells the story of two young missionaries who travel to a troubled area of Africa — beset by AIDS, poverty, a warlord who likes to force clitoridectomies, and just, overall, lots of despair — to spread their faith. We spoke with the pair at length about just why they love and are obsessed with Mormons, how Star Wars is a religion, and the future of South Park. [Read More]