Joe Rogan Is Just the Start of It
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Since it was first tweeted in 2018, “The right is starting to get better at comedy and it’s making lefties nervous” has remained a meme used to mock the idea of conservative comedy. But in spite of constant disregard, conservative comedy has thrived. From the ratings smash Gutfeld! to Patreons earning $200,000 a month appealing to this new audience, con-com has gotten too big to ignore. In their new book That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them, academics Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx capture exactly how we got here and how the right-wing comedy ecosystem works.
[Read More]Jonathan Franzen, Greil Marcus, and Mary Harron on the Greatness of the Mekons
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| 659 words
| Sherie Connelly
Being known for being unknown is a bit of a booby prize, but over the course of 35 years, the British multi-genre-punk band the Mekons has managed to make underachieving a heroic ideal. After recording more than 20 albums, what began as a bit of an art-school lark evolved into something stirring, earning the band a star turn in Joe Angio’s documentary, Revenge of the Mekons, which is screening at Film Forum for two more days.
[Read More]Julia Louis-Dreyfus Honored With Comedys Prestigious Mark Twain Prize
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| 1450 words
| Sherie Connelly
Julia Louis-Dreyfus at the John F. Kennedy Center on Sunday. The C-word came up during Sunday’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where Julia Louis-Dreyfus became the sixth woman to receive comedy’s top award.
Because this is real life and not an episode of Veep, the C-word in this case is cancer, the disease that Louis-Dreyfus overcame rather publicly over the past year.
[Read More]Jupiter Ascending Is Inane From First Frame to Last
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis in Jupiter Ascending. The Wachowski siblings’ sci-fi thriller Jupiter Ascending is inane from first frame to last — the dialogue is so clunky, I wondered if George Lucas had been brought in to do the rewrite. But it’s not much fun enumerating the movie’s infelicities. As they proved in their Matrix trilogy, Speed Racer, and Cloud Atlas, Lana and Andy do nothing halfway, and even a formula picture like this packs in so much physical detail and philosophical subtext that you feel as if you should be dazzled — that you somehow owe it to them to keep watching and hoping that the next sequence will be halfway involving.
[Read More]Just for Laughs Announces Its 2018 New Faces
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
The 2018 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today they revealed their annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for their “New Faces” showcase. Like past years, the list includes categories for stand-up (New Faces of Comedy), sketch (New Faces: Characters), comedians without managers (New Faces: Unrepped), and last year’s new category for digital-content creators called “New Faces: Creators.” Check out the full list below, along with clips of each comedian:
[Read More]Justified Recap: Problem Child
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 8 minutes
| 1634 words
| Zora Stowers
Justified The Toll Season 5 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Justified The Toll Season 5 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Things continue to fall apart on “The Toll.” The body count rises higher. Old arrangements get reconfigured.
[Read More]Justified: City Primeval Recap: A Little Albanian
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Justified: City Primeval Backstabbers Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Justified: City Primeval Backstabbers Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Carolyn Wilder, accept my apologies. I thought Clement would keep pushing her around, and I underestimated Carolyn’s fortitude.
[Read More]Kacey Musgraves Covered Como La Flor in Houston Because Anything for Selena
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Como se dice yee haw?! Capping off a month in which it would seem impossible for Kacey Musgraves to capture our hearts any further, following her Grammy win for Album of the Year, her hilarious embrace of the memes from that show, and then her very pink Oscars cameo, we now direct your attention to her latest delight. At Musgraves’s concert last night in Houston for Rodeo Houston, the country star paid homage to the late Tejano queen Selena Quintanilla with her own crossover moment, covering “Como La Flor.
[Read More]Karina Longworth on Celebrity Gossip and You Must Remember This
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
This article first ran in Hot Pod, an industry-leading trade newsletter about podcasting by Nick Quah. This article first ran in Hot Pod, an industry-leading trade newsletter about podcasting by Nick Quah. Hedda Hopper (second to left) at a party for actress Sophia Loren (left) with Princess Conchita Pignatelli (second to right) and columnist Louella Parsons. Something a little different on the menu this week.
It should come as no surprise that I’ve been really enjoying the latest season of You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth’s majestic film-history podcast.
[Read More]Katt Williams to Create Appointment Viewing Again
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
Comedian Katt Williams made it a point to tell the world that Cedric the Entertainer does not have any stand-up specials available to watch on “Netflix or Tubi” during his now-infamous appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast back in January. Now, as if to rub salt in Cedric the Entertainer’s still-bleeding wound, Netflix has announced that Williams will be getting a new special on the platform later this year.
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