3+ week, 3+ day ago (654+ words) Zarna Garg never set out to be a trailblazer. But the comedian keeps shattering glass ceilings'sometimes without even trying. In a new interview on The Daily Beast Podcast, Garg, 50, detailed her rise from stay at home mother of three to globally-acclaimed comedian. "I assumed there were lots of Indian women doing comedy in India," she told host Joanna Coles. "[But] there's no one in my profile in this whole world that does what I do." The comedian and author of New York Times bestseller This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir told Coles a career in comedy was a "preposterous" idea back when she started out in 2019. Just one percent of of stand-up comedians in the United States are South Asian and 38 percent women, according to 2025 data collected by CareerExplorer. But Garg's sharp-wit and quips about her family filled a space…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago (555+ words) South Park had a big 1998. For starters, the show received its first Emmy nomination for the episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride." On top of that, the first video game based on the series was released for Nintendo 64. The end of the year also saw the release of Chef Aid: The [] South Park had a big 1998. For starters, the show received its first Emmy nomination for the episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride." On top of that, the first video game based on the series was released for Nintendo 64. The end of the year also saw the release of Chef Aid: The South Park Album, featuring original songs from a long list of musicians, including Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John, and Master P. The album was recorded concert-style and based on a benefit show put together for Chef…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago (952+ words) This is the most terrifying thing I've ever done," the comedian Vir Das said on a crisp, sunny fall Saturday morning earlier this month. That most terrifying thing, he clarified, was working out in front of The New York Times," because this journalist had decided to tag along for what would otherwise have been his private, routine shadowboxing session with a personal trainer at a hotel gym on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mr. Das, 46, dressed in an all-black workout set, launched into a warm-up of jumping jacks and high knees while his trainer, Vinny Panza, counted each set. Deep breaths, easy stuff, eight more seconds," he told a focused Mr. Das. The gym was about as unassuming as you'd imagine a hotel gym to be. A few other patrons trickled in to jog on the treadmills and plank…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (1132+ words) The comic Dusty Slay looks and sounds like a guy who curses. Then there's his name, which would fit into the Attitude era of the W.W.E. And yet, there he was on a Sunday night in September, in his signature baseball cap over long heavy-metal hair, standing in front of the words "Good, Clean Fun," the title of a weekly PG-rated show at the Zanies comedy club in Nashville. This incongruity is at the core of his crafty, old-school act. Fiddling with his hat the way Rodney Dangerfield adjusted his tie, Slay begins by deploying his catchphrase. "We're having a good time," he says, the refrain operating like a steady bass line to his set. Once into his material, he sells the idea that he's just sharing random thoughts. "I like to look at birds," he muses, before distinguishing that from…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago (459+ words) It is common nowadays for playwrights to go back and forth between stage and screen assignments, but Tom Stoppard, whose death at 88 was announced on Saturday, was an early adopter of the practice, with TV credits going back to the early 1960s. Some entries in his impressively lengthy collection of screenplays were originals, but he was especially in demand both as a script doctor (usually uncredited) and as a go-to scribe for literary adaptations. In that latter capacity, he was able to tackle novels by writers as wildly different as John le Carr, Leo Tolstoy, E.L. Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov, J.G. Ballard and Ford Madox Ford. Below you will find a selection of films with Stoppard screenplays that are available on major American streaming platforms. (Those curious about his work on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Despair," a Nabokov adaptation, will have to poke around YouTube.)…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago (520+ words) Seth Meyers has joked Donald Trump was so enamored of Zohran Mamdani last week that he somehow made asking to be called a "fascist" sound like a racy chat-up line. "That is the flirtiest I've ever heard anyone say, "You can call me a fascist'," the late-night comedian joked Monday night. "You can call me a fascist you can call me" I'll be whatever you want me to be!" "I've never seen Trump this smitten before," Meyers went on. "He is surrounded by so many charmless goons that the first time he got to hang out with someone that had a little charisma, he swooned like he was on a date with the varsity quarterback." The comic's comments follow after Trump and Mamdani, who had otherwise traded fierce insults ahead of the young Democrat's victory at the polls earlier this…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (461+ words) Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby have never really seen eye to eye. The feud between the two comedy giants can be traced back, publicly at least, to a bit from Murphy's 1987 stand-up special, Eddie Murphy: Raw. If the bit is to be taken at face value, Cosby once called up Murphy to scold him [] Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby have never really seen eye to eye. The feud between the two comedy giants can be traced back, publicly at least, to a bit from Murphy's 1987 stand-up special, Eddie Murphy: Raw. If the bit is to be taken at face value, Cosby once called up Murphy to scold him for cursing in his act. According to Murphy, the call angered him so much that he reached out to Richard Pryor, who encouraged him to do whatever makes the people laugh, and…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago (492+ words) Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore first worked together in 1998s The Wedding Singer. Since then, theyve co-starred in two other movies:50 First Dates(2004) and Blended (2014). Although the two havent collaborated in over a decade, they sure do seem to enjoy talking about it whenever they get the chance. For whatever reason, those discussions tend [] Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore first worked together in 1998s The Wedding Singer. Since then, theyve co-starred in two other movies: 50 First Dates (2004) and Blended (2014). Although the two havent collaborated in over a decade, they sure do seem to enjoy talking about it whenever they get the chance. For whatever reason, those discussions tend to revolve around them remaking all kinds of different things. One movie that Barrymore has been pushing to remake with Sandler is the 1992 comedy Death Becomes Her. In the original, Meryl Streep and Goldie…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (370+ words) Pete Davidson made a surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend to make light of a recent New York Times story that said he and his "SNL" friend Colin Jost's purchase of a Staten Island Ferry is a "money-losing fiasco." "So yeah, in case you're wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia, we're losing millions on this ferry," Davidson joked, referring to his infamous appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Davidson made his "SNL" appearance in the middle of the "Weekend Update" segment co-hosted by Jost, who added that things are "actually going very well" with the ferry, as they got paid by Nike to place an ad on it during the New York City Marathon. But Davidson joked about a more ambitious plan for the ferry now that Zohran Mamdani has been elected…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago (382+ words) In this opioid crisis play by Scott Organ, medication starts disappearing from a hospital's intensive care unit, and the nursing staff comes under suspicion of theft. Seth Barrish directs. (Through Dec. 21, Barrow Group Performing Arts Center) This homage from the York Theater and American Dance Machine is a celebration of choreography from classic stage and screen musicals, reconstructing dances from "West Side Story," "A Chorus Line," "Pippin," "Singin' in the Rain" and more. Nikki Feirt Atkins and Randy Skinner direct. (Through Dec. 28, Theater at St. Jean's) Adrienne Campbell-Holt directs the world premiere of Chris Gabo's New York drama about two sisters whose mother, a Marine sergeant major, goes missing during a deployment. This Colt Coeur production has its roots in a workshop at the Cherry Lane Mentor Project nearly a decade ago. (Through Dec. 20, Theater 154) Three autistic artists, slated to…...