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‘Industry’'s Charlie Heaton Needed a Shower After This Week’s Big Episode
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (228+ words) This story contains major spoilers for episode four of season four of HBO's Industry, "1000 Yoots, 1 Marilyn." It's been only a month since Charlie Heaton said goodbye to Stranger Things'and now he's doing the same with Industry, just four episodes after…...
The 10 Best Movies About Stand-Up Comedy, Definitively Ranked
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (269+ words) Some movies set in the world of stand-up feature actual comedians playing characters not that dissimilar to themselves; others feature non-comedians trying their hand at stand-up while biopic-ing the form's heaviest hitters. In one of his first acting roles, Birbiglia…...
Dave Chappelle's New Netflix Special Has His Most Ambitious Closer Yet
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) The comedian's latest special which he surprise-dropped on Friday night ends with a 30-minute odyssey that's some of his best work of late. Blessedly, that isn't the case here. After about a half hour of a pretty good round robin…...
How “Lazy Sunday” Changed ‘SNL’—and the Internet—Forever
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1453+ words) The internet was a very different place 20 years ago this week, when "Lazy Sunday" first aired on Saturday Night Live. In a pre-YouTube world, comedy sketches didn't go viral. At the beginning of the 21st century, not many websites hosted videos,…...
Comedian Robby Hoffman, One of the Funniest People Living, Interviewed By Her Friend, John Mulaney
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1921+ words) John Mulaney: If you open a water bottle and you don't hear a crack, do you still drink it? Robby Hoffman: [negative] Mm-mm. Mulaney: I've found that I note that it doesn't crack, but I still drink it. Hoffman: I…...
The ‘Chair Company’ Finale Was Nuts
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (1392+ words) Tim Robinson's byzantine HBO comedy about a conspiracy-pilled suburban dad dropped a season-ender that sets the stage for an even wilder season two. Consider us, uh, seated. This story contains spoilers for The Chair Company, including the season one finale....
Bill Nighy Is Officially the Best-Dressed Man in Podcasting
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (906+ words) On his new weekly series, Ill-Advised, the perpetually well-turned-out actor answers life's big questions. "It's just an invitation to squander time, which I think is my superpower," Nighy tells GQ. Bill Nighy was once invited to meet Bob Dylan backstage…...
Pouring One Out for ‘Ridiculousness,’ TV's Most Purgatorial Show
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (834+ words) Pouring one out for "Ridiculousness," the inexplicably long-running MTV comedy-video series whose major selling point was that it was almost never not on. This is not going to be a typical eulogy, because generally speaking, to eulogize something is to…...
Stephen Colbert on the End of The Late Show
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1314+ words) Robe by Tom Ford. Shoes by George Cortina for Anderson & Sheppard. Right this second he's in the robe, about to get into the pool, and holding a lit joint that I maybe think I see him smoking, but when I…...
OK, Let's Talk About That ‘Bugonia’ Ending
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1177+ words) Yorgos Lanthimos' latest disturbing dark comedy, with Emma Stone as a CEO kindapped by conspiracy nuts, saves its biggest shocker for last. As you might imagine, this story contains major spoilers for Bugonia, including discussion of the ending. Yorgos Lanthimos…...