1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (340+ words) Josh Wardle is back with a new puzzle, and this one might leave you stumped. The Wordle creator has launched Parseword, a daily game built around cryptic crossword-style clues... Wordle Creator Debuts New Game. It's Not Easy Josh Wardle is…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (316+ words) If you just waved enthusiastically at a total stranger, science has some advice: chuckle, don't cringe. A series of six experiments involving more than 3,000 people, published... Laughing at Your Slipups Makes You More Likable If you just waved enthusiastically at…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (290+ words) Movie titles, it turns out, aren't always memorable enough for us to, well, remember them correctly. In the New York Times , Matthew Huff reports on Film at Lincoln Center's... Moviegoers Get Titles Hilariously Wrong'a Lot Movie titles, it turns out,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (301+ words) Philippe Gaulier built a career tormenting would-be clowns and comedians'and they flocked to him for it. The New York Times reports that the French teacher, whose students... Man Who Taught the Stars to Clown Is Dead at 82 Philippe Gaulier built…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (168+ words) Former cast members of SCTV, from left, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, foreground, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Martin Short, pose at the US Comedy Arts Festival on March 6, 1999, in Aspen, Colo. Catherine O'Hara Left Legacy of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (388+ words) Frank M. Young never thought much of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, but that's mainly because he read it in the 1990s and after, by which time it had morphed into "predictable"... Poor Beetle Bailey: His Decline Speaks Volumes Young contrasts a…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (473+ words) Nikki Glaser went hard then eased up in her monologue to open Sunday's Golden Globes, the AP reports. In her earliest jokes she suggested stars in the room might be in the... Nikki Glaser's Monologue Targets at Globes Include DOJ,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (325+ words) Christmas at a century-old Liverpool movie house came with a bonus feature not listed on the marquee. When Woolton Picture House, the city's oldest surviving cinema, briefly reopened for a Christmas run after shuttering in 2020, 26-year-old Jacob Molloy decided it…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (235+ words) Saturday Night Live writer Jimmy Fowlie is turning to the public for help as Los Angeles police search for his missing sister, Christina Lynn Downer. In an Instagram post shared Monday, the 40-year-old comedy writer said his family fears the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (391+ words) Helen Siff, a veteran character actor whose face popped up in films from Rocky to You Don't Mess With the Zohan , has died at 88. Her family said she died Thursday in Los Angeles from complications following surgery related to a…...