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Comedy Club Can't Get Injunction Blocking Claims of Sexual Assault, Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Sexism
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (291+ words) From Manhattan trial judge Judy Kim in Rodney's Comedy Club v. Omari, decided April 17 but just posted on Westlaw. .....
Review: South Park is somehow still good in the age of hyperpoliticization
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (109+ words) Christian Britschgi | From the February/March 2026 issue The animated TV comedy'South Park'continues to do the impossible: stay punchy and relevant after decades on the air. The latest five-episode season, streaming on Paramount+, once again follows the fourth-graders of South Park…...
Review: Lena Dunham's new show is a rom-com for the Tik Tok era
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (304+ words) Lena Dunham's new Netflix series'Too Much'is a meandering, if still highly watchable, rom-com. The show chronicles 30-something Jessica, who relocates to London after a devastating breakup. The frumpy, chaotic Jessica almost immediately falls in love with a handsome indie musician…...
Review: 'Dracula: A Love Tale' casts the title character as a trad religious hero
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (111+ words) Luc Besson's'Dracula: A Love Tale'is a conservative interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. The film begins in 1480 with Prince Vladimir and Princess Elisabeta of Romania. Vlad is called by the Church to repel Ottoman forces, and he agrees to…...
South Park's Trump takedown joins a proud American tradition
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (409+ words) The Season 27 premiere of South Park'the animated Comedy Central show famous for skewering public figures with crude and topical humor'trained its sights on President Donald Trump with the message that the would-be emperor has no clothes. Literally. And that about…...
Tom Lehrer satirized the national security state from the inside
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (786+ words) Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Lehrer's cheery musical trip through the periodic table is a staple of middle school chemistry class. Along…...
Comic: Henry Hazlitt in One Lesson
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (59+ words) NEXT: 'We Can't Let These Sheep Go' Peter Bagge is a contributing editor and cartoonist at Reason. Kevin Frazier | 6. 29. 2025 7: 00 AM Veronique de Rugy | 6. 29. 2025 6: 30 AM Peter Bagge | From the July 2025 issue C. Jarrett Dieterle | 6. 28. 2025 6: 30 AM Fiona Harrigan | From the July 2025 issue...
Roseanne reconsidered?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (277+ words) And then she tweeted. "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values," said the network in a statement at the time. In the years since the tweet, Barr has become even more associated with MAGA. She starred…...
Nathan Fielder's 737 stunt involved elaborate workaround of ridiculous 1, 500-hour rule
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (726+ words) In the season finale of the HBO show The Rehearsal, comedian Nathan Fielder flew a fully loaded Boeing 737 to test his novel idea that fatal plane crashes could be prevented by creating better interpersonal communication between pilots and first officers....