5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (73+ words) A new book is nostalgic for the "90s. But the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of Black comedic achievement. From the October 2021 issue: Hannah Giorgis on the unwritten rules of Black TV Read: Geoff Bennett on the…...

13+ hour, 2+ min ago  (164+ words) It reads them as evidence of how contingent the whole thing always was. But Collins's deeper point isn't really about whether I celebrate the '90s uncritically. It's about the frame itself'about what. .. On fearlessness, the limitations of any one narrative, and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (131+ words) For the past year, Donald Trump has made the Kennedy Center all about him. Last night, the comedian revealed the limits of that approach. Read: Not so fast, Bill Maher Is everybody happy? It was a revealing monologue, suggesting why…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (694+ words) How a radical sketch-comedy show helped usher in the cultural boom of Black comedy in the 1990s What most of America didn't realize at the time was that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era in entertainment, one where…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (218+ words) A withering parody of The Pitt skewered Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s movement and questioned the healing properties of beef tallow. Any fan of medical dramas would know the scene well. An elderly woman is being wheeled hurriedly into the emergency…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (207+ words) The Atlantic Near the end of last night's episode of Saturday Night Live, something unusual happened. As Ashley Padilla, playing a painfully square high-school teacher named Ms. Perry, intercepted a note from one of her students, a graphic flashed across…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (115+ words) Catherine O'Hara brought humanity to over-the-top characters'and managed to wink at the audience in the process. Read: "She works on levels that people don't even know' As Doherty notes, O'Hara's comedic work on Guest's ensuing mockumentaries in the '90s and 2000s, for…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (578+ words) Like the playwright, I grew up knowing nothing about my family's connection to the Holocaust. I bought tickets to Leopoldstadt because Stoppard was a giant of the theater, but I was also hoping to recover some of my own family…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (212+ words) Last night's "Weekend Update" segment explained how SNL benefits from making pop culture a little bit cringe. Read: How Colin Jost became a joke "I guess you could say that Hitler was chopped," Jost surmised'thus killing the term'and then laid…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (960+ words) The performer, whose run on the show ended last night, understood that being earnest could be very funny. The final sketch of a Saturday Night Live episode is usually reserved for the show's weirdest concepts. Airing in what's known as…...