5+ hour, 8+ min ago  (333+ words) Garretson Beekman Trudeau, born 1948, attended St. Paul's, the preppiest of prep schools, and then Yale University. He came to Yale at a pivotal time. Between 1966, when he arrived as a freshman, and 1973, when he left with a Master of Fine…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (377+ words) CBS sold the timeslot occupied by late-night host Stephen Colbert to comedian and Allen Media Group CEO Byron Allen. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air its final episode on May 21, after which the 11: 35 p. m. timeslot will be filled with…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (12+ words) FCC eyes TV ratings for transgender content in children's programs'Washington Examiner...

7+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (391+ words) Participants wear Ruth Bader Ginsburg shirts and carry protest signs and copies of Michelle Obama's Becoming. They wear wired headphones and, inexplicably, Labubus, the creepy collectible plush toys. .. Step aside skeletons, ghosts, and characters from Wicked: There's a new hot…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (220+ words) Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha gave his thoughts about late-night comedy, calling out Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert for "speaking down to their audience." It's "as if you are listening to some sort of weird version of MSNBC…...

1+ year, 1+ day ago  (263+ words) A joke is a very simple thing. It has only two moving parts: the setup and the punchline. And if you write jokes for a living, as I have done for 35 years, you learn that the basic rule of comedy…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (491+ words) He suggested a book club. There were five of us scattered across the country, and the idea was simple: Rotate choosing books, meet on Zoom once a month, and talk about what we'd read. That was four-and-a-half years ago. We've…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (271+ words) This, sadly, is to be expected, as Infinite Jest has fallen victim to an absurd and very modern phenomenon in which the obvious artistic greatness of the work itself plays second fiddle to the negative social implications of being a…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (257+ words) A look at the release years shows a dramatic bulge between 1980 and 2009, a 30-year stretch that accounts for over half the canon. It is the golden age of cinematic comedy, the era that produced everything from'Airplane!'(1980) to'Groundhog Day'(1993) to'Anchorman: The…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (478+ words) Saturday Night Live's latest cold open mocked the debate between every candidate running for mayor of New York City, where the show is taped. Actor Miles Teller portrayed independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, next to Ramy Youssef's portrayal…...