WHAT WILL TODDLERS EAT? Food used to be one of your top five things—remember brunch?—but toddlers ruin food. You try to serve them healthy things, lovingly crafted, only to see them reject or smash them. Just a short bit ago, you were trying so damned hard to get them off the bottle, and now eating […]
Continue ReadingWHAT WILL TODDLERS EAT? Food used to be one of your top five things—remember brunch?—but toddlers ruin food. You try to serve them healthy things, lovingly crafted, only to see them reject or smash them. Just a short bit ago, you were trying so damned hard to get them off the bottle, and now eating […]
Continue ReadingA recurring theme throughout King of the Hill‘s run is that Hank and Bobby had little in common. The show made it clear that the pair loved each other, but Hank could never quite relate to his son, and Bobby couldn’t help but find Hank’s love of propane woefully boring. Then, in season 4’s “Meet […]
Continue ReadingA year ago, HBO confirmed that season 9 of Curb Your Enthusiasm was finally in the works, and since then we’ve gotten a couple updates including a projected 2017 premiere and the first day of filming confirmed by JB Smoove back in November. Over the weekend, Smoove provided another update on the show, telling the audience […]
Continue ReadingAccording to Dan Aykroyd, a sequel to 2016’s Ghostbusters reboot is not in the cards, and Aykroyd isn’t shying away from putting all the blame on director Paul Feig. Speaking on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch yesterday, Aykroyd took issue not with the content of Feig’s take on Ghostbusters – which underperformed at the box office and was […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff’s ambitious history of American comedy The Comedians is essential and invaluable in no small part because it does not profess to be authoritative or exhaustive. With a subject as vast and deep as American comedy, how could […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver responds to the American news coverage after Saturday’s terrorist attack in London that seemed oddly obsessed with claiming that the city was “reeling” from the attack or “under siege,” which Oliver points out is both irritating and downright insulting. “For the record, in no way is Britain ‘under siege,’” […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a long wait since Broad City was given a double-season renewal last year, but thankfully the wait for season 4 is almost over. Comedy Central recently released the trailer for season 4 of the show, and it features plenty of new and returning guest appearances by Hannibal Buress, Steve Buscemi, Wanda Sykes, Jane Curtin, RuPaul, and more. […]
Continue ReadingIt’s an indisputable fact that Paul F. Tompkins is a classy, distinguished man with impeccable style and a lifelong love for bow ties, so there’s truly no better person to star in the bow tie tutorial video @midnight posted on Twitter today. It looks pretty complicated and intimidating, but Tompkins does a stellar job guiding […]
Continue ReadingJoshua Jennifer Espinoza, AKA @sadqueer4life, is a trans woman poet living in California. Her work has been featured in The Offing, The Feminist Wire, PEN America, Lambda Literary, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of i’m alive / it hurts / i love it (boost house 2014), and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS […]
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