Tag: Column

Christmas Invades Halloween in an Instant-Classic Episode of ‘With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus’

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Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Lauren Lapkus and Paul F. Tompkins’ chemistry has been perfected on countless Comedy Bang Bang recordings and live appearances together. They’re two of the podcasting world’s most ubiquitous, beloved, and consistently funny comic geniuses and their collaborations as a foul-mouthed, suspiciously […]

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@GregMania on His Comedic Persona and “Being Louder Than Hate”

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Twitter is filled with many hilarious personalities and comedic brands, but very few accounts have led to inspiring an actual book (the kind that’s on actual paper, away from a screen). Meet Greg Mania, a writer and comedian based in New York City, whose work has appeared in The Huffington Post, OUT Magazine, BULLETT, Posture, […]

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Shannon Brown Has Discovered Our Greatest Secret

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Shannon Brown has cracked the code…the bathroom code, and it reads “Bathrooms are where we go to cry.” In this simple send-up of workplace mockumentaries, Brown certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel. Instead, she hones in on a fertile premise that highlights the ever-so-thin line between workplace professionalism and the kind of complete emotional implosion that can only happen inside the quiet, […]

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An Excerpt from ‘Paul Ryan Magazine’: Proust Questionnaire, by Anna Heyward

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What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear is of teens, and the possibility of a reckless, bullying majority that they represent. It is worst when they are polite; that’s when I am most likely to have something thrown at me. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? The worst things about me […]

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Felipe Torres Medina (@FelipeTorresMed) on Important Issues Like Cultural Differences and Groundhog Day

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Felipe Torres Medina is an alien of extraordinary ability, which is the US government’s way of saying he’s a writer (he’s from Colombia, not Tatooine). If you’re in New York, you can see him on the UCB show The Concrete Jungle all through October. Check out his writing on McSweeney’s, BuzzFeed, and more on his website. […]

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Your Daughter Appears to Be Our Daughter’s Kindergänger, So Now We Have Some Questions, by Matthew David Brozik

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Hello, and come in, please! We’re so glad you accepted our invitation to lunch. Can I get you some water or iced tea? We might have a beer or two in the fridge, and if you want ’em, they’re yours. So, this is our home—and, again, thank you for agreeing not to bring your daughter […]

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Marabel May Offers Uniquely Worthless Advice on Matrimony in ‘The Complete Wedding’

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Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. As readers of this column are well aware, I am something of a crazed super-fan of The Complete Woman, Amanda Lund’s podcast-miniseries masterpiece take on the fascinatingly anti-feminist, anti-woman, anti-human advice manuals of Marabel Morgan, a mostly forgotten figure today but […]

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Bob Hope Plays the Supervillain to 1966’s Biggest Comedic Stars

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Whatever you think of him, it’s next to impossible to refute the fact that Bob Hope was the king of comedy during his tenure. Whether it was his “Road” films with Bing, catapulting to success on the radio, or entertaining the troops throughout the sixties and seventies, for a time, Hope with synonymous with comedy. […]

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Karly Brooks (@brookskarly) Doesn’t Need 280 Characters

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Karly Brooks is a writer living in Brooklyn with her roommate’s dog and also her roommates. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s, BuzzFeed, The Belladonna, Robot Butt, a few ads and, of course, her Twitter. Her hobbies include reading and writing, which is sort of sad since her day job is also mostly reading and writing. […]

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The ‘unSOLVABLE’ Talents of Betsy Kenney and Dara Katz

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We’ve called them “Genre Queens,” and we stand by it. Between Bounty Hunters , The Place We Live (TPWL), and now unSOLVABLE, co-creators Betsy Kenney and Dara Katz have flexed their parody muscles on action flicks, ’90s dramas about twenty-somethings built for bored thirty-somethings, and true-crime docu-series. Through each, disparate and delightful notes were hit, but they always […]

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