Unsatisfactory Past Life Regression Results, by Shana Gohd

I’d like to begin by thanking you for choosing our Past Life Regression services over similar, albeit less-experienced, providers available. The goal of our enterprise is to offer you insight into previous lives your soul has led. Through the assistance of our certified guides, you can dissect and analyze the ways in which your past […]

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When ‘We Hate Movies’ Mined the Misguided ‘My Father the Hero’ for Abundant Hilarity

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. They say that if something exists, there’s pornography about it. I suspect it’s also true that if you see a flamboyantly terrible movie that’s not entirely obscure, there’s probably a podcast about it. Podcasts have done wonderful things for the bad […]

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Take a Good Look at Ernie Kovacs’ Incredibly Strange Game Show

Ernie Kovacs was a genius. There’s no way around that. Carson, Letterman, and Conan have all cited him as an influence, and there have been hundreds of tributes, articles, PBS clips shows, and even two, very well done DVD retrospectives of his work from Shout! Factory. Well, Shout! is about to add a third volume […]

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Matt Grote (@feMANism) on Joke Structures, Garfield, and Being a Teenage Ira Glass

Matt Grote (@feMANism) is a human apology. He once did an impression of Michael Cera that was so spot-on that he spent half an hour holding the door for everyone at The Strand. He is a standup comedian and writer/actor with the sketch group CHUMBLE, co-host of These Are Not My Words, co-creator of webcomic […]

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‘Hiatus’: A Facebook Show That Deserves More Likes

I don’t like profiling videos or series rooted in “Hollywood” culture if I can help it. Sometimes I can’t help it. Sometimes the work is too strong to be ignored, even amidst the din of my “don’t profile any more series about Hollywood culture” mantra shames me. Hiatus is worth the shame for two reasons. First, creators Jasmine Elist and Michael […]

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Trump’s ‘Sweet Valley High’ Spec Novel Notes, by Kit Lively

Donna is a smart, beautiful, popular girl. Really, really big boobs, maybe? But they let her be head cheerleader anyway, because she can do all of the complicated routines and flips and so on, even though her boobs are like, huge.Most of the other girls are jealous of her, and of her awesome pony. They’re […]

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@SierraKatow on Mulan, Crocs, and Accepting Compliments

Sierra Katow (@sierrakatow) is an LA-based comedian and writer who’s performed on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Laughs on Fox, and Last Call with Carson Daly. You can learn more on her website, and catch her in an upcoming show. Sierra is currently a producer of the podcast Queery with Cameron Esposito and recently finished working on Take […]

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‘Broad City’s’ “What If?” Scenario Doubles Down on the Power of Soulmates

‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “Would you ever want to hang out again?” When Gwyneth Paltrow is dead and gone (that is if her Goop-infested body is capable of desiccation) the thing that she’ll surely be […]

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They’re Baaack: The Return of Harvard Sailing Team

Five long years ago, Splitsider wrote this piece on the then New York-based Harvard Sailing Team (HST) and the resurgence of sketch comedy. Well, in these past five years, HST members have gone on to do amazing things, like star and guest star on great TV shows, movies, yes, podcasts have been a part of it all. […]

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Out of Office Replies for These Political Times, by Kimberly Harrington

I’m sorry I missed your e-mail. As you may have heard, women are no longer allowed to use computers so I’ve actually missed every single e-mail since January 2017. Please write your question(s) on an old white man and have him walk over to my hut. Thank you and Namaste. ….. Due to the collapse […]

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