Riane Konc is a Midwest-based writer who contributes frequently to The New Yorker and occasionally to Reductress, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The Rumpus’ Funny Women, and other places on the Internet. You can find more of her work at www.rianekonc.com. Konc is escaping the Midwest for one weekend in March, so if you’re in […]
Continue ReadingI’m a human. We all are (probably), and we’ve all got the Internet. That means one thing, and one thing only: we’ve all seen training video parodies. Lots of ’em. What we probably haven’t seen is the definitive parody, because So You’re Grounded only has about 2,000 views at the time of my writing this. Let’s […]
Continue ReadingHow to Pick the Perfect Blood Diamond for Your Engagement Ring So, the two of you are ready to make a lifelong commitment, and you’ve decided to forgo a blood oath ritual in favor of an engagement ring. Don’t worry, you’ll still have plenty of blood on your hands! A diamond ring is the perfect […]
Continue ReadingHey Sandra, Just wanted to say I can’t wait for our blind date this Friday! I’ll see you 7 o’ clock sharp at Maguire’s Pub. Since you don’t know what I look like, I’ll be holding a red rose so you can identify me. Here are some other ways you can identify me. If the […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Crime podcasts like Serial are irresistible to satirists by virtue of their popularity and ubiquity alone. Serial in particular is so huge that it transcends the medium that birthed it. Even your aunts and uncles who know nothing about podcasts (heck, […]
Continue ReadingRachel Sennott is a New York-based comedian, actor, and writer. She can be seen on HBO’s High Maintenance and in Shiva Baby, a film premiering at SXSW this year. She runs two monthly comedy shows, Puke Fest and Ur Gonna Slp Rlly Well Tonight. One is a charity show and the other is a drinking […]
Continue ReadingBridgid Ryan’s Boyfriend Rock is a well-produced music video with a perfect folk rock melody. That polish, though, is just preamble to the core genius of a small (literally and figuratively) core joke oriented at the center of a homograph that made me laugh out loud. Take a watch, and then double check the meaning of “homograph.” I […]
Continue ReadingThirty-seven pages of highly classified TITLE 13 material were reported missing at the Chicago Regional Census Center on Wednesday morning. At five p.m. on Tuesday, after the employees of the Windy City’s RCC had packed their sensitive data into large, regulated heavyweight folders and filed them neatly away into their sturdy desks under lock and […]
Continue ReadingSarah Hutto’s work has run in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. On Twitter she is @huttopian, where she advocates for equal representation of women who aren’t enthusiastic about salad in the stock photo industry. She is working on a humor book. This week, Hutto talked with me about tweeting […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
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