Catching Up with ‘Reductress’ Founders Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo

It’s been one hell of a news cycle for Reductress. The site dedicated its entire landing page to rape culture back in 2016, partially in response to how sexual assault was being discussed in the comedy world. Today, every website’s homepage looks like Reductress in 2016: an endless parade of misogyny and poorly thought out […]

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Open Mic Magazine presents Every Comedy Poster

From our friends at Open Mic Magazine, Tampa comedians Becca Childs and CJ Hernandez, comes this week’s fun mockery of ourselves. Above is “Every Comedy Poster,” complete with all of the randomness anyone who has been in the comedy game for more than a minute notices — while every new comedian on the poster hopes […]

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Talking True Crime Satire with ‘American Vandal’ Showrunner Dan Lagana

From Serial to binge-demanding TV series like The Jinx and Making a Murderer, the true crime doc format has become a national phenomenon that immediately sucks us in and then spits us out eight hours later with endless debates about whodunit. Though these are serious topics that would often demand a fictionalized version, it wouldn’t […]

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‘PatriotHole’: How the Fake News Makes Fun of Fake News

Doug Baxter is close to figuring out what the Clinton Foundation is really up to. He’s still connecting the dots, but so far it seems that the Clintons have been funneling billions of dollars to research institutions around the country in order to figure out a way for women to have sex with each other. […]

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Jay-Z “Moonlight” music video re-enacts Friends with black comedians

For everyone who thought 1990s hit sitcom Friends was too unrealistic or too white, Jay-Z and director Alan Yang are here for you. Yang (Master of None) directed the music video for Jay-Z’s new single, “Moonlight,” which dropped Friday afternoon. It’s a beat-by-beat re-enactment of a scene from Friends, with Jerrod Carmichael as Ross, Issa […]

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Joe Mande talks the nature of Shark Tank, comedy awards, satire and pranks on the cusp of his “Award-Winning” Netflix special

Joe Mande may not win any actual awards for his first hourlong comedy special, although many comedians would consider getting Netflix to release Joe Mande’s Award-Winning Comedy Special is recognition enough. Mande, speaking to me a few days ago, said he was “very happy it ended up (on Netflix). I didn’t really have a Plan B. I […]

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Watch the pilot episode of “The Feed,” a new web series lampooning fake news

For fans of smart, sarcastic satire comes “The Feed,” a new web series created by and starring filmmaker Jeff Cerulli.  A… MORE

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When news silences satire: Why firing a Kathy Griffin today weakens Anderson Cooper tomorrow

When the media takes down a comedian, we all lose. When the hubbub of Twitter firestarters and talking heads are starting… MORE

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Brad Pitt delivers the global warming forecast for the debut of The Jim Jefferies Show

Loved the debut last night of The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central. Even excluding the A-list celebrity cameo by Brad Pitt as the show’s weatherman to deliver our forecast in the wake of President Trump’s pull-out from the Paris global climate agreement. Something about the tone and posture of Jefferies makes the satire go […]

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Ed Helms goes back to his Comedy Central roots with special, “Fake News with Ted Nelms”

Is that Ed Helms? Or is that Ted Nelms? A little bit of both, as Helms dressed up in disguise for a fantasy sequence of a comedy sketch reuniting the gang from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for a special episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But truthfully, Helms is planning to […]

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