Season 1 of Portlandia opened with a song that promised a Pacific Northwest heaven: it was like the 1990s forever, “when people were content to be unambitious, sleep to eleven, just hang out with their friends… You’d have no occupations whatsoever. Maybe you work a couple of hours a week at a coffee shop?” Now beginning […]
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 […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the fallout surrounding Trump’s “shithole” comments on immigration last week and how the standoff caused by Trump over DACA might result in a government shutdown tomorrow. “So an erratic, childlike president with no principles and virtually no understanding of […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the fallout surrounding Trump’s “shithole” comments on immigration last week and how the standoff caused by Trump over DACA might result in a government shutdown tomorrow. “So an erratic, childlike president with no principles and virtually no understanding of […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a great segment from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee responds to the #MeToo backlash surrounding stories like the “Shitty Media Men” list and the recent debate surrounding the Aziz Ansari allegations. “What many fail to understand is that it doesn’t have to be rape to ruin your life, and it doesn’t have to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a great segment from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee responds to the #MeToo backlash surrounding stories like the “Shitty Media Men” list and the recent debate surrounding the Aziz Ansari allegations. “What many fail to understand is that it doesn’t have to be rape to ruin your life, and it doesn’t have to […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a bad week for Amazon comedy series. According to Deadline, the streaming network has canceled Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick, and the Jean-Claude Van Damme-starring Jean-Claude Van Johnson. One Mississippi wrapped up its second season back in September, while I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson both debuted their first […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a bad week for Amazon comedy series. According to Deadline, the streaming network has canceled Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick, and the Jean-Claude Van Damme-starring Jean-Claude Van Johnson. One Mississippi wrapped up its second season back in September, while I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson both debuted their first […]
Continue ReadingAt this year’s TCA, Roseanne Barr announced that on the forthcoming revival of her sitcom Roseanne, her character Roseanne Conner will have, like Barr herself, voted for Trump. She decried political polarization, and she and Sara Gilbert discussed the ways families are divided over this election; Gilbert insisted, “People feel like they can’t disagree and […]
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