Reading Brandon Wardell’s Twitter account is like looking at online humor and culture through a prism. He seems to reflect our every joke, meme, and pop culture reference into his surreal persona. Brandon is “online as hell.” He popularized the “Dicks Out for Harambe” meme last year, and he regularly hosts a Comedy Central Snapchat […]
Continue ReadingStand-up and longtime Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. joined host Trevor Noah last night to debut a fun new… MORE
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Alex West is a millennial, does cancer research, and absolutely loves making friends on the web. Also he would like to be added to The Awl’s Slack channel. In lieu of plugs, he’d like to redirect readers to a friend’s staggering medical bills. This week, West spoke to me about three of his favorite tweets. […]
Continue ReadingHassan S. Ali is a comedy writer, video maker, and creative technologist with over 15 million video views, 2 viral chatbots, and yet zero grandchildren to give his mother. He is the creative marketing director at The Onion and editor and founding member of Slackjaw, the largest humor publication on Medium. Recently he talked to me about […]
Continue ReadingOn last night’s Daily Show, correspondent / comedian Roy Wood Jr. led another excellent installment of Black Eye on America, and… MORE
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Here’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where correspondent Roy Wood Jr. explains Black Twitter for the uninitiated (“Think of Black Twitter as Harlem: black folks made it cool, and now white people are trying to move in”) and learns about its impact and significance by chatting with Elon James White and Jamilah Lemieux, […]
Continue ReadingComedian, 555 star, and expert Britney Spears impersonator John Early has been doing something on Twitter and Instagram this week that not many of his fellow comedians are interested in doing: sending inspirational and encouraging messages of positivity and support to the Trump administration. It all started with this message for Ivanka Trump on Wednesday […]
Continue ReadingLily Du is a comedic performer and writer based in New York. She performs at The UCB Theater on Harold Night and across the country with UCB’s Touring Company. Lily appears in the upcoming season of Broad City and in videos on MTV, Above Average, Go90, and Funny Or Die. She’s written for Reductress, and […]
Continue Reading@Erica_Rosie is 23 and lives in Tampa, FL. She’s really tall and could be killed by a walnut. This week she spoke to me about four of her favorite tweets, plus banh mi, “mainstream Twitter,” and where to find the unfollow button. Erica: Part of me thinks you got the wrong person, another part of […]
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel sets up this bit rather nicely. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose daughter serves as a propaganda officer for President Trump, keeps writing horribly unfunny jokes on Twitter. Huckabee fashions himself to be a comedian — and I’ve even seen him in a comedy club before, way back in the day when Comix […]
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