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There Was A Time When Jay Leno Was Funny — And A Surprising BFF to David Letterman

Long ago, Jay Leno was the Don Rickles to David Letterman’s Johnny Carson

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By Matt Solomon

Published

May 10, 2023

Best Advice for Making Money in Comedy, According to Working Comedians on Reddit

‘I live in the dumpster behind the bar I perform at. It’s a very short commute and I always have access to food’

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By Matt Solomon

Published

May 10, 2023

‘Tacos Don’t Make Themselves, But People Do’: Johnny Pemberton Does A Perfect Impression of Dr. Phil’s Folksy Bullshit

This Dr. Phil parody makes more sense than the real Dr. Phil

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By Keegan Kelly

Published

May 10, 2023

Steven Wright Used Up Three Years of Material in One Week of ‘Tonight Show’ Appearances

Well, he was just going to have to write more anyway

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By Matt Solomon

Published

May 10, 2023

‘Ted Lasso’s 10 Dumbest Dad Jokes and Puns

This show just loves terrible wordplay

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By JM McNab

Published

May 10, 2023

Three Famous Drummers on How Well Animal from The Muppets Swings the Sticks

The drummers from the EELS, Gwar and Conan O’Brien’s TBS show determine if the resident madman of the Electric Mayhem can do anything with his drum kit other than eat it

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By Brian VanHooker

Published

May 10, 2023

13 Hall of Fame Jokes and Moments from Janelle James

From the schoolyard to the stage, the ‘Abbott Elementary’ star is going to find a way to make us laugh

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By Erik Barnes

Published

May 10, 2023

Please Don’t Destroy to Be Replaced by Drunken, Dirty-Talking Dogs

The ‘SNL’ wunderkinds’ feature-film debut just got bumped by a movie in which Will Ferrell plays a dog who wants to bite off his owner’s junk

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By Keegan Kelly

Published

May 10, 2023

The Great 19th Century Freak-Out About Being Accidentally Buried Alive

‘Premature burial’ is basically everyone’s worst nightmare, but back in the 1800s, it was prevalent enough that a whole funereal economy sprang up around it

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By Mike Rampton

Published

May 10, 2023

4 Pioneers in Crime

This guy was serial killing when H.H. Holmes was just a glint in the devil’s eye

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By Eli Yudin

Published

May 10, 2023

The Three Best ‘Futurama’ Episodes, According to John DiMaggio, the Voice Behind Bender

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By Brian VanHooker

Published

May 10, 2023