Cracked Archive - Comedy
Shane Gillis Was Too Radioactive for ‘Saturday Night Live’ But Good to Go for ‘Bupkis’
Lorne Michaels proves no comedian is ever truly canceled
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- By Matt Solomon
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15 Paul F. Tompkins Jokes for the Comedy Hall of Fame
The man, the myth, the mustache
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- By Erik Barnes
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18 Times ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Was Peak Comedy
How did a children’s show create a perfect spoof of American health care?
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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The American Version of ‘The Office’ Has Brits Wondering If Scranton Is a Real Place
The U.K. can’t tell if the Electric City is a real place — they must never learn the truth
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- By Keegan Kelly
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15 Great Dark Humor Jokes from Christopher Titus
If there’s any comic that best displays the ability to squeeze jokes from darkness, it’s Christopher Titus
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- By Erik Barnes
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Everything We Know About Steven Seagal Being the Worst ‘Saturday Night Live’ Host Ever
For starters, he was worried people thought he couldn’t beat up Dana Carvey
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- By Matt Solomon
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The 25 Funniest Tweets and TikToks of the Week
This week felt one million years long. Here are the posts that got us through it
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Pete Davidson Is Still Out There Selling Breakfast Crunchwraps
‘Peter Davidson’ is supposed to be a scaled-back version of the ‘Saturday Night Live’ graffiti board
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- By Keegan Kelly
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‘A Lot of Hollywood People Take Mushrooms to Heal the Trauma of Being Millionaires’: Whitney Cummings’ on Drugs in Show Business
Cummings says we should make weed illegal again — but only for celebrities
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Batshit New Doc Claims Bob Saget Was Murdered Because of His 'Raunchy' Material
Watch your backs, cast of ‘The Aristocrats’
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- By Matt Solomon
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James Corden Says We’re Rid of James Corden, But We’d Like It In Writing
Corden is going back to the U.K. — once they sign the treaty
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Emily Ratajkowski ‘Not Giving My Consent’ to Be Comic’s Punchline
Counterargument: ‘Normal people don’t do that’
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- By Matt Solomon
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Twitter’s Blue Check Nonsense Has Chosen a Jimmy and It’s Not Kimmel
Not wanting a blue checkmark might be the best way to get one
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- By Matt Solomon
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‘I Would Never Host ‘Saturday Night Live’’: Inside the Carol Burnett/Lorne Michaels Cold War
Burnett’s name was an ‘SNL’ codeword for ‘lame’
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- By Matt Solomon
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13 Jokes from Laurie Kilmartin for the Comedy Hall of Fame
What do our favorite comedy shows have in common? They hire Laurie Kilmartin
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- By Erik Barnes
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