We Need Hot Messes Like John Early’s New HBO Special ‘Now More Than Ever’
Comedy special, meet gritty 1970s rockumentary.
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- By Matt Solomon
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0 Trey Parker and Matt Stone Say They’ve Spent ‘Infinity Dollars’ on Rehabbing Casa Bonita
Or just $40 million, which is still a lot for a taco shop
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- By Keegan Kelly
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12 Fictional Workplaces That Should Have Unionized
Sitcoms love dumping on H.R., but these fictional employees were desperate for it.
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- By Jay L'Ecuyer, JhallComics
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Joan Rivers Had 65,000 Jokes in Her Card Catalog
Her legendary joke-filled filing cabinet will be put on display at the National Comedy Center
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Says Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan Had Weekly 'Veep' Recap Lunches
No one loved ‘Veep’ more than the people skewered on ‘Veep’
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Brian C. Miller
Cliches! They are absolutely everywhere, and Hollywood just can't seem to avoid them. You’ve got your trusty go tos for your evil characters (they’re a doctor! They have a cat! Their old name is “dead”!) Then, there’s when you need to make sure the audience knows a character is coocoo for cocoa puffs (make them skirt gender norms! Or or or maybe they’re goth! Maybe they are even… lonely or introverted?) If a character is heroic, obviously that means that they are either a) a captain; b) punching the villain (this is for X! And this is for Y!); or c) driving a pickup truck. And we can’t forget that arrogance means eating apples and that being a smart person means wearing glasses and having frizzy, crazy hair (and also maybe being a real jerk). Here are some of the most egregious that keep popping up over and over again.
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TikTok Claps Back at Stand-Up Who Ripped Gen Z for Not Knowing How to Read Cursive
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Says Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan Had Weekly 'Veep' Recap Lunches
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