What's your 2017 pop culture gift to the world?
This week’s question continues our year-end celebration of the good things about 2017:
The trailer for Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here shows the seedy side of ’70s stand-up
Life among professional comedians is not just a continuous throng of laughter. There is a lot of laughter, but at least half of it is mean-spirited, directed at fellow comedians perceived to be unfairly more successful or justly less successful. There’s also a good deal of complaining, a fair amount of gloating, and a…
The kids get treated like adults on a lice-infested episode of Fresh Off The Boat
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A running theme this season on Fresh Off The Boat has been the Huang children wanting to be taken more seriously by their elders. This reached an apex last week in “Doing It Right,” where Eddie split off from his father during a chili cook-off to come up with his own recipe. Evan, also experiencing feelings of…
Al Madrigal’s new special explores how the other half lives
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Al Madrigal is half Latino, half white. Al Madrigal gets heat from whites for being too Latino and Latinos for being too white. Al Madrigal is called a “pocho,” a derogatory term for Americanized Mexicans. Al Madrigal cannot pronounce his own name in Spanish.
