Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s My Favorite Murder has rapidly risen to the rank of podcast institution since it launched in 2016, tapping the same vein of grisly true-crime obsession that helped propel shows like Serial and Dirty John to the top of the pile, but with a comedic twist that revels in the…
After a number of tech companies—including Apple, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Pinterest, Linkedin, and, um, YouPorn—banded together to kick psychotic cone of gyro meat Alex Jones off of their platforms early last week, all eyes turned to Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, who looked down from the pod high above Silicon Valley…
Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette has quickly become the most talked-about comedy special of 2018, a riveting, funny, frequently painful synthesis of humor and anger that’s recontexualizing, for a lot of people, what the idea of a “comedy special” can even be. It’s also the clear product of an unshakeable passion, as Gadsby…
We’ll soon find out if there’s room in the Fab Five for two fashion experts, as Variety reports Karamo Brown—who, as the Queer Eye reboot’s culture expert, makes over the participants’ souls—is launching his own line of bomber jackets.
FriendsLikeUs has long been a gem of podcasting, providing women (and particularly women of color) a place to sit down and unapologetically discuss their lives in the world of comedy. These conversations are often quite frank, touching as much on the issues of the day as the minutiae of the stand-up scene and all with…
Life is hard and scary these days, but up until now the one thing we’ve always been able to count on is the comfort provided by those hideous foam/rubber/plastic Crocs shoes. That’s why it was so terrifying for an already-exhausted world to learn that the Crocs company would be closing its last remaining manufacturing…
Oh, Waldo. You bobble-hatted, cane-wielding, candy-cane-looking fuck. How you’ve taunted us across the years, with your smug little smile, your adventurous spirit, your ability to blend into overcrowded settings despite the fact that you dress like Santa Claus’ nerdy little nephew. How far have you set humanity back,…
Everybody has at least a mild interest in true crime stories these days, but those tend to revolve around horrifying acts of violence or chilling mysteries about people who have disappeared and left heartbroken families behind. One kind of true crime story that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, meanwhile, is…
The late Carrie Fisher was the opposite of Donald Trump in nearly every way—witty, empathetic, self-aware, and, most importantly for the purposes of this particular sentence, unconcerned with having a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For as we point out every time this particular piss-stained stretch of Los Angeles…
Confirming its status as the social media platform where propagating conspiracy theories that hound the families of school shooting victims out of their homes won’t get you banned, but pretending to be an Italian Elon Musk will, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey refused to give in to peer pressure—the coolest kind of…
The weed devotees over at Reddit’s r/trees are usually posting about the kind of stuff you’d expect. The front page today, for instance, features this diagram showing why getting high is better than getting drunk, a meme image about world peace with a cartoon of a stoned turtle, and photos of giant buds.
We’ve presumably all heard by now that late Sunday night, in what seems to have been either a coordinated attack secretly ordered by Chinese communists (if you’re a true, tinfoil hat-wearing Infowars fan) or the long-awaited end of a very stupid game of chicken, major social-media and streaming platforms, including…
YouTube has a far-right problem. The online video platform’s reluctance to actually deal with the wackos, nihilists, and hatemongers in its midst has been widely noted and critiqued, and today YouTube responded with a move that, frankly, has been a long time coming: It finally deleted The Alex Jones Channel. The…
Your attention, please: A suburban neighborhood in West Boise, Idaho was overtaken by goats this morning, as reporter Joe Parris of local news affiliate KTVB reported on Twitter. Initially estimated to be around 100 goats, later, cooler heads determined the goats to actually number 75. Still, that’s a lot of goats,…
Donald Trump Jr. isn’t shy about the things he hates—things like accurate descriptions of socialism, Hollywood being mean to his papa, legible depictions of Barack Obama, and, last but far from least, visible skin imperfections.
Spotify has just become the latest online media hosting service forced to reckon with its responsibilities re: the propagation of hate speech, with the platform announcing today that it’s pulled some—but not all—of its episodes of Alex Jones’ Infowars off of its servers. (At present, there are still 613 episodes of…
In December, Al Franken resigned from his position in the Senate after eight women accused him of touching them inappropriately over the years, with the accusations dating back to his days as a comedian. His seat was filled by Minnesota’s lieutenant governor Tina Smith, who will now be facing a special election later…
The rise of the internet dog is something only the most prescient science fiction authors could have seen coming. For many years, cats ruled the digital world so completely that an alternative reality was simply unimaginable. Watching them play keyboards or stalk their owners in video after video, the idea that they…
“Iconic” is a word people often use to describe the music of James Bond. Like the clothes, cars, and gadgets of the early films, John Barry’s original 1960s arrangements feel like immutable elements of the franchise’s titular character. It just isn’t Bond if you don’t hear that certain chord progression. In the second…
It’s always a little terrifying when something from Twitter makes its way into the real world, but the city of Vancouver has proven that not all social media interactions result in negativity—though 99 percent of them still do. After Vancouver’s TransLink transit network decided to pull an advertising campaign with…
