Aug 28
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Big Mouth has found its new Missy. Quickly ascending comedian and writer Ayo Edebiri will step in to play the role…
Jul 15
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Getting lost isn’t always a bad thing. It can be a path to self-discovery, to new connections, to a break from the…
Jun 24
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Amid the comedy industry’s current reckoning with its treatment of the Black community, comedian and actress Jenny…
May 15
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Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing.…
Nov 6
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Jenny Slate might have gotten fired from Saturday Night Live back in the day (although not, as the story goes, for…
Nov 4
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Readers have come to expect certain things from a comedy memoir, especially when it’s written by a woman. There are…
Nov 2
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Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing…
Oct 24
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Jenny Slate’s comedy career has weaved through a wider-than-usual breadth of pop culture’s usual channels, from…
Oct 22
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Jenny Slate has an amazing laugh. It’s bubbly, infectious, and a shining star when she performs on stage. “I’m my…
Oct 7
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Most people know Jenny Slate from being the wooooooorst on Parks And Recreation or from when she said “symbiote”…
May 13 2019
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For four podcast seasons now, journalist, comedian, and LGBTQ activist Gaby Dunn has been offering listeners an…
May 12 2019
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“Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion” left me feeling tired. Not because it’s a bad episode, necessarily—it’s above…
Apr 24 2018
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Last night saw the debut of the first full trailer for Venom, showing off the most twisted, horrid creation yet to…
Mar 25 2018
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Pairing up Tina and Tammy always makes for a magical combination. “Sleeping With the Frenemy” pulls them together in…
Feb 6 2018
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Disney announced its Muppet Babies reboot a few months ago—weirding us slightly out in the process with its Uncanny…
Jan 10 2018
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Very late into the true-story comedy The Polka King, polka singer and entrepreneur Jan Dewan (Jack Black) is aghast…
Nov 5 2017
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Tina is the character who has grown the most over the course of Bob’s Burgers’s 8 seasons, despite the cartoon rules…
Oct 3 2017
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According to Variety, Jenny Slate is “in negotiations” to join director Ruben Fleischer’s Venom, the Spider-Man spin-…
Jul 20 2017
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Landline is set in 1995. The movie announces as much from the start, but it doesn’t really need to, because scarcely…
Jun 8 2017
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Director Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child was mostly a character study, focusing on a struggling stand-up…