This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Letterman and O’Brien Talk Late Night

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The comedy-podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. Were here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy....

October 10, 2019 · 2 min · 222 words · Alexandra Harmon

Wait, Why Is There a Picture of Donald Trump With the Late Lead Singer of Blind Melon?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Trumps looming impeachment keeps pulling people into its widening gyre. Wednesday morning, two associates of Rudy Giulianiwere arrested on campaign-finance charges. He did qualify that disavowal with acknowledgement that he may have been photographed with the two men. Now its possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody. I have a picture with everybody here....

October 10, 2019 · 1 min · 196 words · Kimberly Chavez

Abbi Jacobson Searches for Love in HerCrank YankersDebut

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The art of the prank callis alive and wellthanks to thereturn of Comedy CentralsCrank Yankers. In a new clip from tonights episode, Jacobson, a.k.a. Watch the rest whenCrank Yankersairs on Comedy Central tonight at 10:30 p.m. Related Tags:

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · 53 words · Sarah Smith

Breaking: Rihanna Just Acknowledged Her Music Career

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I havent seen that name on an album cover in years. I have been trying to get back into the studio, she admits toVogue. Yes, its been on its way for over a year. And what about it? Go ahead and read your lil coffee-table book. (She confirms she turned down a Super Bowl appearancein supportof Colin Kaepernick: Who gains from that?...

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · 152 words · Joe Russell

Can Outer Space Drive a Person Insane? Let’s Ask an Astronaut.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Spoilers forLucy in the Skybelow. by turning it into a melodramatic, hallucinatory soap opera that is, rather accidentally, laugh-out-loud funny. (In fact, retired astronaut Marsha Ivinscriticized the trope andLucy in the Sky back in 2018). Is it as common as Hollywood would have us believe, or is it merely a lazy plot machine? Yes, we did talk about diapers....

October 9, 2019 · 5 min · 960 words · Sarah Callahan

Farrow Book Alleges That Weinstein Used Matt Lauer As Leverage to Kill NBC Story

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Howard reportedly produced several manila envelopes, which contained information about Lauer that could be used as leverage. In a letter published Wednesday, Lauerdenied that charge, and any claims of impropriety beyond extramarital affairs.

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · 48 words · Thomas Sparks

Jenna Dewan to Host the Very Literal Dating ShowFlirty Dancing

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October 9, 2019 · 1 min · 26 words · Bradley Frye

Nancy Drew Is Not Who You Remember

The girl detective gets a CW reboot, but is she more than endlessly recyclable intellectual property? Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (Why are girls at school mean to me? Why do I bleed from the crotch every month?) If you are a woman who has aged out of that demo, she is nostalgia. If you are in sales at Penguin Random House, she is a cash cow....

October 9, 2019 · 4 min · 685 words · Brian Prince

Ronan Farrow’s Book Does Not Skip Any Opportunity to CallJackiea Bad Movie

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Heres whereJackiegets dragged and I meandragged into this,courtesy ofVariety. Some people (ahem) believe thatJackieis an impressive work of art. Objectively, these observations are correct. Subjectively, however, this is what makesJackiegreat. Sorry to the LA office! Farrow told him the executive thwarting his reporting was the same executive who wroteJackie. He is very shady about “Jackie” throughout, which made me laugh!...

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · 117 words · Gary Figueroa

Ronan Farrow’s New Book Reveals Details About Matt Lauer’s Rape Allegation

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It also reveals new details about the rape allegation that endedMatt Lauers careerat NBC, according toVariety. Farrow writes that Nevils had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience. Lauer, she said, didnt use lubricant, Farrow writes. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?...

October 9, 2019 · 2 min · 225 words · John Thompson

You Can’t Make a Tomelette Without Breaking Some Greggs, But How Do You Spell It?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. OnSunday night, a now-immortalSuccessionphrase entered the lexicon: You cant make a Tomelette without breaking some Greggs. This raised some questions for me. For one, of all the possible ways to spell Tomlette, why go that way? Why not Tomelette, or even Tomelet? An omlette, after all, isnt a thing. But why not simply Gregs? And if this is just what Gil was saying, what was Toms own spelling?...

October 9, 2019 · 1 min · 111 words · Scott Brown

Alex Trebek Discusses Whether Or Not He’ll Continue to HostJeopardy!As He Fights Pancreatic Cancer

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Im not afraid of dying, he said. Im 79 years old. If it happens, it happens. And why should I be afraid of it? Trebek has hostedJeopardy!since 1984. Sources Related Tags:

October 8, 2019 · 1 min · 46 words · Frank Turner Jr.

Anyway, Here’s Glenn Close Repeatedly Slapping a Mentalist

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October 8, 2019 · 1 min · 17 words · Benjamin Peck