The world of stand-up sure seems to be conflicted about how to treat men who have either admitted to or been arrested and charged with doing terrible things to women. In the case of T.J. Miller, a Denver comedian/open-mic host wrote an essay earlier this month about his decision to
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When Bill Cosby was led out of the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia in handcuffs after being sentenced to three to ten years in state prison for three counts of felony sexual assault, people naturally had a lot of questions. As the comedian awaits word of his pending appeal,
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Even though he subsisted on comedy growing up — Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, SNL — Alan Yang didn’t think that it was something you could actually do for, like, money. “We had the very traditional Asian-American upbringing where you’re going to be a doctor, lawyer, or businessman,” Yang said on a recent
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Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet begins casually and ends by breaking your heart. The latest from the adventurously lo-fi theater troupe Bedlam — which has earned a reputation for joyfully reinvigorating classic texts, from Hamlet and St. Joan to Sense & Sensibility and Peter Pan — is a new kind of
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As a former comedy agent at UTA and WME, Priyanka Mattoo represented numerous big-name writers and performers before leaving to start a TV production company with Jack Black. Now she writes and directs, but she still encounters a tidal wave of comedy hopefuls looking for the advice, information, and pep
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Monsters and Men is a rather straightforward ripped-from-the-headlines story. But it’s aided by a narrative structure that highlights complexity, rather than tidy symmetry. Each of the film’s three acts follow a different character in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood in which the police shooting of Darius Larson takes place. First, we follow
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The light-skin Lord giveth, and the light-skin Lord taketh away: Jesse Williams is facing backlash online after posting a meme (?!) to promote Till, his directorial debut. On Monday afternoon, Williams framed photos of Emmett Till’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley after the Colin Kaepernick Nike ads to, effectively, meme Emmett’s death
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So you’re the all-time leading scorer in the NBA. You’re well into your next act professionally, and you’re ready to take on new creative pursuits? So what do you do next? You join the writers room of a high-profile television revival, naturally. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas announced his new
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