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More than once, a person has told me they don't laugh while watching stand-up specials, and then I've gone over to their house later and found out they're watching stand-up WITH THE CAPTIONS ON. I blogged about why we must put an end to this. vulture.com/article/turn-o…

haven't really kept up since then, has Hasley drawn on the floor while singing again

Really enjoyed Jesse David Fox's interview with Mike Myers, which at times felt like listening to Jesse trying to wrangle a firehose, and also painted a lovely picture of the working class upbringing that informed a specifically broad comedic sensibility: open.spotify.com/episode/6M5b34…

"I never thought I’d ever be discovered. I thought I was going to have to discover myself. And I just thought, This is what I want to do, and if it doesn’t work out, fine. But I did know what I wanted to do, and I did know that I was gonna fight." vulture.com/article/mike-m…

In the 50 years of hosts introducing the musical guest on SNL, I'd say this was the brutalist youtube.com/watch?v=Z-c-0W…

RIP David Lynch. Thank you for lowkey inventing being weird 🙏

There are so many new stand-up comedy specials out there. Here are four new ones that are well worth your time. vulture.com/article/new-st…

this month's specials column

Grateful to Jesse for writing about the Doug Stanhope special that, in hindsight, I wish I wrote about. Also: three other very good specials released this month!

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With Timothée Chalamet up for Best Actor at the Oscars this weekend for ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Tim Baltz is ready to break his relative silence about what it’s like also living as a Timothée. vulture.com/article/tim-ba…

Talking to Tim Baltz about his first name was one of the nicer experiences of my career vulture.com/article/tim-ba…

Parents LOVE a 15-minute-long YouTube essay that is just a still image and an AI voiceover track.

I wrote about Dropout vulture.com/article/dropou…