Comedy

‘Sometimes People Just Break’

Please watch ‘Chris Gethard: Career Suicide.’

“And I think to myself: you should hit the brakes,” Chris Gethard says, aware that he was in the other driver’s blindspot. “And then I think: no, don’t. Because this way it’s…

Comedy, Policy, and the Language of Casual Intimacy

The Debbie Downer Origin Story

Rachel Dratch revisits Massachusetts and supports women in comedy.

Rachel Dratch attended the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston this weekend, partaking in an interview and Q&A session Sunday morning. She…

‘The Spoils Before Dying’

On the IFC masterpiece.

The Spoils Before Dying premiered as a six-episode mini-series over three days on Funny or Die’s IFC in July 2015. It’s a sort of follow-up to the previous year’s The Spoils of Babylon, a separate storyline related only…

A Year in Comedy

The year of comedy?

Little Gems

On ‘Neon Joe: Werewolf Hunter.’

“Stay at the B&B where Paul Rudd was murdered. I’d stay there. Sounds pretty cool,” says Mayor Carol Blanton in the second scene of the Neon Joe: Werewolf Hunter series premiere. It’s following the opening teaser, where Paul…