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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy
A year ago, the comic promised to reflect on his behavior after admitting to sexual misconduct. Now he’s making jokes about the inconvenience of empathy.
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NBC The Saturday Night Live Sketch That Sums Up All Online Discourse
Matt Damon and Leslie Jones screaming at each other about the relative merits of Weezer was cleverer than it might sound.
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Annie Sullivan / Smithsonian John Leguizamo’s Required Reading for America
Inspired by his one-man show, Latin History for Morons, the comedian recommends three books that challenge one-sided narratives of the past.
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Larry Downing / Sygma via Getty Images Dana Carvey’s George H. W. Bush Was an All-Time Great SNL Impression
The comedian’s take on the late president might seem tame by today’s standards, but it seized on the little details to deliver incisive satire.
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Cara Howe / Netflix / Arsh Raziuddin / ... Hasan Minhaj Invites You to Take Off Your Shoes
The host of the new Netflix series Patriot Act turns a tested sphere—the topical talk show—into an immigrant home.
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NBC Saturday Night Live’s Confusing Celebration of Jeff Bezos
Steve Carell played the Amazon CEO as an anti-Trump crusader in one of the show’s more baffling sketches.
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NBC A Veterans Day Apology From Saturday Night Live and Pete Davidson
The comedian walked back an insulting joke about incoming Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who lost an eye fighting in Afghanistan.
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HBO The Grotesque Brilliance of Sally4Ever
The HBO series from the British writer Julia Davis is depraved cringe comedy at its most inexplicably compelling.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Shows Some Teeth Mocking Fox News
In the lead-up to the midterms, the show parodied cable-news hysteria over the migrant caravan, and contrasted it with liberal panic over the coming election.
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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters Louis C.K.’s Phantom Alliance With His Black Fans
The comic, returning to the Comedy Cellar this week, described a particular wave of support he’s received since admitting to sexual misbehavior last year.
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ABC The Conners Frees Itself of Roseanne Barr
The retooled sitcom debuted with an episode that wrestled with the death of its fictional matriarch.
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NBC Seth Meyers Revives Saturday Night Live (For a Week)
The show’s former head writer returned for an episode with some excellent sketches—but also a dire parody of Kanye West’s meeting with Donald Trump.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Whiffs the Kavanaugh Confirmation
In the wake of a bruising moment in American history, the NBC sketch show was primed to party.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Needs to Break Its Stagnant Streak
Alec Baldwin is returning to play President Trump for the show’s 44th season, with only one new cast member coming aboard the stalling sketch revue.
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Amy Harris / Invision / AP Norm Macdonald’s Protective View of Comedy
The stand-up has waded into hot water with comments on Louis C.K., Roseanne Barr, and Nanette, but what’s most frustrating is his seeming disinterest in the way joke telling is always changing.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Louis C.K. and the Missed Point of Redemption
With a surprise performance Sunday evening, the comic joins a cadre of men who have begun reentering the public eye after misconduct accusations.
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Brad Barket / Invision / AP Louis C.K. and the Men Who Keep Getting What They Want
The #MeToo comebacks are coming. And they’re revolving, once again, around the desires of those who needed to negotiate the returns in the first place.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP How Netflix Snagged Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris
The showrunner recently departed ABC for the streaming network, joining the ranks of Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes in the process.
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Ryan Melgar Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man: Mel Brooks in His 90s
The comic has stormed though 75 years of show business; he remains prodigal in expression, memory, and imagination.
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HBO The Unknowable Robin Williams
Come Inside My Mind, airing on HBO Monday night, is a thoughtful and wistful portrait of an elusive subject.
