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Shutterstock; The Atlantic Elon Musk Accidentally Bought a Casino
Twitter’s new owner doesn’t seem to grasp what he’s purchased.
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The Atlantic; Larry Busacca / Getty Tig Notaro Is Still Being Vulnerable
A decade after the stand-up set that revealed her cancer diagnosis, the comedian doesn’t care how people see her.
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HBO You’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like The Rehearsal
Nathan Fielder’s superpower is pushing any situation into its most awkward territory. In his new series, he goes a step further.
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Jeong Park / Searchlight The Bittersweet Silliness of Hulu’s Fire Island
The smart new rom-com understands that vacation is not liberation.
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HBO Max What Hacks Understands About the Myth of Self-Betterment
The HBO Max show’s second season is refreshingly free of easy epiphanies and life lessons.
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Henny Garfunkel / Redux Gilbert Gottfried Was More Than Just a Funny Voice
The late comedian helped move stand-up beyond the realm of the merely observational and create space for the absurd.
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Clifton Prescod / Netflix A Comedy Special About Wanting to Cheat on Your Husband
Ali Wong’s latest show is hilarious, filthy, and accessible despite its potentially alienating subject matter.
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Will Heath / NBC ‘The Timeline You’re All Living in Is About to Collapse’
SNL’s inaugural episode of 2022 turned to dark, and often awkward, absurdity to explain our exasperating moment.
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Will Heath / NBC When Saturday Night Live Tried to Keep the Lights On
The show just aired one of its strangest and bleakest episodes, courtesy of the Omicron variant.
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Will Heath / NBCU / Getty Saturday Night Live Turns the Big Lie Into a Big Farce
On the show, at least, Donald Trump is back.
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Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Norm Macdonald Wanted Laughter, Not Applause
The late comic’s best work exemplified his resistance to cheap, easy material, but also his utter unpretentiousness.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic How 9/11 Changed What Americans Laugh At
The attacks altered the course of modern comedy, fueling the rise of political satire as a form of mainstream entertainment.
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Will Heath / NBC Saturday Night Live Is Over It
The show’s first episode back after a chaotic six weeks in American politics was the equivalent of a giant shrug.
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@crayzrah / @trejokes / @_therealnesha_ / TikTok / … Forget SNL. The Best Election Satire Is on TikTok.
The app’s young creators are outshining mainstream political comedy—and tapping into a longer tradition of Black American humor.
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Will Heath / NBC Dave Chappelle Doesn’t Think America Is Saved
After four years, the comedian returned to host Saturday Night Live. In 16 minutes, he explained why a new president alone won’t fix the country.
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Amazon Studios The New Borat Movie Is Less a Satire Than an Exposé
The bumbling provocateur who stormed the United States in 2006 has now become an unlikely voice of reason.
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HBO Max The Radical Exposure of Amy Schumer
The miniseries Expecting Amy captures the comedian’s complicated pregnancy with extreme honesty.
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Hulu Palm Springs Is the Comedy of the Summer
The new Hulu movie is about feeling endlessly trapped—and finding happiness anyway.
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Getty / The Atlantic One of America’s Fiercest Media Critics Is Back With a Warning
Jon Stewart on his new satirical film, Irresistible, and the simplistic narratives that fuel the U.S. political system
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Merie W. Wallace / HBO Insecure Is Finally Growing Up
Four seasons in, Issa Rae’s HBO show is becoming the friendship study it was always trying to be.
