A couple of nights ago, we were unpacking some kitchen appliances and gadgets at home. You’d be surprised at the amount of nonsense warnings in manuals these days. “Do not use the pressure cooker for purposes other than intended” is…
In the last few years, some of our very best comics — think Greg Giraldo, Patrice O’Neal, Gilbert Gottfried, and Norm MacDonald — have left us a lot earlier than we might have expected. I’d even include on that list…
It’s graduation season. A time when caps fly, parents cry, and students briefly feel like the world is theirs — even if the real world couldn’t care less how they feel. At Fordham University this year, something extraordinary happened. Out…
It sounds like a ridiculous question to ask. After all, this is the guy from Billy Madison and Big Daddy. A class clown in oversized shorts, an overgrown child who made yelling and crude humor into a multi-decade empire. In…
At CNN, the biggest annual tradition is its several-hours-long New Year’s Eve celebration. It used to star prime-time news anchor Anderson Cooper and one of his bosom buddies, comedienne Kathy Griffin, whose schtick mainly involved saying and doing supposedly outrageous…
My relationship with drones oscillates between two states: hatred and extreme hatred. I consider that drone shooting should be an Olympic sport, I don’t see any need why people incapable of driving inside a single lane with their cars should…
“We know folly and evil when we see it,” X-posted the great American novelist Walter Kirn last week. “That is why literature and drama speak across time and across cultures.” Cinema certainly qualifies. And comic cinema may have the longest,…
WASHINGTON — When I watched wrestler Hulk Hogan stride to the stage at Donald Trump’s Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden, I knew this would be no ordinary presidential campaign event. Wearing a neon red and yellow boa, yellow…
They got to Jerry Seinfeld. He received enough blowback from the Left that he caved. He no longer blames humorless left-wing pundits and activists for the war on comedy. Indeed, he now says he “regrets” claiming that comedy on television…
