Now that spring is close, with warm weather and the beach on the horizon, and free time, I know that many of my dear male readers would appreciate some tips on how to conquer the girl of their dreams. Especially…
Six years have passed since Hannah Gadsby, the plus-sized lesbian stand-up from Tasmania, became world famous. Her debut Netflix special, Nanette, had the critics salivating. The premise was brilliant — not comically brilliant, mind you, but politically brilliant. After serving…
The Hollywood Reporter dispatched its senior editor of diversity and inclusion — you ever wonder why so many publications fail? — to review Shane Gillis on Saturday Night Live as “meh.” The Daily Beast and NPR declared that Gillis “bombed.”…
Jay Leno no longer delves into political humor. He told Piers Morgan: “I just stopped doing politics in my act altogether because, you know, when I did The Tonight Show, the idea was you made fun of both sides equally.……
This year’s Golden Globes, once the most lighthearted and humorous award show in the Hollywood pantheon, reminded us just how irrelevant — and unfunny — the entertainment industry has become. What is often dubbed “Hollywood’s best party” quickly became its…
When I was a cute, sweet little boy back in 1960s Brooklyn, every Friday night after family Shabbat dinner I would lie on the floor in our living room. My dad would be lying right there, nearby on a couch,…
Jerry Seinfeld, a comedian and actor best known for writing and acting in the popular ’90s sitcom Seinfeld, saw his stand-up show last Friday in Syracuse, New York, protested by hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. The protestors, who gathered outside the…
The main problem with those on the postmodern Left is that they take things too seriously. If they were joking around, getting drunk, and sleeping off hangovers all day, they wouldn’t have time to legislate nonsense and limit freedoms, and…
It’s a phenomenon as old as human culture itself. Il Paradiso represented a falling-off from Il Purgatorio. Paradise Regained wasn’t quite up there with Paradise Lost. Twain’s later Tom Sawyer books don’t hold a candle to the original adventures of…
Hannah Gadsby’s new Netflix special, rather literal-mindedly entitled Something Special, comes five years after the chunky lesbian stand-up comic from Tasmania skyrocketed to international fame with her first Netflix outing, Nanette. Like Something Special, Nanette was billed as a comedy…