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The thing about family, Josh Johnson wants me to know, as he scoots closer and angles his phone in my direction, is that they suck at boundaries. It’s morning in New York City, a pinch shy of noon, and we are on the subject of family because Johnson’s phone won’t …

Alex English should be on summer break when I ring him on a Thursday afternoon, unwinding from another hit season of SNL, but instead he’s fresh off of two stand-up sets in New York City, and is last-minute packing for a red-eye flight to London, where he will take the …

As if he didn’t have enough to deal with amid his beef with Kendrick Lamar (or perhaps to distract from it), Drake showed up on a remix of parody rapper Snowd4y’s cover of Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah,” called “Wah Gwan Delilah,” that has everyone … perplexed? Annoyed? Laughing? …

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Jon Favreau wrote a movie. It was called Swingers. It was about a group of twentysomething dudes—played by Favreau, Vince Vaughn, and Ron Livingston—trying to make it as actors. Toward the movie’s end, Favreau’s character, the affable Mike, is telling a woman he just …

The estate of George Carlin has filed a federal lawsuit against the comedy podcast Dudesy for an hour-long comedy special sold as an AI-generated impression of the late comedian. But a representative for one of the podcast hosts behind the special now admits that it was actually written by a …

There’s a scene in Nathan Lane’s new movie in which the beloved icon of stage and screen grabs a sack of Boar’s Head deli lunch meat, chews it up, and spits it into the face of two writhing, grotesque, skeleton-like puppets. They’re the Sewer Boys, and alongside Lane, Megans Mullally …