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Ellen DeGeneres' Final Special Is All Ego, No Substance
By Clare Martin September 25, 2024 | 1:15pm
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Have I Got News For You Doesn’t Have A Mean Bone In Its Body
By Dylan Fugel September 19, 2024 | 3:49pm
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Rhys Nicholson's Huge Big Party Congratulations! Lives Up to Its Celebratory Title
By Rory Doherty August 29, 2024 | 1:33pm
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Adam Sandler: Love You Masterfully Brings All the Laughs and Feels
By Will DiGravio August 27, 2024 | 12:34pm
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Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip Has Plenty Laughs, But Fumbles the Dismount
By Rory Doherty August 15, 2024 | 12:30pm
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Conner O'Malley's Rap World Is the Manic Movie of the Summer
By Will DiGravio August 14, 2024 | 5:18pm
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Laura Merli's Debut Special Belly Slappin' Fun Focuses on the Funny
By Clare Martin August 13, 2024 | 1:55pm
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Abby Govindan Exists in the Context of Everything
By Felicia Reich August 12, 2024 | 1:27pm
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Steph Curry Shows Off Comedy Skills in Mr. Throwback
By Will DiGravio August 8, 2024 | 7:42am
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Joe Rogan Is Up to His Usual Antics in Burn the Boats
By Brooke Knisley August 7, 2024 | 3:16pm
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Reggie Watts Relies Too Much on Nostalgia in New Special Never Mind
By Clare Martin July 26, 2024 | 11:23am
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Josh Glanc Captures the Fringe Spirit in New Special Vrooom Vrooom
By Clare Martin July 19, 2024 | 10:21am
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Elaine May's Shaping of American Comedy Chronicled in Essential New Biography
By Will DiGravio July 16, 2024 | 12:37pm
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Sausage Party: Foodtopia Is Undercooked
By Rendy Jones July 10, 2024 | 4:38pm
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Brad Howe's Live at the Legion Is as Cool and Refreshing as a Light Beer
By Clare Martin July 9, 2024 | 2:01pm
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Rachel Scanlon Radiates Joy in Gay Fantasy
By Clare Martin July 3, 2024 | 2:28pm
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Group Therapy Falls Short of Its Compelling Premise
By Will DiGravio July 3, 2024 | 12:20pm
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Hannah Einbinder Gives It Her All in Everything Must Go
By Clare Martin June 21, 2024 | 11:56am
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Fantasmas Shows Us the World Through Julio Torres' Eyes
By Reuben Baron June 3, 2024 | 2:22pm
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Nikki Glaser's Someday You'll Die: Sometimes She Kills
By Will DiGravio June 1, 2024 | 11:30am
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Comedian Dan Licata's Special Is Not Just For the Boys
By Clare Martin May 31, 2024 | 12:49pm
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Clare O'Kane Gets Silly and Sincere on Her Sophomore Comedy Album
By Clare Martin May 23, 2024 | 12:07pm
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Comedian Paul Scheer Reveals Past Trauma in Touching and Hilarious Memoir
By Jack Probst May 21, 2024 | 12:43pm
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Jake Gyllenhaal Hosts a Confident, Funny SNL Season Finale
By Dennis Perkins May 19, 2024 | 5:18am
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Conner O'Malley's Stand Up Solutions Is a Feverish Masterpiece
By Clare Martin May 16, 2024 | 8:49am
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Maya Rudolph Puts a Mother's Day SNL on Her Back
By Dennis Perkins May 12, 2024 | 5:19am
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Daniel Van Kirk Makes His Grandma Proud with Rose Gold
By Clare Martin May 10, 2024 | 12:26pm
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Dua Lipa Pulls Double Duty on a So-So SNL
By Dennis Perkins May 5, 2024 | 4:58am
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Hacks Fires On All Cylinders for Its Third (and Best) Season
By Clare Martin May 2, 2024 | 2:14pm
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Kate Willett's Hilarious Special Loopholes Basks in Life's Messiness
By Clare Martin April 29, 2024 | 11:20am
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Amy Bugg’s Debut Comedy Special Is a DIY Delight
By Clare Martin April 16, 2024 | 1:23pm
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SNL Hopes You Like Watching Ryan Gosling Lose It
By Dennis Perkins April 14, 2024 | 4:12am
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Ian Abramson Pulls Off a Winning, Weird Debut with The Heist
By Clare Martin April 12, 2024 | 9:59am
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Ellie Hino Gets Delightfully Dirty on Her Debut Album Soft Bones
By Clare Martin April 8, 2024 | 3:08pm
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Kristen Wiig Shines in a Sea of Stars on a Delightful SNL
By Dennis Perkins April 7, 2024 | 4:24am
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Liz Miele Is Familiar and Fun on Murder Sheets
By Clare Martin April 4, 2024 | 6:27am
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Demetri Deconstructed Is Wholly Magnificent
By Clare Martin April 2, 2024 | 2:20pm
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Ramy Youssef's a Charmer, but Saturday Night Live Stays Dull
By Dennis Perkins March 31, 2024 | 4:52am
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Good One Explores the Messy Process Behind Well-Crafted Comedy
By Clare Martin March 28, 2024 | 1:21pm
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Tig Notaro's Hello Again Is Hilarious, Even Though It Doesn't Stick the Landing
By Clare Martin March 27, 2024 | 2:06pm
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Humanity Meets Humor in Ramy Youssef's More Feelings
By Clare Martin March 21, 2024 | 4:59pm
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We Want More Girls5eva
By Clare Martin March 18, 2024 | 2:10pm
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Rory Scovel Masters His Craft on Religion, Sex, and a Few Things in Between
By Clare Martin March 15, 2024 | 12:54pm
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Gender Agenda Has Something for Everyone (Except Bigots)
By Clare Martin March 13, 2024 | 11:10am
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SNL Benefits From Josh Brolin's Weird Intensity
By Dennis Perkins March 10, 2024 | 4:34am
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Kiwi Comedian Guy Montgomery Serves Up a Stealth Existential Anxiety Special
By Rory Doherty March 6, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Kyle Kinane Nails It Once Again with Dirt Nap
By Clare Martin March 4, 2024 | 1:57pm
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Sydney Sweeney and Saturday Night Live Are Equally Dull
By Dennis Perkins March 3, 2024 | 4:56am
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Shane Gillis Finally Gets His Predictably Dire SNL Debut
By Dennis Perkins February 25, 2024 | 6:04am
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Jenny Slate Is Bigger and Better Than Ever in Seasoned Professional
By Clare Martin February 23, 2024 | 1:02pm
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Taylor Tomlinson's New Special Have It All Feels Forced
By Rory Doherty February 14, 2024 | 10:53am
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Ayo Edebiri Is a Delight, Even If SNL Sabotages Her Goodwill
By Dennis Perkins February 4, 2024 | 5:02am
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Goodbye to All That: Curb Your Enthusiasm's Final Season
By Felicia Reich February 2, 2024 | 12:59pm
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Laurie Kilmartin Does Dark Humor Right in Cis Woke Grief Slut
By Clare Martin January 29, 2024 | 2:16pm
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Dakota Johnson Is Too Placid To Bring SNL to a Boil
By Dennis Perkins January 28, 2024 | 4:35am
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In the Know Is a Hyperspecific and Thoroughly Funny Parody of Public Radio Egos
By Rory Doherty January 25, 2024 | 11:26am
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Get On Your Knees Edges Towards Greatness
By Michelle Cohn January 23, 2024 | 9:09am
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Saturday Night Live Wants You to Know Host Jacob Elordi Is Very Handsome
By Dennis Perkins January 21, 2024 | 4:18am
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Dusty Slay Becomes an Instant Classic with His Netflix Special Workin' Man
By Clare Martin January 17, 2024 | 12:36pm
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Pete Davidson Savors Low-Hanging Fruit on His New Special Turbo Fonzarelli
By Clare Martin January 9, 2024 | 12:49pm
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Mike Birbiglia Gets Older, Slippery When Wet
By Felicia Reich December 18, 2023 | 12:40pm
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Kate McKinnon Brings All the Funny Ladies to a Cozy Christmas SNL
By Dennis Perkins December 17, 2023 | 4:53am
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Adam Driver's Intensity Props Up a Wobbly Saturday Night Live
By Dennis Perkins December 10, 2023 | 4:21am
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Emma Stone Gets a Jacket as She Lifts Her Fifth SNL
By Dennis Perkins December 3, 2023 | 4:46am
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Don't Underestimate Dina Hashem
By Clare Martin November 27, 2023 | 12:54pm
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Jason Momoa's Charms Buoy an Otherwise Soggy Saturday Night Live
By Dennis Perkins November 19, 2023 | 5:03am
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Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Reminds Us Why SNL Movies Rarely Work
By Clare Martin November 17, 2023 | 11:27am
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Timothée Chalamet's Second SNL Hosting Gig Is Just as Amiable
By Dennis Perkins November 12, 2023 | 4:21am
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Max's Rap Sh!t Returns for a Hilarious and Heartfelt Second Season
By Kaiya Shunyata November 9, 2023 | 10:54am
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Heather McMahan Knocks It Out Of The Park in Son I Never Had
By Felicia Reich November 8, 2023 | 3:32pm
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The Curse Review: Fielder-Safdie-Stone Satire of White Guilt Is an Exercise in Emotional Masochism
By Brianna Zigler November 6, 2023 | 3:01am
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Jon Glaser's Debut Comedy Album Is Paws-itively Hilarious
By Clare Martin November 2, 2023 | 11:43am
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Natasha Vaynblat Is Silly and Searingly Smart on Her Debut Album We're All Dads Here
By Clare Martin October 30, 2023 | 1:37pm
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Saturday Night Live Excels with Unlikely Host Nate Bargatze
By Dennis Perkins October 29, 2023 | 4:43pm
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Aparna Nancherla Proves Herself an Unreliable Narrator in Debut Essay Collection
By Felicia Reich October 24, 2023 | 4:16pm
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Host and Musical Guest Bad Bunny Is All Charm on a Fun SNL
By Dennis Perkins October 22, 2023 | 1:02pm
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Joe Pera's Stand-up Special Slow & Steady Is a Rare Island of Decency and Joy
By Garrett Martin October 20, 2023 | 3:56pm
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Reggie Watts Sparks Creativity in His Memoir Great Falls, MT
By Jack Probst October 19, 2023 | 2:35pm
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A Handy Pete Davidson Ushers in SNL's Delayed 49th Season
By Dennis Perkins October 15, 2023 | 10:30am
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Beth Stelling Looks Homeward on New Special If You Didn't Want Me Then
By Robert Ham October 11, 2023 | 12:52pm
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Paramount+’s Frasier Will Restore Your Faith in Revivals
By Amy Amatangelo October 9, 2023 | 9:00am
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We Have Nothing But Respect For Sam Jay's New Special On Max
By Felicia Reich September 29, 2023 | 4:17pm
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Krapopolis: Not Krap, But a Mere Mortal Compared to Harmon’s God-Tier Creations
By Rendy Jones September 26, 2023 | 12:57pm
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Michelle Wolf's New Special It's Great to Be Here Is Funny But Flawed
By Clare Martin September 14, 2023 | 12:25pm
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Derrick Brown Marries Poetry and Comedy on His Exuberant Debut
By Clare Martin September 12, 2023 | 3:13pm
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Sasheer Zamata's New Special The First Woman Brims with Informative Hilarity
By Clare Martin September 8, 2023 | 9:28am
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Greg Proops Provides Effortless Eloquence on His New Album French Drug Deal
By Clare Martin September 5, 2023 | 11:35am
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Liz Barrett Reminds Us to Take It Easy on Her Wry Debut Gettin' By
By Clare Martin August 24, 2023 | 10:10am
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Killing It's Remarkable Second Season Loses Snakes But Finds Its Fangs
By Rendy Jones August 18, 2023 | 12:50pm
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Let Me Be a Demon in Chris Fleming's Hell
By Michelle Cohn August 17, 2023 | 11:55am
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Síomha Hennessy Doesn't Play It Safe in The Coil's Lament
By Rory Doherty August 15, 2023 | 2:13pm
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Papp Johnson Provides Leisurely Laughs on His Debut Album Timeless
By Clare Martin August 14, 2023 | 11:47am
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Kyle Kinane's Shocks and Struts Is a Rough-Hewn Gem
By Clare Martin August 3, 2023 | 12:51pm
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Maria Bamford's Goofy Brilliance Shines on Her New Album CROWD-PLEASER
By Clare Martin July 24, 2023 | 1:28pm
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Miracle Workers: End Times Tackles the Apocalypse with the Anthology's Signature Charm and Creativity
By Rendy Jones July 13, 2023 | 11:03am
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Jacob Balshin Makes a Conversational, Candid Debut with Thirty and Breathing Funny
By Clare Martin July 10, 2023 | 2:56pm
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Marcella Arguello's Debut Special Bitch, Grow Up! Is Characteristically Fearless
By Clare Martin July 3, 2023 | 1:16pm
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John Early Sees Right Through You
By Michelle Cohn June 16, 2023 | 11:29am
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Emergency Contact Feels Like Amy Schumer’s Gift to Her Core Millennial Audience
By Tomasz Lesniara June 13, 2023 | 10:19am
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Always Sunny’s 16th Season Proves Idiocy Doesn’t Age
By Rendy Jones June 9, 2023 | 2:04pm
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I'm An Entertainer Is Wanda Sykes at Her Best
By Clare Martin June 7, 2023 | 1:34pm
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I Think You Should Leave's Third Season Is Increasingly Formulaic, and Without a Hit
By Shane Ryan May 30, 2023 | 10:10am
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Jimmy O. Yang's Guess How Much? Is an Undercooked Effort
By Clare Martin May 26, 2023 | 11:48am
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Platonic Tests the Limits of How Fun It Is to Watch Two Friends Stumble Through Their Midlife Crises
By Tara Bennett May 23, 2023 | 2:21pm
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Emma Arnold's Storytelling Skills Shine in Her New Special Myself
By Clare Martin May 12, 2023 | 10:29am
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A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou Delivers Half-Hearted Laughs
By Clare Martin May 9, 2023 | 12:08pm
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Hannah Gadsby Goes Frothy and Feel-Good with Something Special
By Clare Martin May 5, 2023 | 11:06am
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Hannah Gadsby's Sophomore Comedy Special Is No Nanette
By Garrett Martin May 2, 2023 | 12:20pm
