The Limits of Liberal Comedy
Why are liberals detrimentally unfunny, and what’s the left’s stake in comedy?
Articles in Entertainment (6)
Borat As Milgram Experiment
The film’s lesson is not so much that Americans are bigoted, but that they decline to take moral stands when it counts. The implications should disturb us all.
“Mythic Quest” and the Pursuit of Anti-Capitalist Media
In mass media’s clutter of incoherent ideology, Mythic Quest aims an anti-capitalist lens inward.
What Does it Take to Be a Frasier
Why does lowbrow entertainment about highbrow culture speak to us? Aisling McCrea explores the snooty universe of Frasier.
What Gets Lost
Ciara Moloney revisits soaps and sitcoms lost to time, and the hyper-possessive rituals of copyright.
Revisiting ‘Legends of Chamberlain Heights’
The quickly-canceled Comedy Central show was raucous, ridiculous, and controversial—and exactly right for the current moment.
A Show of Genius
Welcome to a reality show where nothing is as it seems.
Rock Bottom
What the movie Uncut Gems tells us about debt, labor, risk, and what people are willing to do in order to win.