The Apple TV+ show takes what might be the oldest sci-fi premise there is — what does it mean to be human? — and mines it for comedy gold.
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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic keeps dorkiness close to his heart
“Weird Al” Yankovic has no trouble tapping into his dorkiness. Perhaps that’s the secret to his decades-spanning appeal. On this week’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin, he talks about aging into his weirdness.
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Comedians will celebrate Conan O’Brien at the Kennedy Center on Sunday. Will they take on Trump?
Conan O’Brien will receive one of the most coveted awards in comedy on Sunday — but the annual event takes place at a tense time for the Kennedy Center.
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The SNL 50th anniversary special: What worked and what didn’t
The “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary prime-time special was full of sketches and nostalgia, and stretched over more than three hours. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans breaks it down.
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Conan O’Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize for comedy
“I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot,” O’Brien said in a release from The Kennedy Center.
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Michelle Buteau on the advice she’s glad she ignored
On Wild Card this week, Michelle Buteau opens up advice she was smart to ignore and why getting married is the biggest risk she’s ever taken.
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Ilana Glazer appreciates how becoming a parent forced them to draw some lines
Ilana Glazer is grateful for the limits of parenthood. On Wild Card this week, Glazer opens up about how parenthood has allowed them to draw boundaries and why they increasingly love their alone time.
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Comic D.J. Demers jokes a lot about hearing loss — but won’t be ‘the hearing aid guy’
Demers was diagnosed with hearing loss when he was 4 years old. As a kid, he saw nothing funny about it — but then he learned to make people laugh. He just dropped his fourth stand-up special.
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Opinion: Bob Newhart showed us the extraordinary in the ordinary
NPR’s Scott Simon remembers understated comedian and actor Bob Newhart, who died this week at the age of 94.
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Is climate change funny?
At Possibly we think a lot about how to make complicated climate science and policy easy to understand. And we’re not the only ones! Some comedians are playing an important role in re-thinking how we talk about climate change.
