The comedian Tim Robinson has mastered playing a certain type of guy. Robinson’s guys are prone to anger, and specifically yelling. They’re usually fuelled by a strange mix of desperation and confidence. They’re incredibly funny to watch, but you also sometimes need to avert your eyes from them, in case your attention inspires them to…
“Wow,” Judd Legum, the author of the Popular Information newsletter, wrote, screenshotting even more weird fact-checks published by the Post that night. “The Washington Post ‘fact-check’ of night one of the DNC is embarrassing.” This toothless tone-policing of criticisms against Trump was mercilessly parodied by The Onion during the debate. Fact-checking itself has become a…
I’m inspired by things that fill a void, solve a problem, or don’t already exist. Otherwise, I’m not drawn to the opportunity. I try to challenge myself and the people around me to think differently. I think a big part of success is your outlook on life. Every disappointment is an opportunity for growth. An…
Credit to her is that she trusted me, and she trusted Emily to go with it and find an honest performance. As long as you know the lines, the world you’re living in, your stakes, what’s happened before and after, and then we know the characters well enough by this point where there’s an element…
The practice of clapping to signal approval goes back at least as far as Roman times, if not earlier. But at some point, we decided we needed another, better way to say “Yes, that was good”—a kind of clapping-plus, for when simply slapping our palms together didn’t meet the occasion. And so we came up…
“The Sanders thing was something my wife and I seemed to be united on, so there was an extra urgency put on it: ‘Oh, this is something that will help me repair my marriage,’” he says, pausing often to catch his breath while laughing and crying at the memory of the ordeal. “I was trying…