Note: This post includes spoilers for “Don’t Look Up.” What makes us laugh depends a great deal on our own perspective. The question of whether comedy is dead has been asked around the internet in the last few years. While “Don’t Look Up” may be a disaster movie, it is…

Let’s start at the beginning: Ted Lasso was the best thing I watched last year. From the snappy writing to the wide-ranging cast of complex, fully developed characters, it was an original and terrific piece of television. But it was more than just that. Season 1 was an absolute godsend…

One of the very first scenes of the opening episode of “Arrested Development” delivers one of the most enduring and definitional lines of the entire series. …

All the way back in the summer of 2016, about a month after Donald Trump had clinched the GOP nomination for president, a video surfaced. While I can’t even begin to imagine how many things I’ve seen and forgotten since then, I doubt I’ll ever forget this. In Arizona, a…

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread in the United States and more and more institutions are taking precautionary measures to avoid a more serious outbreak. Meanwhile, the only changes Major League Baseball has made to date are to discourage players from signing autographs and to close its clubhouses to…

Dear Mr. Bloomberg, If you’ve finished collecting and reaffixing your organs following Wednesday night’s disembowelment at the Democratic debate in Nevada, I’d like to offer a bit of advice. You want to help save democracy in America in 2020? Drop out of the race and spend your money buying Sinclair…

Perhaps you’ve heard: Popeye’s has a new chicken sandwich. Let’s get a few things out of the way. Yes, I’ve had the sandwich, a good 10 days ago, before it became A THING (I opted for the spicy version, which just means the mayo has some cayenne pepper in it). …

Our culture’s obsession over celebrity has always irked me, particularly the performative grief over the death of famous faces of no particular accomplishment, who nearly everyone publicly mourning them had never met. It always felt inauthentic, full of projection and some measure of selfishness, inserting oneself into a stranger’s tragedy. …

For Mom As a kid, my mom always made me feel smart. I only ever really felt stupid when I was forced to wear something I hated for a particular occasion. …