Comedy
BitchWatch: 9 Comedy Specials to Help You Feel Less Alone This Holiday Season
Because we all deserve a laugh right about now.
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Sex Workers Are No Longer the Butt of the Joke. They’re Making Them.
Sex-worker comedians allow audiences to see erotic labor through the lens of the people who actually do it.
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“Grace and Frankie” Expands Its World, but Loses Insight into the Women at Its Center
Grace and Frankie is at its best when it follows its tried and true formula.
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“Like a Boss” Takes Down a Girlboss, But Loses Its Sense of Humor
Like a Boss has a message that’s both confusing and unfunny.
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Woke Jokes: 7 Comedy Specials That Transformed Stand-Up in the 2010s
The 2010s were a transformative time for comedy, both for better, and for worse.
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Scared Silly: Jenny Slate’s “Stage Fright” Gives New Meaning to the Phrase “Standing up to Fear”
Stage Fright is a distillation of how we live with and confront fear, and the lifelong process—and joy—of overcoming it.
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A Heartbreaking Loss: “Tuca & Bertie” Gave Trauma Survivors a Road Map for Healing
While Tuca & Bertiei s light and comical, featuring meat drawers, edible grandmas, and runaway boobs, it’s ultimately an ode to female friendship, healing, and survival.
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In “Late Night,” Comedy’s Whiteness Is a Backdrop for a Love Story
Mindy Kaling holds onto her affinity for caustic, negging romance, focusing this energy on the creative partnership between two very different women.
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Love, Factually: “Always Be My Maybe” Updates the Rom-Com Formula with Cultural Specificity and Heart
The best rom-coms make their predictability feel not like a weakness, but like a giddily essential pleasure.
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“Always Be My Maybe” Lets Its Asian Characters Simply Exist
Always Be My Maybe features characters that are only incidentally Asian.
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