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The Healing Buzz of "Drunk History"
Sweet, filthy, and forgiving, it’s a corrective to the authoritative, we-know-better tone of most historical nonfiction.
by
Emily Nussbaum
via
The New Yorker
on
July 16, 2018
The TV That Created Donald Trump
Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.
by
Emily Nussbaum
via
The New Yorker
on
July 31, 2017
Fandom's Great Divide
The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.
by
Emily Nussbaum
via
The New Yorker
on
March 31, 2014
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Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy. He’s Killed Our Stupid Idea of Comedy.
You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot.
by
Andrew Kahn
via
Slate
on
July 19, 2017
Together With the Kuklapolitans
In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.
by
Jacqui Shine
via
Slate
on
February 16, 2015