Imagine if, instead of dropping "Not Like Us," Kendrick just went on a podcast and said "Drake is not a nice man." That is what comedy beef was in 2025. We have to change that. www.vulture.com/article/come...

All of 2025's biggest comedy news stories involved comedians talking shit about each other on podcasts. It was exhausting. My humble recommendation: If comedians are going to talk shit about each other, they should do it onstage. www.vulture.com/article/come...

Every person my age watched this movie exactly one time and then proceeded to never think about it again.

Had a nice time walking Niecy Nash through the Maria Bamford Questionnaire! www.vulture.com/article/niec...

An incredible profile of Dijon that balances insights into process-y and personal stuff in a way musician profiles so often struggle to do. Shouout @paulxt.bsky.social pitchfork.com/features/cov...

This special achieves the rarest of comedic feats: an actual good joke about the word "unhoused."

People always talk about how ring cameras are bad because they create a surveillance state. No one talks about how ring cameras are bad because they ruin the knock knock joke.

You look at the Netflix and Warner Bros. thing and it's like........remember when Microsoft had to go to court for including an internet browser on windows?

Dutifully posting every article I write on Bluesky for the 12 followers who are active on here (most of whom also write for my publication) to see. Effective grassroots marketing!

Had a nice chat with Cooper Raiff about 'Hal & Harper,' how impossible it is to make independent TV, and how all movie financiers are money launderers who don't know what they're doing. www.vulture.com/article/how-...

Wrote about a few of the actors on TV who made me laugh most this year: www.vulture.com/article/best...

Comedians doing crowd work:

Spent some time letting Adam Friedland do various bits at me for NYMag's Year in Culture questionnaire. www.vulture.com/article/cult...

Wrote about why more artists aren't following in Taylor Swift's footsteps and releasing rerecorded versions of old albums, and about the artists who have. www.vulture.com/article/rach...

Spoke to the rural juror herself! www.vulture.com/article/jane...

Me when I'm conducting an interview: "oooh, they're really engaging with my questions. Listen to all these long, discursive, nuance-packed answers!" Me when I'm transcribing an interview: "Is there some RULE that says you MUST interrupt yourself 4 times per sentence???"

Groucho Marx would have really liked Berghain.

How do you hold people accountable for laughs in a society where accountability no longer exists? Wrote about this after watching Ziwe's latest interview with Eric Adams: www.vulture.com/article/ziwe...

Just got to the end of a 7-minute long comedy video on YouTube with 8 credited writers. Great to see comedy writers nabbing these coveted opportunities to write 8/7 of a YouTube vid!!

A nice young person helped me renew a permit the other day in a bureaucratic setting, and he ended every second sentence he said with the words "type thing." The interaction was very professional, and I love that part of that was him swapping out "type shit" for "type thing."

Tried out a fun little "Who's on first" riff with my 4-year-old nephew the other day about the TV show "Is it Cake?" "What are you watching?" "Is it Cake?" "Well, is it?" "Is it what?" "Cake." "Noo,'Is It Cake?'" "Well, is it?" Predictably, he hated it.

It's a shame how capitalism has narrowed how we define "productivity." It's all about "taking tangible steps to complete tasks." It's never about, "depleting all your mental energy worrying about tasks so you have none left to actually do them." Smh. Goldman Sachs.

Every creator of a TV comedy: What if the protagonist was — get this — vapid and self-obsessed? Television networks: No way! You wouldn't! Creator: It's revolutionary. Network: Here's millions of dollars.

Music straight up doesn't get better than Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo harmonizing the lyric "nothing but you" over and over.

I don't think I'd ever conceived of the world going on without D'Angelo. "Spanish Joint" forever. This sucks so much.

A couple years ago, I learned how to make a humane fruit fly trap by putting a piece of banana in a glass jar, covering it in saran wrap, and poking holes in the top with toothpicks. The problem is that nothing in my life works as well as this thing catches fruit flies.

Ugh I wish I was wearing my super baggy trousers right now in tribute.

Doing mutual aid to raise the money the Saudi Arabian government was going to pay me to cover the Riyadh comedy festival, which I was definitely 1000% offered but forfeited due to morality reasons.

Not included in this interview: The moment when Will Arnett stopped me mid-question to absolutely clock me with, "Hershal, are you Canadian?" www.vulture.com/article/will...

Nate Bargatze is a great comedian, but he was always going to be a strange fit as an awards show host. I wrote about his Emmys performance here. www.vulture.com/article/nate...

This is my favorite thing I get to work on. The way people discover comedians now removes them from all context. I love that we get to put together this list that frames their work in the proper light. Please read and enjoy! www.vulture.com/article/best...

The first person who said "have a good one" instead of "have a good day" definitely thought they cooked with that.

Had a great time watching 'Eternity.' Maybe too great, given the movie's premise. I wrote about it here. www.vulture.com/article/tiff...

Channing Tatum + Derek Cianfrance = good www.vulture.com/article/roof...

Maude Apatow's directorial debut 'Poetic License' is so much better than I was expecting it to be, but my main takeaway from it was: COOPER HOFFMAN. www.vulture.com/article/poet...

I had an impossible chat with Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin about their new HBO show 'The Chair Company,' during which they refused to tell me anything about the show, but we all laughed about how impossible the conversation was. www.vulture.com/article/tim-...

Wrote about Aziz Ansari's new movie. This Keanu Reeves guy is pretty great. Who knew? #TIFF www.vulture.com/article/in-g...

Wrote about John Early's directorial debut 'Maddie's Secret,' which is very good at being the movie it is trying to be, and also ruined my ability to watch online food videos forever. www.vulture.com/article/tiff...

Wrote about the John Candy doc premiere at TIFF, which Prime Minister Mark Carney showed up and somehow found a way to make about the tariff war. www.vulture.com/article/i-li...

Doing mutual aid to raise the money the Saudi Arabian government was going to pay me to cover the Riyadh comedy festival, which I was definitely 1000% offered but forfeited due to morality reasons.

Had a nice little chat with Adam Sandler and Dan Bulla about writing their Emmy-nominated 'SNL50' song, "50 Years." www.vulture.com/article/adam...

Had a nice little chat with Adam Sandler and Dan Bulla about writing their Emmy-nominated 'SNL50' song, "50 Years." www.vulture.com/article/adam...

I wrote a piece about how the R-word is everywhere in stand-up again. You're welcome to yell at me about it, but I would just politely ask that you read the whole article first. Thank you. www.vulture.com/article/come...

"But as the taboo surrounding it diminishes, so too does the comedic value of saying it onstage in order to shock an audience, defend its usage, or use it as I’m-one-of-the-cool-ones shorthand."

I wrote a piece about how the R-word is everywhere in stand-up again. You're welcome to yell at me about it, but I would just politely ask that you read the whole article first. Thank you. www.vulture.com/article/come...

Sometimes, I want to remember what it's like to write manually with pen. And for lack of anything better, I'll just write my name a few times. Then I think someone will see it and think, "What a narcissist. He just writes his own name over and over?" So I scribble it out until it's unrecognizable

*It's 2050. I am face-to-face with an all-knowing being. They tell me I can ask any three questions about the mysteries of the universe before I am sent back to Earth in a new body* "How did Donald Glover get Rihanna to be in 'Guava Island?' How did he do it? How?"

Life as a creative professional: Q: So, what do you do for a living? A: Well, basically, I try to monetize my thoughts Q: What thoughts? A: Oh, thoughts like “Our society is a nightmarish dystopia in which everyone’s thoughts are monetized.” Q: Oh. Hmm. I see. A: Yup

Throuple activists trying to raise awareness that wedding invitation "plus ones" are not inclusive of their lifestyle.