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  1. rankings
    Every Simpsons ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Segment, RankedThe Simpsons’ long-running Halloween specials are indeed a disturbing universe.
    By Joshua Kurp
  2. heroes
    The Awkward, Hostile, and Hilarious Late-Night Appearances of Charles GrodinWhether you rooted for or against him, chances were you’d be talking about him the morning after.
    By Samantha Pitchel
  3. classics
    The History of SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy“I’ll take Funny for $500, Alex.”
    By Megh Wright
  4. stand-up
    The One Word Almost Every Comedian Says in Their Netflix Special(It’s “Netflix.”)
    By Isaac Kozell
  5. vulture lists
    Every Episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, RankedIncluding the latest season, featuring Eddie Murphy, Ricky Gervais, Martin Short, and more.
    By Daniella Bondar
  6. hollywood
    What’s the Difference Between an Agent and a Manager?As the WGA-ATA dispute continues, let’s break down these two similar but separate gigs.
    By Priyanka Mattoo
  7. writers
    The Greatest TV Writers Rooms EverThe most remarkable groups of writers in the history of TV comedy.
    By Josh Kurp
  8. The 90 Best Books for Comedy FansThe ultimate comedy library.
    By Brian Boone and Jenny Nelson
  9. So You Want to Accuse Someone of Stealing Your JokeIn a business where you’re only as good as your material, joke theft is one of comedy’s high crimes. Just make sure the joke’s not on you.
    By Adam Frucci
  10. @TrumpComedyNerd’s Official Statement on Splitsider’s Move to VultureEarlier this year, we announced that Splitsider was acquired by Vulture and that we were working together to launch a new and expanded comedy […]
    By Megh Wright
  11. NBC Cancels ‘Great News’ After Two SeasonsAnother day, another cancellation. Just a day after Fox canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mick, and The Last Man on Earth, now TV Line […]
    By Megh Wright
  12. Reggie Watts on ‘Taskmaster,’ Keeping It Simple, and Spending Time with […]Reggie Watts is keeping very busy this year. In addition to his gig on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Watts recently kicked off his […]
    By Megh Wright
  13. HBO’s ‘Animals’ Returns for Season 3 in AugustHBO’s animated series Animals just got a season 3 premiere date. The network announced that the show, which was renewed a year ago, will return […]
    By Megh Wright
  14. TBS Renews ‘The Detour’ for a Fourth SeasonJason Jones and Samantha Bee’s TBS comedy The Detour will return for another season. The network just announced that it’s handed out a season 4 […]
    By Megh Wright
  15. Things Are Looking Up for the Recently Canceled ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’Thanks to an outpouring of fans after the news broke yesterday that Fox had canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it appears to be extremely likely the […]
    By Megh Wright
  16. Netflix Orders Six More Episodes of ‘The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale’Thanks to some news from Netflix today, Joel McHale gets to make more Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale. According to Variety, the streaming […]
    By Megh Wright
  17. @Arianna_Durnell’s Target Audience Is “Absolutely No One” (But Follow Her […]Arianna Durnell (@arianna_durnell) is a New York-based comedian whose writing has been published on McSweeney’s, Reductress,Women In Comedy […]
    By Karen Chee
  18. Fox Cancels ‘The Mick,’ ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ and ‘The Last Man on Earth’It’s a comedy bloodbath over at Fox today, with cancellations going out to three comedies. First up is the cancellation of Will Forte’s The […]
    By Megh Wright
  19. This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Rachel Bloom on ‘WTF’The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. […]
    By Megh Wright
  20. Check Out the Trailer for Tig Notaro’s Netflix Standup Special ‘Happy to […]Tig Notaro heads to Netflix later this month with her new standup special Happy to Be Here, and today the streaming network dropped the […]
    By Megh Wright
  21. Samantha Bee’s Friendly Reminder to the Men Attempting a #MeToo Comeback: […]During last night’s Full Frontal, Bee took some time to check in on the #MeToo movement now that multiple sexual assault allegations have […]
    By Megh Wright
  22. Michelle Wolf Joins Amber and Jenny for “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” on ‘Late […]Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a brand new “Jokes Seth […]
    By Megh Wright
  23. ‘Distance’: This Is Digital’s Next StepThe web series is dead. Okay, okay, don’t freak out, let me clarify. As Facebook and YouTube algorithms steer us toward original content […]
    By Luke Kelly Clyne
  24. NBC Renews ‘A.P. Bio’ and Adds Comedies from Mike Schur and Amy PoehlerThere’s a lot of comedy news happening at NBC this week. According to The Wrap, the network has given a season 2 renewal to freshman comedy […]
    By Megh Wright
  25. Joe Pera, Seth Meyers, and Gene the Cameraman Have a Chat on ‘Late Night’Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Joe Pera returns to chat with Seth Meyers about his new Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With […]
    By Megh Wright
  26. Andy Daly Crashes ‘Conan’ as ‘80s Game Show Host Reed NewportIt’s a tale as old as time: Man hosts ’80s game show, game show gets canceled, man wanders the Warner Brothers lot for decades after the […]
    By Megh Wright
  27. Chris Gethard’s New Book ‘Lose Well’ Is Out in OctoberChris Gethard has written a new book that’s hitting bookstores this fall. Titled Lose Well, it’s his second book following A Bad Idea I’m About […]
    By Megh Wright
  28. Adult Swim Orders ‘Three Busy Debras’ Pilot Produced by Amy PoehlerMitra Jouhari, Sandy Honig, and Alyssa Stonoha AKA Three Busy Debras just landed a pilot order at Adult Swim. The network announced today that […]
    By Megh Wright
  29. Please Relax and Enjoy This ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ TrailerJoe Pera heads to Adult Swim later this month with the premiere of his new series Joe Pera Talks With You, and this week a trailer dropped to […]
    By Megh Wright
  30. Tweet More or Eat Sh*t, Because I’m Roidin’ Up This Zoo’s Social Media […] Welcome to Hell, nimrods. This is your last day as employees of the Cincinnati Zoo and your first day as global brand ambassadors of a […]
    By Brian Boone
  31. Remembering Tiffany Haddish’s Heartbreaking and Hilarious Trip to ‘The […]Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Even more than WTF, Paul Gilmartin’s […]
    By Nathan Rabin
  32. Season 5 of ‘Arrested Development’ Premieres on May 29th Not long after Mitch Hurwitz teased that the new season of Arrested Development would drop on Netflix “real soon,” the streaming network has […]
    By Megh Wright
  33. Donald Glover Loves Singing, Hates Shirts on ‘SNL’It’s officially festival season, the time of year where celebrities appear next to each other completely out of context. Do you need to see a […]
    By Bethy Squires
  34. Wendy Steiner (@wendyasteiner) Likes Bagels and ConfidenceWendy Steiner is a Brooklyn-based Jewish-Japanese comic. While the Los Angeles suburbs raised her, living in San Francisco and New York really […]
    By Karen Chee
  35. Before ‘Rick and Morty,’ Dan Harmon Tried to Reinvent Acceptable […]The idea of entertainment as an entity separate from the internet is one that is for the most part dead. Every movie must have social media […]
    By Ramsey Ess
  36. Bill Hader and Conan O’Brien Review ‘God of War’ for “Clueless Gamer”Conan O’Brien has returned with a brand new installment of “Clueless Gamer,” and this time he’s teamed up with Bill Hader to check out the […]
    By Megh Wright
  37. ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Will End After Season 4The upcoming season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be its last, but don’t worry – it might also head to the big screen afterward. According […]
    By Megh Wright
  38. IFC Orders ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ Musical Sketch Show from Bashir Salahuddin […]Actors, writers, and frequent collaborators Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Maya & Marty, The Last O.G.) […]
    By Megh Wright
  39. This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Neil Casey on ‘The Need to Fail’The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. […]
    By Megh Wright
  40. Big ‘Conan’ News: A New Half-Hour Format Plus the Entire ‘Late Night’ NBC […]It’s been rumored since last year that TBS had plans to switch Conan O’Brien’s late night show to a half-hour format instead of an hour, and […]
    By Megh Wright
  41. Brandon Wardell Is Releasing an ASMR Comedy Album Next MonthStandup Brandon Wardell must be extremely aware of how many views ASMR videos get on YouTube, because he’s tapping into that crinkle- and […]
    By Megh Wright
  42. Mike Myers Makes the Perfect Dr. Harold Bornstein on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’Donald Trump’s former physician Dr. Harold Bornstein is back in the news this week after admitting that the bizarre 2015 letter he released […]
    By Megh Wright
  43. Tim Baltz Preaches for the Church of MAGA on ‘The Opposition’During last night’s episode of The Opposition, Jordan Klepper came to the defense of a man named Greg Piatek who recently made news after he […]
    By Megh Wright
  44. Samantha Bee on Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the WHCD: “Feminism Doesn’t […]Here’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee breaks down the bizarre way women journalists rushed to Sarah Huckabee […]
    By Megh Wright
  45. ‘From One Guy to Another’: Worth 18 MinutesComedians and longtime UCB performing partners Jackie Jennings and James Dwyer made a pledge this time last year: to spend one full day […]
    By Luke Kelly Clyne
  46. Kathy Griffin Looks Back on Her Severed Trump Head Photo Controversy and […]Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers chats with Kathy Griffin about the controversial photo she tweeted holding a […]
    By Megh Wright
  47. Hulu Orders Mindy Kaling’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and Ramy Youssef […]Hulu just announced a bunch of news, including series orders for comedies from Mindy Kaling and Ramy Youssef. First up is an order for a […]
    By Megh Wright
  48. Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon Will Cover the Royal Wedding Live as Cord […]Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon are returning as Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan to provide their expert live commentary, this time for HBO. […]
    By Megh Wright
  49. Season 5 of ‘Arrested Development’ Will Premiere “Real Soon,” and the […]Mitch Hurwitz just dropped two big Arrested Development scoops. On Twitter, Hurwitz confirmed that season 5 of the show will debut on Netflix […]
    By Megh Wright
  50. Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, and Phoebe Robinson Star in the Trailer for […]Last year, Vanessa Bayer, Gillian Jacobs, and Phoebe Robinson signed on to star in a Netflix comedy together called Ibiza, and today the […]
    By Megh Wright
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