This is a story of getting burned out on comedy and learning to love it again with an enjoyment story that comes through accepting limits.

Why do something so frivolous as telling stories when human lives may be at stake? Shouldn’t we be in the business of… well, surviving?

Tomi Adeyemi’s success with Children of Blood and Bone is especially important for our cultural moment.

Jesus and John Wayne is history as confession, history as lament, a type of history that hopes in a God who never puts us to shame, even as hope in America does.

Wade and Kevin see what Rom Hanks serves up with Greyhound, then turn their attentionAndrew Patterson’s 1950s-set sci-fi flick The Vast of Night.

It’s hard to acknowledge when we’ve made a racist or sexist joke. It contradicts stories we tell ourselves; “I wouldn’t make a racist joke” or “I couldn’t be sexist.”

Walker described the lamp as “Freudian” and evocative of the primordial ooze, because apparently no one bothered to take him aside and say, “It’s just a lamp, Ed.”

First off, it’s named for the unit of measurement large enough to record melting polar ice. Gigaton wears doom on the album sleeve.

This week we review Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth and the Will Ferrell comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

Though Run the Jewels’ vision of a world that is not dominated by division and greed might be imperfect, it is a vision of hope.

What can we joke about? How far is too far? Our answers tend to be personal, which makes it hard to discuss why some humor is offensive.

COVID-19 forces us to ask, who deserves authority and how is that authority granted?

The Quarry suggests that the awareness of our own sinfulness violently awakens us to our need for a new life.

We look at the latest cinematic political satire from former Daily Show host Jon Stewart and celebrate the 45th birthday of Jaws with a retro review.

Behind each laugh is a lot of work. What is the work of humor, and what does that mean for us as we create and cultivate our own laughs?

These hearings, like everything McCarthy had done up to this point, were fueled mainly by McCarthy’s desire to further his own career.