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💡Attention Humorism paid subscribers! If you got a new credit card while this newsletter was on hiatus, please take a minute to update your payment information. Thank you! Today I’d like to share the first of hopefully many conversations with people working in and around comedy. This one is

💡Attention Humorism paid subscribers! If you got a new credit card while this newsletter was on hiatus, please take a minute to update your payment information. Thank you!Subscribe now This week GQ profiled a fellow named Jake Novak. You may be familiar with his work. Last June he released

Conceptualizing "network silence."

Upgrade for $6 Like everyone else on the internet, I enjoyed Kyle Gordon’s video “Planet of the Bass,” featuring himself and Audrey Trullinger. I am not remotely acquainted with the genre of music it’s parodying, which I understand to be called Europop or possibly Eurodance (do NOT tell

I had read about but never watched Joe Pesci’s SNL monologue the week after Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of the Pope during her set. Well, this week I watched it. “I'll tell you one thing, she was very lucky it wasn't my

In December 2021 the right-wing influencer Andrew Tate flew to Austin, Texas and appeared on the podcast Your Mom’s House, hosted by the comedians  Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky. Their conversation took place a year before Romanian authorities arrested Tate on suspicion of rape and human trafficking, and 18

Upgrade for $6 Humorism readers, I have a special treat for you today: a rare artifact from comedy’s history and indeed American history, never before seen by the public eye. Fresh from the results of a FOIA request I sent to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library nine months