FUNNY WOMEN: What Does It Mean When a Girl Is Quiet?
When a girl isn’t smiling, watch out! She could be about to explode.
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Humor
FUNNY WOMEN: Welcome to The Pink Peony, a Newsfeed for Women
Ladies, we hear you. You can stop calling, emailing, and sending us your profanity-filled invectives.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Manic Pixie Dream Girl, The Spin-Offs
Time for a flip of the gender script!
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Having a Female Orgasm During the Trump Administration
“I am wondering if politics affect your sex life.”
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Creating New Possibilities: Talking with Nato Green
Comedian Nato Green discusses performing political standup, revolutionaries, and the way forward for tired capital-L Leftists.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Lifetime Network’s New Channel for Men
Mark your calendars, gentlemen—and watch your backs!
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Hey Ladies in Waiting
I know lots of people/the international press is making a huge deal out of everything, but it’s still just me, your girl Meghan, and my fiancé, His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales.
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What to Read When You Want to Read Funny Women
Sometimes the truth hurts. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have to hear it, and all the better if we can couch those painful truths amid laughter.
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Five Rejection Letters for Privileged Men
“New mag, who dis?”
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Nominations for the First Annual Woke Men Awards
The most important night for fragile male egos is nearly upon us.
...moreThe Times Issues Human Family Holiday Guidelines for the Newsroom
We believe that to remain the world’s best news organization, we must allow journalists time with these human families.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard
In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she’ll be performing this week.
...moreExistential Ménage-à-Trois
Andy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. “Camus was the new kid on the block, confronted by the great metropolitan circle of critics and publishers and philosophers around Sartre – and yet he could score over the master with […]
...moreYe Olde Fart Jokes
Meanwhile in England, a troupe of 24 modern day pilgrims re-enacted Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, walking the 1637 pilgrimage route and raising money for the National Literacy Trust. The group stopped at the landmarks mentioned in the tale and each pilgrim told their assigned character’s story with full audience participation, anachronistic twists, and sock puppeteering; the […]
...moreSugar’s Identity Revealed?
Walter Green, genius designer behind the original Write Like a Motherfucker logo, takes a stab at Sugar’s true identity.
...moreWilson/Huggins: Kissing America’s Heart
Last month I announced my candidacy for Office of the President of the United States of America.
...moreIs Me Really Monster?
Via McSweeneys: “When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can’t stand looking in mirror—fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don’t think me is monster. Me just furry blue person who love cookies too much. Me no […]
...morePhoto Studio Tragedies
Isn’t that how we all feel sometimes? More here.
...moreRejected
Artist Hally McGehean has been selected for Time Out New York’s list of hot “spring singles.” Now usually we’d never link to a piece like that, but we like this one… mainly because Hally has been rejecting our managing editor since he was 17. Update: Also on the list? Author Aryn Kyle, who recently read […]
...moreHow to Promote Your Book
Alina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.
...moreLike a Molotov Cocktail… But Funny
Three of our favorite comedians, W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito, are unleashing a guerrilla stand-up comedy tour on America: Laughter Against The Machine. Click the link to learn more, and check out their sweet promotional video after the jump:
...moreBecause It’s Friday
Author and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman’s “Museum of Silly Charts.”
...moreMissing Chicago
Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities didn’t include Chi-Town and the good folks at Chicagoist have taken notice.
...more“Eugene ‘I Promise Not to Get into the Drug Scene’ Oregon”
Rumpus readers are having a good time adding cities to Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities map. Why not join in the fun?
...morePost-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities
Cartographer Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities:
...moreLucky San Francisco
Comedian and Rumpus contributor Kyle Kinane (who Zak Smith calls “the best comedian I’ve ever seen”) will be performing at the Punchline in San Francisco this weekend. If you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss out. Click here for showtimes and tickets. For those of you that don’t live in SF, check out Rumpus […]
...moreGoogle’s Morbid Algorithm
“Google confirmed widespread rumors last night that it will soon launch an invitation-only beta-testing program for its controversial Android phone App, Word Count. According to a press release posted on the Google Lab Team blog, the App will make use of the Lab Team’s recently designed algorithms and a controversial piece of software known as […]
...more“‘When It’s Not Your Turn’: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s The Wire”
We do our best to stay away from pop culture here at The Rumpus, but this gets a pass. The reason? Well it’s not about the HBO hit series The Wire, but the Victorian masterpiece by “Horatio Bucklesby Ogden” also called, weirdly, The Wire:
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