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Join NOW!Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? A Bad Idea I’m About to Do. I Feel Bad About My Neck. The titles of comedy books almost make a good blog post just by themselves. But if you want to learn more about books to laugh to, check out this Splitsider list, “The Ultimate Comedy Library.” It […]
...moreBlythe Robertson unpacks David Foster Wallace’s thoughts, and impacts, on American comedy for Splitsider. Wallace often worried about the overwhelming amount of irony on television – talking heads poking fun at those watching the show while viewers laugh along at themselves, neither party doing much to fix their apparent boredom with the shallowness of the […]
...moreOur intrepid managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, is out on the road with LA-based comic Kyle Kinane. Together they are traversing the American landscape, road-tripping and city-hopping for Kyle’s Great Mistakes tour. Isaac’s keeping us updated via a steady stream of dispatches on Splitsider. Here is the first installment that documents the LA-Las Vegas leg of […]
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