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Jay Leno Apologizes for Decades of Anti-Asian Jokes
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Jay Leno Apologizes for Decades of Anti-Asian Jokes

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 27, 2021March 27, 2021

After a year of enduring even more hatred than before thanks to COVID-19, the Asian-American community has received an apology from a perhaps unlikely source: …

Patton Oswalt on responsibilities and apologies
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Patton Oswalt on responsibilities and apologies

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 22, 2018

Patton Oswalt sat down last month with Washington Post reporter Elahe Izadi (a comedian herself in her spare time) for a spirited conversation about what …

Episode #212: Clusterfest 2018 with Mark Normand, Roy Wood Jr., and Sasheer Zamata
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Episode #212: Clusterfest 2018 with Mark Normand, Roy Wood Jr., and Sasheer Zamata

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 18, 2018

This is a special edition of Last Things First, recorded live during Clusterfest 2018 in San Francisco. Comedy Central was kind enough to ask me …

Samantha Bee delivers an on-air mea culpa about using that other c-word on TV
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Samantha Bee delivers an on-air mea culpa about using that other c-word on TV

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 6, 2018

On tonight’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee delivered a special message following up on the backlash she’d received by calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless …

Samantha Bee and the art of the apology
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Samantha Bee and the art of the apology

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 1, 2018

Most of the official videos from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee have been scrubbed from the TBS talker’s official YouTube page. There is …

Dan Harmon apologizes for sexually harassing one of his Community writers
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Dan Harmon apologizes for sexually harassing one of his Community writers

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 12, 2018

We’re making progress. Slowly but surely, the conversations are happening. Tough as they may be. As the #MeToo reckoning enters 2018, we’re moving past accusations …

Kathy Griffin apologizes for this bloody Trump photo
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Kathy Griffin apologizes for this bloody Trump photo

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMay 31, 2017May 31, 20171

Kathy Griffin took part in a photo shoot where she held up a dummy head covered in blood, conceived to make you think it was …

Steve Rannazzisi talks publicly for first time about his 9/11 lie
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Steve Rannazzisi talks publicly for first time about his 9/11 lie

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 6, 2015October 7, 20151

Steve Rannazzisi spoke out for the first time in almost a month since the revelation that he’d been lying for 14 years about where he …

Taste & Sensibility, or How Soon is Too Late? from Joe Randazzo’s “The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy” (book excerpt)
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Taste & Sensibility, or How Soon is Too Late? from Joe Randazzo’s “The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy” (book excerpt)

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 4, 2015September 4, 2015

You’ve seen so many comedians making it big in the 2010s via stand-up comedy, via Twitter, via YouTube, heck even via Vines and Instagrams. You’ve seen …

Jim Norton’s Keynote Address at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2014: “I Insincerely Apologize”
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Jim Norton’s Keynote Address at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2014: “I Insincerely Apologize”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 25, 2014July 26, 2014

Always outspoken but perhaps never quite as sincerely forthright without needing a hard laugh until now, Jim Norton provided the timeliest keynote address yet at …

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