Patton Oswalt on responsibilities and apologies
Patton Oswalt sat down last month with Washington Post reporter Elahe Izadi (a comedian herself in...
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Tag: apologies
Episode #212: Clusterfest 2018 with Mark Normand, Roy Wood Jr., and Sasheer Zamata
This is a special edition of Last Things First, recorded live during Clusterfest 2018 in San...
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Samantha Bee delivers an on-air mea culpa about using that other c-word on TV
On tonight’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee delivered a special message following up on...
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Samantha Bee and the art of the apology
Most of the official videos from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee have been...
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Dan Harmon apologizes for sexually harassing one of his Community writers
We’re making progress. Slowly but surely, the conversations are happening. Tough as they may...
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Kathy Griffin apologizes for this bloody Trump photo
Kathy Griffin took part in a photo shoot where she held up a dummy head covered in blood,...
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Steve Rannazzisi talks publicly for first time about his 9/11 lie
Steve Rannazzisi spoke out for the first time in almost a month since the revelation that...
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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)
You’ve seen so many comedians making it big in the 2010s via stand-up comedy, via Twitter,...
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Jim Norton’s Keynote Address at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2014: “I Insincerely Apologize”
Always outspoken but perhaps never quite as sincerely forthright without needing a hard laugh...
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Resolved, in 2014: Less apologies, more stand-ups standing up for themselves. Follow Natasha Leggero’s lead!
A friend asked me on New Year’s Day if I’d heard the joke Natasha Leggero had made on...
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Steve Martin and the problem with everyone deputizing themselves as “journalists” and the “Comedy Police”
Six years ago, I left behind a career as a newspaper reporter — working beats from City Hall...
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The Onion’s Oscar Live-Tweet Fail Reminds Us That Thing X Exists, Funny Remains
Did you hear the one about the satirical publication that live-Tweeted a joke on Oscars night that...
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