The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Eurydice Dixon was just another young aspiring comedian walking home from a gig last week when she was tragically murdered. A 19-year-old man was arrested the following day with her rape and murder on a Melbourne soccer pitch last Tuesday night. Her last text to a friend, heartbreakingly ironic: “I’m …
A jury of seven men and five women in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has returned a guilty verdict today against Bill Cosby on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. It was a retrial held a year after the initial criminal case brought forward by Andrea Constand. The jury had deadlocked last …
After all these years, the first criminal trial charging comedy legend Bill Cosby with drugging and molesting at least one woman against her will has ended quicker than anyone expected in a mistrial. The trial began June 5, went to the jury after a six-minute defense, and ended Saturday after …
If you’re a comedian or Facebook friends with a comedian, undoubtedly your Facebook News Feed has seen a flood of statuses about rape, rape culture, social media justice, police and prosecution effectiveness versus lynch mobs, mansplaining, White Knighting and more in the past five days. As a journalist covering comedy, …
To mark yesterday’s world premiere of Woody Allen’s latest movie, Cafe Society, at the Cannes Film Festival, French comedic actor Laurent Lafitte jokingly compared Allen to another director, Roman Polanski. “You’ve shot so many of your films here in Europe, and yet in the U.S., you haven’t even been convicted …
Bill Cosby gave young women Quaaludes to make them vulnerable enough so he could have sex with them. Time and time again. Cosby admitted as much under oath in a September 2005 deposition when he was being sued by one of his rape victims — a case later settled out …
Good Morning America and ABC News reporter Linsey Davis sat down with Bill Cosby and the Black Belt Community Foundation, who had invited Cosby to Alabama to talk to students and about education needs near Selma. Davis asked Cosby how he’d approach any backlash from students or the community, seeing …
Someone told Woody Allen that all of these bad headlines surrounding Bill Cosby meant it was a good time to come back out into the spotlight? Amazon Studios today announced a deal with Allen for a full season of Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series and Allen’s first, which he’ll write …
Today’s lesson: SMH not only stands for Shaking My Head, but also Social Media Hell. Which is where comedy legend Bill Cosby found himself Monday night when his Twitter feed suggested, whether naively or cavalierly, “Go ahead. Meme me!” With a link to a #CosbyMeme generator and suggestion box that …
Say what you will about the legitimacy of rape jokes, but at least we all can agree that prison rape is hilarious, right ladies? Because it’s not about you. It’s about horrible men convicted of doing horrible things, having something horrible done to them. Cheeky bastards! John Oliver has crafted …
