The worst part about watching a bad comedy is that—usually!— it’s pretty easy to make someone laugh. Just bonk someone on the head, rip the carpet out from under them, or send them straight through into a glass wall. Time-tested slapstick! Buster Keaton fell on his ass so many times on screen that his movies were hilarious even without sound. Nowadays, it feels like you should bonk someone on the head just for trying to write a funny movie. What happened? Did we forget how? It’s time to get back to the drawing board. Below, we’ve rounded up the 50 best comedy movies of all time. |
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Your new favorite running buddy is right here. |
| Understanding what happened to my brain after a psilocybin experience—and what it means for psychedelics in America. |
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In late April, I got the news that my debut novel sold. The book represented twenty years of learning and grinding, hustling and sweating. I was as proud as I’d ever been, but I didn’t carry out my vision in the bar. Something even bigger was about to happen in my life. Less than two weeks after the news of the book’s sale hit the trades, Lulu, my first child, was born in that hospital on the Upper East Side. After leaving my sleeping wife and child, I headed south from the hospital toward JG Melon on Third Avenue. I’ve been going there for nearly as long as I’ve been of legal drinking age. The first time I went I didn’t even realize it was a local institution; I just thought it was a perfect bar. |
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You don’t have to have a Y chromosome, or be a father, to help bring up a man. |
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Okay, this is it. I’ve had all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more. From theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel: Donald Trump on Thursday called Milwaukee, where he will be declared the Republican nominee for president this summer, a “horrible city.” Talk about the man who came to dinner. This put Wisconsin Republicans in a terrible bind. The state’s GOP loves to run thinly veiled racist ads against Milwaukee, but this is a national deal, and the state’s Republican congressional delegation was thrown into a conniption fit. |
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