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New Atheism's Gender Problems
Can critical humorists help combat the sexism inherent to both religious and secular organizations?
08 Nov 2018
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Tig Notaro: Good One
A nonstop laugh fest, Good One proves that Tig Notaro is one of the funniest comedians currently on the market.
22 Aug 2011
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The Marriage Ref: NBC's Next 10 p.m. Revolution?
When NBC moved Jay Leno to ten, the network thought it was going to change the very face of TV. The goals in developing Jerry Seinfeld's The Marriage Ref were undoubtedly more modest. But Jerry may yet succeed where Jay failed.
04 Mar 2010
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The Best Of Dr. Katz
There aren’t many DVDs that can offer such a variety of established comics doing what they do best.
14 Jan 2009
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The Sarah Silverman Program: Season One
Silverman's show is smart and self-conscious, but I wonder if maybe -- when all the tics and clever bits are pushed away -- it's also without a humorous center.
17 Jan 2008
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I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Instead of neuroses that are black-tinged and deep-seated, most of I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With's navel-gazing is genial to the point of being childlike.
Tricia Olszewski
13 Sep 2007
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Lisa Lampanelli: Dirty Girl / The Sarah Silverman Program
We all make catty, hurtful remarks from time to time. Some are especially adept at devastating putdowns, and a select few have parlayed such skill into careers.
Michael Abernethy
07 Feb 2007
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School for Scoundrels (2006)
Amanda is demoted from object of desire to prop, so wan and undirected that she'll fall for whoever happens to be winning the boys' contest at any given moment.
28 Sep 2006
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Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson Uncensored!
About as funny as anything involving Andy Dick has ever been: this sums it up for this whole roast experience, really.
Roger Holland
19 Feb 2006
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Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005)
Sarah Silverman's character is a spoiled, suburban princess, which allows her to deliver offensive one-liners with an unnerving mixture of naïvete and self-assured ignorance.
Kevin Wong
01 Dec 2005
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Rent (2005)
The song, 'Rent', names its own dilemma, how to make melodrama and artifice compelling when experience has turned so sensational and illusory?"
Cynthia Fuchs
22 Nov 2005
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The Aristocrats (2005)
The sheer number of performances wears thin by film's end.
Kevin Wong
11 Aug 2005
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The School of Rock (2003)
'I'm always going 10 miles too far over the top, and sometimes I have a tendency to go crazy ham and cheese,' says Jack Black.
Cynthia Fuchs
29 Feb 2004
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The School of Rock (2003)
A welcome reminder that studio comedies need not be shoddy, dumbed down, vulgar, and impersonal, the movie is unimaginable without Jack Black.
Elbert Ventura
01 Oct 2003
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