This week, we’re highlighting 24 talented writers and performers for Vulture’s annual list “Comedians You Should and Will Know.” Our goal is to introduce a wider audience to the talent that has the comedy community and industry buzzing. (You can read more about our methodology at the link above.) We asked the comedians on the list to answer a series of questions about their work, performing, goals for the future, and more.
Freaks and Geeks Discos and Dragons Season 1 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Freaks and Geeks Discos and Dragons Season 1 Episode 18 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » In honor of Freaks and Geeks’ long-awaited return to streaming on Hulu, Vulture is revisiting every episode, one at a time, to see what made this one-of-a-kind high-school series tick.
my single is dropping Jan. 26, 2021 FKA Twigs Teams With Headie One and Black Activists for ‘Don’t Judge Me’ VideoThe video features Kara Walker’s installation Fons Americanus. By Justin Curto
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Fred Armisen was back in the bandstand for the December 5 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, and the Wednesday actor used his platform to float an idea that’s going to make Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno weak in the knees: an Oscars for movie cars. “I’m going to have awards for the people who, like, supply automobiles to movies.” Armisen doesn’t mean a new category but a whole separate, competing awards show for cars airing opposite the Oscars.
With Halloween looming menacingly on the horizon, we’re taking this week on Vulture to celebrate horror in all its gory, terrifying forms. First up, an oral history of one of the genre’s game-changing classics.
“Great horror films don’t win Academy Awards,” says horror auteur Wes Craven. Instead, they make money. Thirty-odd years ago, Craven, who’d eventually go on to direct Scream, had an unusual idea for a movie, inspired by a newspaper story about a boy who suffered from horrible nightmares and then died mysteriously in his sleep.
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Ali Hazelwood, a New York Times best-selling author of the romance novels The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, and Love, Theoretically, found her literary agent in January 2020 in an unusual way. Instead of the long process most authors undertake that involves sending out countless letters seeking representation, it was an agent who reached out after reading stories Hazelwood had written on Archive of Our Own, a popular fan-fiction site.
Full Circle Loyalty Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Full Circle Loyalty Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Many of the best crime thrillers and heist movies are sustained by characters screwing up. As pleasurable as it can be to watch a plan executed flawlessly — an impulse Steven Soderbergh clearly understood with capers like Ocean’s Eleven — what keeps the stakes high is the element of human error.
Future Man is not unwatchable, but it’s pretty bad. Hulu’s time-travel comedy about a janitor recruited to save humanity from extinction is produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the minds behind This Is the End, Superbad, and Pineapple Express, and written by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir, who penned the screenplay for Rogen and Goldberg’s Sausage Party. It has amusing moments and a number of committed performances, and the filmmakers were clearly given a big enough budget to approximate the science-fiction classics they reference (mainly Back to the Future, Quantum Leap, and the Terminator franchise; Halli Cauthery’s score apes Brad Fiedel’s music in the latter).
Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture’s new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. How do you walk onstage and say some words that make a room full of a few dozen strangers laugh? That is the impossible conundrum every stand-up faces when they start out. How do you do that for more than 45,000 people?