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The beloved sitcom Seinfeld was famously never canceled, because co-creator Jerry Seinfeld and his fellow cast members decided they should walk away after nine seasons, leaving viewers wanting more. But for about a decade, Seinfeld has continuously complained that “political correctness” is stifling comedy of the kind that made him …

“Isn’t it crazy that this is how I relax?” Mae Martin and I are in a dark room styled to look like a suite in an old hotel, fumbling as we try to open every cabinet, drawer, and door with a key we’ve just found. Lamps flicker as clattering and …

In 2004, Bonnie Allen was a 12-year-old girl in Wilmington, Delaware, who loved Spongebob Squarepants, Lizzie McGuire, and the Grease soundtrack. She had fine, corn-colored hair she regularly chopped up and dyed jet black or Elmo red, and a grin that stretched across the entire bottom half of her face, …

Every week, there’s a new main character on the internet. And last Monday, that main character was a good-natured Australian himbo with an eight-inch-long, seven-inch-circumferenced penis. The aptly dubbed Girthmasterr (technically it’s with two “Rs” at the end) went viral after being interviewed in a man-on-the-street TikTok segment promoting a …

I n the warehouse-huge back room of his company Return Home, just south of Seattle, Micah Truman walks over to what looks like an off-white shipping crate, complete with a lock on the front. “Put your hand onto it,” instructs Truman, who, with his woodsy vest and tidy appearance, looks …

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David Feldman, the founder of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), the fastest-growing combat sport in the world, is facing the fight of his life: therapy. “I go once a week and within two minutes I’m crying like fuck,” he says. “I just keep uncovering everything.” It’s a 72-degree day …

Warning: Disturbing Content Scrolling through Facebook one day in October 2017, wildlife photographer Melissa Groo seethed when she saw Heather Keepers had posted another image to Instagram of herself kissing a cougar, with the hashtags #coolestjobintheworld, #luckiestgirlintheworld. Keepers, petite with long brown hair, blue-green eyes, and tattoos of constellations on …

In 2014, I was in Denver for 4/20. It was a heady time. Colorado had recently legalized recreational cannabis, and High Times was capitalizing on the moment by throwing a two-day weed extravaganza known as the Cannabis Cup. I was an editor for them, and I’d been pressed into service …

Ingrid Michaelson is used to people crying when they talk to her about The Notebook. Earlier this year, she tells me on Zoom, her piano in the background, she did an interview about her work on the Broadway musical adaptation of the beloved 2004 film, based on the novel by …