Thirty years ago, Cyndi Lauper made her television acting debut in the hit comedy show Mad About You. Now, the pop queen behind hit tunes like “Time After Time” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is returning to acting in the new series The Horror of Dolores Roach, premiering …
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The new movie Joy Ride, a riotously funny comedy about a group of four Asian-American pals — Audrey (Ashley Park of Emily in Paris), Kat (Stephanie Hsu, Oscar-nominated star of Everything Everywhere All at Once), Lolo (Sherry Cola), and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu) — who head to China to try to …
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The opening scene of Bottoms sees a pair of high school best friends getting ready together for the first big social event of their senior year — the “carnival” — horny as hell and fantasizing about finally hooking up with their crushes. It’s a classic teen-movie setup, the kind we’ve …
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W hether we like it or not, comedian Ayo Edebiri and I are both about to learn a lesson. For Edebiri, a California resident who’s in New York for a few whirlwind days of press, she’s about to find out that our interview is taking place at a Brooklyn pottery …
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I n only a few years, Bowen Yang has emerged as the breakout star of Saturday Night Live. I defy you to watch his Gay Jafar rant against Ron DeSantis and not completely lose it. But that’s not all. He also stars in the Comedy Central sitcom Awkwafina Is Nora …
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This post contains spoilers for the entire third season of Dave, including tonight’s season finale, “Looking for Love.” Season Three of Dave was all about the show’s title character — rapper Dave Burd, aka Lil Dicky, aka the star, co-creator, and one of the executive producers of the FXX comedy …
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In the second sketch of the third season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, one character admits, “I just take everything way too far! I got too hyper.” This line could be part of pretty much every ITYSL sketch, both in this new season and in the …
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It’s the age-old question: can men and women be friends? Well, in Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ series Platonic, the most important question isn’t can they — it’s should they? Byrne stars as Sylvia, an exhausted middle-aged mom. Once a lawyer with a promising career, she’s spent …
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Nicole Holofcener’s wonderful new film, You Hurt My Feelings, raises an essential question: Should you lie to ensure happiness in a marriage? It’s a query not easily answered, although the couple at the heart of the story, Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Don (Tobias Menzies), find their own solution after Beth …
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“We’re so lucky,” Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) tells her husband, Don (Tobias Menzies). He’s a therapist with a private practice in Manhattan; she teaches creative writing at The New School. Their son, Elliott (Owen Teague), is happy, healthy, and works at a weed dispensary, though Mom isn’t so jazzed about that …
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