Google Duo “audio-only” call functionality rolling out worldwide
And the app updates keep on coming. Following the UI tweaks of the IMDb app and Google Translate’s inclusion of…
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, prepares for Cobol, cloud, mainframes
A new administration takes office and announces plans to modernize IT across the federal government. Sound familiar? It should. Every…
Joking While Muslim in Trump’s America
In the middle of the debate over what—and who—makes America great, an Iranian American comic mixes patriotism with punch lines.…
Chonda Pierce on Being a Conservative Comedian
If you want to mock snowflake liberals, you have to be able to take it when a stranger tells you…
Confessions of Presidential Joke Writer Jon Lovett
“We can make fun and we can fight and we can do it through jokes and through comedy, but it…
Samantha Bee’s Full-Frontal Assault on the Trump Regime
Playing nice with a president so contemptuous of the media is going to be challenging for journalists. Bee has resolved…
Inside the Anger-Fueled World of Comedy in the Trump Age
Comedy is now politics. Politics is comedy. And with our new president, not all of it is exactly funny. The…
How Your (Liberal Elite) Comedy Gets Made
Exploring the president’s pathological self-consciousness through the timeless magic of dick jokes. The post How Your (Liberal Elite) Comedy Gets…
When Kanye Met Donald: A Late-Night Story
As politics merges with pop culture, it changes how comedians approach their work. The post When Kanye Met Donald: A…
New horizons in data appreciation
Pilot fish is working for a defense contractor when he gets the job of creating reports to break down company…