Guides

A glossary elaborating on many of the sources and references within Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

For whenever you're feeling angry or want to bring someone back from the dead.

Baseball, like English grammar, doesn’t make much sense.

It’s titled Things You Should Already Know, You F*cking Idiot.

Wing-watching?

What was the guitarist from Toto doing there?

From Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Ben Lerner, and more.

Exhausted by trying to keep up with new culture? Why not give it up altogether? Our critics’ handbook to all the wonderful stuff lurking right behind your screen.

Pilot season is upon is, which means that all the major networks are currently greenlighting pilots. Although it's hard to tell at this point which will become series (aside from Seth Macfarlane's Dads and NBC's untitled Michael J. Fox comedy, [...]

A day-by-day schedule for newbies, or anyone who wants to start all over again.

Are these Muppets planning on stopping their adorableness anytime soon? Their unabating, rampant cuteness is just pounding away at all of our shriveled, embittered, bronze-encased hearts. And it hurts. Their latest crime is this gift guide from [...]

You can’t get through life as a black person without a sense of humor. The setup and premises of life all too often leave you the butt of the joke. That’s why most contemporary black folk have a little “Comedy BlackPack” in them. A little [...]

We've got definitions for all of Charlie Sheen's most frequently used terms.

It’s official: there are now more essential comedy podcasts than there are hours in the day. We’re fully outnumbered, people. It would be an impossible, Icarus-like ambition to listen to them all and still function as a human adult person. [...]

When I put together the first Somewhat Obsessive Guide to All 36 Seasons of SNL Streaming on Netflix, Netflix had yet to post seasons 26-30. That has since been corrected! So here's my guide to those five seasons, featuring Tina Fey and Jimmy [...]

One of whom is Conan's real-life sister.

Actresses only get naked when there is a good artistic reason.