Tag: humor

Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes.

The latest batch of inductees to the Radio Hall of Fame are out, including NPR’s very own Scott Simon. Before he hosted “Weekend Edition,” he started with NPR in 1977 as Chicago bureau chief.

The Bear is back for a new season. The FX on Hulu series sees Carmy and Sydney (Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri) trying to get the restaurant they opened together on its feet before they run out of money. Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is thrown by his ex-wife’s approaching wedding and what it’s going to mean for him. Plus there’s scallop drama, secret negotiations, and guest stars both new and old.

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Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of Broadway’s biggest hits including, Hamilton and Rent, but he got his start on a much smaller scale. He looks back in a new memoir.

I knew no one when I first came to New York, which meant it belonged only to me. Drawing it, I still feel as if I’m taking inventory of an infinite treasure vault.

Spinning plays a role in dancing in many Slavic countries. One Ukrainian dance studio near Washington, D.C. shows Morning Edition how they do it.

The horror comedy M3GAN spawned memes, made a fortune, and even taught us a lesson about the dangers of outsourcing our humanity to AI. The sequel, M3GAN 2.0, pans out to tell a bigger story about an even deadlier AI killing machine — and brings back the original M3GAN for some hi-tech robot-on-robot violence. Though M3GAN was defeated at the end of the original film, her tech remains — and it’s found its way into a rogue AI assassin named Amelia.

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In our ‘Your Body, Whose Choice’ series, we’ve focused a lot on the present and the future of reproductive health in this country. And now we’d like to share a look at the past from our sister show, NPR’s Embedded.

Their new 3–part series, The Network, follows a Brazilian women who discovered a method to have safe abortions, regardless of the law. And, as abortion restrictions tighten in the United States, American women have taken note.

Taberski unpacks a mysterious illness among teen girls in “Hysterical.” Maureen Corrigan recommends four new mystery novels. Charles went from selling jokes on the street to writing for Seinfeld.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KUER listener Elisabeth Larsen and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.