Tag: humor

This month has brought a shower of new podcasts for your playlist. The NPR One team gathered a few returning favorites as well as some fresh releases from across public media.

The comedy duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong became the standard bearers of pot humor in the 1970s. They’re now the subjects of the documentary “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie.”

The very scary movie Sinners finds Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who open a 1930s juke joint. And opening night does not go as planned. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, (Black Panther), the film mixes blues music with classic horror in a standoff between the brothers and their friends on the inside and the bloodthirsty – and growing – menace outside.

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Have you turned on ESPN recently? You might be surprised to find that the sports bros are abandoning GOAT debates and getting political. No one is more an example of this than ESPN personality and perhaps Presidential candidate, Stephen A. Smith. So what’s going on here? And what does the Fox Newsification of sports media tell us about our current political culture and future?

Brittany is joined by co-host of NPR’s Code Switch podcast, Gene Demby, and Senior Staff Writer at the Ringer, Joel Anderson. Together, they discuss how sports commentary is way more political than you might think and why its most viral star Stephen A. Smith would even entertain the idea of running for president in 2028.

Davis was jazz critic for The Village Voice and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He wrote many books on jazz, and won a Grammy for his liner notes for the reissue of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.

New Yorker writer Sarah Stillman found dozens of cases of people with mental illness arrested for minor crimes and of deprived medication and healthcare. They died from malnutrition and dehydration.

In Sinners, Ryan Coogler creates a bold original vision, and Michael B. Jordan is at the top of his game.

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Michael B. Jordan plays twins Smoke and Stack in a music-besotted, blood-drenched supernatural thriller, Sinners. And Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a remake of the groundbreaking 1993 rom-com, The Wedding Banquet.

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Don’t be fooled by Brett Goldstein’s grumpy exterior – he can’t resist a big, open-hearted story. He’s learned that it’s possible to love even the most annoying person if you look at them hard enough.

You are all magnetic and user-centric examples of how, when we benchmark blue-sky thinking, even in a pre-tax, low-hanging-fruit environment, we leverage actionable, best-of-breed streamlining, period.