Tag: humor

The rhythmic sense that made Ringo a great rock drummer guides his vocals here. The result is relaxed authority that usually only a genius like Willie Nelson or Ray Charles can make sound so easy.

In Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, Questlove mines the archive of musical performances, while the four-part series SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night dives into the show’s creative process.

When Claire Burnside Och was a server at a high-end restaurant, she made an mistake opening a bottle of wine. But instead of acting annoyed, the customer handled it with grace.

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Note 1: Use clip of her smiling, but crop out Putin and Chernobyl.

The Max hospital drama The Pitt stars ER veteran Noah Wyle. It takes some elements that are common to the medical genre and mixes them with some very contemporary thinking about health care and an inventive structure. Each episode follows one hour in the ER over the course of a very long day – so the layout is less Grey’s Anatomy and more 24.

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What good is a Humanities degree? According to two intellectuals, Dr. Ally Louks and Jason Stanley, the Humanities help us better connect to other humans. According to a lot of online haters, they’re worthless.

Dr. Louks recently posted her Cambridge University PhD thesis online and was piled on by a loud group of right-wing anti-intellectuals. Brittany, Dr. Louks, and Jason Stanley, a professor of Philosophy at Yale University investigate the backlash to Dr. Louks, higher education at large, and why “anti-intellectualism” is prevalent in Republican politics.

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Have you battled loneliness? What was it like, and what did you do about it? If you’re over 18, let us know by sending a voice memo to [email protected].

Michael Shannon draws questions about his life from the Wild Card deck.

NPR’s Pien Huang speaks with journalist Grace Yeoh, who spent a month with a championship lion dancing team, about the rigors of the dance and what makes it so demanding.

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New England. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story in The Sinners All Bow.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Marian Fowler of Indian Purchase Township, Maine.