Tag: humor

Rogen plays a flustered Hollywood studio head in a new Apple TV+ show. These executives “really could get fired at any moment for anything,” Rogen says — and their feedback is often based in fear.

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

Sunrise on the Reaping recounts the 50th annual Hunger Games, telling the story of Haymitch Abernathy. It’s themes and events conjure images of today’s U.S. political climate.

Martha Stewart talks gardening, wanting to be “one of the girls” and her 101st book with NPR Morning Edition host Michel Martin.

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Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?

President Trump will tour the Kennedy Center today and attend its board meeting, where reports say he may rejigger how the performing arts honorees are chosen.

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Ronald Osborne was a firefighter for many years. Early in his career, while battling a house fire, his life was in danger. It was another firefighter’s quick thinking that saved him.

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.

Each episode HBO’s The Pitt presents an hour of a shift in a Pittsburgh ER, while each episode of Netflix’s brilliant Adolescence considers the murder of a teenage girl from a different point of view.

​Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of “TheWiz”—and more!