Articles Tagged with #humor
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Video
How to Turn Pixels Into Pulitzers
An unbearable video about the “future of media”—complete with endless buzzwords and nonsense—is not, in fact, a joke.
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Video
You Can’t Kill the Rooster
David Sedaris reads “You Can’t Kill the Rooster,” the greatest story in human history.
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Book People
All the Bikes We Cannot See
A record number of injuries and disqualifications in this year’s Tour de France is being blamed on addictions to contemporary fiction.
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Mad Women
My Date With Don Draper
The TV series Mad Men is set to begin its final season. Finally we’ll know how many women—and how much Proust—it takes to make Don Draper happy.
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Spoofs & Satire
Death Means No Reversible Error
Whenever lethal injection drugs are unavailable, Utah will allow death-row prisoners to choose death by firing squad, citing it as the most “humane” option.
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Beliebe in Yourself
Big Time
When viral stardom strikes, your entire future is suddenly within reach—would you capture it or just let it slip?
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All Media Considered
The World According to Brian Williams
A look back at the dethroned NBC Nightly News anchor’s storied history, in his own words.
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Guides
The Apocalypse Will Be Televised
When the world ends, CNN won’t be the only channel with a doomsday video ready for broadcast.
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Spoofs & Satire
Gods and Kings and Middle Managers
Recent astronomical discoveries have expanded our understanding of the universe—and messed up godhead performance reviews.
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New York, New York
New York Fashion Week at My House
A visit to the New York studio/living room of a family’s style director who has a week’s worth of laundry ahead of her.
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Spoofs & Satire
Kafka’s Kickstarter
The latest works from the author will be given with pleasure, and received with thanks, but we need your support.
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Spoofs & Satire
Admirable Restraint
Understatement can help us cope with disaster. But in the case of Paul McCartney, a little doesn’t always go a long way.