The Sink is not the kind of podcast that will have you guffawing immediately – in fact, you may be confused by this parody of sleep-inducing meditation shows. But once you get acclimated to its surreal conceit – the process of dredging up “what’s stuck in your tubes” and remedying the “bad smell” in your brain – Natasha Hodgson’s comedy-horror show is full of brilliantly unsettling laughs.
Hannah J Davies, Guardian deputy TV editor
Nicole Byer of Why Won’t You Date Me? Photograph: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP
Nicole runs the gamut from incredibly filthy and raunchy to deeply heartfelt in the conversations she has with her guests about therapy, the daily struggles of maintaining a relationship, grief, the realities of existing in a body that society sees as Other (fat, Black, POC, trans, etc). There’s no dating lately because of Covid, but it seems like the podcast is even better because the tangents run all over. One thing is for certain: it’s always so damn
On Tuesday, The Journal ran a press release on State Street Theater Company’s next radio show, “My Favorite Husband, Dinner for Twelve.” The State Stree
He remembered both groups coming together inside and âlaughing their butts off.â
âI looked at the TV and there was a guy there telling jokes,â Trevino said. âIt was Richard Pryor. I didnât know I could do that for a job. I said, âThatâs what Iâm going to do.ââ
And he did.Â
Known as âAmericaâs Favorite Husband,â Trevino will perform at Stand-Up Live in Phoenix from Thursday, Feb. 18, to Saturday, Feb. 20. Heâs living his dream.Â
âAs a kid, back in the day, in between movies on HBO, they would tell you the next three things that are coming,â he recalled. âSometimes, the third one would be âDef Comedy Jam,â an hour-long comedy special. I would stay up until 1 a.m. sometimes. I wanted to watch that stand-up special and thought, âOne of those days, maybe itâll be me.ââ
The Untold Truth Of I Love Lucy
By Elizabeth Collins/Jan. 29, 2021 4:36 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 9:12 am EDT
At the dawn of the post-war era, when owning a television had just become commonplace, and the idea of the ideal housewife was paramount,
I Love Lucy premiered. It was an instant hit all over the United States which was surprising given the groundbreaking nature of the show. It was the first program on television to feature a multiethnic family, Lucille Ball and her real-life husband Desi Arnaz, who was born in Cuba. While not technically the first to have a pregnant woman or a married couple shown sharing a bedroom, it has often been mistaken as the first because of