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Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval (Wilson Webb/Netflix)

Ellen DeGeneres special falls flat

Gabriella Ferrigine
Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (Troy Conrad/Netflix)

Platforming misinfo & panic for laughs

Melanie McFarland
Close-up of actor/comedian Bob Newhart in his office at home, September 1972. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Unbuttoning Bob Newhart's stand-up mind

Melanie McFarland
Bill Maher visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Maher: Trump shooting hurts the "left"

Nardos Haile
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Actor/comdedian Louis C.K. attends the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Why what Louis C.K. did still matters

Melanie McFarland
Joey Clift has a lost weekend with Garfield at the Motel 6 Garfield Suite (Photo by Matt Mazany)

My path to enlightenment via Garfield

Joey Clift
Paul Scheer visits the IMDb Portrait Studio at SXSW 2024 on March 10, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDb)

Paul Scheer on the upside of trauma

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Steven Wright (Photo illustration by Salon/Jorge Rios/Getty Images)

Steven Wright loves talking about lint

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Padma Lakshmi (Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)

Padma Lakshmi eyes stand-up comedy

Michael La Corte
Comedian/actor Richard Lewis hosts the Video Software Dealers Association's award show on July 27, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Richard Lewis, prophet of anxiety comedy

David Masciotra
Host Shane Gillis during the Monologue on the Saturday, February 24, 2024 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

Once fired Shane Gillis' journey to SNL

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Dulce Sloan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dulcé Sloan: NY more racist than South

D. Watkins
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Bassem Youssef (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Bassem Youssef)

Bassem Youssef slams "Genocide Joe"

Dean Obeidallah
Jon Stewart attends the Clooney Foundation for Justice's 2023 Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 28, 2023 in New York City. (Taylor Hill/WireImage/Getty Images)

Jon Stewart catches heat over Biden jabs

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Stand up comedian, actor and author George Carlin is shown performing on stage during a live concert appearance on January 13, 1996. (John Atashian/Getty Images)

What humor reveals about ourselves

Rae Hodge
American sibling Folk musicians and comedians Tom (left) and Dick Smothers perform together, as the Smothers Brothers, onstage at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 1983. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

Tom of Smothers Brothers fame dies at 86

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Norman Lear speaks on stage at the "Real To Reel: Portrayals And Perceptions Of LGBTQs In Hollywood" Exhibit at The Hollywood Museum on June 09, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Unique Nicole/Getty Images)

TV legend Norman Lear dies at 101

Joy Saha
Hasan Minhaj attends Apple TV+'s "The Morning Show" Photo Call at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on September 08, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Leon Bennett/WireImage/Getty Images)

The manufactured Hasan Minhaj scandal

Sophia A. McClennen
Hasan Minhaj attends the "Polite Society" New York screening at Metrograph on April 24, 2023 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Hasan Minhaj: "I'm not a psycho"

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Aparna Nancherla (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"True equality is embracing mediocrity"

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Hasan Minhaj guest hosts "The Daily Show" (Comedy Central)

Who decided comedy needed fact-checking?

Sophia A. McClennen
Whoopi Goldberg takes part in the "Till" press conference at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theatre on October 01, 2022 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for FLC)

Whoopi Goldberg defends Hasan Minhaj

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Hasan Minhaj (Irvin Rivera/Getty Images for IMDb)

Four disappointing Hasan Minhaj "truths"

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Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)

Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies

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