The Banter Long Read: In the wake of the 2016 election, stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt wrote a sobering status on Facebook that I've been thinking about a lot recently. Oswalt (whose new special, Annihilation, is streaming on Netflix now) has always been something of a polymath, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 20, 2018

Standup comic, movie star, and sketch show tsunamiAmy Schumer is making "news" over her online shaming of a 17 year-old fan who tweeted a photo with Schumer that contained a caption that she found offensive. It all started when Jackson Murphy, proprietor of the "Lights, Camera, ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 18, 2016