On a recent morning, Caitlin Murray’s 8-year-old daughter had a piece of sausage stuck in her palate expander and was trying to hock it out of the orthodontic device at breakfast. Her 11-year-old son, who was recovering from a stomach bug, gagged as he watched his sister. Meanwhile, their 5-year-old brother colored all over the … Read more
Travis Kelce had a laugh at Mike Tyson’s bare butt before last Friday night’s Netflix bout between him and Jake Paul. On his “New Heights” podcast on Wednesday, the Chiefs tight end recalled seeing the camera “slowly pan to catch” the legendary boxer “in nothing but a jockstrap” just minutes before Tyson took the ring. … Read more
Theater review OH, MARY! 80 minutes, with no intermission. At the Lyceum Theatre, 149 W 45th Street. How on earth, amid the political implosion in Washington D.C., is the most heavenly escape on Broadway a non-musical play about the White House? The preposterously enjoyable “Oh, Mary!,” which opened Thursday night at the Lyceum Theatre, does … Read more
More than once during “Oh, Mary!,” which opened Thursday night off-Broadway, it hits you: How am I laughing so uncontrollably at a play about Mary Todd Lincoln? Yes, Abraham Lincoln’s wife is the subject of this riotous new comedy at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, written by and starring Cole Escola, that definitely does not aim … Read more
In her poem “Solitude,” Scorpio Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote the famous lines, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.” For our part, we’ll keep company with the comics and find our cures in the form of riotous laughter. Interested in discovering the funniest zodiac sign, Psychicworld.com, took a peek at … Read more
Color me “Shucked” — sorry, shocked. For I have finally seen the new musical that popped open Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre. The one that has been inundating straphangers in subway stations for months with ubiquitous yellow corn cob posters as if it’s trying to be Broadway’s answer to “Shen Yun” or “Dan Smith … Read more
We had the memes like Jagger. The various high jinks, gaffes and downright laugh-out-loud moments that defined meme culture in 2022 proved to be a godsend during a stressful year that otherwise seemed to offer precious little to laugh about — unless of course you found inflation to be hilarious. From Adam Levine’s leaked steamy messages … Read more