Punchlines

Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes Monologue Had Hard Punchlines and Impressions

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Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes Monologue Had Hard Punchlines and Impressions

When I started following Nikki Glaser in early December as she began putting together her Golden Globes monologue, she planned a joke that never made it into Sunday’s awards show about shouting out Harrison Ford and then saying, “Harrison Ford is here to show us a cool rock he found.” It was more off-kilter than … Read more

‘I Used to Be Funny’ Review: Bruising Punchlines

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‘I Used to Be Funny’ Review: Bruising Punchlines

The perceptive dramedy “I Used to Be Funny” features a mic-drop performance by Rachel Sennott as a rising stand-up comedian derailed by a vague, internet-viral crime. What happened to Sam (Sennott) is no laughing matter. But she and her fellow comics crack oblique jokes about it, anyway. Making her first feature, the writer-director Ally Pankiw … Read more