Check-In: Sweet Sixteen
Jonathan Coulton's daughter just turned 16. He and Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg discuss the bittersweet passage of time.
Arts
Has This Been To Space?
The hilarious Maria Bamford and Richard Kind (Everything's Gonna Be Okay) guess if various objects have been to space. But they're all silly objects, because "Soyuz capsule" is kind of a gimmie.
My 'Kind' Of Music
Maria Bamford and Richard Kind (Everything's Gonna Be Okay) play a word game celebrating Kind's musical theater performances, even the performances he doesn't remember very well.
The Chortle Instruments
Actor Mary Holland and director Maureen Bharoocha (Golden Arm) listen to clips of unusual musical instruments. The title of this game is a gratuitous pun of a series of young adult fantasy novels.
Good Tries
Actor Mary Holland and director Maureen Bharoocha (Golden Arm) guess if the failed products described are real or fake.
Sierra Teller Ornelas: Rutherford Falls
Rutherford Falls' co-creator Sierra Teller Ornelas talks about Native American representation in her new sitcom, and explains what "bank plants" are.
'Disaster Girl,' The Stuff Of Memes, Sells For Nearly $500,000 As NFT
Zoë Roth was just 4 when her dad took a picture of her standing in front a burning house. That photo launched uncounted memes, and now the original copy has sold at auction as a nonfungible token.
Return For Mickey, Stay For The Churros: Disneyland Reopens After 13 Months
"I can't wait to just be there and feel it and listen to the music and smell the churros," says Robert Laird, a Disney megafan.
Bittersweet Film 'About Endlessness' Highlights Life's Humor And Despair
A priest loses his faith. A woman breaks the heel of her shoe. A couple visits their child's grave. Life unfolds as a series of stylized, bone-dry comic sketches in Roy Andersson's sublime new film.
Maeve Higgins: Why is the "Good Immigrant" Narrative Dangerous?
Irish comedian Maeve Higgins moved to the U.S. with a visa for artists with "extraordinary abilities." But the myth of the "good immigrant," she says, perpetuates harm and discrimination.