Articles by Vish Khanna

CUFF.Docs: The Problem With Apu

Directed by Michael Melamedoff

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2017

For New York-bred comedian Hari Kondabolu and millions of other South Asians coming of age in the 1990s, The Simpsons was both a cultural b...

Saturday Night Live: Tiffany Haddish & Taylor Swift

November 11, 2017

PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2017

Despite Tiffany Haddish's championship calibre performance, a weak musical guest and spotty writing made this an uneven SNL. Here's what ha...

This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: November 10, 2017

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2017

Louis C.K. traumatizes women and shames comedy, voters choose medicine and food, twitter's storyline adds more characters, an unusual "turn...

Judah Friedlander

America is the Greatest Country in the United States

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2017

Beautifully and starkly shot, Judah Friedlander's Netflix offering feels like less of a conventional special and more like a feature film....

This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: November 3, 2017

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2017

Hollywood men get what's coming, students get really lucky, racists hail potatoes, Trump is the fastest, the World Series kept us up, Hallo...

T.J. Miller on His 'Alternative' Standup Tour and Leaving 'Silicon Valley' for Love (of Comedy)

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2017

T.J. Miller is basking in the northern glowing sun shining down upon Canada.   "I'm in Toronto," he tells Exclaim! over the phone. "Home of...

'The Beaverton': Inside the Website and Show That Shakes Up Canadian Satire

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2017

If you've watched episodes of Canada's most incisive news satire show, The Beaverton, you might have noticed a curious proclamation for a T...

This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: October 27, 2017

PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2017

Playing knife games with grandma, a dog gets a sweater, Bill O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment suit for $32 million but claims he's inno...