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Amy Schumer And Goldie Hawn Team Up In 'Snatched'
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Beloved comic actor Goldie Hawn is back on the big screen with the movie Snatched. She stars alongside Amy Schumer, who had a breakout comedy a couple years back with Trainwreck.
First Listen: 'Hello, Dolly!' New Broadway Cast Recording
Monday, May 08, 2017
Bette Midler shines on the soundtrack to this Tony-nominated Broadway revival.
Chris Gethard Isn't Kidding About 'Career Suicide'
Saturday, May 06, 2017
Chris Gethard's new HBO special tells stories of his struggles with suicidal thoughts and his complex relationship with his psychiatrist. Funny and moving, Career Suicide premieres Saturday night.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2' And W. Kamau Bell
Friday, May 05, 2017
This week's show combines our discussion of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 with a discussion we recently had in Chicago with comedian, host, and writer W. Kamau Bell.
The Tony Nominations: 'The Great Comet,' 'Dolly,' And 'A Doll's House'
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
The Tony nominations are out, and unlike last year, there's no founding-fathers-shaped giant absorbing the oxygen.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our Great Big Summer Movie Preview
Friday, April 28, 2017
Every year at this time, we sit down to make reckless box office predictions and talk up the films we're most excited to see. This time around, we're joined by Audie Cornish of All Things Considered.
The Good And Goofy 'Great News' Comes To NBC
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 Rock DNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Fate Of The Furious' Plus Clapbacks And Feuds
Friday, April 21, 2017
This week's show combines a chat about The Fate Of The Furious that we had with Gene Demby and Chris Klimek and a discussion of clapbacks and feuds from our Chicago live show, led off by Sam Sanders.
Hey You, Prestige Television Fan: Here's Why You Should See A New Play
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
While musicals have good pop-culture presence in many cases, plays tend not to. But in an environment that has embraced idiosyncratic and complicated TV, there's no better time to change that.
'Veep' Reinvents Itself In The Shape Of A New Humiliation
Monday, April 17, 2017
Selina Meyer dreamed of being president. Then she was. Now she isn't. With that shift, Veep finds itself, in many ways, back where it began.
First Listen: Groundhog Day The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Monday, April 17, 2017
Stream the original cast recording to the new Broadway musical before its release.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Diversity In Comics And 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
Friday, April 14, 2017
This week, while we recover from our live show, we bring you a segment from Code Switch about diversity in comics and we revisit our segment on RuPaul's Drag Race.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'S-Town' and 'Chewing Gum'
Friday, April 07, 2017
On this week's show, we delve into the latest hit podcast, S-Town, and we breeze through the delightful sitcom Chewing Gum, imported from the UK and available on Netflix.
'Beauty And The Beast,' Music, And More From South By Southwest
Friday, March 24, 2017
This week, we visit the new Disney live-action adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, and we all report back from Austin about the happenings at South By Southwest.
'Missing Richard Simmons' And The Nature Of Being Known
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
The podcast came to an anticlimactic end as a mystery, but it says a lot about the demands of being a public figure.
Never Mind The Emojis: 'Monopoly' Welcomes The T-Rex, Duck And Penguin
Friday, March 17, 2017
Somehow, we got all wrapped up in the evolution of Monopoly pieces, so we're here to close the circle by letting you know what's staying and what's going in the new editions of the game.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Memes, Fads And A Chat With Neil Gaiman
Friday, March 17, 2017
This week, we bring you two segments with comedian Guy Branum from our fall tour, and our friend Petra Mayer chats with author Neil Gaiman about Norse mythology.
Remembering Bill Walsh's Way With Words
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Language authority and Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh died Wednesday after a long career making other people's writing better.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Get Out' and 'The Americans'
Friday, March 10, 2017
It's a week of high tension as the team welcomes Gene Demby and Kat Chow of NPR's Code Switch team to talk about 'Get Out' and the return of 'The Americans.'
Anthology TV Series Undergo Renaissance With 'American Crime,' 'Feud'
Thursday, March 09, 2017
The third season of American Crime debuts this week on ABC. It's one of a number of interesting anthology series on TV now. NPR takes a look at the pros and cons of anthology series.