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Home » Humor

Tag: Humor

Posted inArts & Culture

Pot shots of Chicago

by David Sampson April 19, 2017August 18, 2021

David Sampson photographs city icons through a haze of smoke

Posted inBlogs

The Washington Post takes Amy Schumer to task—and takes it too far

by Michael Miner July 7, 2015August 18, 2021

Amy Schumer inspired Dylann Roof?!

Posted inBlogs

What’s so funny? Lewis Carroll when you’re in the right frame of mind

by Michael Miner March 23, 2015August 18, 2021

What can you learn from Carroll? Among other things, that the forlorn can be hysterical.

Posted inBlogs

If a joke helps you vent politically, does it matter if it makes sense?

by Michael Miner September 30, 2014August 18, 2021

Bad joke or the year’s best?

Out in Oak Park, Steve James has cultivated an unassuming life—one that reflects his approach to filmmaking.
Posted inFilm

Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

by Ben Sachs July 2, 2014August 18, 2021

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.

This is what a few thousand VHS copies of Jerry Maguire look like.
Posted inArts & Culture

Everything is wonderful in the world of Everything Is Terrible!

by Drew Hunt May 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Everything Is Terrible! is collaborating with the likes of MTV and Fox, but its core mission—to be as weird as possible—holds true.

Time Crash, left to right: drummer Andy Rice, singer and guitarist Ronen Kohn, pedal-steel player Chris Rice, wielder of the GuiTARDIS Dave Kitsberg, and bassist Michael Fye
Posted inMusic

Time Crash brings Time Lord rock across the pond

by Megan Kirby November 19, 2013August 19, 2021

Doctor Who turns 50 this week, and Chicago nerd-rock band Time Crash is ready to celebrate.

Posted inArts & Culture

Bitches gotta write

by Marya Hornbacher September 23, 2013August 19, 2021

Samantha Irby, the acerbic author of the hyperpopular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, publishes her first book.

Posted inMusic

The Secret History of Chicago Music: James Wesley Jackson

by Chicago Reader August 20, 2013August 19, 2021

James Wesley Jackson toured the world with Funkadelic—and you can see him at the Hideout on August 23.

Posted inBlogs

Obama picks blogger Nate Silver to chair Federal Reserve

by Steve Bogira July 29, 2013August 19, 2021

Just another task for FiveThirtyEight.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Wordplay

by Sam Worley June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Never forced (think NY Post or, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times), they achieve a breezy, casual success: attendees at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo were “looking for love in Alderaan places,” for instance.

Chance the Rapper takes in the sights at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.
Posted inMusic

Chance the Rapper drops Acid Rap

by Leor Galil April 23, 2013August 19, 2021

Chance the Rapper drops Acid Rap—and it’s going to take him to places he’s only imagined.

Posted inBlogs

Therapy. The way a man would do it.

by Sharon Lurye August 14, 2012August 19, 2021

A new website uses humor to promote therapy

Posted inColumns & Opinion

For a fired Roosevelt adjunct, the joke isn’t funny anymore

by Deanna Isaacs December 8, 2011August 19, 2021

Roosevelt adjunct Robert Klein Engler says he told a joke that got him fired

Posted inBlogs

Completely Bombed

by Cliff Doerksen July 21, 2010August 19, 2021

We report, you deride.

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