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Jason Zinoman

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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
18 Aug 2024
The sentimental take on having a child is that it pushes you to look beyond yourself and place the needs of others over narrow self-interest. But in his latest special, “Oh, Come On,” David Cross, a new parent, describes it as pure narcissism: “It’s this subconscious thing in the back of everyone’s head, this idea, you know, ‘I like me. I think there should be more of me in the world.’”
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
17 Aug 2024
NEW ORLEANS — Since comedian Amy Schumer became pregnant, she had vomited, in her conservative estimate, 980 times. So on a Monday evening last month, when she told her husband, Chris Fischer, she was going to throw up, sitting in the passenger seat of a compact SUV on her way to perform a drop-in set, what followed had the blasĂ© feel of routine.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
17 Aug 2024
NEW ORLEANS — Since comedian Amy Schumer became pregnant, she had vomited, in her conservative estimate, 980 times. So on a Monday evening last month, when she told her husband, Chris Fischer, she was going to throw up, sitting in the passenger seat of a compact SUV on her way to perform a drop-in set, what followed had the blasĂ© feel of routine.
Amy Schumer Doesn't Care What You Think (That Much)
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
5 Jul 2019
Novak paused, pondering whether to finish her thought, deciding against it, and moving on, before I returned to the subject with a follow-up question: <em>Do</em> you think oral sex is more intimate than intercourse?
Her Kind of Comedy: Lewd, Vulnerable and Self-Aware
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
3 Jun 2019
Then he interviewed employees of Chinese restaurants about what Alda liked to eat. A wonderfully dry spoof of celebrity culture, Letterman followed it with similarly deadpan ones investigating the dry cleaning, shoes and auto repair of the stars.
A Letterman without irony
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
21 Mar 2019
(On Comedy): NEW YORK — If Dave Attell ever retires, as he has periodically hinted for years, what will become of club comedy?
David Attell: Ruthless, seasoned, hilarious
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
13 Feb 2019
Last year, Sacha Baron Cohen used various disguises to pull off the most startling political humor of the Trump era on the Showtime series “Who Is America?
In this prank show, the joke's on misogynistic men
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
1 Feb 2019
To be fair, Cohen has earned a pretty obsessed following in part because of her finely sharpened first impression, that of a preposterously preening, rigorously self-regarding, sexually arrogant diva in Lululemon leggings.
Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses