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What is mocha mousse, Pantone’s colour of the year, and do I eat it or wear it?
Wild landscapes, dark comedy and the Irish language: the rise of ‘Gaelic noir’
Its setting is remote, desolate, and windy. Its protagonist is a mercurial policeman struggling with his own personal demons. Its subject: a long-lost body found in a mountain bog.
So far, so standard for a television crime drama. But there is something about Crá, a new BBC series that debuted …
Agency representing comedians including Aaron Chen goes under, leaving clients out of pocket
The agency representing some of Australia’s leading comedians has gone under, leading some clients to complain they are owed substantial sums.
Liquidators for the talent management company Junkyard Artist Management and the production company West Street Sports were appointed on Monday. Junkyard managed some of the country’s top comedians, including …
Colbert on Trump’s Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth: ‘A slight work problem when he shows up at drinking’
Pete Hegseth
’s worrisome drinking andsexual misconduct
, as well as outrage overJoe Biden
’spardon
of his son Hunter.Stephen Colbert
focused on Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host …Tall tales, campfire singalongs and Oldham slang: The White Stripes’ 20 best songs – ranked!
20. The Big Three Killed My Baby (1999)
Not, as one might initially assume, a reference to the Merseybeat band from noted scholar of 60s obscurity Jack White, but a rare White Stripes protest song (of sorts), decrying the US automobile industry’s penchant for engineering planned obsolescence in cars. Perhaps …
Baseball has much larger problems than the farcical ‘golden at-bat’
The first time I saw a mention of a baseball “golden at-bat” came on Monday. A few entries flashed on X, my spam detector dismissed them immediately and I moved on in search of my next distraction. A day later, I was back wasting life away on social media and …
A player’s foreseeable death raises existential questions for college football
“It is clearly the duty of the colleges which have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and become intense to purge themselves of such immoralities … Intercollegiate and interscholastic football ought to be prohibited until a reasonable game has been formulated.”
of …Jimmy Kimmel on GOP reaction to Hunter Biden pardon: ‘Absolutely exploding with pretend outrage’
Solomon Frank: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
My ethos as an artist is taking silly things seriously, whether it’s dogs on reality television or farts. As a social media user in 2024, I’m cognisant of the way in which my experience online is shaped by the whims of billionaire technocrats. However, I need to consume 8m images …
College football’s playoff field has tripled. Turns out picking 12 teams is just as hard
This season is the best of times and the worst of times to institute a 12-team playoff in the top tier of college football.
It’s the best of times because the results so far have yielded a muddled picture in which picking just four teams would have been extraordinarily difficult, …