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, âOh, Come On,â David Cross, a new parent, describes it as pure narcissism: âItâs this subconscious thing in the back of everyoneâs head, this idea, you know, âI like me. I think there should be more of me in the world.ââ
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?
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.
(On Comedy): If a certain kind of big-tent comedy (the network late-night talk show, the mass audience sitcom, the movie blockbuster) is in decline, the last of this endangered species will surely be âSaturday Night Live.â
Last year, Sacha Baron Cohen used various disguises to pull off the most startling political humor of the Trump era on the Showtime series âWho Is America?
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.
Then Young-White, 24, pauses, waiting for the joke to sink in. Typically, he moves from punch line to punch line with pace, but the two times I have seen him tell this one, he went silent as the laughter built.
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