The Daily Californian Arts Awards: Television of 2017
Suzanne Tenner/Showtime/Courtesy
Whether on our laptops or in our living rooms, television has always been a space of escape, in which our ideologies are reflected back to us.
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The divine comedy
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m an atheist. I’m a total cliché of what the media makes the typical (moderately) liberal youngster out to be. My Sunday rituals consist of watching new episodes of “The Simpsons” and catching up on the previous week’s “Conan.” No church or bedtime prayers for me. I’ve
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No laughing matter: How late-night comedy swayed the election
We live in an age during which tousling someone’s (questionable) hair becomes a national point of controversy. When the tousler is the beloved host of an NBC comedy institution and the hair being tousled belongs to a “tax-cheating, investor-swindling, worker-shafting, dictator-loving, pathologically lying, attorney’s general-bribing, philandering, mobbed-up narcissistic serial con
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Seth Meyers delights with subtle wit at Palace of Fine Arts
Seth Meyers’ brand of comedy is not one that makes people hunch over as they hold their gut or kick their legs up in disbelieving glee or one that sparks with absurdist, energetic theatrics — yet it is a brand of comedy that is deeply enjoyable on the level of
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