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When the comedy website Splitsider — the first offshoot of The Awl — launched in September, it wasn't immediately obvious why the Web needed yet another site devoted to aggregating the humorous bits from around the Internet. Oh, how wrong we all were. Indeed, Splitsider has managed to carve out a niche in a crowded […]

One of Hannibal Buress's stand-up bits goes like this: He got so high in Amsterdam that he learned Dutch. He got so high in Amsterdam that he helped substitute-teach a third grade class in geography, in Dutch. And then he was walking around Amsterdam with a few extra euros in his pocket, so he just […]

At first glance, "The Onion News Network" — which debuts on IFC on January 21st — looks a lot like Fox News or CNN: all elaborate sets, smug anchors and overheated pundits. But then you notice the stories: A judge orders a white teenager to be tried "as a black adult"; Kim Jong-il gives up […]

Call her the anti-Sex and the City: 24-year-old Lena Dunham, whose massively buzzy debut movie, Tiny Furniture (which she wrote, directed and stars in as a Lena Dunham-ish college grad who moves back into her parents' downtown New York loft), got her noticed by Apatow. He signed on to executive-produce Girls, Dunham's half-hour HBO pilot, […]

Last summer, comedian Jenny Slate didn't know if her Saturday Night Live contract was going to be renewed. "Eventually, I got to a point where I just really wanted to create something," she says. That something turned out to be the adorable, three-minute-long Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, a stop-motion-animation film about a precocious […]

Acid-tongued, rage-prone satirist Marc Maron has been a stand-up-circuit fixture since the Eighties, hosting Comedy Central shows and befriending guys like Judd Apatow and Conan O'Brien along the way. But his new podcast, "WTF," may be his greatest achievement yet: a series of unvarnished shit-shoots with comedians that move from laugh-geek joke anatomy to quasi-therapeutic […]

"A 98-year-old man walks into a sperm bank." "A guy goes to the doctor, and the doctor says, 'Look, I don't know how to tell you this, but you've just got to stop masturbating.'" "What is the difference between a Jewish mother and Rottweiler?" If only the Borscht Belt comedians of yore could see what […]

The growth of the rap-humor-video genre can undoubtedly be attributed in part to the efforts of brothers Jeff and Eric Rosenthal, the team behind the three-year-old website It's the Real. The pair's videos  include the election season parody "My Girl's a Republican," which featured the lyrics "She's a conservative girl, can't take her home to […]

Portland, Oregon is almost too easy to satirize as a kind of real-life Stuff White People Like: It's a land where everyone's in bands, eats only locally grown food they buy at the food co-op, works in coffeeshops or bookstores, lives with several roommates, has tattoos and wears glasses. At least, that's the premise of […]

Randall Munroe's stick-figure web comic XKCD's been around since 2005, but — in the parlance of the technies who've been faithfully following it since the beginning — it's only recently penetrated the consciousness of the so-called "normals." That may be because Munroe's droll, hilarious strips, which he posts three times a week, are speaking ever […]