Female Comedians Respond To and Disprove That Pesky "Women Aren't Funny" Claim
Last night, Showtime aired the documentary Why We Laugh: Funny Women, a follow-up to its 2009 doc Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy. Dozens of female comedians were interviewed for it,...
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Woman's House Burns to the Ground After She Tries to Kill a Snake with Fire
A Northeast Texas woman learned a valuable lesson — literally — about the dangers of using fire to rid one's home of snakes. The unidentified homeowner was doing some yard work yesterday evening...
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Henry Blodget Found a Newspaper
Henry Blodget, a full grown adult who's held a highly compensated job in finance and founded a multimillion-dollar media company, still retains his ability to be astounded by the little things in life....
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Rich People Would Like You to Know That Owning a Castle Is a Lot of Hassle
The Wall Street Journal, a biweekly newsletter offering money saving tips for moms-of-multiples, published a heartbreaking story Friday addressing an issue which affects all Americans: castles. More...
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Rape Attempt Staged by Man Looking to 'Impress' Love Interest with His Heroism
A man in Arkansas who sought to show off his heroic side to a love interest decided to speed up the process by staging a rape attempt while the two were on a date. Had he kept watching the screwball...
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Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum Could Have Been America's Co-President
Newton Leroy Gingrich, a former college professor who co-writes speculative novels about alternative versions of history, has just coauthored the most momentous counterfactual of his career. Forget...
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Old Folks Are Broke As Hell
New data from the US Census shows that old folks are becoming ever more likely to need to move into your spare bedroom: "The median level of debt among households led by someone 65 and older..rose...
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Mr. Feeny Visited the Girl Meets World Set and Probably Gave Everyone Great...
Filming for the pilot episode of Girl Meets World (Disney's Boy Meets World girl power remix) kicked off this week, and tons of people from the old cast swung by the set to visit. Or is it that Mr....
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Spring Breakers Director Harmony Korine Just Did The Best Reddit AMA Ever
For actors and directors promoting a new movie, a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread has quickly gone from weird internet novelty to necessary stop on the publicity tour. As such, these Q and As with...
View Article'Holy Fuckballs': Great White Shark Penetrates Shark-Proof Cage, Goes After...
While vacationing in Gansbaai, South Africa, Bryan Plummer decided to take in some world-class cage diving with a bunch of friends. But just when Plummer thought it was safe to send his...
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Bill Cosby's Lawyers Threaten to Sue Over 'Cosby Sweaters'
This week, Bill Cosby was a guest on Letterman, where the 75-year-old made many jokes about being old. One Cosby admirer not watching was Kiley Kmiec, a Santa Monica resident who couldn't bring...
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North Dakota Inching Ever Closer to Being First State to Enact Personhood...
The North Dakota House passed a bill this afternoon that would define life as beginning at conception, effectively moving one step closer to banning all abortion in the state without exception for...
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Sony Co-Chairman Amy Pascal Asks Her Colleagues to Banish Gay Slurs from...
Last night at a fundraising gala for the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amy Pascal appealed to her Hollywood industry colleagues about some specific word...
View ArticleTeens Behind 'Gallon Smashing' Prank Being Charged with Multiple Crimes
They went around supermarkets throwing gallons of milk and juice on the floor, and now three teens from northern Virginia are having the book thrown at them. Authorities in Fairfax County say they've...
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Top 40 Hottest Women in Tech Was Supposed to Focus on Their Beautiful Insides
Today, freelancer Luke Winkie wrote a little thing assigned to him by Complex entitled "The 40 Hottest Women in Tech." It was a list, you see, or really, a 40-image slide show of totally bangable women...
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Twilight Star Ashley Greene Loses Dog in Apartment Fire
Here's something sad you can bring up and then immediately regret bringing up at dinner tonight: a toy fox terrier beloning to Twilight actress Ashley Greene died in a fire at her apartment this...
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Fact-Checking the Civil War, Un-Trashing Bill O'Reilly, Getting Creative With...
There was quite a bit of hate mail to sort through this week, but not to worry—one person who wrote in said that if we keep behaving in this way, we'll be out of business. Regarding our reporting on...
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This Army Veteran Is Going to Kill Himself Rather Than Continue to Live with...
Ten years since the start of the war in Iraq, and nine years since getting shot in the spine by a sniper after being in Iraq for only five days, Tomas Young, a U.S. Army veteran, has decided to kill...
View ArticleMeteor Streaks Across East Coast Sky
Last night, shortly after 7:50 PM, a meteor lit up night skies on the East Coast, shining as bright as the moon for about ten seconds. The meteor appeared as "a thin streak of blue-greenish-white,"...
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Teens Arrested for Shooting, Killing Infant in Georgia
Brunswick, Georgia police arrested 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins and a 14-year-old boy, whose name is being withheld due to his age, yesterday in connection with the shooting death of Sherry West's...
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