This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

After two years as gym teacher Markie Hillridge on FX’s ‘English Teacher,’ comic Sean Patton comes New Orleans for stand-up ...

Because writing about butthurt egomaniacs is apparently my genre this yuletide season, Dave reportedly went off on one particular and surprising critic: Bill Maher. Setting aside Chappelle's ...

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Slam Frank' Composer Andrew Fox discusses how Kanye West, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more inspired his daring musical.

Wow, 2025 — in the race to dismantle civilization, you certainly outdid yourself. And it took some brilliant stand-ups this year to take our problems big and small and turn them into jokes that ...

Bill Nye turns 70 on November 27, 2025, and that may be a shock to us ’90s kids who remember the excitement of the TV being wheeled into the classroom and the catchy theme song playing, with all of us ...

Tell me about growing up in New Prague. We lived on a little hobby farm. Chickens. Several gardens. A field of sweet corn. I was the youngest of 11 kids. Wow. OK. I didn’t know any of that. What was ...

UFC President Dana White appeared on comedian Andrew Schulz's "Flagrant" podcast on Tuesday, and the two commended late-night host Bill Maher for visiting President Donald Trump at the White House in ...

Eddie Murphy opens up just enough to make things interesting in this fully authorized look at his life. The most interesting thing about the sanitized, fully authorized celebrity biodocs that have ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Bill Burr is set for Bender, a coming-of-age comedy shooting in Ireland next spring. Described as Superbad meets Derry Girls, Bender is based on the late-’70s, post-punk Dublin ...