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  1. kung fu
    Kung Fu’s Showrunners on Crafting the Shared Tragedy of ‘Sanctuary’“It was always very important to us that this not be an episode where Nicky Shen solves racism.”
    By Max Gao
  2. close reads
    Farewell to Superstore, a Show That Got Representation RightFor six seasons the series cultivated a genuine picture of working-class life: wide-ranging, nuanced, and always meeting at a myriad of intersections.
    By Kovie Biakolo
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    Love & Taxes Monologuist-Star Josh Kornbluth On the State of StorytellingTalking with the Spalding Gray disciple about seeing his one-man stage show adapted for film.
    By David Edelstein
  4. The Dark Side of Storytelling Over the past few years, storytelling has become one of the fastest growing forms of comedy in the country in no small part because of the […]
    By Ethan Stanislawski
  5. How Spalding Gray Moved Standup Comedy Beyond JokesThis past August, a number of Spalding Gray monologues and more became available on Howl Premium. They are joined with a number of familiar […]
    By Harry Waksberg
  6. Louis C.K. Looks Back on His Depressing Solo Trip to Russia in the ’90sLast night, Louis C.K. took a break from rehearsing for SNL to attend the annual Moth Ball in New York, where he accepted an award for […]
    By Megh Wright
  7. Standup, Storytelling and Radio Hosting with Ophira EisenbergOphira Eisenberg is a standup comic, the host of NPR’s live quiz show Ask Me Another, and a regular host and contributor to the popular live […]
    By Lara Zarum
  8. Mike Birbiglia and the Importance and Power of JokesMike Birbiglia has a very unique ability: the ability to tell any story, like the story of jumping out of a hotel window in Walla Walla, […]
    By Philip Stamato
  9. Talking to Mike Birbiglia About Retiring ‘My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend’ and […]Mike Birbiglia isn’t in love with standup comedy, and he’s not exactly hot on the one-man show either. The workman-like storyteller says […]
    By Joel Arnold
  10. Kurt Braunohler Tells the Story of His First Barfight, Which Involved Him […] Here’s the latest episode of the Comedy Central storytelling web series, This Is Not Happening. In it, Kurt Braunohler retells his first and […]
    By Bradford Evans
  11. party chat
    Stephen Colbert on Storytelling and What Makes Him Cry and Laugh“The beauty of what they’re saying is an accusation that you do not share what’s beautiful about yourself.”
    By Jesse David Fox
  12. A Funny Thing: Cammi Climaco Can Has Cat PukeOur story this week: cats. They are the worst. This is inarguable, timeless wisdom. As if we needed further proof (we didn’t), Cammi Climaco […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  13. Michelle Markowitz No Longer Likes You as a ManOur story this week: Sideburns, zoot suits, and Fred Savage, these are the three omens that signaled Michelle Markowitz’s late blooming into a […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  14. A Funny Thing: Lisa Kleinman Says Come On, New YorkLisa Kleinman moved to New York for the big dreams, the bright lights, and the infinite possibilities. She ended up with a secret life, […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  15. A Funny Thing: Caitlin Brodnick Loses Her Mind to Lose a Few PoundsCaitlin Brodnick thought diets were fun. Really. But then she made herself a lab rat in the cult-like laboratory of the Great American […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  16. A Funny Thing: Kim Kutt is the Beauty and the BeastOur story this week: Comedian Kim Kutt was enamored with the Spanish handsome, Gaston. But their earliest dalliances hit nothing but snags, and […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  17. A Funny Thing: Nick Kanellis Wets the BedbugOur story this week: Christian talks with Nick Kanellis about one horrible night when Nick suffered the perfect storm of bedbugs, robot vodka, […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  18. A Funny Thing: Christian Capozzoli Takes Over the ShowOur story this week: Christian Capozzoli is your new host of A Funny Thing. Listen as he takes the reins in our first ever studio session and […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  19. A Funny Thing: Melanie Hamlett Nearly Seduced by South American Stilt ClownOur story this week: Melanie Hamlett, yearning for the endless, intoxicating adventure of South America found herself couch surfing into a […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  20. A Funny Thing: Brantley Brice Discovers Himself, Matt Lauer, and the Power […]Our story this week: Brantley Brice didn’t so much struggle with his sexuality as much as he gleefully did the breaststroke in a river of […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  21. A Funny Thing: Pat Baer Fights Wolves, Finds LoveOur story this week: Pat Baer, creeped out by an awkward drug party around an unfamiliar campfire, escapes into the forest along with the […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  22. A Funny Thing: Michael Hartney Gets a Lesson in Sketch Comedy From Rosie […]Our story this week: Comedian Michael Hartney was a fresh-faced writer’s assistant eager to get a foot in the door of the burgeoning gay and […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  23. A Funny Thing: Ophira Eisenberg Scrapes the Bottom of the Sex BarrelOur story this week: Fresh off bombing her stand up set, Ophira Eisenberg was desperate to turn a bad night into a good one. How to do it? By […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  24. A Funny Thing: Adam Wade and Peter Aguero Tag Team Their PantsOur story this week: The narratorial tag team of Adam Wade and Peter Aguero form the beast with two butts to double down on the old number two. […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  25. A Funny Thing: Streeter Seidell Loves Dogs, Re-animation of DeadOur story this week: Streeter Seidell (CollegeHumor) takes us down his twisting path of pet ownership, from the truth of how horrible cats are […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  26. A Funny Thing: Julia Wiedeman On Abuse and Not LaughingOur story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we’ve been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  27. A Funny Thing: Abra Tabak Goes to Bummer CampOur story this week: Abra Tabak thought she was headed for the idyllic American summer camp experience. She’d be the fun counselor, with rugs […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  28. A Funny Thing: Joe Mande Loses His Religion and a Whole Lot MoreOur story this week: Ambivalent Jew, Joe Mande (Kroll Show, Parks and Rec, Best Week Ever) was looking for God in all the wrong places, […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  29. A Funny Thing: Sean Canady Owes Elijah Wood an Apology - Here it IsOur story this week: Sean Canady was a lovesick nerd in the heady, wild west days of the early internet. Looking for love in all the wrong chat […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  30. A Funny Thing: Adam Wade Tells Dan Marino Where to Stick ItOur story this week: Adam Wade, friend of the show, fearless speaker of truth to power, idolized in his youth the great Miami Dolphins […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  31. A Funny Thing: Nicole Byer Swears She Isn’t DirtyOur story this week: Nicole Byer, she of the Bushmills, she of the floor-pizza, takes us on a charming tour of the mind and predilections of […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  32. A Funny Thing: Jon Gabrus Is Sorry He Farted in ChurchOur story this week: Jon Gabrus, your typical hipster, douchebag, Atheist and host of Guy Code on MTV2 overcomes the joys of mocking the […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  33. A Funny Thing: Ophira Eisenberg Beds Half a U2 Cover BandOur story this week: Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR’s Ask Me Another, is torn between two members of a highschool U2 cover band called B4. How […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  34. A Funny Thing: ‘30 Rock’s Anthony Atamanuik Celebrates a Lifetime of […]This week on A Funny Thing, Anthony Atamanuik, one of the Writers Who Never Talk on 30 Rock, reveals a lifetime of sexual endeavors that veer […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  35. A Funny Thing: Christian Capozzoli Dresses Up Like an Old Man and Bleeds […]Ever showed up to a costume party to find you are the only one in costume? Imagine that, then add blood. Lots of blood. You won’t believe how […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  36. A Funny Thing: Hayley Bing is Drinking Pee and Taking NamesHayley Bing was dating a nice boy who happened to be friends with the biggest asshole in the world. One time he gave her a beer that was really […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  37. A Funny Thing: Kate Tellers Gets Handsy During Thanksgiving DinnerThis week on A Funny Thing, a story from comedian and storyteller Kate Tellers about the time she put on a corset, impersonated an Astor, and […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  38. A Funny Thing: John Flynn Fights One Enormous TesticleComedian and storyteller John Flynn awoke one morning to discover one of his testicles had swollen to the size of an ambitious nectarine. Only […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  39. A Funny Thing #34: Yowza with Jiji LeeThis week we bring you a two-fisted double feature from storyteller Jiji Lee. First, an ode to the indignities and vagaries of the New York […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  40. A Funny Thing #32: The Old College Try with Jon GabrusJon Gabrus lived the quintessential Hollywood college experience, if Hollywood was the name of an alternate world where everyone thought it was […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  41. A Funny Thing #31: A Stupendous Job with Adam WadeAdam Wade was young man, a fragile asthmatic, unprepared for the rigors of band. He needed a place in the world. Until that is, a kindly, but […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  42. storytelling
    Kelly Lynch Shares Murray, Denzel, Cimino DirtGuess which one didn’t want to kiss a white woman and which dressed like one.
    By Jesse David Fox
  43. A Funny Thing #30: Tumbleweave with Nicole ByerThis week, Nicole Byer sidles up to the Genius Bar and walks away with a plate full of hot mess. A whole bottle of Georgi, a tight weave, and […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  44. A Funny Thing #29: The Period Piece with Halle KieferThis week, Halle Kiefer yearns for the day when everyone wore a shirt around their waist. A blowout on the L train sends Halle down the crimson […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  45. A Funny Thing #28: Wrong Place, Wrong Time with David SmithymanDavid Smithyman wanted to lay low and avoid attention, to pass as a phantom over the choppy waters of an awkward adolescence, but the universe […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  46. A Funny Thing #27: The Sing-Along with Julia WiedemanA stranger in a strange land, her mop incarnadine against the native dred, Julia Wiedman wanted what any of us would: simple human connection […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  47. A Funny Thing #26: Killer Moves with Jim SantangeliThis week, a 10-year-old Jim Santangeli dances face first into murder. Only by surrendering himself to the rhythm of life and summoning the […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  48. A Funny Thing #25: I Come From You with Christian CapozzoliParents. They’re supposed to be our rock, our paragons of sure-handed, stoic capability. Oh, but aren’t they all too human? Maybe no one ever […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  49. adam wade
    Watch Adam Wade Illustrated With Kitty CatsDon’t touch the juice.
    By Eliot Glazer
  50. A Funny Thing #24: Downtown Dinner Party with Sam DingmanJust how far will you go to get what you want? How high a price for fame, for love, will you deduct from your dignity to deposit on the […]
    By Splitsider Editors
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