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Feb. 5, 2013
Watching Patrice O’Neal Surprise His Audience - and Himself - in ‘Elephant […] Towards the end of his last television appearance before his death, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, Patrice O’Neal does something […]
By Cameron Tung
Nov. 13, 2012
Revisiting ‘Shameless,’ Louis CK’s First Stand-up Special For a stand-up comedian there is, it turns out, a fate worse than bombing. Though enduring the heckles and hostile silences of a belligerent […]
By Cameron Tung
July 18, 2012
The Prescient Celebrity Obsession of ‘Being John Malkovich’ I have been to the dark side and back! I have seen a world that no man should see!
—John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich
It’s been over […]
By Cameron Tung
June 11, 2012
The Before-Its-Time Raunchiness of ‘Slap Shot’ We can do anything we want. We’re college students!
–Tagline for Animal House, 1978
So went the battle cry of the Deltas, the “worst” […]
By Cameron Tung
May 16, 2012
Gods of Rock (In Their Own Minds): The Early Days of Tenacious D One night in 1996, Jack Black and Kyle Gass — the rambunctious, rotund frontmen for the mock rock outfit Tenacious D — stood on […]
By Cameron Tung
Apr. 27, 2012
‘Kingpin’: The Farrelly Brothers’ Biggest Flop and Greatest Triumph There are few locations in the landscape of American sports that evoke as distinct a sense of mediocrity as bowling alleys. As arenas of […]
By Cameron Tung
Apr. 18, 2012
The Perfect Misanthropy of The Foot Fist Way It’s a rare phenomenon that a film so completely decimates an audience’s understanding of civility that it forces them to recalibrate their […]
By Cameron Tung
Mar. 13, 2012
Zach Galifianakis Shows the Rawness of Standup at the Purple Onion About a third of the way through The Comedians of Comedy, the 2005 documentary chronicling the indie band-style stand-up tour Patton Oswalt […]
By Cameron Tung
Feb. 14, 2012
Revisiting ‘Funny People’ “You cannot make friends with the rock stars.”
— Lester Bangs to William Miller, Almost Famous
It’s difficult for me to think about the […]
By Cameron Tung
Dec. 7, 2011
Revisiting Marc Maron’s Darkest Days on Final Engagement “Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go […]
By Cameron Tung
