The Year in Comedy Podcasts

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( What to Read Today [The Year in Comedy Podcasts Featuring Hollywood Handbook, Best Friends, Las Culturistas, and some guy named Conan.]( By Vulture Editors [Michelle Wolf Plays the Classics In Joke Show, Wolf takes familiar premises and chips away at them until she creates something legitimately new.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Every Noah Baumbach Couple, Ranked by Sheer Misery Noah Baumbach exclusively makes films about New Yorkers who hate themselves and each other. But which Baumbach coupling hates each other the most?]( By Rachel Handler [How The Confession Killer Tackled the Myth of History’s Worst Serial Killer The Netflix docuseries’s dive into the false confessions of Henry Lee Lucas explores the law’s fixation on closing cases, and the toll it takes.]( By Maria Elena Fernandez [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Netflix’s Spinning Out Trailer Goes Big With Sex, Ice-skating, and Johnny Weir The only thing colder than the ice is January Jones.]( By Jordan Crucchiola [Idina Menzel Decides to Compete With Mariah Carey Over Christmas Music “She has this crazy range. And I was like, ‘I have that too.’”]( By Jackson McHenry [An Interview With the Divorce Attorney Who (‘Maybe’) Inspired Marriage Story Hollywood divorce attorney Laura Wasser says that, yes, the Barbers really were a New York family.]( By Hunter Harris [The Best Songs of 2019 Who’d have thought the real voice of a generation would be Lana Del Rey?]( By Dee Lockett [Billie Eilish and Alicia Keys Harmonized ‘Ocean Eyes’ for an All-Female Audience Introducing Eilishia Keys.]( By Rebecca Alter [It’s 2019 and Eminem Is ‘Beefing’ With Nick Cannon It’s time to end the year.]( By Zoe Haylock [Timothée Chalamet Would Play a Tree for Greta Gerwig “Like Scarlett Johansson!”]( By Devon Ivie [Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Her SNL Days: ‘It Was a Pretty Brutal Time’ She told Stephen Colbert the show was “very sexist” then.]( By Megh Wright [Below Deck Recap: Tanner, the Horror The Below Deck casting directors have a special talent for finding truly dreadful men for this show.]( By Amy Odell [Consonants and Vowels Reveal: Vanna White Hosted Wheel of Fortune for First Time With Minnie Mouse filling in for her.]( By Devon Ivie [Where Can I Sing Cats Karaoke? Warm up your pipes and prepare to belt “Memory.”]( By Madison Malone Kircher [Little Women Was the Original Super-Franchise From film and TV adaptations to fanfic and merch, Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel about the March sisters has always been big.]( By Hillary Kelly [Timothée Chalamet Reflects on That ‘Surreal’ Dinner With Kanye and Pete Davidson Much of which he spent panicking and texting his friends in the bathroom.]( By Halle Kiefer [Cuba Gooding Jr. Groping Case: Seven More Women Accuse Him of Misconduct He now has 22 accusers.]( By Victoria Bekiempis [And Now Fortnite and Dancing Pumpkin Man Are Feuding He follows in the (dancing) footsteps of Alfonso Ribeiro, 2 Milly, and Backpack Kid.]( By Halle Kiefer [His Dark Materials Recap: Mother! An episode that turns on the emotional horror of separating someone from their daemon is frustratingly, almost ghoulishly, light on actual daemons.]( By Devon Maloney [The Trailer for Miracle Workers: Dark Ages Takes You Way, Way Back The Earth is flat, the Devil is real, and Simon Rich’s comedy is now an anthology series set in the Middle Ages.]( By Halle Kiefer [TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution Slams Richard Jewell’s Portrayal of the Paper “While the film may tell truths about Mr. Jewell, the ‘facts’ it portrays about the AJC and its journalists are untruthful, defamatory, and damaging.”]( By Hunter Harris [Sorry, TikTok Fans, Broadway’s Beetlejuice to Be Booted From Theater The Music Man is reportedly a-comin’ in after it.]( By Jackson McHenry [Theater Review: Daniel Kitson Keeps Only Things That Spark No Joy Whatsoever A monologuist who can’t stop interrogating himself and us.]( By Helen Shaw [Meet the Man Beneath the Mandalorian’s Armor Brendan Wayne — yup, John Wayne’s grandson — doubled for star Pedro Pascal on set, and was instrumental in establishing the character’s physicality.]( By Liz Shannon Miller [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Subscribe for $5/month and get [unlimited digital access]( to New York Magazine, home of Vulture, the Cut, Grub Street, and Intelligencer.     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. 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