Ilana Glazer is grateful for the limits of parenthood. On Wild Card this week, Glazer opens up about how parenthood has allowed them to draw boundaries and why they increasingly love their alone time.
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Comic D.J. Demers jokes a lot about hearing loss — but won’t be ‘the hearing aid guy’
Demers was diagnosed with hearing loss when he was 4 years old. As a kid, he saw nothing funny about it — but then he learned to make people laugh. He just dropped his fourth stand-up special.
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Opinion: Bob Newhart showed us the extraordinary in the ordinary
NPR’s Scott Simon remembers understated comedian and actor Bob Newhart, who died this week at the age of 94.
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Is climate change funny?
At Possibly we think a lot about how to make complicated climate science and policy easy to understand. And we’re not the only ones! Some comedians are playing an important role in re-thinking how we talk about climate change.
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Kevin Hart takes home his Mark Twain Prize for American humor
Kevin Hart received the 25th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center Sunday night. Fellow comedians Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and Chelsea Handler were there to roast him.