How Louis CK won the Internet
He circumvented the entertainment industry, and made $200,000 in four days
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comedy
Fake Queen’s University advertisement plays up sterotypes
Entertaining, if you don’t take it too seriously
Sitcoms rule
Dramas and reality shows are getting trounced by half-hour comedies
Bossypants
John Intini reviews Tina Fey’s new book
Kenny and Spenny stop fighting
The friends known for humiliating each other go their separate ways
Christmas, through a comedian’s dark lens
Plus: Walter Mosley’s latest, a biography of the Atlantic Ocean, the father of modern taxidermy, what Boomers can expect from the rest of life, and the late night TV wars
Is ’Outsourced’ really that offensive?
It depends who you ask. But even if it isn’t racist, that doesn’t mean it’s enlightened.
Berlin, and its last Jews, during wartime
Plus, Patrick McCabe’s latest ‘Bog Gothic’ novel, Nora Ephron in fine form, writers’ favourite books, comedian Russell Peters, and the war between chocolate-makers