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Happy Galentine’s Day, Tina and Amy Are Doing a Tour

By Rachel Leishman Feb 13th
20 Movies and TV Shows To Sweeten Up Your Galentine’s Day

By Kayla Harrington Feb 10th
8 Female Comedians to Help You Through Today (When All You Want to Do Is Scream)

By Madeline Carpou Jun 24th
Margaret Cho on Stand-Up, Queer Comedy, and Mental Health in These Clusterf*ck Times

By Chelsea Steiner May 3rd
Ali Wong’s New Netflix Special Offers a Profane, Hysterical Take on Having It All

By Chelsea Steiner Feb 15th
INTERVIEW: Betsy Sodaro Talks Quarantine Improv, Arm Wrestling, and Golden Arm

By Chelsea Steiner May 4th
Amy Poehler’s Career Trajectory Is Proof That Hollywood Needs More Women in Power

By Chelsea Steiner Apr 24th
Hulu’s PEN15 Is a Powerful Love Letter to Young Female Friendship

By Vivian Kane Feb 21st
What Jimmy Kimmel Misses in the Discussion Around Louis C.K.’s Place in Comedy

By Vivian Kane Oct 5th
The Best Part of Last Night’s Emmys Was Hannah Gadsby

By Vivian Kane Sep 18th
Norm Macdonald Says He’s “Happy the #MeToo Movement Has Slowed Down a Little Bit” and a Bunch of Other Terrible Stuff

By Vivian Kane Sep 11th
Louis C.K.’s “Comeback” Wasn’t the Slam Dunk We Were Told It Was

By Vivian Kane Sep 7th
Reductress Is Bringing Their Brilliant, Scathing Brand of Feminist Satire to Television

By Vivian Kane Jun 13th
Tina Fey on How Diversity Only Makes Comedy Better & What She Got Wrong in That SNL “Sheet Cake” Bit

By Vivian Kane May 4th
Aidy Bryant Set to Star as Lindy West in Hulu Adaptation of Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman

By Teresa Jusino Apr 24th
As If All These Half-Assed Apologies From Alleged Abusers Couldn’t Be Any More Ridiculous, Now They’ve Been Set to Music

By Vivian Kane Mar 9th
Things We Saw Today: Buy Black Panther Merch and Help the Hungry! Win-Win!

By Teresa Jusino Jan 31st
“Men’s Rights” Activist Sues Iliza Shlesinger for Doing Women-Only Shows He Wants to Get Into, Poor Baby

By Teresa Jusino Dec 28th
Heather Graham Makes Her Feature Writing and Directing Debut With Half Magic

By Teresa Jusino Dec 20th
Fork Yeah, The Good Place Has Been Renewed For a Third Season

By Marykate Jasper Nov 21st