Stephen Colbert: Stop pretending mass shootings will magically stop on their own – Vox

Stephen Colbert is exasperated with America’s unwillingness to do anything about itsvery unique gun problem. Breaking the comedic tone on his show on Friday, Colbert echoed what’s now a common theme in the discussion about guns: Why doesn’t anything change? Commenting specifically on the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, Colbert said: In the face of the…

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We just got a sneak-peek at Netflix/Marvel’s new series “Jessica Jones,” the binge-watching can’t start soon enough

It’s way easy to be a diehard Krysten Ritter fan. The actress has slayed in everything from supporting roles in “Veronica Mars” and “Breaking Bad,” to her star turn in “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23.” So of course we got ALL kinds of excited when we learned that Ritter was teaming up with…

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“BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair – The New Yorker

Credit Netflix/Everett Barrier Status: ‘none’ The Netflix animated series “BoJack Horseman” is a comedy about an anthropomorphic talking horse of the same name. BoJack starred in a family sitcom in the eighties and nineties called “Horsin’ Around”—think “Charles in Charge” crossed with “Full House,” but with a horse—and now lives the dissipated life of a…

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John Oliver Had to Close His Megachurch Because Too Many People Sent Him Semen 

John Oliver announced on Sunday that Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, the official megachurch of Last Week Tonight, will have to close because they were receiving too much semen in the mail. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was founded in a brilliant segment on televangelists, who trick followers into sending them “seeds”—i.e. monetary donations—that they’re…

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