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15 Very Dark Jokes From Gary Larson’s ‘The Far Side’
Alyson Lewis
September 14, 2023
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This issue is about Kyle Kinane, Justin Roiland, insults, things that prevented WWIII, funny revenge stories, and more.
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On Wednesday, September 20th, Kyle Kinane will headline Cracked Live, a night of curated stand-up comedy at the Cutting Room in New York. It’s late August now, and Kinane is relaxing at his home across the country in Portland, recalling his early days as a comic. Back then, he wasn’t top-billed — more often, he was the evening’s host. It wasn’t a job he particularly enjoyed.
“It’s a whole other skill set,” he says. “People just sat down, you’re the first comedic encounter they’re having that night for that show. It was weird in Chicago — if you were too good of a host, it was a catch-22 because then the club would keep you as a host. You wouldn’t advance because it’s so hard to find a good host, so you kind of shoot yourself in the foot by being a great host. I was a terrible host, and because I was a terrible host, I just never got invited to perform at the club — I didn’t jump through that very small hoop of ‘being good, but not too good’ kind of thing.”
Almost six months after prosecutors dropped domestic charges filed against controversial Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland due to lack of evidence, 11 women and nonbinary people have come forward to share text messages, emails, pictures, videos, social media posts, plane tickets and Uber receipts that show a pattern of predatory behavior on the part of the disgraced creator toward young fans that, one woman claims, even escalated into sexual assault.
NBC News released its report on the new wave of stories and allegations against Roiland after corroborating the details of all 11 people featured and combing through thousands of messages between Roiland and the young women and nonbinary people, three of whom were just 16 years old when Roiland initiated a relationship.
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