There's only one funny person and it's Rodney Dangerfield

By Sarah Hagi

Talking about how hot you are? Not funny. Rodney Dangerfield? Always funny.

Welcome to Gawker’s How to Be Funny week, a celebration of people and things who are making us laugh and teaching us how to laugh more.

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Broti Gupta is currently the first writer for The Simpsons to be younger than the show itself. Dylan Gelula is an actress whose credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Shithouse, Support the Girls and most recently Apple’s Loot.

The two are best friends and hosts of Lecture Hall, which they have both repeatedly called “the worst podcast in the world.” Despite having been a guest on the show, I have no idea what it is supposed to be about.

The duo sat down with Gawker to discuss what makes them laugh. It turns out it’s mostly Rodney Dangerfield. Continue reading

By Kelly Conaboy

This Advent ... is for the dogs

Advent Calendar Death Match is a four-part series pitting Advent calendars against each other in a fight to the death. Previously: Susanne Kaufman vs. Rituals.

Our dogs deserve the most luxurious Advent calendars available, because they’re our best friends and the only beings we speak to daily who haven’t committed at least a little unspeakable evil against someone else. However, a dog’s needs are simple. They don’t need dog La Mer, for example, because they will be effortlessly gorgeous until death. They don’t need dog Susanne Kaufmann or dog Diptyque. If I could have gotten (for free) an Advent calendar that was one monthly canine flea and tick preventative pill every day — pills I could have saved up for the coming two years — that would have been nice for me and would have saved me around $600, but I don’t think my dog would have cared much at all. So we must retreat to the old standbys. Continue reading

By Claire Carusillo

It would reclaim that holiday magic dads everywhere lost in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination

This holiday season, dads don’t need gadgets or gizmos or golf balls under the tree. Dads don’t need or even want their entire family gathered hand in hand around a fat goose reciting grace. Dads need accountability. Dads need closure. Dads need answers about a traumatic event that’s tormented them since childhood. Happiness doesn’t come in a box, but 16,000 unredacted files pertaining to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy do. It just has to be a really big box. Continue reading

By Claire Carusillo

Another bombshell from their long-awaited tell-all doc: The Sussexes met on Instagram

My captors/guardian angels Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s latest campaign of terror, a docuseries called Harry & Meghan, has hit Netflix at long last. Other celeb blogging enterprises must have more hours in the day or greater access to Netflix screeners than I do, because their websites already look like this: Continue reading

By Allie Jones

Arielle and Brandon Charnas are denying very specific rumors about embezzlement and divorce

If you know what Something Navy is, you are probably already six Reddit threads deep on the current scandal involving its founder and her husband. If you don’t, you can still enjoy this, don’t worry. Let’s dive in. Continue reading