Grant Pardee
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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I Rewatched 'Pixels' to See How a Fun Premise Became an Atrocity
The Adam Sandler vs. Pac-Man comedy is a bizarre mess of misogyny, bad jokes, and pandering nostalgia. → Read More
Mission: Impossible Is the Best Film Franchise of the Last 20 Years
Marvel, Harry Potter, Transformers, Bourne, the Fast and the Furious—nobody has even come close to touching Tom Cruise's action series. → Read More
The 15 Best Internet Comedy Videos of 2015
There were many comedy videos on the Internet in 2015 but these are the best ones. → Read More
The Woman Behind 'Nancy' Has Made an 80-Year-Old Comic Funny Again
The long-running comic was recently taken over by Olivia Jaimes, who's shifted the focus from boomer humor to jokes about Snapchat, apps, and Twitter bots. → Read More
People Are Saying This Christian Surfing Movie Is the Next 'The Room'
'Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear' is a surreal meditation on faith and surfing, with the writer/director/producer also starring as a ghost made of squid ink. → Read More
5 Simple Solutions To The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
Football is a bunch of ding-dongs and hee-haws getting drunk, eating the flesh of dead animals, and cheering on the degradation of young college graduate’s brains. → Read More
Jared Hess Talks About His New Movie, Don Verdean
The director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre has a new movie about the strange world of Biblical archaeology → Read More
Conan O'Brien: Stand-up's Best Friend in Late Night
Inside Conan's crucial commitment to breaking stand-up acts in late-night. → Read More
Defending Batman v Superman, by an Angry 13 Year Old
Everybody else is wrong about Batman v Superman, as your 13-year-old nephew is happy to point out. → Read More
List: If Right-Wing Catchphrases Were in ’90s Movies
“Do I make you triggered, baby? Do I?” “A, B, C. Always Be Cucking.” “I’m White Knight of the world!” “They may take our lives. But they’ll never t... → Read More
13 Insightful Things You Can Say At Your Super Tuesday Party
“The votes are made up and the points don’t matter, Drew Carey just picks Ryan Stiles in the end.” → Read More
11 Inspiring Bernie Sanders Quotes and Also Some from Austin Powers
Get inspired by these Bernie Sanders and Austin Powers quotes → Read More
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Boat Parts or Names of Unvaccinated Children?
[Originally published October 6, 2014.] - - - 1. Hopper 2. Tiller 3. Dashiell 4. Stanchion 5. Anais 6. Talullah 7. Rudder 8. Maso... → Read More
Whatever Happened to the Mascots of Our Beloved 90s Platform Games?
From Mario to Donkey Kong to Sonic the Hedgehog, we chronicled the highs and lows for our favorite mascots. → Read More
Social Media Is Going to Get More Anonymous and More Ubiquitous in 2015
We're long, long past the point where social media seems new or particularly novel. Even the term social media itself is beginning to feel dated; the communications it refers to have become so ingrained into our everyday existences that the phrase seems redundant, like "color TV" or "cordless phone." I don't know, grandpa, wasn't media always social? What is new is an apparent shift is toward… → Read More
Your Favorite Social Media Platform Says a Lot About You
On the latest episode of the ENTITLEMENT Podcast, we chatted with comedian Matt Ingebretson about YikYak, Tumblr, and feeling uncomfortable on social media. → Read More
Where Are All the Christmas-Themed Video Games?
Most holiday-themed titles are cheaply produced or downright weird, leaving us without a true video game equivalent of "A Christmas Carol" or "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." → Read More
How the Madden Video Game Franchise Got Lazy and Stale
Thanks to an exclusive license agreement with the NFL, the developers behind Madden haven't had much in the way of competition for years, and their games have suffered as a result. → Read More
Bill Cosby is Losing His TV Show Because of the Rape Allegations
Besmirched by sexual assault allegations, the comedian is on a losing streak with sponsors and television networks. → Read More
The Sega Dreamcast Was Weird, Fun, and Gone Too Soon
History is written by the winners, and in the post-Dreamcast world, gaming has taken a turn toward the epic, militaristic, and cinematic approach. But to me, Sega's failed console will always be the best thing that ever happened to video games. → Read More