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Lara Zarum

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  • The Nation
  • Village Voice
  • Slate

Past articles by Lara:

#BlockSidewalk’s War Against Google In Canada

The tech company wants to rebuild a Toronto neighborhood—but residents aren’t having it. → Read More

Too Big for Satire: Sacha Baron Cohen and Sarah Silverman Miss America

Showtime was surely being facetious when, in the run-up to the July premiere of its Sacha Baron Cohen prank show Who Is America?, the network... → Read More

“Random Acts of Flyness”: Oh, Damn, They Can Do That on Television?

“Do you suffer from white thoughts?” Jon Hamm asks in the first episode of Random Acts of Flyness, a trippy new variety series created for... → Read More

Why Chris Gethard Is Walking Away From His TV Show

On Monday afternoon, in a long Facebook post, Chris Gethard announced the end of The Chris Gethard Show. The series has a long and somewhat torturous history: It began as a monthly live show at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade in 2009, when Gethard was an instructor at the legendary improv theater, and moved to the public access channel Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) in 2011. Comedy… → Read More

In “The New One,” Mike Birbiglia Reckons With Life After Baby

Mike Birbiglia’s couch is the spine of his engaging one-man show, The New One, playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre through the end of August.... → Read More

“Succession” Is the Perfect Show for Life Under Late Capitalism

The show is about the infinite lives the wealthy get to lead, and the endless second chances that money can buy. → Read More

“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” Exposes the Cruel Idiocy of Gay Conversion Therapy

At the gay conversion therapy center at the heart of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the teenage charges wear uniforms: blue button-down shirts and navy... → Read More

The “Variety” 10 Comics to Watch Showcase at Just for Laughs Was…Interesting

Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” showcase, an annual series at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival, got off to a great start. The lineup of... → Read More

Cameron Esposito Is Tired of Talking About Rape Jokes

After all, she’s not a crisis counselor; she’s a stand-up comedian → Read More

The Very Best of Just for Laughs’ New Faces Showcase

Montreal’s annual Just for Laughs comedy festival is the biggest of its kind in the world, with over 350 artists performing over the span of... → Read More

Wow, Catherine Cohen Has an Amazing Voice

On a warm night in June, Catherine Cohen stepped onto the stage at Joe’s Pub in a red silk jumpsuit and cat-eye sunglasses, her puff of long brown hair swept off her face, and approached the microphone. “Hell-ooo,” she trilled. “Wow. I have an amazing voice.” It was the comedian’s first show at Joe’s Pub, the cozy cabaret venue at the Public Theater, and the crowd was packed and pumped. As… → Read More

Altamont, the Rolling Stones, and the Death of the Sixties Dream

In “Just a Shot Away,” Saul Austerlitz revisits the concert that started in hope and ended in bloodshed → Read More

TV Wants Even More of Your Time. But Does It Deserve It?

This week I sat down to watch new episodes of a few returning series, and found each had the same problem: They were attempting to... → Read More

Sacha Baron Cohen Is Back to Help America’s Politicians Embarrass Themselves

Not that they need it. → Read More

It’s Sadly Kind of Perfect That the New Season of “GLOW” Is Stolen by Marc Maron

In the opener of the second season of GLOW, the Netflix comedy based on the syndicated 1980s women’s wrestling series, Marc Maron’s character, a director... → Read More

A Dissenting Word on “Set It Up”

It’s instructive that many articles lauding Set It Up as the second coming of the rom-com don’t contest its aggressive mediocrity. In fact, most reviews... → Read More

Gillian Flynn and HBO’s “Sharp Objects” Cuts to the American Bone

Just in time for pit-stain season, HBO has another limited series about the twisted lives of well-off white Americans, based on a novel and directed... → Read More

“Whitney” Soars When It Lets Its Subject Speak and Sing for Herself

Whitney tells a maddeningly familiar story: the one about talent squandered on drugs; the one about a bright, brilliant girl who became a spent woman.... → Read More

“Whitney” Soars When It Lets Its Subject Speak and Sing for Herself

Whitney tells a maddeningly familiar story: the one about talent squandered on drugs; the one about a bright, brilliant girl who became a spent woman.... → Read More

Brainstorming the Revolution With “Sorry to Bother You” Director Boots Riley

You may have heard that Sorry to Bother You, the debut film from writer-director Boots Riley, is nuts. And it is: Lakeith Stanfield stars as... → Read More