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Film
fromInverse
1 day ago

'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice' Is Time-Travel Action At Its Zaniest

A time-travel sci-fi comedy follows three criminals whose night spirals into chaos when future versions of themselves appear, creating a zany four-person entanglement.
Television
fromInsideHook
3 days ago

"SNL" and Harry Styles Offered Cruise Ship Advice This Week

Harry Styles delivered an energetic SNL performance featuring absurd sketches including a Dutch cruise ship magnate character and a Target menswear collaboration bit.
Philosophy
fromOpen Culture
5 days ago

The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans

Monty Python recreates a classic skit featuring German philosophers versus Greek philosophers in a 1972 Munich Olympics football match, with Confucius as referee.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The beast inside me wants to move!' The smart, slapstick world of Audrey Hobert, the Steve Martin of pop

Audrey Hobert blends comedic stagecraft with pop music, drawing inspiration from Steve Martin's absurdist humor to create deliberately silly, entertaining performances.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Why a Woman Would Rather Love a Statue Than a Man

Yagi's fiction uses absurd humor and magical realism to explore how women reclaim agency by rejecting workplace exploitation and societal expectations.
Humor
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

'He Is Basically the Goop That's Inside a Lava Lamp'

Comedian Chris Fleming delivers hyperspecific, manic observational comedy wrapped in performance-art strangeness, creating absurdist humor through elaborate tangential narratives and surreal character dissections.
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 months ago

Helena Minginowicz Paints Personal Works Utilizing & Depicting Disposable Materials - Hi-Fructose Magazine

"We can't escape the language of the internet; it's now our emotional alphabet," Minginowicz says. "Sometimes a hashtag or emoji expresses more than an entire essay." "I don't intentionally insert trends into my paintings... but I also don't filter them out. I absorb the world, I scroll, observe, analyze. So yes, the internet seeps into my work, through color, gesture, distortion, glitches. Humor, or rather, bitter absurdity, emerges from that saturation."
Arts
Humor
fromBustle
3 months ago

Sarah Sherman's Camera Roll Is Full Of Adam Sandler Candids

Sarah Sherman blends grotesque physical humor and absurdist storytelling with deliberate restraint to diversify her stand-up and preserve stamina.
Humor
fromThe New Yorker
6 months ago

White House Job Openings

A series of absurd, grotesque, and darkly comic job descriptions for presidential staff depicting surreal servitude, incompetence, and offensive duties.
Video games
fromEngadget
9 months ago

Baby Steps finally has a release date, two years after it was originally slated to arrive

Baby Steps, an absurdist walking simulator, is set to release on September 8, 2025, after several delays.
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