‘Feminist Fairytales’ hilariously reawakens your childhood inner rage / Daily Dot
Deeply hidden away in every American is a memory of some fairytale they first heard as a child—and those standards of Eurocentric beauty are haunting. Actor/comedian Sarah Ann Masse is the American half of British-American sketch comedy duo, We Are Thomasse. Her...
Issa Rae’s long road from YouTube to HBO / Daily Dot
Issa Rae is in post-production for her forthcoming HBO show Insecure, set to bereleased on Oct. 9. But the breakthrough star is also working on a million other projects. A girl’s gotta stay busy. She is best known for her popular webseriesAwkward Black Girl, which...
‘The Book of Ye’ podcast explores all-things Kanye / DailyDot Upstream
To many, Kanye West is a mystery. To others, he’s a genius. Is his infamous Twitter presence performance art, or nonsense more in line with his “BILL COSBY INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!” line? You're along for a bumpy ride either way. West and his wife Kim Kardashian West are...
New webseries ‘Swapped’ messes with Hollywood gender dynamics / DailyDot Entertainment
Women comprise only 7 percent of directors in the 250 top-grossing films of all time, according to a Variety study. While Hollywood catches up, artists with a clear vision of the future are taking it upon themselves to do what they do best: Make a lean, mean, parody...
You can now officially transform into Tinder meat / DailyDot IRL
If you’ve ever had the thought, “Ugh, I feel like a piece of meat!” while swiping on Tinder, rest assured that you are not alone in this meatspace. Others feel your pain—though, chances are, they’d like to feel your flesh, too. To cope with this dichotomy, there’s...
How to make your wedding speech viral-worthy / DailyDot Lifestyle
It’s that special day, and for many of us it only happens once in a lifetime. Not birth or death—it’s your wedding day! Thanks to social media, there’s even more pressure to make sure your performance is exactly what all the glossy wedding magazines and the Wedding...
With ‘Orange Is the New Black’ season 4, drama becomes formulaic / DailyDot Entertainment
Orange Is the New Black has become a slowly molding piece of bread. It’s unpleasant to chew and swallow. And what’s the point? Once upon a time, we were hooked on the super binge-worthy Netflix show, based on the memoir by Piper Kerman about her year in a women’s...
Mood Chat for iOS gives your conversations an added layer of emotion / DailyDot Tech
A new iOS app is changing the way its users converse. Mood Chat is about sending something shorter than a voicemail but with the Internet-y flair of your #currentmood. Internet artist, goofball, and developer Tom Galle’s new iOS app Mood Chat gives conversation...
Let comedian Katina Corrao plan your hot date night / DailyDot Entertainment
Ask anyone in show business, and they’ll tell you that the path to success is lined with delusion, hope, and hard work. It’s a combination that NYC-based comedian/actor/writer Katina Corrao knows rather well. After 10 years of putting herself out there through standup...
Fred Melamed on his heralded new Netflix series, ‘Lady Dynamite’ / DailyDot
Show business isn’t for the faint of heart. People tend to think of entertainment industry managers and agents as cutthroat types who lunge at opportunities and fight to the death for their A-list clients. But what if that's not true? In Maria Bamford’s new Netflix...
Review: Tumblr-turned-book ‘How May We Hate You?’ / DailyDot
Like many millennials, Anna Drezen and Todd Dakotah Briscoe graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with big ambitions but no clear paths to stardom. So they did what many of us with dead-end day jobs do: They started a blog about their experiences working as...
‘Broad City’ animator Mike Perry sends out psychedelic color splashes / DailyDot Entertainment
Wordplay is an art. Sometimes it takes the form of puns on Twitter or weaves its way into standup jokes. Other times, the words themselves become ecstatic visual experiences. Artist Mike Perry, who created the title animations for the hit TV show Broad City, knows...
WhoHaha is a new comedy channel for emerging female voices / DailyDot Entertainment
There’s a lot of funny content on the Internet, but you have to know where to look. Is Twitter your short zinger jam? Is it video you’re looking for? You might just want to go right to WhoHaha, a new site launched by actress/producer/director Elizabeth Banks. Its...
What these 4 TV shows tell us about texting and dating / DailyDot Entertainment
Don’t sweat that text reply from the person you’re crushing on. If we’ve learned anything from these four streaming TV shows, it’s that if the cutie is interested, they’ll text back. Sometimes it feels like the days of being unavailable or unreachable are over, but in...
Breasts, Bernie, and face tats: Exploring the video art of Andrew DeYoung / DailyDot Entertainment
Filmmaker Andrew DeYoung was just chilling on the Internet one day, when Kate Berlant’s “Lampshade Susan” video popped up on his Facebook feed. After being stunned by her brilliance and hilarity, he decided that he had to seek out more of her. So he did what any...
The many faces of Lauren Lapkus / DailyDot Entertainment
Not every comedian can boast that they’ve performed 70 different characters. Lauren Lapkus can. One of Lapkus’s standby characters, Whitney Peeps, opens her 30-minute Netflix special The Characters. At the beginning of her episode, Peeps strolls out of her dressing...
Josh Gondelman on Twitter pep talks and honest comedy / DailyDot Entertainment
Some comedians don’t take shit from anyone. Josh Gondelman is truly an exception. In fact, he’ll hold your shit if you hand it to him and ask nicely. Gondelman recently hosted a release party in Los Angeles for his new album,Physical Whisper, the title of which comes...
The celebrity DM is the great equalizer / DailyDot Entertainment
It’s not every day that we hear about a gay lady couple with a 32-year age difference. So goes the story of actress Sarah Paulson and her much older lady love Holland Taylor, whose relationship first hit the Internet a few months ago. It was hard not to swoon over...
Cameron Esposito on standup comedy: ‘It’s a rock show, at the end of the day’ / DailyDot Entertainment
If there were a gay lady comedy version of Sheryl Sandberg’sLean In, it would most definitely be written by L.A-based comedian Cameron Esposito. A lot has happened to the Chicago-born Esposito since moving to the Best Coast, including getting engaged and married to...
Instagram’s ‘Crazy Jewish Mom’ explains how she drives her daughter nuts / DailyDot LOL
At some point, every close knit mother-daughter relationship takes a turn toward Crazytown. Kate Siegel and her mother Kim Friedman, however, have never left the place. It goes a little something like this: Mom and daughter love each other, but they want to kill each...