This list is updated monthly with new audiobooks. 2023 was a breakout year for audiobooks — at least in terms of the social-media impact of two massive titles. Early in the year, Prince Harry narrated his own memoir, Spare, which included an oversharing scene in which Harry spoke calmly about his frostbitten penis. Then the audiobook of Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me, read by the actress Michelle Williams, became a sensation.

Federico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 ½ celebrates its 50th anniversary this week, which means that on some level, a particularly meta- kind of cinema also celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. In case you don’t know, the movie is about a Fellini-like director (played by Marcello Mastroianni) struggling with a creative block and a host of romantic and existential neuroses. (Cute story: The title refers to the fact that it would be Fellini’s eight-and-a-half-th film; he’d made six features, and three collaborative films which he counted as halves.

On April 17, 1930, the very first Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, “Sinkin’ in the Bathtub,” was released. From the start, the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts were designed as a more iconoclastic alternative to Disney’s artistically groundbreaking Silly Symphonies. While Walt Disney was focused on elevating the art of animation, Warner Bros.’ dream team of writers and directors were hell-bent on just making each other laugh. “They never went for the cute stuff at Warners,” Warner Bros.

Gutfeld on Gutfeld! Look, comedy’s a tough business. Creating a new late-night comedy show that really works is a huge, daunting challenge under any circumstance, and that’s still true even if you’re a well-known Fox News host with an established audience, devoted brand following, massive lead-in, and giant cultural and financial safety net if you fail. There has yet to be a really successful, sharp conservative take on the genre, which means there’s not much precedent to model yourself on.

Vampire Veek We don’t live to drain, we drain to live. Vampire Veek We don’t live to drain, we drain to live. Spoilers ahead for the season-three finale of What We Do in the Shadows. In its third season, What We Do in the Shadows decided to explore a creature of its own creation: the energy vampire. Originally formulated as an opportunity for an extra joke, Colin Robinson — played to perfection by Mark Proksch — quickly became a central figure in the dramas and machinations of his blood-sucking roommates and their beleaguered familiar Guillermo.

Katy Perry Votes Naked from Funny Or Die It doesn’t matter if you’re Porky Pigging it in a long T-shirt or clad only in the pennies that fall out of your jean pockets and stick to your naked body, it is your obligation to leave your bed on Tuesday, November 8, and vote in the presidential election. In a video for Funny or Die’s Everybody Votes campaign, Katy Perry stresses that nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have to look presentable, or even wipe that ever-present green slime off your face, to cast your vote.

When I was a kid, I would spend up to eight hours each weekend submerged in a bathtub, reading and subsequently damaging hundreds of library books. One day, I took a bath so hard that the water overflowed, seeped through the floor, and collapsed the ceiling below. As an adult, I have listed “bathtub” as my only criteria when renting apartments; every day that I have had to take a shower instead of lying down and slowly boiling my internal organs is a day wasted.

Sleigh Bells is a noise-pop partnership between two people that formed in the summer of 2008, when Derek Miller, a former Florida resident and ex-guitarist with the metalcore band Poison the Well, met Alexis Krauss, a former New Jersey resident and ex-vocalist with an abortive teen-girl group named RubyBlue. Miller was waiting tables at a Brazilian restaurant in Williamsburg where Krauss, then Teaching for America in a South Bronx primary school, was dining with her mother.

(U.S. TABS OUT) Actor/rappers Antwan A. (Big Boi) Patton (L) and Andre (Andre 3000) Benjamin of Outkast pose backstage during MTV’s Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios on August 22, 2006 in New York City. Why isn’t Andre 3000 on Big Boi’s new album (out December 11)? “He could’ve been on any song he wanted to,” Big Boi told The Village Voice.  “I gave the motherfucker about five songs, but I guess he was just too busy.

Angela Lansbury. Angela Lansbury, the illustrious film, television, and Broadway actor whose career spanned more than 75 years, has died, her family announced on October 11. She was 96. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” Lansbury’s family wrote in a statement to Broadway World.