The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at.

In Ti West’s homage to 1970s slasher films, X, Jenna Ortega adds a retro twist to her growing résumé as a scream queen. She steps into an ode to artful gore as Lorraine Day, the seemingly naïve girlfriend of a young director (Owen Campbell) who invites her to help him shoot a low-budget project — without telling her it’s a porno. Lorraine, dubbed “church mouse” by the movie’s producer (Martin Henderson), becomes beguiled by the group of porn stars turned amateur filmmakers as they shoot on a rural Texas farm.

Ten years after Kissing Jessica Stein, Jennifer Westfeldt is poised for a major comeback with her New York comedy and directorial debut Friends With Kids, which just premiered to raves at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Westfeldt and Adam Scott play two single Manhattan yuppies who watch their best-friend couples (Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm) become miserable new parents. To avoid the bickering marital trauma triggered by newborns, the two friends decide to get pregnant and share custody like a divorced couple — with disastrous results.

Jim Gaffigan is going on tour. Gaffigan recently announced dates for his new tour Contagious, which kicks off this Saturday in Kentucky and makes stops in Seattle, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, and more this summer. Check the full list of tour dates below, then head over to Gaffigan’s website for ticket info. 2/21 – Lexington, KY (University of Kentucky: Singletary Center for the Performing Arts)2/22 – Jacksonville, FL (University of North Florida)7/16 – Seattle, WA (McCaw Hall)7/17 – Seattle, WA (McCaw Hall)7/18 – Portland, OR (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall)7/20 – Eugene, OR (Hult Center)7/21 – Redding, CA (Redding Civic Auditorium)7/22 – Santa Rosa, CA (Wells Fargo Center)7/23 – Saratoga, CA (Mountain Winery)7/24 – Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara Bowl)7/25 – Los Angeles, CA (Greek Theater)7/26 – San Diego, CA (Humphrey’s)7/29 – Broomfield, CO (1st Bank Center)7/30 – Salinas, KS (Stiefel Theatre)7/31 – Lincoln, NE (Pinewood Bowl Amphitheater)8/1 – Cedar Rapids, IA (U.

Let’s talk about Jonah Hill’s laugh in War Dogs. Early in Todd Phillips’s new movie, which tells the story of Ephraim Diveroli (Hill) and David Packouz (Miles Teller) — two real-life 20-somethings who supplied the United States government with guns during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars — the shady, bombastic Diveroli tries to buy weed from a bunch of guys sitting on the hood of a car in Miami. When the dealers accept his money and don’t bother supplying the stuff, Diveroli goes to the trunk of his car, pulls out a submachine gun, and crazily fires shots into the air, sending his tormenters running.

Sometimes, being the only student in a school feels like a bad dream, a nightmare even. But for Jonathan Bailey, it was just a couple of days in the land of Oz on the set of Wicked. As the only actor in the Equity Union, the British actors’ guild, he suddenly found himself the only person able to work on set during the SAG AFTRA actors’ strike. “I think we had 10 days left filming before the strike hit,” he explained to Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.

Justin Timberlake and Vic Mensa. Last weekend, the annual Pride celebrations and the BET Awards hit on the same summer Sunday evening, as they often do, and incidents arose out of each event that illuminated a need for keener, more informed social-justice advocacy from stars in and around hip-hop. One of the BET show’s highlights was activist and Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams’s Bet Humanitarian Award acceptance speech, in which he spoke sharply and passionately about the fight against systemic racial inequality.

Girl very much on fire. This article has been updated to reflect Monday night’s episode of The Bachelorette. A few weeks ago, I described The Bachelorette star Kaitlyn Bristowe as “revolutionary” for her frank, unapologetic attitude toward sex on a show that had historically treated the word as taboo, and her remarkable ability to act like a normal person (i.e., sometimes be a total mess) while juggling multiple relationships within a machine of psychological manipulation and manufactured romance.

The joke and tragedy of 2018’s God of War was that Kratos, a taciturn and brooding Spartan warlord, could only solve problems using brute force. THWACK went his axe as it lodged into machinery to solve a puzzle. SCHUNK and SPLAT went the heads of enemies that stood in the way of the demigod and his objective. While the game’s writers wrung plenty of comedy from this fist-first approach, they also took seriously the question of what this might do to a person.

Lil Tay is not only alive, she’s going live. On Saturday, the teenage rapper publicly appeared on social media for the first time since claims of her death were shared to her Instagram account in August. While on Instagram Live, Lil Tay took the opportunity to share both new music and new allegations against her dad, Christopher Hope. “Five years ago, I became famous. And my abusive, absentee father — who had not been in my life for years up ‘til that point — decided to come back into my life to take control over my career and my money,” she said.