On today's #GreatestTrek, Tilly dusts off her away team skills to help Burnham visit a pre-warp society to find the next clue, and they both find themselves in a footrace that might not be a walk in the park.
On today's #GreatestGen Dr. Mark and Janeway are abducted by a couple of bad eggs. Dr. Mark is forced to impersonate his fellow crew members but his captors may have overlooked his willingness to cooperate.
@itsfoss NixOS gives up on any sort of documentation as developers bake a system into the OS that both can generate and explain the code to users, thereby negating the need for documentation to begin with. #nixos#technology#intheyear2000#comedy#maybenotcomedy?...
The laugh track was once a standard feature of every TV comedy, but it may now be on its final chuckle — the last major show that used one was "The Big Bang Theory," and that finished in 2019. The Atlantic's Jacob Stern writes about the half-century history of the audio irritant, which actor David Niven once called “the single greatest affront to public intelligence I know of,” and whether we'll miss it when it's gone. "For all the ire it incurred, for all the bad jokes it disguised, the laugh track was fundamentally about reproducing the experience of being part of an audience, and its decline is also the decline of communal viewership," says Stern. What's your take on the track? [Story is paywalled]
"Joker: Folie à Deux," Todd Phillips' sequel to his 2019 movie will not be out until October this year, but GQ says you can watch a better version today. "The People's Joker" is a crowdsourced DIY project from director-cowriter-star Vera Drew about her experiences as a trans woman in comedy, and it was released last week. Here's Jesse Hassenger's breakdown of the movie, which he says, "feels like a more sincere, fully-felt act of adaptation than several 'real' treatments of these characters."
Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series SCTV, has died at age 82. He was introduced to later generations as the dad in TV comedy "Freaks and Geeks." Here's more from the AP.
Looking for standup shows to watch on Netflix? Paste Magazine says these are the best — the streamer's lineup includes Richard Pryor, Hannah Gadsby, Bo Burnham, James Acaster, and Wanda Sykes.
The 12th and final season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" will finish on April 7. Salon's D. Watkins reflects on the five things he's learned from Larry David, from line-skipping techniques to the breakfast loophole.