### **Katherine Ryan: The Comedian Taking the World by Storm (and Making Us Laugh Hysterically)** In the vast, chaotic landscape of internet culture, few names have been as consistently trending as Katherine Ryan. The British comedian, actress, and TV presenter has become a global sensation, and for good reason. With her razor-sharp wit, unapologetic honesty,…
**Tig Notaro: The Queen of Quirky Comedy Takes Over the Global Stage** In a world where laughter is often the best medicine, Tig Notaro has become the prescriptive comedian du jour. But why is this quirky, deadpan humorist trending globally? Let’s dive into the cultural phenomenon that is Tig Notaro, and explore why she’s currently…
**George Kirby: The Comedian Who’s Got the Whole World Laughing** In the vast, chaotic landscape of the internet, trends come and go faster than a sneaky fart in a elevator. But every now and then, a name emerges that cuts through the noise, tickles the global funny bone, and leaves us all wondering, “Why the…
Steve Martin: The World’s Favorite American Who Forgot to Be Obnoxious By our roving correspondent, still jet-lagged from a red-eye that smelled faintly of wet tweed and existential dread. In an era when a single off-key tweet can ignite a trade war, Steve Martin continues to tour the planet with a banjo on his knee…
Kate Flannery, the red-haired hurricane disguised as an actor, has spent decades perfecting the art of looking like she’s about to spill state secrets in a dive bar at 2 a.m. From the perspective of anyone who’s ever watched global politics curdle in real time, Flannery’s career is less a résumé and more a case…
Russell Howard and the Global Giggle-Industrial Complex A dispatch from the front lines of exported British mirth By the time the plane begins its descent into Singapore, the in-flight entertainment system has already offered me three separate Russell Howard stand-up specials in three different languages. Somewhere over the Bay of Bengal, a Malaysian teenager is…
The Maniscalco Doctrine: How One Italian-American’s Hand Gestures Quietly Conquered the Planet By A. B. “Globetrotter” Reznick, filing from a hotel mini-bar somewhere between Palermo and Peoria Sebastian Maniscalco never asked to be a geopolitical force. He merely wanted to tell you how his father wrapped sandwiches in aluminum foil like he was protecting state…
Michael McIntyre: How a Man in Skinny Jeans Became the UN’s Unofficial Jester of the Apocalypse Byline: Dave’s Locker foreign desk, filed from an over-air-conditioned lounge in Singapore where the gin is warm but the Wi-Fi is existential. Walk into any expat bar from Lagos to Lima and you’ll hear the same low-grade grumbling about…
Mawaan Rizwan and the Global Collapse of Earnestness By Dave’s Foreign Desk, somewhere between Gatwick and Guantánamo When Pakistani-British comedian-turned-auteur Mawaan Rizwan dropped “Juice” on BBC Three last spring, the world was busy stockpiling iodine tablets and arguing on Twitter about whether the ocean was now officially soup. In that context, a surreal six-part comedy…
The Curious Case of Kaitlin Olson: How a Philadelphia-Trained Clown Became the Last Reliable Export the United States Still Makes Dateline: Anywhere with Wi-Fi and a streaming account You know the world is on fire when a 48-year-old American comic actress becomes the closest thing we have to globally trusted currency. While Silicon Valley titans…
Keegan-Michael Key and the Export-Grade Laugh Track: How One Detroit Kid Became a Geopolitical Asset Somewhere between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of TikTok, the United States stumbled on a novel soft-power strategy: weaponize its funniest biracial Midwesterner and ship him abroad with a grin sharp enough to slice trade tariffs….
**The Last Man Who Could Make the World Laugh Together: Lorne Michaels’ Accidental Empire of American Anxiety** While the planet burns through its twenty-first century cocktail of crises, one Canadian octogenarian continues to export the same product he’s been shipping worldwide since 1975: the peculiar American art of laughing at itself. Lorne Michaels, the Toronto-born…
