capitalnewyork:

Bruce McCall’s New York

Big Bruce McCall fans over here.

newyorker:

In this week’s magazine, Tina Fey writes about the lessons she learned as a writer on “Saturday Night Live.” Fey and other women use the ladies’ room; “the men urinate in cups.” Harvard graduates write “commercial parodies about people wearing barrels after the 1929 stock-market crash”; improvisers from Second City create “loud drag characters named Vicki and Staci screaming their catchphrase over and over.” Click over to the site for more vintage Tina Fey video.

Oh, Tina. Best quotes:

“Not all the men at ‘S.N.L.’ whizzed in cups. But four or five out of twenty did, so the men have to own that one”

“Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.”

oldfilmsflicker:

Charlie Sheen Quotes As New Yorker Cartoons

Bitchin.

(via bbook)

cmonstah:

longreads:

GROSS: There was a meeting that you refer to in your article about Scientology, where people from the New Yorker staff met with representatives from Scientology. What was this meeting about?

Mr. WRIGHT: That was one of the most amazing days of my life. I had been out to Los Angeles to interview Tommy Davis over the Memorial Day weekend. And when he finally did come to meet with me, he said that he had decided not to talk to me.

But I asked him if he would agree at least to, you know, to respond to our fact-checking queries about the church. And he agreed to that. And over a period of time, we sent them 971 fact-checking queries, which alarmed them.

Terry Gross, NPR Fresh Air

Fascinating.

More stories about the legendary New Yorker fact checking department, please.

(Source: NPR)

newyorker:

Kanye West’s tweets meet The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. The results are hilarious!

Thanks Josh A. Cagan (@joshacagan on Twitter) for these amazing mash-ups - you made our morning!

Today in Things We Love: Further proof that marveling at Kanye’s twitter stream won’t be getting old anytime soon. 

(Also, celebrity tweets taken out of context will always be a Nwk Tumblr favorite)