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Sideshow Podcast: Giving the Perfect GIF
For some, the best way to reply to a message isn’t with words (so 2003!) but with a GIF, those short animations, just a few seconds long, usually drawn from a popular movie or video footage. From that...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Twitter’s Unfinished Scripts: Really Funny Movies That Will...
Twitter thrives on the short and sweet. So it’s a testament to Gavin Speiller that he has more than 30,000 followers for @UnfinishedS, because he cheats like crazy. Instead of 140 characters, Speiller...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: 40 Ounces of Trouble: Mike D Sets the Record Straight
In the mid-90s, rappers from the East Coast to the West convinced an entire generation to consume malt liquor in “40s”— 40-ounce glass bottles that delivered the alcohol equivalent of a six-pack in one...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Gallery 1988: The Louvre of Fan Art
In the early 2000s, Jensen Karp almost made it as a rapper, under the name Hot Karl. Interscope gave him a huge advance, EMI gave him a publishing deal, but the debut album never materialized. “Back in...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Gay of Thrones and the TV Recap Revolution
This episode of Sideshow features explicit language. The internet was supposed to kill TV, but the two have become BFFs. Superfans turn to entertainment sites, YouTube, and podcasts to sustain the...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: How Animation Helps Us Appreciate Good Audio
The greatest interview ever recorded won’t get as many hits on YouTube as a cat giving a high five. The people behind Blank on Blank want to make audio go viral. They take audio gems that fell on the...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Pogo is YouTube's Favorite Musician
Pogo might be one of the most popular musicians in the world, but there’s a fair chance you’ve never heard of him. He doesn’t drop surprise albums like Beyoncé or fill stadiums like the Boss, but he...
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Sideshow Podcast: Bea Arthur and Unicorns Teach You the Heimlich Maneuver
There’s one item you can find in most restaurants from New York to California: a poster telling you how to save someone who’s choking. Though required by law in many states, those simple instructions...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: “Rude” by Magic! Is the Worst Best Song of the Summer
A few weeks ago, “Rude” by the band Magic! managed to unseat Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” as the #1 song in the United States. While most songs of the summer have a honeymoon period before they face mass...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Howard Kremer Is a One-Joke Comedian, and Proud of It
Most comedians have just a few memorable bits; Howard Kremer has just one. Good thing he managed to build a comedy empire on it. A few years ago, Kremer had an epiphany while on the beach in Los...
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Sideshow Podcast: Christoph Niemann, Instagram Savant
If you’re an illustrator with a dozen and a half New Yorker covers in your portfolio, several popular children’s books, and your own blog at the New York Times, you’re doing something right. But...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: How to Make A Perfect Movie Before Turning 30 (with...
Before he made a movie, Damien Chazelle was a drummer studying jazz. After college, he wrote a screenplay based on his experience, but there was one big problem: it was about jazz, and no one wanted to...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Kutiman Keeps Making Music Thru You(Tube)
If YouTube had an A&R genius, his name would be Kutiman. The Israeli musician and video editor, whose real name is Ophir Kutiel, charmed millions in 2009 with Thru You, an album of music he created...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Issa Rae Built an Awkward Empire, But She Just Wants to Rap
WARNING: Nearly everything Issa Rae does features profanity.Issa Rae spent most of her youth feeling awkward, and she’s never gotten over it. The awkwardness started in Senegal, where her father was...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Boots, Before and After Beyoncé
Beyoncé’s surprise self-titled album in 2013 was a giant hit, thanks to collaborations with super-producers like Timbaland, Pharrell, and Frank Ocean. But it was some guy named Boots who was credited...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: High Maintenance: The Internet's Best TV Show
Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair don’t remember how the idea for High Maintenance came to them. Considering the show’s subject matter, that’s to be expected. Though some might dismiss a web series...
View ArticleBoots, Before and After Beyoncé
Beyoncé’s surprise self-titled album in 2013 was a giant hit, thanks to collaborations with super-producers like Timbaland, Pharrell, and Frank Ocean. But it was some guy named Boots who was credited...
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Sideshow Podcast: The Best of 2014's Internet
It’s the end of the year and there are more “Best of” lists than there are people to read them, but we figured we’d add one that seems to be missing: the Best of the Internet. With the help of past...
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Sideshow Podcast: Giving The Perfect GIF
"Giving The Perfect GIF" was the very first episode back in May of 2014. But we thought we'd serve it up again considering the season. Enjoy! See all the GIFs in this episode below.For some, the best...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Absolutely Anything Goes at the Comedy Store’s Roast Battle
WARNING: This sideshow podcast covers stand-up comedy. As a result, it features sexual humor, racial humor, and a lot of four-letter words. Hope you will listen anyway! The roast is a sacred tradition...
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Sideshow Podcast: At 17, Humza Deas Puts Shame in Your Instagram Game
Humza Deas isn’t impressed by his nearly 100,000 Instagram followers, though he should be. He earned every one surfing subways, climbing bridges, and scaling New York City’s skyscrapers for the perfect...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Word Up: Why the Internet Loves Lyrics
According to a recent New York Magazine article, two percent of all web searches are for lyrics, hence all the terriblewebsites dedicated to cross-selling you music you don’t want and ringtones you...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Cheryl Strayed’s "Dear Sugar" is The Internet’s BFF
The internet is doing great things for advice columns. Andrew W.K., T-Pain, and Haruki Murakami are the latest to start life-coaching online, but Dear Sugar, the bygone column at the literary website...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Tobias Jesso Jr. vs. the World
In 2012, a mostly-unknown musician in Los Angeles named Tobias Jesso Jr. got dumped. Shortly after, he was hit by a car while riding his bike. He survived, the bike didn’t. The next day, while...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Al Madrigal on Being 'Half'
Al Madrigal has been The Daily Show's "Senior Latino Correspondent" for years. In his funny new documentary, Half Like Me, he travels across the United States and Mexico to explore his ambivalence with...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Roxane Gay Loves “The Fast and the Furious” (And So Can You!)
Furious 7 will be one of the biggest movies of the year. Since The Fast and the Furious came out in 2001, the combination of cars, speed, and Vin Diesel has made the franchise one of the most...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: How to Get Billy Idol to Play Your Birthday Party for Free
It costs $50,000 to have Billy Idol appear at a private event, but in 2012, a 25-year-old working at a Seattle mall convinced the rock star and his band to play his birthday party for free. All Michael...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Kickstarting the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum
If your creative concept is original, quirky, and crazy enough, it will kill on Kickstarter. There was the Robocop statue, the potato salad, and now the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum....
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: The Legend of #Lakshmeme (LIVE)
Since mid-December, I have been taking photos of public radio personalities, producers and strangers on the street wearing a hat that that makes an obviously false claim: “I AM LAKSHMI SINGH." At a...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: How God Turned His Twitter Account into a Broadway Show
In the beginning, there was Twitter. David Javerbaum — a seasoned comedy writer for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report who has won Peabodys, Emmys, and a Grammy — started the account @TheTweetofGod...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: How a Batman Movie Helped The Wolfpack Escape
The seven siblings featured in the new documentary The Wolfpack grew up in New York’s Lower East Side, but they were raised almost completely shut off from the outside world. Despite and because of...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Teach Me How to Summah (feat. Howard Kremer)
Most comedians have just a few memorable bits; Howard Kremer has just one. Good thing he managed to build a comedy empire on it. A few years ago, Kremer had an epiphany while on the beach in Los...
View ArticleU-Turn Edition: Al Madrigal on Being 'Half'
Al Madrigal has been The Daily Show's "Senior Latino Correspondent" for years. In his funny new documentary, Half Like Me, he travels across the United States and Mexico to explore his ambivalence with...
View ArticleHome Movie Edition: Use the Internet to Meet Your Idol
It costs $50,000 to have Billy Idol appear at a private event, but in 2012, a 25-year-old working at a Seattle mall convinced the rock star and his band to play his birthday party for free. Michael...
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Sideshow Podcast: How 'Kung Fury' Went from Karate Joke to Kickstarter to...
Kung Fury is every 80s action film you've ever watched and dreamed of, packed into a ridiculous, rollicking, fully retro 30 minutes. It’s about a renegade cop in 1985 Miami who gets hacked back in time...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Jonathan Wolff Slapped the Bass for Seinfeld and the...
Jonathan Wolff is the Michael Jordan of TV theme songs. He’s written over 40, from Will and Grace to The Hughleys. Before becoming Hollywood’s go-to theme song writer, Wolff spent a decade as a...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Hip-Hop, 40s, and the Myth of the Brass Monkey
In the mid-90s, rappers from the East Coast to the West convinced an entire generation to consume malt liquor in “40s”— 40-ounce glass bottles that delivered the alcohol equivalent of a six-pack in one...
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Sideshow Podcast: How Hodor Became the Heart of “Game of Thrones”
Like Sailor Moon and Ron Swanson before him, Hodor belongs to a special league of TV characters who have become memes. When Kristian Nairn received the casting call for a role in which he would only...
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Sideshow Podcast: "Thanks, Obama" (feat. Barack Obama?!)
Barack Obama is the internet's president. There’s an endless bounty of GIFs, mash-up videos, and memes to prove it. A big part of the president’s online appeal is that he is a participant: he can be...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: The Internet Is Forever
For his final episode, Sean Rameswaram traces the path of creative work he has personally posted, from blogging to sketch comedy videos to a truly ill rap posse. To close out the show, he gets the...
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