George Carlin
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Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’
- Film
- September 26, 2020
Three decades after finally graduating San Dimas High, Bill and Ted, now a pair of middle-aged dads, are getting the band back together. Alex (...)

Keanu Reeves: ‘When we would go to dinner together, people were, like, Whoa! Dudes!’
- Film
- August 20, 2020
In the chronicles of late-20th-century popular culture, you will find few friends as excellent as Bill S Preston, Esq and Ted “Theodore” Logan. The do(...)

Tom Stade: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- April 27, 2019, 05:00
Current favourite book I love books that give me an upper hand on knowing human behaviour. It helps me with my profession. I don’t use it for evil, on(...)

Tipping Point: Sporting habits and traditions that need eliminating
- Sport
- April 2, 2018, 06:30
In tribute to the late, great American comic George Carlin, and his famous list of people who ought to be killed, here’s a rather less bloodthirsty se(...)

Chris Rock on why bullies work and his “scary ass drive” through Limerick
- Stage
- October 1, 2017, 15:00
3Arena, Dublin ★★★★ It has been nine years since Chris Rock embarked on a major world tour, and in that time he has gone through a divorce, and Trum(...)

McGregor v Mayweather: The fleece of the century
- Other Sports
- August 28, 2017
View from the US: New York Times journalist Dan Barry on the multi-million dollar fight where nothing was on the line. The world finally had the two (...)

Dear atheists, please stop calling religion a meme
- Culture
- April 9, 2017, 08:00
A popular way in which atheists try to explain religious belief is to label it a “meme”. The idea, advanced by evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins,(...)

Louis CK review: A man out of time, and an empathetic everyman
- Stage
- August 16, 2016, 10:26
3Arena, Dublin ★★★★ After good support from Comedy Central-linked Joe Machi, Joe List and Rachel Feinstein, Louis CK steps on to the stage, and p(...)

Marc Maron: ‘The first 100 episodes are me asking celebrities for help’
- TV, Radio, Web
- August 31, 2015, 06:00
In June, American comedian Marc Maron interviewed the president of the United States in his garage. Maron did not see this coming. Six years ago, w(...)

America at Large: Praising the Lord is as fundamental to US sport as pom pom girls
- Sport
- January 22, 2015, 12:04
Moments after unfurling a touchdown pass to Jermaine Kearse that punched the Seattle Seahawks’ ticket to the Super Bowl, quarterback Russell Wilson jo(...)