On this week’s episode of Good One, Gethard — whose latest special, A Father and the Sun, debuted this past September — expounds on these ideas by outlining what pursuing a creative career used to look like, where things went wrong, and where artists must go from here.
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Chris Gethard,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
The talk will encompass later American revolutions which related directly to principles expounded on in the Declaration of Independence such as abolition and women’s suffrage and civil rights.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2026
Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
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Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
The literary space has always been a realm where Black intellectuals, writers, and artists examine history, pontificate about the future, and survey dominant narratives.
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Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
30 Dec. 2025
That’s especially true for one of its two main narrators, Verity, an aging franchise movie star who acts, thinks, and pontificates like an adolescent.
At that point, the operator would recite the most intimate details of a patient’s health history to hook her before launching into a few basic screening questions.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
Cota previously courted controversy after reciting a Christian prayer instead of the district's land acknowledgement statement.
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