Jesse David Fox

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Writer at Vulture

Podcast Host at Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Senior Editor at New York Magazine

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Disturbed Burned the Chicago Bulls Championship Banners

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

After a concert at Chicago’s United Center earlier this month featuring Disturbed, Three Days Grace, and Sevendust, the venue’s staff realized there was “minor damage” to the Bulls’ six NBA championship banners. Apparently, the concert’s pyrotechnics, located directly underneath the banners, literally darkened the legacy of the team in a way the stories of Michael Jordan’s gambling and Dennis Rodman’s smelliness never could.
Vulture and Lyric Hyperion to Launch Live Comedy Show

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

Los Angeles, do you have Tuesday-night plans? Because Vulture has something fun for you to do. Guaranteed! That’s the name. Presented by Vulture, Guaranteed! is a new biweekly comedy show at L.A.’s Lyric Hyperion theater hosted by two of 2024’s Comedians You Should and Will Know, MANDAL and Skyler Higley. They’re two of the most exciting young comedians to move to L.A. in years, and the pairing of their complementary styles makes Guaranteed! a must-attend.
Tim Baltz Talks Sharing a First Name With Timothée Chalamet

Feb 28, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

“I’ve always been pretty low-key about my French background. It’s always just been a hidden surprise, where people are like, ‘Wait, you speak fluent French? You got to be kidding me. You literally just talk about NBA basketball and Tom Petty all the time.’” In 2017, Timothée Chalamet broke through in Call Me by Your Name, and the culture was like, “Will do.
Adam Sandler Joins SNL50 to Make Everyone Cry

Feb 16, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

snl50 Adam Sandler's Song: 50 Years #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/tACkE3xNiJ— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) February 17, 2025 After a couple decades specializing in making giant, broad comedy movies, over the last few years, Adam Sandler has developed a new speciality: bittersweet songs about how comedians are a force for good in the world. There is his song about Chris Farley he played when hosted SNL in 2019.
The Newest ‘Black Jeopardy’ Contestants Have Never Heard of SNL

Feb 16, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

snl50 Black Jeopardy! #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/QFKKTRWeer— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) February 17, 2025 After doing “Celebrity Jeopardy” at SNL40, “Black Jeopardy” was the second sketch out of the gate at SNL50. Kenan Thompson and Leslie Jones reprised their roles of host Darnell Hayes and contestant Shanice, respectively. They were joined by Tracy Morgan playing contestant Darius and Eddie Murphy playing the hell out of Tracy Morgan.
Every Single Thing That Happens Live at SNL 50

Feb 16, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

New York’s hottest club is Saturday Night Live’s 50th Anniversary celebration. Longtime producer Lorne Michaels has gone all out, planning a weekend of once-in-a-decade events for a guest list of some of the biggest names in the last half-century of entertainment. Tonight, NBC will air SNL 50: The Anniversary Celebration, a special featuring stars from the show’s history, more live musical performances, and famous sketches from the series’ five decades on air.
‘SNL’ Has Always Been Bad

Feb 14, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

And that’s precisely what makes watching the 50-year-long live TV experiment so good. In October 1975, Saturday Night Live premiered, and it was a mixed bag. New York, and almost every outlet that followed the show’s first season, called it “uneven.” There were bits that worked (the commercial parodies), and there were bits that didn’t (“The Land of Gortch,” featuring yucky-looking Jim Henson Muppets exploring adult themes in a fictional wasteland).
The ‘Fantastic Four’ Teaser Teases Weird Laugh Track

Feb 3, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

Ahead of its July premiere date, Disney and Marvel released the first teaser for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Well, actually, it’s a teaser for the first teaser. As a teaser for a teaser, there is no footage of Mr. Rocks (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), the Fire Guy (Joseph Quinn), Stretchy (Pedro Pascal), or Invisilass (Vanessa Kirby) taking their titular first steps into the MCU.
4 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)

Jan 31, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

Thanks to more platforms paying for stand-up than ever, technological advancements that make production significantly cheaper, and social platforms that make promotion easier, we’re in the middle of a stand-up special gold rush. Depending on how you stream, you’re likely to encounter a hastily assembled 20-minute “special” next to the masterpieces of the best comedians working. With hundreds of specials being algorithmically recommended at the same time, it’s hard to make sense of the glut.
OK Go Are Still on the Treadmill

Jan 24, 2025 | vulture.com | Jesse David Fox

OK Go was always better at filming quirky stunts than writing songs. On January 16, OK Go premiered a new song, which is to say they premiered a new music video. Made up of 64 individual clips, loaded onto 64 iPhones, “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” created a sort of choreographed mosaic of the band’s members, dressed in colorful monochromes, lip-syncing to the first single off their first album in over a decade.