Bryan is joined by GQ’s Zach Baron to discuss every aspect of celebrity profiling: how they are “brokered”; the process of interviewing; some of his past subjects, including Martin Scorsese, Brendan Fraser, and Tilda Swinton; and more.| www.theringer.com
Something alarming is happening with reading in America. Leisure reading by some accounts has declined by about 50 percent this century. Literacy scores are declining for fourth and eighth graders at alarming rates. And even college students today are complaining to teachers that they can’t read entire books. The book itself, that ancient piece of technology for storing ideas passed down across decades, is fading in curricula across the country, replaced by film and TV and YouTube. Today we...| www.theringer.com
In 2025, late-night shows are going extinct, adult comedies in Hollywood are a thing of the past, and popular sitcoms are rare. In comedy, the age of institutions is giving way to an age of individuals. Lucas Shaw joins the show to talk about the cancellation of ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ and what it says about the history and the future of comedy and media.| www.theringer.com
Former Arsenal and England National Team striker and BBC Match of the Day pundit Ian Wright is joined by a rotating panel of friends and special guests to discuss the latest football headlines, as well as…| www.theringer.com
This Fourth of July, we’re celebrating the real hero of this competition| www.theringer.com
Jayson Tatum’s tragic injury isn’t just the nail in the coffin for Boston this year; it may have ended an entire era| www.theringer.com
As the lines between TV and YouTube blur, a new model for small-screen streaming emerges—maybe| www.theringer.com
Looking back at the dog show–centric successor to the mockumentaries ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ and ‘Waiting for Guffman’ on its 20th anniversary| www.theringer.com
Chances are, the conference finals will swing on a loose ball, a clutch 3, or a contested rebound—and one of these chaos agents will be the main reason why| www.theringer.com
Longtime tech, culture, and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you in his podcast Plain English. Hear Derek and guests engage the news with…| www.theringer.com
Ahead of ‘SNL50,’ we asked Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and more to tell us which of their sketches they hold closest to their hearts| www.theringer.com
What could the Dallas Mavericks have gotten if they had shopped Luka around the league? “It probably would have been the biggest haul in NBA history,” said one NBA executive.| www.theringer.com
Hanif and Yasi are back, as we find Soundgarden on the precipice of releasing their super well-known album ‘Superunknown’| The Ringer
