Dave Holmes

The book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche was a sensation in 1982. Today, the Trump campaign seems to be cribbing from it. Do they know the book was satire?

This week, he spent 40 minutes playing The Village People, Pavarotti, and Guns 'N' Roses for a crowd in Pennsylvania. It is baffling and mesmeric, boring and profound. Nothing happens and everything is communicated.

A dispatch from Canada during a once-every-eleven-years celestial event.

America’s Sweetheart J. D. Vance thinks we're making ourselves and our country miserable. Then why are we having such a good time?

You’ve heard of “rawdogging” a flight? I took this trend to its illogical extreme when I went to Italy.

Men of a certain age either embrace the music of their youth or start listening to conservative talk radio. Can you guess which direction Walz went?

Pride Month is officially upon us, and this year, it hits a little different. Retailers are pulling back on rainbow merch, brands are backing away from sponsorships, and some of our fair-weather friends are failing to stand up to even a light wind. This year, the forces of shame and ignorance and intolerance think they have the momentum. This year, we’ve got a real fight on our hands. But that’s okay, because we know how to fight, because we’ve been here before. In 1970– barely a year out from t…

Well, we have reached the final episode of Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, and while my feelings about it are as conflicted as ever, I am glad I watched it. Do you know whose feelings about it are not conflicted and who is not glad he watched it? Anonymous, the masked and voice-altered mystery figure who has made cameo appearances throughout these eight episodes and who is probably Bo Burnham. The final episode begins with Carmichael and Anonymous in a screening room watching the painful convers…

“My boyfriend doesn’t make me feel ashamed for being sexual or having desires outside of him.” Jerrod Carmichael says this to an audience at the start of episode 7 of Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show. It’s only half true. The true half is that sweet Michael, Carmichael’s bookish and levelheaded boyfriend, hasn’t tried to shame him at this point. The false half is that “being sexual and having desires” are not the issues at hand. The issues are Carmichael actually having sex with other men and lyin…

“It’s amazing how many times I’ve been on national television and said the word gay and how little that’s acknowledged,” Jerrod Carmichael said when we spoke in March. “My parents just completely ignore the words that I’m saying. Those are the factors that led to the show, that kind of muted response.” In “Homecoming,” episode 6 of Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, we finally spend time with the person who has basically set the entire project into motion: Carmichael’s mother, Cynthia. And similar…