All posts tagged: Funniest

‘It’s not a prank show, it’s not Borat’: Meet the men behind Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, the funniest cult comedy of 2026

‘It’s not a prank show, it’s not Borat’: Meet the men behind Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, the funniest cult comedy of 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter What defines a “cult film”? Where once the phrase referred to something specific – a movie often with a low-budget, always with a small but devoted audience and bereft of mainstream appeal – now it’s used promiscuously: a modern “cult movie” seems to be any film that people really enjoyed but that doesn’t star Spider-Man. (The moniker was even applied to, say, Everything Everywhere All at Once – which made nearly $150m at the box office and swept the Oscars.) When filmmaker Matt Johnson, however, describes Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie as a “cult movie”, just know: he really does mean it? The film, out in UK cinemas this week, is a loose followup to a TV series, Nirvanna the Band the Show, itself a niche but adored comedy following two harebrained musicians (Johnson and co-creator Jay McCarrol) and …

This Is The Funniest Thing Ever…

This Is The Funniest Thing Ever…

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Leftists in the EU who spent years blocking real border enforcement are now whining about a victory party after conservatives pushed through a motion to create powerful tools to remove illegal migrants. The chamber could not stop laughing. A ‘Renew Europe’ MEP aligned with French President Emmanuel Macron stood up and demanded punishment for conservative MEPs who gathered on the European Parliament roof, drank heavily, and celebrated the passage of the bloc’s toughest-ever deportation reforms. The presiding officer brushed it off and The room roared with amusement. Laughter erupts in the European Parliament after Macron’s MEP Fabienne Keller tries to get conservative MEPs punished for serious breeches of the rules She says they met on the Parliament’s roof & “drank a lot, a lot” to celebrate passing new laws for deporting illegal migrants pic.twitter.com/2gzLCdcKZT — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 20, 2026 This outburst came days after the European Parliament voted 418 to 218, with 30 abstentions, to approve the new Return Regulation. Conservative and sovereignist MEPs from the …

Scary Movie has the meanest, funniest and most shocking ending of the year

Scary Movie has the meanest, funniest and most shocking ending of the year

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I present to you a mortifying scenario: Scary Movie is the funniest and most creatively interesting film of the year. And it’s strange to say that when there are at least five thuddingly weak, barrel-scraping jokes about a closeted gay man assaulting teenage boys, and a character – quite literally called DEI – who is stabbed to death by a crowd of strangers after insisting they respect their gender pronouns. But the return of the long-dormant horror spoof franchise has far more comic hits in it than misses, and is so enjoyably, gleefully stupid at all times that I can’t help but adore the thing. So why, then, has the new Scary Movie received such a drubbing? Reviews have been unkind – it currently sits at a woeful 24 per cent on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes – though that’s no real …

SNL UK: The 12 funniest sketches ranked, from roasting The Traitors to skewering Keir Starmer

SNL UK: The 12 funniest sketches ranked, from roasting The Traitors to skewering Keir Starmer

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Whether it’s a giant crab at the Traitors roundtable, a hilarious Princess Diana impression or an arm-flailing Keir Starmer, Saturday Night Live UK has delivered all sorts of bizarre sights to our screens over the past eight weeks – and there’s still one final show to go. While comedy fans were trepidatious ahead of the series, which is the first ever British version of the long-running US version, the cast and crew have successfully put their own spin on a 50-year format. They’ve also impressed the Sky bosses enough to be commissioned for an encore, with series two set to air in the autumn. Sketch shows may be notoriously hit-and-miss, but we’ve collated the biggest hits to come from SNL UK’s debut series. Read on to see if you agree with our ranking. 12. Who Wants to Remain a Millionaire? SNL …

Politicians say the funniest things (to kids) – POLITICO

Politicians say the funniest things (to kids) – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Clearly realising that he had a captive audience who can’t get enough of mechanical, robotic arm devices, Trump started to give them his opinion on Biden. “You know, Biden would use the autopen. He’d have an autopen follow him. You know, Joe Biden, he didn’t sign his name, he was incapable of signing his name … Not too good, right? Better to sign it yourself,” Trump told the gathered small children, before asking them, “Does anybody like the fake news? No?” Lots of U.S. presidents have used autopens, from Thomas Jefferson to, erm, Donald Trump. Do and don’t mess with Manu! Schoolchildren might be the right audience for breaking news but it’s best not to let your guard down too much. After leaving a high school in Valence in the southeast of France in 2021, President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face (albeit not by a child but by a 28-year-old man). Three years earlier, Macron had another tense (if much less violent) exchange. During a visit to Mont Valerien fort near Paris, where …

The White Lotus Producer Says Season 4 Is ‘Funniest’ And ‘Most Personal’

The White Lotus Producer Says Season 4 Is ‘Funniest’ And ‘Most Personal’

Published by Sam Flores

The White Lotus producer David Bernad has teased what fans are in for when the show returns to our screens next year. Bernad has worked closely with White Lotus creator Mike White on all three seasons of the award-winning comedy, which began production on its fourth run earlier this month in the South of France. It was already confirmed that the upcoming episodes would be set at a luxury resort in the South of France during the Cannes Film Festival, exploring various ideas around fame. On Monday, Deadline reported that Bernad told the audience during a Canneseries Q&A that the new episodes would explore the “loneliness” and “pain” that surround “the life of an artist”. Mike White and David Bernad at the Emmys in 2022 “As we located the show at the Cannes Film festival, this idea of fame popped up,” he explained. “And [the idea of] who has the world’s attention? Who can grab it and who is the plus one in a relationship? “What are the things that satisfy us? Is it the …

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In 2024, a team led by University of Gothenburg medical researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström invented a fake disease that called “bixonimania.” The fictional skin condition, they said, was caused by staring at screens for too long and rubbing one’s eyes too much. As Nature reports, the team uploaded two fake studies (both since been taken down) about the condition to a preprint server at the time in an effort to trick large language models into thinking it was real. It didn’t take long for their ruse to take off. Within just weeks of uploading the fake studies, frontier AI models including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT started talking about bixonimania as if it were real. Not much later, researchers found that the fake papers had even started to be cited in other peer-reviewed academic literature. The experiment highlights how profoundly AI is changing the face of human knowledge. AI slop has invaded almost every facet of the peer-review …

Last One Laughing is the funniest show on TV – it shows what Brits do best

Last One Laughing is the funniest show on TV – it shows what Brits do best

Published by Daniella Wilson

**Warning: Contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Last One Laughing UK.** Who would have thought that Prime Video could’ve topped the utter hilarity of Last One Laughing UK season 1? Between Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade speed dating, to Danny Dyer giving the cast acting lessons and surprise appearances from Nick Mohammed and Alison Hammond, it seemed impossible to do any better. Enter the casting team of season 2. Affectionately dubbed the “deadpan daddies” by Roisin Conaty, this year’s cast include a true variety of comics, many of whom lasted longer than anticipated due to their deadpan nature, from Romesh Ranganathan to Diane Morgan. Were they any good at the game by making the other comics laugh or did they manage to stay so long because they have in their locker what Brits know and love: sarcastic and deadpan humour? Diane Morgan, for example, is beloved for her role as Liz on Motherland, a no-nonsense and unflinching mum who remains cool and under pressure after cutting off her finger. And then there’s Philomena Cunk. It’s interesting to …

They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

Published by José Betancourt

In 2021, a crew of self-described free speech martyrs announced they were founding a university to save American higher education from the scourge of cancel culture. They called it the University of Austin, or UATX — and though it lacks accreditation, they boasted that it would be a place where controversial ideas could breathe free, and students wouldn’t live in fear of the woke mob. Pretty much from the jump, critics of UATX suspected the project was less about “freedom of speech” and more about building a right-wing echo chamber for aggrieved libertarians. It operated out of a former retail store in downtown Austin, with funding from “anti-woke” philanthropists like Palantir co-founder Joseph Lonsdale. Over the next few years, those critics would be proven correct in spectacular style. According to comprehensive reporting by Politico, in April of 2025 Lonsdale called an all-staff meeting that threw the entire project into a tailspin. Per the reporting, the billionaire told faculty and staff they must all subscribe to the “four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism.” …

The Merach Vibration Plate Is the Funniest Workout I’ve Ever Done

The Merach Vibration Plate Is the Funniest Workout I’ve Ever Done

Published by skeptic

Many years ago, my brother-in-law was renovating an 18th-century house in New Orleans. As I spent the day searching through piles of moldy copies of Peanuts comics, I found a (still working!) 1950s-style fat-jiggler machine. From the Remington Beltmaster to the classic Shake Weight, many gimmicky fitness devices over the years have tried to capitalize on the concept of dynamic inertia to help us get toned and lose weight. Most human beings don’t like to move, even though moving is how you maintain your muscle mass and, you know, how you stay alive. A vibrating device offers you a mystical promise: You can trick yourself into exercising while staying absolutely still, as long as you’re standing on, near, or holding something that’s vibrating! Violently! Anyway, this is a long way to go about saying that for a few weeks, I have been vibrating myself while watching Train to Busan and other zombie movies. While I do think that the long-standing claims that you can vibrate your way to weight loss are mostly bogus, they do …