For a gay, bald, chubby Jew, Matt Lucas is pretty comfortable in his own skin. Then again, the actor/comedian is perhaps better known for the multitude of other skins he inhabits in his BBC hit show _Little Britain_. These characters range from Daffyd, the self-proclaimed “only gay in the village,” to Vicky Pollard, a fast...

The revolution’s gonna be graphic-novelized. In his Vertigo/DC monthly comic book, _Army@Love_, comiconoclast Rick Veitch drops subversive sci-fi-satire bombs. A collection of the first six issues, _Army@Love Vol. 1: The Hot Zone Club_, takes place five years in the future in “Afbaghistan” with an unwinnable war still unwon. “I didn’t want to wait until the...

Mike Albo loves attention, but this isn't really what he meant. A victim's true, and truly hilarious, story.

Marissa Nadler’s music seems to exist in a world of its own. Most songs consist of little more than a carefully finger-picked acoustic guitar and a wispy, disembodied voice that recalls Hope Sandoval’s reverb-drenched sighs or a sort of gothic singing saw. Nadler’s sound is intimidatingly gloomy, both out-of-time and—thanks to the hoopla surrounding Devendra...

*Fall Of Hope* We are rapidly approaching that special time of redemption and renewal—we speak, of course, of the new fall television season. Once again, the network execs have somehow forgotten to solicit Jewdar’s opinion on the matter, but, given the spirit of the season, we are willing to forgive them of their transgressions and...

Meet actor/writer Jonah Hill, Hollywood's new leading man. No, really.

Richard Pryor didn’t come up with all of those wildly provocative punch lines by himself. A large amount of his scathing onstage material and Grammy-winning LPs are credited to _The Richard Pryor Show_ head writer Paul Mooney, a comedy circuit legend who has mentored dozens of up-and-coming entertainers over the years. More recently, the 60-some-odd-year-old...

Why would a grown man let a knife-wielding old Jew near his penis? Adam Bright investigates.