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It's the month for being frightened on purpose. These are the films that let you scream and laugh in the same breath, which is cheaper than therapy.
Netflix released a comedy special nearly every Tuesday last month, apparently on the theory that Tuesdays needed help. Here are six worth catching up on.
A movie based on a 90-second SNL sketch lasted three weeks in theaters in 2010. Eleven years later it came back as a TV show. A thing that refuses to die is either a zombie or a classic.
Todd Phillips's 2009 hit is one of the biggest R-rated comedies ever. It's also a film where the funniest thing is a missing groom and the plan is to not look for him very hard.
Good Night with Ben Gleib bills itself as the first late-night show made for YouTube: a band, a desk, a monologue, and a virtual audience, all in the comic's own house.
A three-year feud between Tom Hanks's son and the most chaotic talk-show host alive just had its first in-person sequel. Nobody won, which is how you know it was a real feud.
Raw Comedy, the satellite channel that played hundreds of working comics, became Sebastian Maniscalco's Comedy Radio. Margaret Cho and Michelle Wolf are among the comedians objecting.
The same weekend, a thriller from a Colleen Hoover novel made $32.6 million while Tom Cruise's $160 million black comedy dug itself a hole. Somebody in an office is very quiet today.
An independent commission found Manchester City broke the Premier League's financial rules. City says the ruling is full of errors and has appealed. Somewhere a spreadsheet is the most valuable player.
The first SNL Sketch of the Week piece lands here soon.