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Memes have become the clearest and most direct language of digital culture: condensed fragments of reality that synthesize the complexity of the present and circulate at the same speed as a society surrendered to hyperstimulation. From the Dancing Baby of the 1990s to the endless templates of X, Instagram, or TikTok, memes have evolved from simple ephemeral jokes to veritable systems for decoding the world, semiotic capsules that allow us to process the political, the social, and the intimate.

Wanda Sykes - Please & Thank You Tour with Special Guest Keith Robinson: Laugh out loud with Wanda Sykes, an Emmy-winning stand-up comedian, writer, actress and producer in show business for more than 20 years. 8 p.m., Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose. bit.ly/4jwGYii SJZ Break Room Jazz Jam Featuring Thomas Pridgen: Join powerhouse drummer Thomas Pridgen and enjoy some great music while learning techniques in this jam session.

Comedian Ricky Gervais has not held back over the years when it comes to his comments on the trans community, and has a long history of making jokes about trans people. The controversial 64-year-old British comic is back in the news after he was absent from Sunday's (11 January) Golden Globes ceremony. During the ceremony, lesbian legend Wanda Sykes presented the award for best stand-up comedy on television. Gervais was nominated for his special Morality.

The first thing I found when I was rehearsing Hamlet was that I felt very at home. I just felt very at ease and happy to be there. But the first time I performed to be or not to be on stage, there was a sense of aren't bells supposed to ring here? Isn't there supposed to be a klaxon? I come to to be in a slightly different way each night so hopefully the audience haven't seen it done that way before.

Rogers insisted he was a very progressive person who cares deeply about winning these elections, but my phrasing was not right. I will be more thoughtful! I really do promise. He added, I have great respect and admiration for Rep. Crockett, and I regret that my words suggested otherwise. I just want us to win and I will be better at finding ways to help.

50 weekends a year, the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench, an attempt to perform 30 bite-sized plays in a frantic race against the clock, in an order determined by you, the audience. Each week, the ensemble offers up new plays ranging from the personal, to the political, to the profoundly WTF, all truthful and inspired by the lived experiences of the performers.

Rex Navarrete has been one of the leading Filipino stand-up comedians on the circuit for years. A comedian's comedian, he's performed alongside George Lopez, Ali Wong, and Robin Williams. His brand of "Pinoy" humor touches on his life as a Filipino, but all cultures are able to appreciate the themes of his jokes. After all, laughter is one of the great ways to connect with any human. His bit "What are Filipinos" will make anyone laugh hysterically.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BRAINY BRITCHES! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX -our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we'll be testing your knowledge on EVERYTHING that happened in the year 2025 in the thrilling "Part Two" of our trivia recap of the year! (Look, I get it... you never want to think about 2025 again... so fill out this quiz, slam your pencil down,

It's funny to think of people getting up in arms about any capitalist appropriation of "Santa Claus," a 100 percent made-up corporate advertising mascot bearing the same relationship to the Christian historical figure of Saint Nicholas that Hannibal Lecter has to the murdered prison guard whose sliced-off face he wore as a disguise to escape confinement. This is a figure that exists pretty much explicitly to obfuscate the religious meaning of Christmas in favor of a Satanic monthlong veneration of shopping and consumerism.

It may be TMI, but I have a weak bladder. Now, I know what you're thinking: Isn't having a weak bladder an issue for a guy whose job is to search for the internet's absolute funniest photos? The answer is "yes." Peeing your pants on the job is no fun. But I forge onward for all of you! What's that? You're also wondering what my co-workers think of this? They don't mind - because they know that when they see me looking like the two gents below,

John Antrobus, who has died aged 92, was just 21 when in 1955 he joined the writers' cooperative Associated London Scripts. Based in an office above a greengrocer's shop in Shepherd's Bush, it housed a cradle of talent shaking up postwar television and radio comedy. Newly out of army officer training at Sandhurst, with a father who was a regimental sergeant-major and arriving wearing a herringbone suit, he found himself among a new generation sticking two fingers up at the establishment.