Nathan Rabin's Happy Place — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Dinesh D'Souza's Hillary's America is Even More Hysterically Wrong Than When It Came Out

Is Dinesh D'Souza's latest the absolute worst or merely unwatchable? You bastards forced me to find out for myself.

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinDecember 13, 2023Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump, Politics, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, Nathan Rabin

There Are Probably Better Ways to Celebrate Robert De Niro's 80th Birthday Than By Re-Running This Piece on His God-Awful Vehicle The Comedian But This Is the One We're Going With

What if Robert De Niro made a movie about stand-up comedy that was as skin-crawlingly terrible as The King Of Comedy was great? Last year, he totally did!

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinAugust 17, 2023Robert De Niro, comedy, WTF, stand up comedy, Control Nathan Rabin, Danny Devito, Leslie Mann, Sad declines, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Loqueesha is Somehow MUCH Worse Than It Looks, and it Looks Like THE Worst

Like a knight in olden times, I met Loqueesha alone on the field of battle and emerged victorious. Buy The Joy of Trash! It’s got a whole bunch of stuff JUST like this.

This Looks TerribleNathan RabinMay 31, 2023Loqueesha, Racism, viral, The Test, My World of Flops, Outrage, Sexism, Narcissism, Vanity project, The Room, Fateful Findings, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Five real life super-villains who could DEFINITELY beat Thanos

These real-world baddies from my own unhappy life and career could most definitely destroy Thanos the way they’ve destroyed my fragile sense of self.

ClickbaitNathan RabinDecember 23, 2022The Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, Thanos, Iron Man, clickbait, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, Film, Exploiting the Archives

Mayte Garcia's The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince is an Intimate, Revealing Portrait of a Complicated Man

In the first entry in the Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Literature Society we explore Mayte Garcia's poignant, powerful memoir of her life with ex-husband Prince.

Literature SocietyNathan RabinNovember 27, 2022Prince, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, Madonna, The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place Literature Society, Sinbad, Jesus

Even by the Low Standards of Hulk Hogan Vehicles, Santa with Muscles is an Abomination

Hulk Hogan. Christmas. Comedy. Children. Magical crystals. Catacombs. What could possibly go wrong?

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinNovember 3, 2022Hulk Hogan, Fred, bad movies, Control Nathan Rabin, Wrestling, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Happy Fourth Birthday, Happy Place!

The Happy Place turns four this week and I, for one, would like to wish it a VERY Happy Birthday!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinApril 19, 2021Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, The A.V. Club, The Dissolve

2020: a Year of Failures, Fiascoes and Secret Successes

With 2020 finally in the rearview I take stock of the year’s failures, fiascoes and secret successes.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinJanuary 4, 2021Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, The Weird Accordion to Al book, Travolta/Cage

I've Blogged About Donald Trump More Than Anyone Else and Could Not Be Happier to be Losing Him as a Subject

For bloggers looking for subject matter, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving but this blogger couldn’t be happier about not having to write about him anymore.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinNovember 10, 2020Donald Trump, blogging, freelancing, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

The Big Squeeze: Day 66 "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" from UHF

In this not at all self-indulgent post, your humble author discusses his extensive collection of “Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota”-themed tee shirts.

The Big SqueezeNathan RabinOctober 5, 2020"The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", UHF, travel, tee shirts, merchandise, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place, The Weird Accordion to Al expanded