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Everything you need to know about in this weekly series: A dark comic premieres his hilarious new special, could telepathy be real, Marvel’s next big television show, science/religion/Big Bang explains, and all the things Back to the Future 2 predicted that are available or never came true.

At Social Underground we go beyond the mainstream stuff and see what’s underneath the surface. What should we get into, listen to, read, eat or watch? If there is something in our culture that needs attention that’s our job: Show you the underground things that you need to know about: Books, music, television, movies, comedians, art, and whatever else we can find to get you into something you never knew about. That’s The Underground.

1. Anthony Jeselnik’s Thoughts and …show more content…

They hear a cancer joke and think “That is appalling, I know so someone that had cancer!” Yeah, we all do. But the joke isn’t about a single person with it, it’s about cancer. Jeselnik prides himself on making jokes about dark subjects because he doesn’t like to be politically correct, he likes to be funny. He is probably one of the best one-liner comedians today, but in this special he changes it up a little bit.

“I don’t tell dark jokes because I’m a comedian. I’m a comedian because I tell dark jokes.” Jeselnik says in his special

I watched the special and laughed and pretty much everything he says, but when he got personal in the last 20 minutes, it shows that he can switch up his act and get to another level of being funny. I won’t spoil it, so head on over to Netflix and catch his new special Thoughts and Prayers right now. NOW!

2. Is telepathy real or complete science fiction rubbish? I once dated a girl that said she was in a mental institution that had a pair of twins that could communicate between walls using telepathy. My first reaction was “Wait, you were in a mental institution?!” My second was “That ‘s impossible. All of that is bullsh*t.” Maybe it

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