“Good Television” ~ Chris Gethard

Class Action Park is a great documentary about a New Jersey waterpark where people died. Even just the trailer is amazing. Seek out the documentary and watch it. Chris Gethard is one of the folks interviewed for the documentary. He wrote for “Weird New Jersey” I think Gethard is great. He’s responsible for a piece of television which I find amazing. But the premise seems basic and too simple to be entertaining: “What’s in this dumpster.” It’s 10 years old. I had never heard of this until this year: 2026. I heard about it on Bluesky. I think from Liz Shannon Miller, who wrote about it in Inside the Dumpster’s Secrets: The Chris Gethard Show’s “One Man’s Trash” Turns 10. My advice: watch the video before you read the article describing it. If you do watch it, I’d love to hear your opinion. Bonus: this interview has a discussion with Gethard about how folks—comedians mostly—make money and distribute their work in 2026. It makes the kind of open web and silo points we make in our…