By: Tom Nealon

Miley Cyrus is at once surface and symbol.

By: Mike Fleisch

The most scrupulously self-aware of comedians.

By: Brian Berger

His wild sounds set off waves of enthusiasm.

By: Devin McKinney

Harris is the Jack Lemmon of now.

By: Patrick Cates

The nonsensical nihilist who reduces the tattoo ad absurdum.

By: Robert Wringham

“Monkey government!”

By: Katie Hennessey

She has avoided media scandal like Harry avoids the dementors.

By: Tor Aarestad

No one does teenage fragility and aggrieved hostility better.

By: Flourish Klink

Her scowl says: I don’t belong to anybody but myself.

By: Adam McGovern

A torture-chamber of temporary adjustments.

By: Adrienne Crew

Like a comet, she appears now and then to dazzle us.

By: Tucker Cummings

He is the best at “over­confident because I’m over­compensating.”

By: Jerrold Freitag

No disparity between what’s funny and what hurts.

By: Jerrold Freitag

His smiles, tears, and wall-punching are the best.

By: Tucker Cummings

He was dis­illusioned by the materialism of modern Japan.