THE DAILY GRIND

If you've watched any sporting event in the past few months, you've been bombarded with an unending stream of commercials for DraftKings and FanDuel, the two titans of the rising daily fantasy sports industry. It's the most annoying thing about being a sports fan these days. More importantly, it's crazy that theses sites—which turn picking fantasy sports lineups into head-to-head gambling contests among strangers—currently exist with little oversight. Does it make sense that it's illegal to put money on the Seahawks to win a game (or, honestly at this point, taking the easy money by betting against them), while daily fantasy websites currently rake in millions every week? Obviously not. Who do we turn to when something absurd needs a long form dissection these days? John Oliver and his team at Last Week Tonight. On last night's program, Oliver broke down the DraftKings/FanDuel racket in wonderfully amusing detail. Make sure to watch until the end of the clip in order to see Last Week Tonight's uproariously funny "honest" daily fantasy advertisement featuring Seth Rogen, Mike Birbiglia, and more.

MISSY BE PUTTIN' IT DOWN

After a three year musical drought, Missy Elliott has finally returned with a new music video. The clip for the new track "WTF (Where They From)" features Elliott's endlessly swaggering flow, a guest verse by Pharrell Williams, the type of wild costuming and choreography that always make her videos visual candy. Hopefully we won't have to wait so long for her next installment.

DO CALL IT A COMEBACK

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the best standup special of 2015: John Mulaney's The Comeback Kid. The comedian's only previously filmed set, 2012's New in Town, might be the funniest special of the past decade, and The Comeback Kid serves as a more than a worthy follow-up. It's as fantastic and hilarious as his short-lived Fox sitcom Mulaney was very, very bad (as one of like three people that slogged through every episode, I'm an expert on its awfulness).  The Comeback Kid arrived on Netflix last Friday, and anyone in need of a good laugh or sixty should stream it ASAP.

NATURAL RIVALS (?)

Cats are terrified of cucumbers. That is an amazingly bizarre sentence, and also somehow a factual one. Considering animals can often sense natural disasters well before humans, it begs the question: what do cats know about cucumbers' true insidious nature that we're all ignoring?