True Detective Celebrates Father's Day by Threatening to Fuck Your Dad
Specifically, in the butt with your mom’s headless corpse on this goddamn lawn. Happy Father’s Day, everyone!
George W. Bush Is the Father of the Year
On the morning of the Father of the Year Awards Luncheon, I ran out of bread enough to even make cinnamon toast for my children, and I ended up serving them some Chocolate Chex and the last apple in the house. Not that I was going there to win Father of the Year. I was merely going to watch.
Things Unsaid
I never have had to doubt my parents’ love, not even when I had to explain to them what I meant when I said, “I’m queer.” In my days at home, my parents were the type to be at every event; my mother was given the “Team Spirit” award on my tennis team during my senior year of high school. My first girlfriend had called…
How to Talk About Suicide on Father’s Day
This Father’s Day, as with every Father’s Day, Facebook is going to become a cascade of carefully chosen, lovingly captioned dad photos. Many will be painted over with the static of age. A “dad bod” joke or two will worm its way in. And several posts will inevitably be dedicated to those dads that have passed, who…
Do You Think My Stepdad Would Like a Cat Bed For Father's Day?
In searching for a Father’s Day present for my stepdad, I hit up all the best sites: Amazon.com, google: “father’s day”, HomeDepot.com, and finally Etsy. While my returns on the first three were lackluster—what’s he going to do with another grill spatula with a light wood handle?—I was surprised to learn that Etsy…
What A Difference A Loving Dad Made
My father — an old lion of a man — would bark, "They don't give a fuck about you," any time I called a rapper, athlete or actor a "beast" for their artistic or athletic feats.
Ghost of Daddy's Passing
The house smelled just like him.
Tom Brokaw Remembers Daughters' Menstruation in Father's Day Letter
In honor of Father's Day, a day when mothers across America buy cards for their husbands and then search all over the house for their children so that they can sign the card—they literally don't have to do anything but sign the card, look, here I already bought it—TIME magazine assembled a team of famous fathers to …
Boom: Ronan Farrow Roasts Estranged Dad Woody Allen with Father's Day Tweet
Ronan Farrow hasn't spoken with his father, filmmaker Woody Allen, since the latter left the former's mother, Mia Farrow, for Soon-Yi Previn — Farrow's adopted daughter.
Jimmy Kimmel Asks Kids to Prank Dads for Father's Day; Kids Happily Oblige
After years spent asking parents to torment their children for kicks, Jimmy Kimmel's latest YouTube Challenge asked kids to prank adults for a change.
Here's a Cute Video Explaining Prostate Cancer
Happy Father's Day, dads.
'Dads Are Not Incompetent, Bumbling Fools,' Say Dads While Everyone Rolls Their Eyes Like 'Okay, Dad'
Just in time for Father's Day, CNN.com has published a groundbreaking exposé declaring that not all dads are the blundering, inept morons they are portrayed to be on comedy programs and in television commercials.
JCPenney Responds to Homophobic Boycott Calls with Gay Father's Day Ad
In what appears to be a direct response to the failed boycott campaign of anti-gay group One Million Moms, JCPenney yesterday unveiled a new Father's Day ad featuring a same-sex couple playing with their children.
The 10 Stupidest American Holidays
Today is Columbus Day in case you weren't aware. What a stupid holiday! Nothing against Columbus (other than the fact he was a dirty colonist who killed off millions of Native Americans) but taking an entire day to celebrate him is a total waste. And there's a whole list of other holidays and celebrations we should…
What Your Father's Day Gift Says About You
The lesser two of the parents holidays (let's be serious) befalls the nation once more today, and given that it's Father's Day, not Mother's Day, that we're talking about here, you probably haven't gotten a gift yet. Which you should do! But be careful. Certain gifts say certain things you might not be aware of.
The Week We Made Our Fathers Proud
This week we had so much happen that we need to break it down into categories. Luckily, they're some of Gawker's favorite categories.
The Best TV Dads: A Father's Day Tribute
We here at Gawker.TV love our dads. But we really love our TV dads, for they taught us everything we'd need to know about life in under an hour. From the Danny Tanners to the Frank Costanzas, we salute you!
The Gawker Father's Day Gift Guide
Mother's Day's oft-forgotten cousin is upon us on Sunday and it's very likely, giving the creeping nature of the holiday, that you've forgotten to get a gift for dad. But fear not! We're here to help.
How To Tie a Tie
Father's Day brings lots of new ties, so make sure you are prepared. This video shows how to tie either gifts you get or gifts you give to your dear old dad.
Bad Father's Day Gifts, #1
When you think "Father-Son bonding experiences," you think "spending an evening in the home of Randall Jones, the used-car-salesman-esque founder of Worth magazine, hearing him extol the virtues of each and every one of his '12 Commandments' for becoming the 'Richest Man in Town.'"
