Vulture Festival

It’s Vulture come to life: A pop culture spectacle curated by our editors, with a weekend of panels, performances, and other events that defy tidy categorization, all featuring your favorite stars and creators.

Vulture festival 2023

caw! Vulture Festival Got Weird and Wonderful in 2023 The biggest moments from our annual L.A. migration. By Zoë Haylock
vulture festival 2023 The Faces of Vulture Festival 2023 Weird Al, MUNA, Billy Porter, and more paid a visit to our portrait studio. By Vulture Editors and Chantal Anderson
a long talk Finding Her Heartbeat Sharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store. By Jerry Saltz

The Honorary Degree Goes to…

Billy Porter!

Vulture festival 2022

vulture festival 2022 The Many, Many Highlights of Vulture Festival 2022 It’s the most wonderful time of the year. By Morgan Baila
vulture festival 2022 The Faces of Vulture Festival 2022 Jamie Lee Curtis, Kumail Nanjiani, the Super Troopers, and many others paid a visit to our photo studio. By Vulture Editors
the vulture transcript Super Troopers Continues to Slow Burn Broken Lizard reunited to talk lethal soap, liters of cola, too much syrup, and the perks of having made a modern cult classic. By Bilge Ebiri

The Honorary Degree Goes to…

Lee Pace!

The Conversations

‘Auntie Will Never Retire’ Sheryl Lee Ralph has big plans for her post-Emmys career, so long as the younger generations keep hiring her.
Gangs of London Won’t Hold Anything Back The cast and creatives behind AMC+’s brutal action series discuss their choreography of chaos.
Natasha Lyonne and Abbi Jacobson Are Ready to Burn Down TV The showrunners and friends discuss saying no to mainstream, formulaic comedy onscreen.
Welcome to Chippendales Is More Than Tearaway Pants and Butt Cheeks Kumail Nanjiani, Annaleigh Ashford, and EPs Rob Siegel and Jenni Konner unpack the scandals at the heart of the Hulu miniseries.
‘I Owe My Entire Life to Laurie Strode’ Jamie Lee Curtis traces her every success — from Trading Places to Freaky Friday to Knives Out — straight back to Halloween.
Don’t You Dare Call Kumail Nanjiani a Former Comedian There was a moment earlier when you said, “You were a comedian,” and that hurt my feelings. I was like, This motherfucker over here.
Going West with the Cast of Tulsa King The Paramount+ series showrunner and stars break down the mechanics of dropping a mobster in the middle of Oklahoma.
Rian Johnson Breaks Open the Benoit Blanc Cinematic Universe The director explains how Glass Onion sets the tone for the Knives Out mysteries to come.

The Video Studio

For All Mankind’s Krys Marshall and Lev Gorn Explain Aliens to Us They even referenced Einstein!
Matt Rogers Only Made a Holiday Special for the Money “Like any other pop star that’s doing this, the reason I have a Christmas show is so that I can be seasonally ubiquitous, boo.”
Of Course We Asked The Proud Family About Beyoncé’s Halloween Costume Imagine talking to Jo Marie Payton and not immediately bringing it up?
Zachary Knighton Finally Got the Happy Ending That Happy Endings Didn’t Magnum P.I. restored his faith that shows can in fact be saved!
StraightioLab Finally Explains to Us What a Podcast Even Is Comedians Sam Taggart and George Civeris generously educated us on the audio format.
Jamie Lee Curtis Is Ready to Debate Ted Cruz Like a Civilized Person We still live in a society of laws!
Gangs of London Taught Us About Tea and Grieving Fictional Characters It’s the totality of necessary human knowledge.
The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy Does Not Teach Us Any Italian It was rude of us to expect her to, honestly.

Tulsa King Convinces Us to Go to Oklahoma Why didn’t anyone tell us about the Pigeon Museum?
Bernie Sanders Would Make a Great Drag Queen Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka O’Hara have us convinced.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s Legacy Surprises Even Its Own Creators “We were able to sell the movie because we created the illusion that we were a hit.”
Broken Lizard’s Steve Lemme Got Slapped for Making Beerfest Somebody come get your mom!

Vulture festival 2021

the vulture transcript Going Back to the ’90s With the 9 Women of Yellowjackets The stars of Showtime’s new time-hopping disaster drama discuss faking a plane crash, line-reading orgasms, and the enneagram.
endings The Cast of Queen Sugar Closes the Book on Season Six “A lot of the flowers we see in season six,” says Nicholas L. Ashe, “were planted as seeds in season one.”
the vulture transcript KY Jelly and Lard Ice Cream: Getting Intimate With the Cast of The Great Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult dissect all the gory details of the farcical costume dramedy’s second season.

Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji on 5 Years of Issa and Molly A wine down with Insecure’s OTP.
Red Rocket Wants to Take You for a Ride Director Sean Baker and Simon Rex unpack the queasy charms of fast-talking narcissists and why they bet big on ’N Sync.
It’s the Most Wonderful Seth Rogen Interview of the Year The multi-high-phenate talks pot, pots, and the Santa lie.
Going Back to the ’90s With the 9 Women of Yellowjackets The stars of Showtime’s new time-hopping disaster drama discuss faking a plane crash, line-reading orgasms, and the enneagram.
Getting Intimate With the Cast of The Great Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult dissect all the gory details of the farcical costume dramedy’s second season.
Cowboy Bebop (Finally) Takes Flight Eight months of delays, two corgis, and one freak injury: the show’s stars on the long road to remaking an anime classic.
‘Should I Call You Daddy?’ How C’mon C’mon director Mike Mills convinced Joaquin Phoenix to father his movie son.
Keeping Up With the Solomons: 3rd Rock From the Sun Reunites Getting John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kristen Johnson, and French Stewart — plus special guests — together for the first time in 20 years.

The Cast of Queen Sugar Closes the Book on Season Six “A lot of the flowers we see in season six,” says Nicholas L. Ashe, “were planted as seeds in season one.”
Jeff Goldblum Is on the Brink of Doing His Best Work In a conversation with Carrie Brownstein, the actor opens up in his own strange way.
A Send-Off for Search Party The cast and creators reflect on the final season of their ode to millennial anxiety.
Henry Winkler Demonstrates Why He’s a Better Acting Teacher than Gene Cousineau Watch as the Barry scene-stealer coaches eight groups of would-be actors.

VULTURE FESTIVAL 2020

vulture festival 2020 The New Girl Guys Recall the ‘Dogshit’ Questions Asked About Coach and Winston Specifically about “having two Black guys on television shows.” By Devon Ivie
the essay Movies Were Better When Whoopi Goldberg Was in Them The actress has already achieved EGOT status. Now, finally, she’s a Master of Culture. By Soraya Nadia McDonald
vulture festival 2020 Rachel Bloom Gets Really Honest About A Bad Writers’ Room Experience “It’s all just this kind of general aggression, and general assertion of status, so it’s hard to define and you think you’re maybe making it up.” By Anne Victoria Clark

The Honorary Degree Goes to…

Whoopi Goldberg!

Suzie Pickles Would Not Thrive in Lord of the Rings But that’s what makes her interesting.
Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba Talk Surviving Hollywood Shortly before their show, L.A.’s Finest, was canceled, the two came to Vulture Festival and had a conversation that’s as timely as ever.
Two Real Housewives Have One Thing in Common: Producer James Gizelle Bryant and Heather Gay came ready to talk about the behind-the-scenes reality of Housewives and address that step-grandpa thing.
Rachel Brosnahan Thoughtfully Assigns Dogs to Her Characters Including the golden-arm lady.
Full Frontal Is Prepping for Lava After the Election “We have to make a show because we sold the commercial space.”
Stylish With Jenna Lyons Is Making Fashion Nicer “You’re never gonna get the best out of a person by being mean to them.”
Mindy Kaling Got Schooled by the Never Have I Ever Teens She was “really chill” about rewriting certain lines.
Rachel Bloom Gets Honest About A Bad Writers Room Experience “It’s all just this kind of general aggression, and general assertion of status, so it’s hard to define and you think you’re maybe making it up.”

The Baby-Sitters Club Is Back in Business for Season Two I hope they remember to disinfect the landline phone between calls.
Rachel Bloom Admits to Her Fifth-Grade Bully That She Was in Love With Him That’s “very obvious” in retrospect.
How Nathan for You Influenced How to With John Wilson Documentary comedy is not as easy as it looks.
Henry Winkler Helped Sylvester Stallone Keep ‘Rocky’ Which is kiiiind of a big deal.
The New Girl Guys Recall the ‘Dogshit’ Questions Asked About Coach and Winston Specifically about “having two Black guys on television shows.”
John Corbett Basically Pulled a Heist on the Northern Exposure Set The actor talked props and keepsakes at our Vulture Festival reunion.
We Wouldn’t Have Beyond the Lights Without Alicia Keys Add it to the list of things we need to thank Alicia Keys for.
Method Man Became a New, Uh, Man After Acting in The Cobbler It didn’t quite give him magical shoes, but, almost!
Luca Guadagnino Has Plans for Making Elio Perlman Cry Inside a movie theater. Imagine.

VULTURE FESTIVAL 2019

oral history I Think You Should Leave’s ‘Focus Group’ Sketch: An Oral History “They called me in and were like, ‘I think we just discovered a star.’” By Jesse David Fox
reunions Sad Breasts and Giant Hogs: A Party Down Reunion Featuring a surprise appearance by Steve Guttenberg, who was magnificent. By Jesse David Fox
vulture festival Maya and Anna From Pen15 Deeply Enjoy This Card Game From the Early Aughts Remember Boy Crazy? By Anne Victoria Clark

The Honorary Degree Goes to…

Laura Dern!

The Bachelor’s Colton and Cassie Also Think the Pattern App Is Listening Luckily they’re extremely used to being constantly monitored.
America Ferrera Saw Brad Pitt on a Disney Channel Movie Set And Jennifer Aniston and George Clooney. Yes, really!
Maya and Anna From Pen15 Deeply Enjoy This Card Game From the Early Aughts Remember Boy Crazy?
I Think You Should Leave’s Ruben Rabasa on Life As a Meme He does actually like his car.
Danny Pudi Recalls Shooting Favorite Community Episode As His Wife Was In Labor Way more enjoyable than the episode he had to shoot with a broken nose.
The Party Down Cast Knows Exactly What Podcasts Their Characters Would Host Hey, somebody had to corner the erotic-fiction podcast market.
Will Forte Assures Us the MacGruber TV Show Is Happening Our long national (comedy) nightmare is over.
One of The Good Place PAs Guessed Janet And Jason’s Arc Of course, they had to kill her to keep their secret, but still, pretty impressive.

Tony Hale Shares What Forky Grew Up to Be There’s exactly one grown-up job that’s perfect for a fork with big wiggly arms.
I Think You Should Leave’s ‘Focus Group’ Sketch: An Oral History “They called me in and were like, ‘I think we just discovered a star.’”
Sad Breasts and Giant Hogs: A Party Down Reunion Featuring a surprise appearance by Steve Guttenberg, who was magnificent.

VULTURE FESTIVAL 2018

emmy insider The Mindhunter Cast Knows How to Spot a Sociopath A discussion with Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, and Cameron Britton from this year’s Vulture Festival. By Abraham Josephine Riesman
emmy insider Getting Real With the Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race “When you put drag queens in a room together, we all think we’re the biggest thing in the whole wide world.” By Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
emmy insider Talking ’80s Wrestling, Sexism, and Stereotypes With GLOW’s Cast and Crew “We spend most of our days in very little clothing on the show, but felt so comfortable and respected and heard.” By Jen Chaney