A CollegeHumor web series turned half-hour truTV show, Adam Ruins Everything finds comedian/writer Adam Conover taking common and pervasive societal misconceptions about certain topics (the economy, breastfeeding, football, etc.) and debunking them using critical thinking to explain where and when the misconception started, why it is what it is today, and what’s wrong with it. It is engrossing, fourth-wall-style entertaining, and at times unpleasantly eye-opening, depending on whether you have a stake in the topic he’s discussing. (Hence the show’s title.) Live, Conover has a more straightforward delivery, and on his current Mind Parasites tour, he combines psychology, zoology, and biology with stand-up to discuss parasites that can “control the minds of their hosts, and how that relates to American society and the forces in your life that are trying to control your mind.” by Leilani Polk