You may have caught standup Stephanie Simbari on @midnight or in the ensemble of Oxygen’s 2015 reality series Funny Girls, or heard her co-host her popular wellness podcast That’s So Retrograde. The New York native has a lot of projects right now, including a role on Jay Pharoah’s Showtime series White Famous. And now Simbari’s […]
Continue ReadingAmazon just released trailers for two of its pilots-turned-series. First up is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which received a double-season pickup back in April not long after the pilot episode debuted on the streaming network. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), the series stars Rachel Brosnahan as “a 1958 New York City woman who has […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Trump took to Twitter to call late night hosts “anti-Trump” and demand equal time, which resulted in the below perfect response from Jimmy Kimmel: Excellent point Mr. President! You should quit that boring job – I’ll let you have my show ALL to yourself #MAGA — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) October 7, 2017 […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand “equal time” during late night shows’ political coverage and called out the “anti-Trump” late night hosts for “their very ‘unfunny’ and repetitive material” about him, so during last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert was joined by his late night pal Jon Stewart, who was there […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes writers Amber Ruffin, Ally Hord, and Jenny Hagel to the desk to react to the years of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein, his attempts to keep it quiet by paying cash settlements to the women he harassed, and his apology now that the […]
Continue ReadingDear Mr. Kensington, It is with great joy that I tender to you my deepest and sincerest “congratulations.” Over the past few decades, you have been an avid yet discreet patron of the Phillip Hendricks Institute of Ornithological Fraternity. And, considering the many anonymous donations that you’ve made to our highly-specialized Avicultural Society, you have […]
Continue ReadingSome changes are happening behind the scenes at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. According to The Wrap, Full Frontal showrunner, executive producer, and head writer Jo Miller is no longer working at the late night show. TBS released the below statement about the news: Jo is an incredibly talented writer who has played an invaluable […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the premiere of Sarah Silverman’s new show next week, Hulu dropped a new musical promo for the series today (featuring a cameo by Parks and Rec alum Retta) where Silverman explains the true but complicated love for the US that inspired the show’s title I Love You, America. Ordered to series back in March, […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. When Marc Maron began recording interviews in his garage for WTF, he probably never envisioned that the show would eventually become a sort of living, evolving museum of contemporary standup comedy. No, he was probably just trying to figure out what […]
Continue ReadingPatton Oswalt heads to Netflix later this month with a brand new standup special, and the streaming network just released the trailer. Titled Annihilation, the hourlong special was taped at Chicago’s Athenaeum Theatre and follows Oswalt as he reflects on the death of his wife Michelle McNamara and “how he worked through the pain and […]
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