Last year, Netflix ordered 10 episodes of a new half-hour dark comedy starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone called Maniac, and today another big star joined the cast. Deadline reports that Sally Field has signed on to the project, which is currently filming in New York City. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, the series is based […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Netflix ordered 10 episodes of a new half-hour dark comedy starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone called Maniac, and today another big star joined the cast. Deadline reports that Sally Field has signed on to the project, which is currently filming in New York City. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, the series is based […]
Continue ReadingEvery so often you hear somebody say something like “Oh, I would love to do standup comedy, I’m just too shy.” And more often than not, they never do. Luckily for us, Anthony DeVito managed to overcome his shyness — so effectively, in fact, that this year alone he performed on The Late Show and […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
Continue ReadingVir Das and Ramy Youssef both have comedies in development at Hulu. According to Variety, Das has teamed up with The Goldbergs executive producer Doug Robinson to develop a single-cam comedy at the streaming network titled In Theory, in which Das would star as “self-destructive math genius turned Indian radio DJ Jazz who moves from Mumbai, […]
Continue ReadingWith well over three decades in the game, Dana Gould has experienced many of comedy’s highs and lows. From humble beginnings (“I started doing standup two weeks out of high school. I was taken to my first mic by my high school librarian and her husband”), he went on to survive booms and busts (“The […]
Continue ReadingSeth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new comedy series Future Man debuts on Hulu next month, and today the streaming network released the trailer. Ordered to series last year, the show stars Josh Hutcherson as Josh Futturman, “a janitor by day/gamer by night who is recruited by mysterious visitors to travel through time in order to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a fun segment from last night’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where executive producer Miles Kahn visits his grandma in South Florida, where a once calm and elderly Jewish town has been torn apart politically since Donald Trump won the election. “People are actually fighting now,” Kahn’s grandma tells him. “You know, I always say […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Trump’s visit to Puerto Rico earlier this week, where he told hurricane victims to “have a good time” and threw rolls of paper towels at a crowd of people in need of supplies: “They were hit with a Category […]
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