‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a comedy series is examined. “Would you ever want to hang out again?” When Gwyneth Paltrow is dead and gone (that is if her Goop-infested body is capable of desiccation) the thing that she’ll surely be […]
Continue ReadingTig Notaro was a guest on last night’s Conan, where she told O’Brien about how her twin sons Max and Finn are doing, including a big update about Max’s first full sentence yelling “I’m gay!” out of nowhere. “I just leaned down, I was like ‘Max, we love you, we’re your parents, you can tell […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the latest updates in the Russia investigation that now involves Trump aides like Jared Kushner and the news that Robert Mueller is reportedly “going for the kill.” On Mueller: “Look at this guy. He looks like the police chief […]
Continue ReadingTBS just handed out renewals to three comedy series. TVLine reports that the network has ordered a second season of The Guest Book as well as third seasons of People of Earth and Wrecked, joining previously renewed comedies The Detour and Angie Tribeca. Season 2 of Wrecked wrapped up earlier this year, while People of […]
Continue ReadingBroad City was originally set to debut its fourth season on Comedy Central tonight at 10:30pm, but if you’re too impatient to wait, the network released the full episode online today. Titled “Sliding Doors,” the episode takes inspiration from the 1998 movie for a warp back in time to the moment Abbi and Ilana first […]
Continue ReadingThe writers behind the 2014 movie Search Party have a show in the works at NBC. According to Deadline, the network is developing a single-cam series from Michael Gagerman and Andrew Waller called Sour Mash. The family workplace comedy follows “a brilliant Latina chemist from Brooklyn with a passion for making bourbon who is tapped […]
Continue ReadingThe writers behind the 2014 movie Search Party have a show in the works at NBC. According to Deadline, the network is developing a single-cam series from Michael Gagerman and Andrew Waller called Sour Mash. The family workplace comedy follows “a brilliant Latina chemist from Brooklyn with a passion for making bourbon who is tapped […]
Continue ReadingBad news for joke writers: We’ve learned that starting this season, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update is no longer accepting freelance joke submissions for the segment. While the show hasn’t officially confirmed the news, at least one writer who submitted a packet this year has been informed that the show has decided to end its […]
Continue ReadingFrom Serial to binge-demanding TV series like The Jinx and Making a Murderer, the true crime doc format has become a national phenomenon that immediately sucks us in and then spits us out eight hours later with endless debates about whodunit. Though these are serious topics that would often demand a fictionalized version, it wouldn’t […]
Continue ReadingLast Man on Earth co-creators Phil Lord and Chris Miller have a new comedy in the works at ABC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two have sold a single-cam comedy to the network with a “sizable penalty attached” called We Can Do Better, which follows “a soccer mom who deals with her newly ‘woke’ […]
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