MORNING: MY ROUTINE I wake up in my Brooklyn apartment, put my Pomeranian in her sweater, take the elevator downstairs, and avoid eye contact with my doorman so I don’t have to talk about sports. Blah blah blah my son is the Knicks’ point guard. Who cares? I head for the apple orchard’s table at […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, it was announced that Simpsons composer Alf Clausen—the man who put the Spring in Springfield, who reminded us that we needed the Kwik-E-Mart, and who understood us when our wives did not—had been fired after 27 years of service. Simpsons producers have stated that Clausen will “continue to have an ongoing role […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, it was announced that Simpsons composer Alf Clausen—the man who put the Spring in Springfield, who reminded us that we needed the Kwik-E-Mart, and who understood us when our wives did not—had been fired after 27 years of service. Simpsons producers have stated that Clausen will “continue to have an ongoing role […]
Continue ReadingLiz Hynes (@chancellorliz) is an aspiring corpse based in New York City who once vomited directly in front of Brian Williams. A renowned multitasker, she often writes screenplays and performs standup comedy while simultaneously decomposing. This week, Liz and I talked about a few things, but most importantly the time her comedy sketch went viral online and […]
Continue ReadingMultiple outlets confirmed today that comedian Shelley Berman, who rose to fame as a standup in the ‘50s and ‘60s and was part of the Chicago comedy team that later evolved into The Second City, died this morning at his home in California due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He is survived by his wife […]
Continue ReadingThe Mindy Project returns for its sixth and final season this month, and today Hulu released the trailer. Here’s the logline for the 10-episode season, which premieres Tuesday, September 12th: She’s done it! After five seasons of The Mindy Project, Mindy’s bagged herself a husband. Sure, an impulsive elopement wasn’t the fairy tale wedding of her dreams, but […]
Continue ReadingWhen John Cleese looks back on his life in the first volume of his memoir, So, Anyway…, he doesn’t say that the happiest time in his life was starring in an immensely popular sit-com with his then-wife. It’s not working on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, or being in a Bond film, or performing comedy on […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump heads to charm school in an attempt to learn the proper etiquette when it comes to handshakes, greeting world leaders, eating steak, basic world geography, and hand gestures. Unfortunately for Trump, though, the charm school seems to be haunted by a mysterious […]
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 ReadingJust a few days before season 9 of Curb Your Enthusiasm premieres on HBO, Netflix is set to debut a new true crime documentary called Long Shot that looks like an absolutely fascinating watch — and one of the last things you might assume has a connection with Larry David’s big HBO return. The documentary […]
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