Fox is getting experimental with the multi-cam sitcom format. According to Deadline, the network is developing a live, multi-cam family comedy by New Girl co-executive producers Dave Finkel and Brett Baer called Immediate Family. On top of being live, the series also will have an interactive element and include participation from the audience. It will center […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to our series On the Verge, where our contributors highlight comedians they feel are ready for their next big break. Whether they’re already working in television or still waiting to land their breakout gig, these are just some of the comedians we’d like to see more of over the coming years — ideally with a show, film, or […]
Continue ReadingHaving your TV show canceled is presumably quite devastating, but what happens when your whole network is canceled? As a few former Seeso shows are finding out, there’s no reason to go down with the ship. Especially when your lifeboat is a proven track record of success, a new season that’s already been shot, and […]
Continue ReadingThe first of Jerry Seinfeld’s two Netflix standup specials debuts next month, and the streaming network just released the trailer. Titled Jerry Before Seinfeld, the hourlong special was taped at The Comic Strip in New York and features some never-before-seen Seinfeld material, including childhood videos and a look at “a library of legal pads with […]
Continue ReadingThe latest episode of Norm Macdonald Live dropped today, and it’s another big one: an hourlong chat between Macdonald and Jerry Seinfeld, whose Netflix standup special debuts next month. The two chat about their early comedy influences, Bill Cosby (Macdonald: “You know, I had maybe the greatest Bill Cosby story ever. And now it’s not […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central just revealed the schedule for this year’s batch of Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents half-hour standup specials (formerly titled The Half Hour). This year’s specials were filmed at The Civic Theatre in New Orleans, and the series premieres with two back-to-back episodes Friday, September 15th at midnight and 12:30am and runs through the end […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah takes a closer look at the recently pardoned Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a segment called “Profiles in Tremendousness: Pardon Edition.” After recapping some horrific examples of Arpaio’s long history of excessive force and abuse in his prisons as well as the over $140 […]
Continue ReadingTO: mikeymilwaukee33@gmail.com Marginally Attractive Men in Milwaukee. Do you live in Milwaukee? Do you consider yourself a man who’s at least marginally attractive? Then this podcast is for you! Okay, we know that’s wildly specific, but that’s just the type of zany fun you’ll find in our hour-long episodes where we only discuss the guy stuff […]
Continue ReadingSouth Park isn’t the only Comedy Central series with a big marathon in store ahead of its new season debut. The network announced today that it will also air a marathon of every episode of Broad City next Monday in an event it’s calling Broad City: Labor Day Replay. The marathon will begin at 9:00am […]
Continue ReadingThe new Netflix series Disjointed, which premiered its first ten episodes (of 20 ordered so far) this past Friday, is an appropriately titled mishmash of two distinct styles that never completely coalesce. Created by David Javerbaum and Chuck Lorre, it is an achingly dull CBS-style sitcom “about” weed the same way The Big Bang Theory is […]
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