Trapped in New York with Julie Klausner

Julie Klausner’s fantastic series Difficult People returned to Hulu for its third season last week, and the timing couldn’t be better. Now that the news is filled every day with so much corruption, incompetence, and steady updates on our current president’s ties to Russia, planning out momentary self-care escapes with Klausner and Billy Eichner’s Difficult People […]

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Louis C.K.’s New Movie ‘I Love You, Daddy’ Premieres in Toronto Next Month

Louis C.K. has secretly been working on a movie that’s set to make its world premiere next month. According to the Los Angeles Times, C.K.’s film I Love You, Daddy has been added to the lineup of next month’s Toronto International Film Festival. Not a whole lot is known about the film except that it […]

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Seth Meyers Takes “A Closer Look” at Trump’s Response to Charlottesville

Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers recaps the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend that resulted in a protester getting killed and Trump taking two whole days filled with public pressure to condemn his Nazi supporters by name despite having what Meyers calls “a permanent hard-on for condemnation.” “It shouldn’t […]

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Stephen Colbert Catches Bobby Odenkirk Jr. Colluding with Russians on ‘The Late Show’

Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert and Bob Odenkirk talk about Better Call Saul, the difference between performing on a comedy show and a serious drama, and Odenkirk’s questionable Emmy campaign tactics, including a bombshell video Colbert got of Odenkirk’s son and “Emmy campaign strategist” Bobby Odenkirk Jr. colluding with […]

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The Perfect Double Tribute: The ‘B*A*P*S’ Episode of ‘The Flop House’

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. There are certain incontrovertible milestones in podcasting. These include landmarks for the medium like President Obama’s appearance on WTF, Comedy Bang Bang’s 500th episode, Harris Wittels’s final podcast appearances, and that one episode of The Nerdist where Chris Hardwick got way […]

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Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin to Star in Chuck Lorre Netflix Comedy ‘The Kominsky Method’

Chuck Lorre has a new comedy series in the works at Netflix with some big stars attached. According to Deadline, the streaming network is “finalizing a deal” with Lorre for a 10-episode comedy series called The Kominsky Method. Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin are attached to star in the single-cam comedy, which follows Douglas as […]

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Welcome to the Hayden Panettierium, by Kathryn Doyle

Thank you for visiting the Hayden Panettierium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. I, planetarium director Hayden Panettiere, am delighted to welcome you to our Department of Astrophysics. Former director Neil deGrasse Tyson has taken a full-time position trolling nerds online, and as his successor I […]

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Season 1 of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Favors Fiction Over History

Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, which ended its first season last night, is the newest unfunny drama about the world of comedy. Based in part on the book by the same name by William Knoedelseder, it’s a fairly unambitious show. This actually makes it work better than the late, sarcastically lamented Studio 60 on the […]

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Season 1 of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ Favors Fiction Over History

Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, which ended its first season last night, is the newest unfunny drama about the world of comedy. Based in part on the book by the same name by William Knoedelseder, it’s a fairly unambitious show. This actually makes it work better than the late, sarcastically lamented Studio 60 on the […]

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Bill Hader and Cecily Strong Star in Steve Martin’s New “Caroline” Music Video

Steve Martin just released a music video for his new single “Caroline,” and he’s turned to some big Saturday Night Live names to help out. In the live-action/animation hybrid video, Bill Hader and Cecily Strong play a couple, with Strong taking on the role of the distracted titular character who is decidedly over her relationship […]

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