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 […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver responds to the weekend’s terrible news that a protester was killed during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as well as Trump’s equally terrible response condemning the violence “on many sides” and refusing to call out the Nazis by name. “It seems Trump’s […]
Continue ReadingIn case you missed it, Jay-Z recently released the music video for “Moonlight” from his album 4:44, and with some help from Master of None’s Alan Yang directing, the video expertly recreates Friends with an all-black cast featuring Jerrod Carmichael, Issa Rae, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, and Tessa Thompson, complete with a special appearance […]
Continue ReadingBest known as one of the founding members of the avant-garde sketch group Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald recently celebrated an anniversary. His podcast Kevin McDonald’s Kevin McDonald Show — which blends sketch, interviews, and live music — just hit its one-year mark. In the past year McDonald has played host to the best […]
Continue ReadingAfter being suspended from the show for the second half of last season, it appears that writer Katie Rich has returned to Saturday Night Live. The Chicago Sun-Times noticed during the credits of last night’s Weekend Update special that Rich was listed in the credits as one of the episode’s 12 writers – the first time […]
Continue ReadingPamela Adlon and Louis C.K.’s show Better Things returns to FX for its second season next month, and today the network released a trailer. Since earning a season 2 renewal back in September, the show has won a Peabody Award and scored an Emmy nomination, and notably, Adlon directed all ten episodes of the upcoming […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, NBC’s streaming comedy service Seeso officially confirmed that it’s shutting down later this year. Thankfully, four Seeso shows — Hidden America with Jonah Ray, The Cyanide & Happiness Show, My Brother, My Brother and Me, and Dan Harmon’s HarmonQuest – have already found a new home on the streaming platform VRV, but […]
Continue Reading@KatieBarsotti is a writer and performer in Los Angeles. She’s written for McSweeney’s, Reductress, CollegeHumor, the upcoming Woolly magazine, and you if you’d just let her. She and America’s sweetheart, Sam Chapman, have a comedy zine coming out in 2018 called Modern Magic: Spells for the Contemporary Witch. Katie also has a podcast coming out […]
Continue ReadingRight before Trump’s inauguration, Full Frontal aired a fantastic segment where Samantha Bee sat down with author, journalist, and Russian dissident Masha Gessen, who fled her home country and now lives in the States. During the interview, Gessen offered some helpful advice for how to effectively resist Trump and his ideologies, but it’s her breakdown of […]
Continue ReadingRight before Trump’s inauguration, Full Frontal aired a fantastic segment where Samantha Bee sat down with author, journalist, and Russian dissident Masha Gessen, who fled her home country and now lives in the States. During the interview, Gessen offered some helpful advice for how to effectively resist Trump and his ideologies, but it’s her breakdown of […]
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