Hulu recently made a huge push for classic sitcoms, announcing last month that it’s acquired exclusive rights to stream shows like M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bernie Mac Show, Perfect Strangers, and Family Matters, and now they’re getting a little competition from Amazon. According to Variety, starting this month, the following sitcoms will […]
Continue ReadingThe observation “Wow, everyone has a Netflix special these days!” has already become hack. Netflix has been inching its way toward becoming a full-blown standup monopoly, putting out 25 specials last year and promising to release a new one every week in 2017. With those numbers, odds are that you the reader will probably have […]
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 ReadingPlaying younger than he is has never really been an issue for Justin Long. At 22, he played geeky high school student Warren Cheswick in Ed. At 25, he went back to high school for a role, playing geeky high school student Justin in Dodgeball. Now 39, Long has again reverted back to playing a […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee takes a closer look at the work of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach prior to becoming a member of Trump’s so-called “election integrity” commission – which, unsurprisingly, consisted of racist anti-immigration lobbying across the country for an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with Dave Chappelle about his Radio City Music Hall residency this month, his 30th anniversary in comedy, and his comments about Trump during his SNL monologue last year. “Listen, man. In the last six months, I think we’re all getting an education about the […]
Continue ReadingIn response to the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has directed the Justice Department to investigate discrimination against white people, during last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel welcomed David Alan Grier to deliver an impassioned plea on behalf of all the poor white souls who have endured so many years of persecution here in […]
Continue ReadingOften when a person is described as “Hollywood” it is used in a pejorative manner. But after a long conversation with Nick Swardson about his 17 years spent building a career in Los Angeles, I would describe him as very “Hollywood” and mean it with nothing but respect. For Swardson, LA is a place where […]
Continue ReadingLots of people love improv. Understandably. It’s fun and–when done right, with trusted teammates–freeing. Still, here’s the thing about improv that lots of people who do it don’t quite understand: it’s actually not the most important thing in the world. This week, we introduce to you Improv is Love, a poignant story about a man who vehemently […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming season of ABC’s comedy The Middle will also be its last. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show will end its run after nine years when season 9 wraps up next year. “We sat down with the cast at the end of last year,” executive producer Eileen Heisler said on the news. “It was […]
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