If you don’t remember The John Larroquette Show, it debuted on NBC in the fall of 1993. It’s never been released on DVD and isn’t available to stream. Which is too bad, because the first season of the show is brilliant. Larroquette starred as John Hemingway, who we meet at an AA meeting. He’s been […]
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 ReadingThe 2017 Emmy nominations were announced today, and they’re full of new and returning comedy series. Saturday Night Live earned the most comedy nominations, with noms going out to cast members (Vanessa Bayer, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon), hosts (Dave Chappelle, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kristen Wiig, Tom Hanks), frequent guests (Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy), and the writing […]
Continue ReadingAndrea Savage (Veep, Episodes, Dog Bites Man) created and stars in I’m Sorry, a new half-hour comedy on truTV. Tired of being offered boring, distressed, sexless mom roles, Savage set out to write a character she’d be proud to play on a show she’d love to work on. I’m Sorry follows the “seemingly confident, together […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with fellow late night host John Oliver about getting sued by coal company CEO Bob Murray for a Last Week Tonight segment he did on him – a lawsuit he’s been advised not to comment on, though Colbert does his best to get […]
Continue ReadingSeason 2 of Issa Rae’s HBO comedy Insecure premieres later this month, and if you need to catch up but aren’t an HBO subscriber, the network has an easy, free way for you to get your fix. Deadline reports that HBO will make all eight episodes of Insecure’s first season available for free on YouTube and […]
Continue ReadingAsian AF, an enormously popular variety show in LA featuring exclusively Asian-American performers, has yet to see a single empty seat. Will Choi and Keiko Agena have hosted sold-out show after sold-out show, featuring guests like Margaret Cho, Sheng Wang, Kulap Vilaysack, Suzy Nakamura, Amy Hill, Lewis Tan, Lilan Bowden, and Eugene Cordero. On June […]
Continue ReadingToday, Splitsider has the dubious honor of premiering the third and most recent episode of Modern Aliens: A Documentary Periodical, written and directed by Jordan Jaffe and a harbinger of worldwide doom. Utilizing a clever method of packaging comedy and news in a way that’s not just a desk piece (no disrespect to all the very solid desk pieces happening out there), Jaffe […]
Continue ReadingDecades before writing The Comedians, a deep dive into the history of American comedy, Kliph Nesteroff was a young standup working out his set in small town Canada. Nesteroff revisits the plight of current amateur comedians as the host of Funny How?, a new Viceland series premiering this week. Nesteroff shadows rookie comics from all […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah breaks down Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to release his emails about his meeting with a Russian lawyer in an effort to appear transparent – an effort that’s backfired and instead possibly incriminated him, considering the emails show proof of Trump Jr.’s desire to collude […]
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