The 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 ReadingHBO just revealed the premiere date for the second season of Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s Vice Principals. The network announced today that the show will return for season 2 on Sunday, September 17th at 10:30pm. Here’s the logline for the new season: The tumultuous school year at North Jackson High continues and a new […]
Continue ReadingHBO just revealed the premiere date for the second season of Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s Vice Principals. The network announced today that the show will return for season 2 on Sunday, September 17th at 10:30pm. Here’s the logline for the new season: The tumultuous school year at North Jackson High continues and a new […]
Continue ReadingSince (not entirely voluntarily) retiring from screenwriting, I wrote Funny: The Book / Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Comedy. When sales skyrocketed into double figures, a university invited me to a conference about ethics in standup comedy. But really, what kind of humorless, self-important asshole would go to something like that? I landed […]
Continue ReadingAs you probably have heard, Selina Meyer, as played to perfection by Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is gearing up for another presidential run. Her increasingly diminishing political legacy has been boosted, ironically, by the unending incompetence of her former White House Press Secretary Mike McClintock (Matt Walsh). This was just one of many revelations to […]
Continue ReadingCharacters that are such out of control embodiments of id like Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland don’t come along every day. In fact, if they did, you could bet that George and Gil would arrange for them to mysteriously end up in the East River. Even when characters that are this oddly memorable do come […]
Continue ReadingSeason 21 of South Park premieres on Comedy Central next month, and in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Trey Parker looked back on the show’s serialized 20th season and revealed that, in the next batch of episodes, the show will focus less on Trump and politics and more on the South Park […]
Continue ReadingSketch group Cannibal Milkshake may’ve cracked the fireworks conundrum for we critics of lights in the night sky. As a man who’s unimpressed with fireworks, Jeff Ayars gives us voiced-over insight into the secret, ‘grammable allure of these impossibly annoying colorful gunshots. I’ll never like fireworks, but, after hearing the disembodied voice of “F.W.” (fireworks) make some […]
Continue ReadingIf you think acting is a job for soft, pampered elites, you should know that actor Brian Sacca got sunburned on his eyeballs while shooting the TBS series Wrecked. Now in its second season, Wrecked is basically the comedy version of Lost. Sacca, best known for his web series Fact Checkers Unit and his role […]
Continue ReadingLast year it was announced that Katie Aselton, Toni Collette, Bridget Everett, and Molly Shannon signed on to star in an ensemble comedy together called Fun Mom Dinner, and the trailer for the film was recently released. Directed by Australian filmmaker Alethea Jones, the movie centers on “four moms whose only common ground is their […]
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