The future isn’t looking very bright for NBC’s streaming comedy site Seeso. According to Variety, NBCUniversal is laying off Seeso staff members a little over a month after it was revealed that Seeso head Evan Shapiro exited the company. While there are several shows slated to debut over the next couple months including Paul Reiser’s […]
Continue ReadingMariah Smith is a comedian, writer and producer in New York City. In 2015, Smith created Keeping Up With the Kontinuity Errors, a blog that tracks the continuity errors in Keeping Up With the Kardashians, using Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and common sense. KUWTKE can be seen most widely on seen New York magazine’s The Cut […]
Continue ReadingAs the host of a new late night show on Freeform, Iliza Shlesinger has been having a very successful 2017 so far, but this week the standup has come under fire for some comments she made about women in comedy. It all started with an interview with Shlesinger Deadline posted on Monday, in which she’s […]
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, the country was shocked by the events in Alexandria, Virginia, where a gunman targeted a congressional baseball practice. The event re-sparked our national debate about gun violence, and was yet another reminder of how prominent of an issue this is in America. As a response to the shooting, NBC pulled an episode of […]
Continue ReadingGeorge Saunders has a new half-hour comedy pilot in the works at Amazon, and the project just cast the leading role. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Glenn Close has signed on to star in Sea Oak, which was ordered to pilot back in March. Here’s the logline from THR’s report: Sea Oak revolves around Aunt Bernie […]
Continue Reading“In the world of standup comedy the half hour special creates opportunities that a comic has long dreamed about. It’s the gateway to the next level.” That’s how Kevin Hart introduces his new seven-episode Comedy Central series The Next Level, which features seven up-and-coming comedians who have all earned the Kevin Hart seal of approval. […]
Continue ReadingOne of the unexpected highlights of Jim Jefferies’s new Comedy Central series has been the ominous forecasts by the show’s official weatherman played by the one and only Brad Pitt. He’s appeared on the two episodes that have aired so far (watch his appearances here and here), and in case you were wondering how Jefferies managed to […]
Continue ReadingIf you happen to be in New York this weekend, The Daily Show has put together a free, special Trump-related event that you should check out. Titled “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library,” the simultaneously entertaining and horrifying commemoration of Trump tweets is located just around the corner […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump heads back to Queens to get in touch with his childhood roots. Along with Peter Grosz’s Mike Pence, Trump revisits his first childhood home (the “shithole”) and his second, bigger childhood home (the “pisshole”), reunites with an old friend, and hangs out at […]
Continue ReadingMore Bill Nye Saves the World is in the works at Netflix The streaming network has officially renewed Nye’s show for a second season today, just two months after it debuted in April. Nye announced the news online today: .@BillNye is coming back with even more ways to save the world. Season 2 coming soon. […]
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