Judd Apatow Will Make His Standup Special Debut on Netflix Later This Year

Netflix has added another standup special to its upcoming slate, and it’s a big one. Earlier this week, Judd Apatow revealed that he has a standup special in the works at the streaming network, which he will tape at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal on July 28th and 29th. The special doesn’t yet […]

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Revisiting ‘Very Bad Things,’ the ‘Rough Night’ of 1998

Lucia Aniello’s dark comedy Rough Night, which began life under the working title Move That Body, will face audiences and critics when it opens tomorrow. Despite the presence of Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon in the cast, the film may have a steep uphill climb ahead of it due to its grim central premise: A […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Chris Gethard Meets a Deaf ‘Beautiful/Anonymous’ Fan

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 […]

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Mel Gibson and John Lithgow Join Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell in the ‘Daddy’s Home 2’ Trailer

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg teamed up again last year for a sequel to the 2015 comedy Daddy’s Home, and today the trailer was released. In addition to Wahlberg and Ferrell, John Cena and Linda Cardellini reprise their roles for the sequel, which still has lots of daddies who are home but this time also has […]

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Here’s Your First Look at Season 4 of Amazon’s ‘Transparent’

Jill Soloway’s series Transparent is returning to Amazon for a fourth season, and the streaming network just released the first trailer. The show earned a season 4 renewal before season 3 premiered last year, and while the upcoming season doesn’t have a premiere date yet, according to today’s teaser trailer it’s “coming soon.” The teaser is […]

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Here’s Your First Look at Season 4 of Amazon’s ‘Transparent’

Jill Soloway’s series Transparent is returning to Amazon for a fourth season, and the streaming network just released the first trailer. The show earned a season 4 renewal before season 3 premiered last year, and while the upcoming season doesn’t have a premiere date yet, according to today’s teaser trailer it’s “coming soon.” The teaser is […]

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Talking Shit with the Sklar Brothers

The Sklar Brothers have been talking a lot of shit lately. Literally. The duo are the executive producers of a new documentary about bowel movements called Poop Talk, which debuts tonight at the Lower East Side Film Festival in New York. The film is an open and earnest look at, well, pooping, featuring a ton […]

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Talking Shit with the Sklar Brothers

The Sklar Brothers have been talking a lot of shit lately. Literally. The duo are the executive producers of a new documentary about bowel movements called Poop Talk, which debuts tonight at the Lower East Side Film Festival in New York. The film is an open and earnest look at, well, pooping, featuring a ton […]

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Samantha Bee’s Segment on Child Marriage in the US Will Make You Want to Throw Things

Here’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee highlights a young Girl Scout in New Hampshire who attempted to make child marriage in her state illegal, only for State Representative David Bates to dismiss her because she’s, you know, a little girl who should have no power to repeal laws in her […]

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Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel Return for More “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” on ‘Late Night’

Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel to deliver some punchlines he can’t get away with for a new segment of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” where they cover everything from lesbian bars to Flint, Michigan to menstrual cycle apps to the news that a […]

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