In case you missed it, here’s a wonderful clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham look back on St. Clair’s breast cancer battle throughout 2016, which she not only publicly opened up about last month but incorporated into the upcoming season of Playing House premiering next week. And […]
Continue ReadingIf you read a site like Splitsider, chances are you also read—and/or have submitted your original work to—McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the online arm of Dave Eggers’ McSweeney’s Publishing. It’s been posting “daily humor almost every day” since 1998. It’s a big moment in the career of a comedian or writer, famous or not famous, when […]
Continue ReadingA web series about two teachers at a fancy New York middle school? Sure. Sounds like a web series. Frank & Lamar is that. It’s on IFC’s digital incubator, Comedy Crib, and features actors from the UCB community and is the right length for a web series, and appears on the web. Yes. All boxes checked. […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a while since we last heard from Conner O’Malley’s Trump superfan character Mark Seevers from TruthHunters, but thankfully, the wait was worth it. So worth it that O’Malley just released a half-hour TV pilot he made with Joe Pera called TruthHunters.com, which was sadly not given a series order. In the pilot, we learn how […]
Continue ReadingNetflix’s new ensemble comedy from Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco just got its first full trailer. Ordered to series last August, the half-hour comedy Friends from College stars Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Fred Savage, and Jae Suh Park as as “a group of friends who attended Harvard together and are now […]
Continue ReadingIn the last ten years Jim Jefferies has been making a slow shift from booze-fueled raunch to slightly-more-sober social commentary. The shift became undeniable in Jefferies’ 2014 special Bare, which featured his 15-minute bit on gun control, a bit that continues to pop back into circulation every time a mass shooting occurs. Next came Freedumb, […]
Continue ReadingDuring last week’s Jim Jefferies Show premiere, Brad Pitt made a surprise appearance as the show’s very own weatherman to deliver a pretty grim forecast. Pitt returned during last night’s episode to offer up the latest look at the weather in what I hope is going to be a recurring weekly segment we can all […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with Eddie Izzard about his decades of performing standup in over 40 countries around the world in four different languages – an experience that’s left him with a unique view of the role of comedy in different countries. “Comedy exists all around the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with Eddie Izzard about his decades of performing standup in over 40 countries around the world in four different languages – an experience that’s left him with a unique view of the role of comedy in different countries. “Comedy exists all around the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers chats with SNL’s Kate McKinnon about her favorite member of the Trump administration to impersonate, who also happens to be the guy who testified yesterday: Jeff Sessions. McKinnon even reenacts some of yesterday’s hearing in character as Sessions, including his response to James Comey’s […]
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