Oh wow, Mr. Muybridge, what a coincidence running into you here! I don’t want to interrupt your dinner, but listen, I’ve got this great idea. Okay, right, great, picture this: We open on a grassy field in Palo Alto, right? Sun’s shining. Early June. There’s a horse. She’s running! Legs go up. They go down. […]
Continue ReadingAziz Ansari’s Netflix comedy Master of None returns for season 2 next week, and if you were planning on binging the season in one sitting, Vulture’s new interview with Ansari might convince you to go slow this time, because there’s no guarantee for a third season. Here are Ansari’s thoughts on the possibility of season […]
Continue ReadingLIGHTS UP on a team of scientists in lab coats who gather around taking notes of a single man who is swinging a baseball on a string held by another scientist TROY: Aha! I’m gon’ be the first nigga to hit a baseball into space! DOROTHY: Yes, and we’re going to do the math to […]
Continue ReadingCanadian series Baroness von Sketch Show is set to make its US debut this summer. IFC announced today that it’s acquired the all-female sketch comedy series and will air 13 episodes of season 1 and 2 in sometime in late summer. The half-hour show is written by and starring Meredith MacNeill, Carolyn Taylor, Aurora Browne, […]
Continue ReadingScott Rogowsky longs for a bygone era of comedy, when scouts for Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show (or Carson himself) would turn up at comedy clubs in search of the next great comedian, launching the careers of comics that included Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and David Letterman. Rogowsky has been hustling for over a decade in […]
Continue ReadingWhile Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj took on the Trump-free White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend, Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee hosted her own DC special, the Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, on Saturday too. Thanks to some help from the Full Frontal correspondents, Allison Janney, Jake Tapper, and a special guest appearance by Will […]
Continue ReadingTBS’s new comedy Wrecked just got a season 2 premiere date. The show, which debuted last June and earned a season 2 renewal a month after its premiere, will return to the network for its second season on Tuesday, June 20th at 10:00pm with two new back-to-back episodes. For more on the show, read our […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj took on the toughest gig in comedy by hosting this year’s Trump-free White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and like his performance at last year’s Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Minhaj did an excellent job roasting the press while also getting some jabs in about the Trump administration. […]
Continue ReadingThis week marks the 20-year anniversary of “The Puppy Episode,” the now-famous two-part episode of Ellen DeGeneres’ ABC sitcom where her character — and afterward, the real DeGeneres — decided to come out as gay publicly. To celebrate the occasion, today’s episode of DeGeneres’ talk show is dedicated to “The Puppy Episode,” and it’s a […]
Continue ReadingOfficially, the inspiration for the excellent new IFC comedy Brockmire is a Funny or Die sketch from 2010, but if you’re a Simpsons fan, you know the origins of the character trace back a little further than that. In “The Twisted World of Marge Simpson,” when Marge’s free pretzels are used to injure Mr. Burns […]
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