HBO wants to turn the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog into a television series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original director Barry Levinson is attached to adapt Wag the Dog for TV in the form of a half-hour comedy for the network, which is described as “an ode to the classic film, but moving […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingJesse Eisenberg is developing his own TV comedy with some help from J.J. Abrams. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eisenberg is developing a single-cam comedy with Abrams’ production company Bad Robot, which he would write, star in, and direct. Titled The Market, the project centers on “a recently widowed man who moves to Pittsburgh to […]
Continue ReadingCommuter Barbie is social commentary of the most cut-and-dried kind. Creators and young professionals Carina Hsieh and Claudia Arisso took their experiences riding the New York City MTA and created a parody doll in the image of who they saw jockeying for standing room alongside them. It’s not layered, it’s not a critique. It’s a simple reflection […]
Continue ReadingPaul Reiser and David Steven Simon’s upcoming Seeso show There’s…Johnny! doesn’t debut on the streaming network until late August, but ahead of its Tribeca Film Festival premiere tonight, a teaser of the series was released today. Ordered to series last year, the show is set backstage at Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in 1972 and follows […]
Continue ReadingKamau Bell has spent a lifetime trying to figure out how he fits into the big picture of things. His new book, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, is (if you couldn’t guess […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Trump’s first 100 days in office and how he’s either backtracked or made a complete 180 on pretty much every issue and promise he promoted during his campaign, especially when it comes to issues he criticized Obama for like […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nightly Show head writer and performer Robin Thede is headed to BET for a new late night show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has ordered 24 episodes of a weekly late night show hosted by Thede and produced by Chris Rock called The Rundown, which Thede and Rock started developing last year. […]
Continue ReadingNew York-based standup Kate Willett — who made our “2016’s Best Late Night Standup Sets” list — is ready to release her first album. Titled Glass Gutter, the album was filmed at The Convent in San Francisco in December and follows Willett as she covers “millennial-friendly subjects like polyamory, hipsterism and bisexual dating.” Willett has […]
Continue ReadingJon Glaser’s show Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter is returning to Adult Swim next month. The half-hour comedy — which aired its debut season back in 2015 — will return to Adult Swim for season 2 on Monday, May 22nd at midnight and air each of its five episodes from Monday through Friday. For more on […]
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