One of Amazon’s new comedy pilots just became the first series to receive a double-season series order at the streaming network. According to Variety, Amazon has officially ordered two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. Ordered to pilot last summer, the show centers on Rachel Brosnahan as “a 1958 […]
Continue ReadingThe Stupendous Bee Woman. College student Sheila Sherwood is stung by a bee that had been exposed to mysterious rays of ultra-dimensional energy. Realizing that she now has incredible bee powers, she decides to devote her life to fighting crime as The Stupendous Bee Woman! Sadly, after stinging only one evildoer, she died immediately. Dutch Oven. Dutch […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. The 2015 cult mini-series The Complete Woman introduced listeners to self-help author Marabel May, a gently narcotized 1960s housewife who has the curious distinction of being the hero, anti-heroine and villain of her own story. As performed with the perfect […]
Continue ReadingT.J. Miller’s HBO standup special just got a premiere date. Originally announced last year, the special — titled T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous — will debut on the network Saturday, June 17th at 10:00pm. Meticulously Ridiculous was taped at the Paramount Theater in Denver and makes Miller’s first HBO special. In the meantime, you can catch […]
Continue ReadingAmazon just released the first trailer for Jill Soloway’s new show. Ordered to series back in September, I Love Dick is based on the 1997 novel by Chris Kraus and follows “a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their mutual obsession with an off-putting — but charismatic — professor named Dick. The story, set […]
Continue ReadingA little-known fact about improv is that a lot of it used to be accompanied by music, specifically a piano. One comedian who actually began the deviation from live music in improv was UCB co-founder Matt Besser, but as many things in life seem to do, those elements have come full circle. On his podcast […]
Continue ReadingTo celebrate the premiere of 2017, his new Netflix special, Louis C.K. returned to Saturday Night Live for his fourth hosting gig – and he’s such a natural on the SNL stage, it’s crazy to think it’s been under five years since his very first visit. As expected, the standup delivered an extended monologue full […]
Continue ReadingSince Donald Trump became POTUS, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has been attempting to sneak some facts into his daily news diet by running ads during his favorite shows featuring “The Catheter Cowboy,” and during last night’s show, Oliver revealed that this time, the show is hoping to run a new ad during The […]
Continue ReadingHassan S. Ali is a comedy writer, video maker, and creative technologist with over 15 million video views, 2 viral chatbots, and yet zero grandchildren to give his mother. He is the creative marketing director at The Onion and editor and founding member of Slackjaw, the largest humor publication on Medium. Recently he talked to me about […]
Continue ReadingIn January it was announced that Full Frontal host Samantha Bee was planning an alternative event to this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and today TBS released the first promo for the special. Titled the Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the special will air from DC’s Hinckley Hilton the same night as the regular […]
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