It’s that time of year again: Amazon pilot season. The streaming service is once again letting you play Network Executive and decide which of their new pilots become series. You watch the pilots, then take a brief survey. Using this data, Amazon will decide which of their new shows get orders for more episodes. This […]
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 ReadingComedy fans the world over might know Sasheer Zamata for her improvisational prowess and sketch comedy work, but with the premiere of her very first standup special, Pizza Mind (streaming on Seeso now), they’re about to get familiar with her as an intimate yet searing standup. The 30-year-old UCB alumni and current SNL utility player […]
Continue ReadingOne of Jimmy Fallon’s longtime collaborators at Late Night and The Tonight Show is moving on. Last night, Vulture broke the news that Tonight Show head writer A.D. Miles, who has been working on Fallon’s late night shows since 2009, will “leave the show within the next few weeks.” Miles reportedly had been planning his […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Full Frontal ran a fantastic segment on the enormous rape kit backlog in the US and two lawmakers in Georgia who blocked a unanimous vote to stop the kits from being destroyed, and during last night’s show, Bee presented an animated followup to the story that’s a whole lot less devastating and frustrating. […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Full Frontal ran a fantastic segment on the enormous rape kit backlog in the US and two lawmakers in Georgia who blocked a unanimous vote to stop the kits from being destroyed, and during last night’s show, Bee presented an animated followup to the story that’s a whole lot less devastating and frustrating. […]
Continue ReadingSilicon Valley returns to HBO next month for its fourth season, and today the network released the trailer, which has everything from mansplaining to Haley Joel Osment to Richard and Jared starting what is apparently a criminal operation “whose only real product is large-scale fraud.” The new season debuts Sunday, April 23rd at 10:00pm. For […]
Continue ReadingOn top of being a confirmed Christmas tree expert and the most relaxing TV show host in recent memory, Joe Pera is also a master of the art of delivering weird, wonderful, and always unpredictable late night standup sets. That was the case again during his appearance on last night’s Conan, where Pera covered love, […]
Continue ReadingOne problem with comedy writers is: we’re part of the Hollywood machine. We eat and sleep the “entertainment industry,” because it’s our job to do so, no different than a heart surgeon who thinks a lot about heart surgery (okay, it’s a little different). The upshot of that is we tend to want to write what […]
Continue ReadingThe Tonight Show ride at Universal Studios officially opens next week, and to mark the occasion, Fallon will be joined by his predecessor for an interview. People reports that former Tonight Show host Jay Leno will appear on next Thursday’s episode during a week of shows taped from Universal Studios in Orlando, the same day […]
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