Nathan Fielder made a quiet return to social media last weekend, playing an overly holistic pharmacist in a short Instagram video and simmering speculation that everyone’s favorite big hearted, form-bending reality show Nathan for You might return to Comedy Central sooner than later. A post shared by Nathan Fielder (@nathanfielder) on Mar 5, 2017 at […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, SNL cast member Pete Davidson revealed on Instagram that he’s been “kinda missing” from the show recently because he quit drugs, and that he’s now “happy and sober for the first time in 8 years.” During his appearance on Opie Radio yesterday, Davidson spoke a little more about his decision to quit […]
Continue ReadingThis week, David Letterman delivered a dispatch from the world of retirement in the form of a lengthy interview with New York magazine. In it he gave us a glimpse as to what he’s up to now, but he also told us what he’s not doing, and that’s catching up on his late night television. […]
Continue ReadingCeleste Yim is a Toronto-based comedian. You can find her @celestrogen everywhere and can find her work at celestrogen.com. She’s a Bob Curry fellow at The Second City, where she’ll be putting up a revue at the end of April, and will be performing in Toronto SketchFest tonight with her troupe, The Follies. This week, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert recaps the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan and the news that, in a surprisingly un-Trumplike move, Trump said he doesn’t want the plan to be called Trumpcare. “He just doesn’t want you to call it Trumpcare, and when it comes to whether you should call […]
Continue ReadingTaran Killam’s long in-the-works Showtime pilot is not moving forward at the network. According to Deadline, Showtime has decided not to move forward with the half-hour pilot Mating, which was ordered back in August. Written by Stu Zicherman, the pilot starred Taran Killam as “a freshly divorced guy who got married at a young age […]
Continue ReadingAs the ugliness of the Trump administration’s nationalism and hate has roared into office in the last six weeks, it’s drawn more than one comparison to the world’s worst dictatorships and their respective roads to power. And since then, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film, The Great Dictator. Given […]
Continue ReadingT.J. Miller’s new Comedy Central series just got a premiere date. The network announced today that Miller’s The Gorburger Show will premiere Sunday, April 9th at 10:00pm. Ordered to series earlier this year, the show stars Miller as the voice of “a giant blue extra-terrestrial who, after invading a Japanese television variety show and enslaving […]
Continue ReadingBaskets is sticking around at FX for another season. According to Variety, the network has officially renewed the series starring Zach Galifianakis for a third season, which will debut sometime in 2018. Created by Galifianakis, Louis C.K., and Jonathan Krisel, the show was ordered to series back in 2014 and wraps up its second season […]
Continue ReadingBaskets is sticking around at FX for another season. According to Variety, the network has officially renewed the series starring Zach Galifianakis for a third season, which will debut sometime in 2018. Created by Galifianakis, Louis C.K., and Jonathan Krisel, the show was ordered to series back in 2014 and wraps up its second season […]
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