NBC just announced some casting news for two comedy pilots. According to Variety, Workaholics’s Anders Holm has signed on to star in an untitled pilot from Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy as a gym owner named Vince “with no ambition who lives with his younger brother Michael, a gorgeous idiot. Their simple life of women […]
Continue ReadingWhat innovations are there in television? Multi-camera filming, laugh tracks, color, the variety show, cable, reality TV, HD, digital filming, and a handful of other landmarks (including a few major ones I’m sure I’m forgetting) that have sprung up. The point is, in nearly 100 years of television we’ve seen that it’s not a form […]
Continue ReadingHave you checked out Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson’s hilarious new show Detroiters yet? If you haven’t, you’re not too late — only two episodes have aired so far, and they’re both available to view on the Comedy Central website. The network sent us a sneak peek today from next week’s episode, titled “Sam the […]
Continue ReadingMyq Kaplan’s brand new album No Kidding is out today on aspecialthing records. Recorded at Doc’s Lab in San Francisco, No Kidding expands on both Kaplan’s catalog and his performance style. His swift and layered delivery of punchlines and tags is still there, but fans will notice that those classic Kaplan skills are now being […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Archer creator Adam Reed revealed that season 8 would jump back in time to 1947, and now we have confirmation in the form of the first trailer released today. Titled Archer Dreamland, the new batch of noir-inspired episodes will mark Archer’s first season on FXX instead of FX, and it’s slated to debut […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah sends correspondent Jordan Klepper to Clifton, New Jersey to investigate the controversy surrounding a vote next week that would change a residential street name to Dick Street — a change that many residents aren’t exactly excited about. “This is not about dick jokes,” Trevor […]
Continue ReadingRekha Shankar is a comedy writer, performer, and video editor in Brooklyn. She improvises at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and writes for MTV News’s Decoded and Reductress. She has made videos for Clickhole and Funny or Die, and has worked on a pilot for comedian Hari Kondabolu. She also makes videos with the group […]
Continue ReadingWhen times are tough, few things on late night television are more comforting than when Late Late Show’s Reggie Watts hooks up with the guests to make some beautiful music. Back in September Watts and Donald Glover collaborated on a wonderful jam session together, and during last night’s show Watts took a few minutes to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at yesterday’s solo press conference by Donald Trump that was so “batshit crazy” that Meyers opens up the segment by shredding the “Closer Look” script his staff had ready for yesterday’s show. From making ridiculous comments about drugs, Russia, and […]
Continue ReadingLongtime Daily Show co-executive producer Tim Greenberg has a new show in the works at IFC. The network announced today that it’s given an 8-episode order to a comedy created, written, and produced by Greenberg called Living With Yourself with Jeff Blitz (The Office, Parks and Rec) attached to direct. The show was put into […]
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