Saturday Night Live returns from hiatus tomorrow night with a new episode featuring four-timer host Charles Barkley, and NBC released a round of promos this week to get you excited. Check out a promo featuring Barkley, Kate McKinnon, and musical guest Migos above, then watch another promo below, where Barkley begins his very intense SNL training […]
Continue ReadingClass is about to be in session with Judd Apatow at the helm. Apatow is the latest celebrity to sign on to teach his own MasterClass, which was announced today. Similar to Steve Martin’s comedy MasterClass, “Judd Apatow Teaches Comedy” will include 32 video lessons on “how to create hilarious storylines, write great stand-up, and direct comedies […]
Continue ReadingMichelle Wolf isn’t the only Daily Show correspondent to land her own weekly Netflix talk show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has also added a weekly talk show hosted by Hasan Minhaj, which is described as “an opportunity for the comedian to explore the modern cultural and political landscapes with depth and […]
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 ReadingBack in December, Ricky Gervais announced that he had a new standup special in the works at Netflix called Humanity, and today the streaming network released the trailer. The special was taped at the Apollo Hammersmith in London last year and features his takes on “aging, becoming spoiled, his perspective on having kids and more.” […]
Continue ReadingA month after revealing on Twitter that he’d been diagnosed with cancer and that his prognosis wasn’t a good one, comedian, activist, political satirist, and influential force and leader of the Boston comedy scene Barry Crimmins has died. Crimmins’s wife Helen, who is battling cancer herself, announced the news via Barry’s Twitter account that he […]
Continue ReadingTo promote the new season of his FX series Baskets, Zach Galifianakis stopped by last night’s Conan and had a great chat with O’Brien and Andy Richter about his kids, fame, embarrassing audition memories, and the time an NPR station he financially supported said they hoped his career was over. But before all that, Galifianakis […]
Continue ReadingIn 2014, comedian Mo Welch posted her first comic on her @momowelch Instagram handle. It featured a simply drawn depressive named Blair and read “Spirit Airlines is my ‘Nam’” Two years later, The Daily Dot wrote a piece on Mo, the traction her Blair comics were getting in the space, and–perhaps more importantly–the inspiration behind sitting down and drawing in […]
Continue ReadingSeason 9 of Archer now has a premiere date on FXX. The network announced today that the new season, titled Archer: Danger Island, is slated to debut Wednesday, April 25th at 10:00pm. Here’s more on what you can expect from the season via Deadline: This season of the animated spy comedy finds Sterling Archer (H. […]
Continue ReadingSeason 9 of Archer now has a premiere date on FXX. The network announced today that the new season, titled Archer: Danger Island, is slated to debut Wednesday, April 25th at 10:00pm. Here’s more on what you can expect from the season via Deadline: This season of the animated spy comedy finds Sterling Archer (H. […]
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