Frequent comedy collaborators Steve Martin and Martin Short have teamed up for a special at Netflix. On Twitter today (and after some technical hiccups), Steve Martin revealed that the two, who have been touring together in recent months, have taped a special for the streaming network, release date TBD. The special was taped at the […]
Continue ReadingIf at first you don’t recognize Jay R. Ferguson by name, you may still instantly recall him by his beard. For many it was during his days at Stan Rizzo on Mad Men — the free-spirited art director at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce who was often joined at the hip with Peggy Olson in late […]
Continue ReadingNetflix just dropped the first full trailer for the fourth movie from Adam Sandler’s original four-movie deal with Netflix. Titled The Week Of, the movie was co-written and directed by Robert Smigel and stars Sandler as a “middle class father determined to pay for his daughter’s wedding despite the prodding of the wealthier father of […]
Continue ReadingTo promote her new book about her late brother Harris Wittels — titled Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss — Stephanie Wittels Wachs stopped by last night’s Late Night and chatted with Seth Meyers about her brother’s life, career, talent, tweets, addiction, death, and why she decided […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mulaney and Nick Kroll were guests on last night’s Conan, and if the clip above is any indication, they definitely haven’t changed at all. Of course, there are just a few exceptions to that – Mulaney now has two kids named Bowie and Seeso (“Did I liquidate Seeso’s college fund to buy Charles Manson’s […]
Continue ReadingDear Nightclub Booker, Hi. I’m Dugan Rathbone, guitarist and lead vocalist for Doctor Sad Man’s Sad Time Jam Band, the nation’s only winter blues band. That’s right, our quartet makes your favorite blues tunes even bluer thanks to our debilitating case of seasonal affective disorder. We’re now accepting bookings for our Endless Winter national tour. […]
Continue ReadingJane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is starring in a romantic comedy in the works at Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rodriguez has signed on to star in a movie at the streaming network called Someone Great, which will make the directorial debut of Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Sweet/Vicious). The movie, which is slated to […]
Continue ReadingMany kids grow up with dreams of having careers in entertainment, but few will ever realize those ambitions, and the number who get to do so alongside the same friends they romanticized “Hollywood” with as adolescents is difficult to imagine. For Matt Porter, Max Azulay, and Phil Primason, childhood and high school friends, they could […]
Continue ReadingMore Corporate on the way. Comedy Central just announced that it’s handed out a season 2 renewal to Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, and Pat Bishop’s new comedy, which debuted its first season last month and currently airs Wednesday nights at 10:00pm. The season 1 finale is set to air on March 14th. “We’re absolutely thrilled […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements’ prickly cult podcast Hollywood Handbook is as restless as it is brilliant and consistently funny. The podcast has introduced scores of features and running jokes that it abandons when it grows tired of them, like the […]
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