Chris Gethard has written a new book that’s hitting bookstores this fall. Titled Lose Well, it’s his second book following A Bad Idea I’m About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure, which was released in early 2012. Here’s the full description: A laugh-out-loud, kick-in-the-pants self-help narrative for anyone who […]
Continue ReadingMitra Jouhari, Sandy Honig, and Alyssa Stonoha AKA Three Busy Debras just landed a pilot order at Adult Swim. The network announced today that it’s ordered a half-hour live-action Three Busy Debras pilot, which Amy Poehler is executive producing alongside the creators and director Anna Dokoza. Here’s more from the press release: Adult Swim is […]
Continue ReadingJoe Pera heads to Adult Swim later this month with the premiere of his new series Joe Pera Talks With You, and this week a trailer dropped to get you excited – or more realistically, extremely relaxed. The 15-minute series is co-produced by Pera’s frequent collaborators Conner O’Malley and Jo Firestone and is slated to debut […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to Hell, nimrods. This is your last day as employees of the Cincinnati Zoo and your first day as global brand ambassadors of a 1,200-horsepower content generating machine best known for the absolute truckload of baby panda videos and giraffe GIFs it churns out on an hour-by-hour basis. Under my watch, we’re going to […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Even more than WTF, Paul Gilmartin’s wonderful, essential podcast Mental Illness Happy Hour goes deep with its interview subjects. After a really good episode of the podcast, you feel like you know the guest on a profound human level. You feel like […]
Continue ReadingNot long after Mitch Hurwitz teased that the new season of Arrested Development would drop on Netflix “real soon,” the streaming network has finally announced the premiere date. Renewed nearly a year ago, the show returns to Netflix for its fifth season on Tuesday, May 29th, just a few weeks after the re-edited version of season 4 debuted. Here’s the logline for […]
Continue ReadingIt’s officially festival season, the time of year where celebrities appear next to each other completely out of context. Do you need to see a picture of Shania Twain, Nicki Minaj, and Timothée Chalamet hanging out? I got you. This episode of SNL provided an equally surreal meet-up. During goodbyes, the first person Martin Short […]
Continue ReadingWendy Steiner is a Brooklyn-based Jewish-Japanese comic. While the Los Angeles suburbs raised her, living in San Francisco and New York really aged her. Her comedic style can be described as dry warmth, which would really make more sense if she was from Arizona. She’s a set-up-punchline kind of gal with a Berkeley-educated sense of […]
Continue ReadingThe idea of entertainment as an entity separate from the internet is one that is for the most part dead. Every movie must have social media tie-ins, every book a video trailer, every TV show a second screen experience. For just a moment, imagine a strange, distant land called “Cable TV in 2007” — a […]
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien has returned with a brand new installment of “Clueless Gamer,” and this time he’s teamed up with Bill Hader to check out the “testosterone-fueled fantasy” God of War. After a quick roasting session at Aaron Bleyaert’s expense, O’Brien and Hader get acquainted with the game and its plot, and Hader has some thoughts: […]
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