The Big Sick’s Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon have a new project in the works at Apple. According to Deadline, Apple has put into development a half-hour anthology series called Little America. Written by Lee Eisenberg (The Office, SMILF), the series is described as “a small, collective portrait of America’s immigrants — and thereby […]
Continue ReadingGuy Branum has seen a lot and worn many different hats in his comedy career, which dates back to the early 2000s. He’s written for and appeared in shows for Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately, Mindy Kaling on The Mindy Project, and W. Kamau Bell on Totally Biased. Branum is also a standup, having released […]
Continue ReadingGuy Branum has seen a lot and worn many different hats in his comedy career, which dates back to the early 2000s. He’s written for and appeared in shows for Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately, Mindy Kaling on The Mindy Project, and W. Kamau Bell on Totally Biased. Branum is also a standup, having released […]
Continue ReadingBlack History Month has begun, so during last night’s The Opposition, Jordan Klepper welcomed Citizen Journalist Kobi Libii to check in on how Fox News, AKA “television’s home for Black History Month,” is handling things: “All across Fox News, they’re taking advantage of this month to really listen…to themselves telling black people how to act.” […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Amy Schumer signed on to star in a movie called I Feel Pretty, and during her visit to today’s Ellen DeGeneres Show she shared the first trailer. Written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein – who are also making their directorial debut — the film follows Schumer as “an ordinary woman who struggles with […]
Continue ReadingLast month, Netflix ordered 13 episodes of a new talk show hosted by Joel McHale, and now the series, titled The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, has its first trailer. The show will “take a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture as well as news around the world” and feature “celebrity guests, comedy sketches […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert chats with John Oliver about how Donald Trump wants a military parade (“I will say this: It won’t make him happy, and I think it’s important that he knows that”) plus Oliver’s thoughts on the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. “They’re […]
Continue ReadingEsther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo’s Freeform series Alone Together continues its debut season tonight, and the network gave us a sneak peek from the episode for you to check out early. Chris D’Elia guest stars in the episode as Benji’s brother Dean, who attempts to lose another girl’s interest in him by using Esther, who […]
Continue ReadingBridgid Ryan’s Boyfriend Rock is a well-produced music video with a perfect folk rock melody. That polish, though, is just preamble to the core genius of a small (literally and figuratively) core joke oriented at the center of a homograph that made me laugh out loud. Take a watch, and then double check the meaning of “homograph.” I […]
Continue ReadingAround 2010, I worked at a coffee shop for a man who believed Andy Kaufman was still alive. It had been a generation since Kaufman’s apparent death, in 1984, from lung cancer. My old manager isn’t alone, either; Kaufman’s career onstage included comedy, songs, impersonations, wrestling, sitcom stardom, and elaborate pranks that still have audiences […]
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