You stupid fucking idiot. I can’t believe you just burned through your tenth free article this month and thought that we wouldn’t notice. We’re the goddamn Washington Post. You must be some kind of fell-off-the-back-of-the-turnip-truck-yesterday moron to think that we were going to keep giving this stuff away for free. We knew exactly what […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. For pretty much any other podcast, having an annual “Best Of” that lasts longer than two and a half hours would seem incredibly self-indulgent. For Comedy Bang Bang, however, a two and a half hour-long “Best Of” represents nothing more than […]
Continue ReadingAziz Ansari has responded to an anonymous account published on the website Babe over the weekend, in which a woman who went on a date with him in September 2017 accuses the Master of None star and Modern Romance author of sexual misconduct. The anonymous woman, identified by Babe as “Grace,” describes the late September […]
Continue ReadingSince Sam Rockwell was announced as the first SNL host of 2018, I’ve been stoked. I’ve been a rabid Sam Rockwell fan since he danced to Pharoahe Monch in Charlie’s Angels. Then danced again in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. I can’t remember if he danced in Moon, but it was a very good movie. […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Hulu announced the premiere date for the fourth and final season of Casual, and the wait is a long one. The series, which was renewed back in October, will return for its 8-episode final season on July 31st. Casual was one of Hulu’s first original series when it debuted back in 2015 […]
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien has revealed the location of his next remote special for TBS. On Twitter yesterday, O’Brien announced that his next Conan Without Borders special will take him to a country that’s been a big news headline lately thanks to Trump’s recent racist “shithole” comments: Still reeling from @realDonaldTrump’s very negative Yelp review of Haiti, […]
Continue ReadingMaria Bamford’s Netflix comedy will not return for another season. According to Variety, the streaming network is not moving forward with Lady Dynamite, which debuted in May 2016 and premiered its second season back in November. Bamford tweeted out the below message after the cancellation was reported over the weekend: A GREAT RUN! Thank you […]
Continue ReadingIFC just announced a round of comedy news. First up is a season 3 renewal for Dana Gould’s series Stan Against Evil starring John C. McGinley and Janet Varney, which aired its 8-episode second season in November. Season 3 will premiere on IFC sometime in the fall. For more on the series, read our interview […]
Continue ReadingEver since Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he was planning to hand out the “Most Dishonest & Corrupt Media Awards of the Year” (or as Stephen Colbert calls them, “The Fakies”), late night hosts have been fighting to prove why their show most deserves recognition for fake news excellence. And the race between The Late Show […]
Continue ReadingAndy Richter is professionally nice. He got his start playing sweetest dad in the game Mike Brady in The Real Live Brady Bunch and just got more convivial from there. From 1993-2007, and then from 2009 to today, Richter has been softening the edges of Conan O’Brien—first on Late Night, then the ill-fated Tonight Show […]
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