James Franco returns to Saturday Night Live tomorrow night for his fourth hosting stint, and NBC released a round of promos today to get you excited featuring Franco alongside Kate McKinnon and musical guest SZA. Check out another promo below, and catch the rest when the episode airs on NBC tomorrow night. SNL will close […]
Continue ReadingAdam Rotstein is a comedy writer who lives in Los Angeles. He spent two years living in Brooklyn and was legally obligated to move to Los Angeles after that lease was up. He’s written a couple of pilots that he “accidentally” leaves behind at high-end coffee shops in Silver Lake. He also regularly contributes to […]
Continue ReadingThere have been a lot of public apologies recently from men whose history of sexual harassment and assault have finally come to light, so during last night’s Late Night, Seth Meyers welcomed writer Amber Ruffin to share the lessons she’s learned from them. After surprising Meyers with a swift punch to the face, Ruffin gets […]
Continue ReadingTrump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski just released a book that reveals a fact about Trump that probably isn’t the best thing to process in the morning: Not only does our current president eat McDonald’s food regularly, but his go-to meal order – two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and a chocolate milkshake — consists […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re interested in some high-quality film reviews of some of this year’s Oscar contenders, look no further than this clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert returns as YouTube movie reviewer Gil Peaches to break down some of the year’s hottest films alongside his “pretentious cousin” Phil Peaches played by John Hodgman. The […]
Continue ReadingHere’ a clip from Patton Oswalt’s appearance on last night’s Conan, where he and O’Brien talk about the very misguided idea that Donald Trump is “great for comedy” and how the speed at which Trump creates ridiculously terrible news actually makes comedy a lot more difficult. “Imagine there’s a guy out on the sidewalk, and […]
Continue ReadingWorkaholics alum Blake Anderson has teamed up with David Hornsby (How to Be a Gentleman, It’s Always Sunny) for a new TV project at CBS. According to Deadline, Anderson and Hornsby are developing an untitled single-cam comedy for the network that stars Hornsby as a “high-strung father” who “must deal with a new family dynamic […]
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 ReadingThe Writers Guild of America announced its list of 2018 WGA Award nominees today, which includes returning series like Nathan for You, Silicon Valley, and Veep as well as new series like GLOW, The President Show, and Netflix’s mockumentary series American Vandal. Nathan for You earned noms in both the Variety Sketch and Variety Special […]
Continue ReadingThe Stella shorts, which were filmed as companion pieces to their NYC live show and later collected on the rare Stella Shorts 1998-2002 DVD, are legendarily funny. They’re constant bit factories, firing jokes like a minigun. The shorts will upend their own narratives at a moment’s notice for the sake of a single throwaway riff. […]
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