The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is an incredibly joyful show. Given, of course, that it takes place in 1958 and the protagonist’s husband leaves her and their two children on erev Yom Kippur. And given, of course, that when she starts to channel her rage and hurt into standup comedy, she’s repeatedly arrested for violating obscenity […]
Continue ReadingEden Sher has spent her entire adult life playing Sue Heck on The Middle. After stints on Weeds and the short-lived Sons & Daughters, Sher was cast in The Middle in 2009 when she was 17, and eight years later the show is nearing it’s series finale. What will she do next? It’s fair to […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this month. The Firesign Theatre started in the late ‘60s by four men, Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor, who has co-written a memoir with Brad Schrieber entitled Where’s My […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this month. The Firesign Theatre started in the late ‘60s by four men, Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor, who has co-written a memoir with Brad Schrieber entitled Where’s My […]
Continue ReadingSuper Deluxe has big plans for frequent collaborator Vic Berger. The studio/production company recently announced its slate of television projects in development, including a Tim and Eric-produced show surrounding Berger. No details on the potential series have been revealed yet, but assuming it’s similar to the Berger videos Super Deluxe has released since Trump became […]
Continue ReadingSuper Deluxe has big plans for frequent collaborator Vic Berger. The studio/production company recently announced its slate of television projects in development, including a Tim and Eric-produced show surrounding Berger. No details on the potential series have been revealed yet, but assuming it’s similar to the Berger videos Super Deluxe has released since Trump became […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Samantha Bee’s visit to last night’s Late Night, where she and Seth Meyers chat about how she wanted to be a late night comedian since she was six or seven years old (see “News for Goofs”), what her Canadian friends and family think of her as an American living during the Trump […]
Continue ReadingWhile Seth Meyers has signed on to host the 2018 Golden Globes next month, one of his Late Night writers/performers has landed an awards show hosting gig of her own. The Writers Guild of America announced today that Amber Ruffin will host next year’s WGA Awards ceremony in New York, which will take place in New York […]
Continue ReadingSheesh, am I ever glad you showed up! I’ve spent 22 years stuck here in this plastic purgatory, All the way down here at the bottom of the videotape bin in your parents’ basement. I was doing perfectly fine just being Bobby Brown until 1995, when my life-force was drained from my body and stored here, in this […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. How Did This Get Made hosts Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, and June Diane Raphael are super-popular bad movie podcasters but they’re also prolific writers, directors, and actors. Sometimes these jobs overlap, as when Scheer took a break from humorlessly dissecting the […]
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