Last month it was announced that Chris Smith’s Man on the Moon documentary, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – The Story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton, had found a home on Netflix, and today the streaming network released the trailer. The documentary screened […]
Continue ReadingThanks to the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the women who decided to go public with sexual harassment, assault, and rape allegations against him, there’s been a snowball effect, thanks in part to the #MeToo hashtag, of more and more women – both famous and non-famous – coming forward with sexual misconduct experiences of their own. It’s […]
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 ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn, where Kimmel catches up with his friend Howard Stern in a nearly 20-minute chat that covers everything from Kimmel’s interview with David Letterman, the time Stern tried to win over Kimmel’s 2-year-old daughter, how his radio show has evolved over the years, his porn-watching habits, […]
Continue ReadingMindy Kaling is staying very busy in the TV development world these days. According to Variety, NBC has put two comedy series in development executive produced by Kaling and her Mindy Project collaborators. First up is an untitled series from Mindy Project writer, director, and co-executive producer Lang Fisher that centers on “the dedicated diplomats […]
Continue ReadingThe Dana Carvey Show now has its very own documentary, and thanks to Hulu you can check it out this weekend. Titled Too Funny to Fail, the documentary features Carvey and former Carvey Show cast members/writers Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel, Steve Carell, Louis C.K., Charlie Kaufman, Jon Glaser, and more in a look back at […]
Continue ReadingLast month, Jerrod Carmichael signed a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop and produce new TV projects, and his first project for the network was announced today. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carmichael and his fellow Carmichael Show executive producer Mike Scully are behind a multi-cam comedy in development at Fox […]
Continue ReadingJoel Kim Booster is the prince of unusual beginnings. As a baby, he was adopted by white, conservative, religious Midwesterners, an experience he sums up this way: “As you can imagine, it was a little weird growing up in the Midwest with this face and that family. I literally knew I was gay before I […]
Continue ReadingMaria Bamford is here to make another dark week here in the US a little brighter, because Netflix just dropped the season 2 trailer for her show Lady Dynamite, which was renewed last year not long after season 1 debuted. The trailer features Bamford alongside a pile of funny people like Ana Gasteyer, Judd Apatow, […]
Continue ReadingFreeform’s upcoming comedy produced by The Lonely Island has earned a season 2 renewal before season 1 even has a chance to premiere. The network announced today that it’s greenlit a second season of the show, which was ordered to series last year and is set to premiere on Wednesday, January 10th. The half-hour single-cam comedy centers […]
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