Here’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel chats with Marc Maron about how the world is definitely ending. “I like to hear people tell me ‘No it isn’t,’” Kimmel says. “But those people are getting harder to find, aren’t they?” Maron responds before talking with Kimmel about the idea of Kim […]
Continue ReadingAs a former comedy agent at UTA and WME, Priyanka represented numerous big-name writers and performers before leaving to start a TV production company with Jack Black. Now she writes and produces on her own, but she still encounters a tidal wave of comedy hopefuls looking for the advice, information, and pep talks that only […]
Continue ReadingJeffery Self is honest. Painfully, painfully honest. He livetweeted his breakup-inspired nervous breakdown in 2013. Then when his ex became the star of the Logo series Fire Island, he recapped the show for Vulture. “How often in your life do you get to watch a garbage reality TV show starring someone with whom you had […]
Continue ReadingKristin Chenoweth might be headed to ABC to star in a comedy as The Real Fairy Godmother. Deadline reports that the network has given a put-pilot commitment to the single-cam comedy, which would follow Chenoweth as “a self-absorbed ‘real housewife’ who learns that she’s descended from a secret order of Fairy Godmothers and has an […]
Continue ReadingIndependence Day: Resurgence writers Nicholas Wright and James A. Woods have teamed up with Mindy Project’s Ed Weeks for a new comedy in the works at Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has given a put-pilot commitment to a single-cam family comedy from the trio called Bastards. The show centers on “a philandering game […]
Continue ReadingSeth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are keeping busy with another TV project. Variety reports that the two are developing a single-cam comedy at ABC created by 50/50 writer Will Reiser, who wrote and executive produces alongside Rogen and Goldberg. Here’s the logline for the untitled series: The network has ordered a script with a penalty […]
Continue ReadingFor two decades, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster have proven to be one of the most consistently funny and hardworking teams in comedy. The pair performs their scripted phone calls each week on The Best Show and these segments remain as hilarious as they were when they started. The premise of each bit has Scharpling, […]
Continue ReadingLake Bell and New Girl creator Liz Meriwether have teamed up for a new comedy series at Fox. According to Deadline, the network has given a pilot production commitment to a single-cam comedy written by the duo called Bless This Mess, which follows “a newlywed couple — half of it played by Bell — that […]
Continue Reading“This is the happiest I’ve ever been for sure” is not something I hear a lot of comics say with confidence. But things are pretty peachy for New York-based comedian and Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Matt Goldich. At 37, Matt has settled into his place in the world as a nice, average, kind […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live has a habit of cutting some of Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett’s best ‘90s nostalgia-inspired pre-taped sketches. First there was the hilarious 2015 Family Matters-style sketch “Cool” featuring Ryan Gosling, and now it’s a cut sketch from Gal Gadot’s episode called “The Last Fry.” But this time around — and without giving anything […]
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