Bryan Cranston has a new comedy headed to Amazon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has given a six-episode series order to a comedy created by Cranston and Greg Mottola called The Dangerous Book for Boys. The half-hour comedy was originally in development at NBC back in 2014 and is based on the […]
Continue ReadingAuthor Mike Sacks is reviving a lost genre with his new book Stinker Lets Loose! Sacks, who has penned five popular comedy books, including two interview collections (2009’s And Here’s the Kicker and the 2014 New York Times bestseller Poking a Dead Frog) is now reminding readers about the forgotten, halcyon, beer-infused days of truck […]
Continue ReadingAn eye-wateringly explicit new stage show celebrates erotic correspondence sent by famous figures through the ages
“I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter.” He might be celebrated for his epic and allusive novels, but James Joyce came straight to the point when writing to his partner, Nora Barnacle. This was the opening salvo of a letter from 1908 and is just one of scores of explicit missives he sent her.
A new stage show is celebrating such letters of desire sent by famous figures through the centuries, whether explicit or coded, erotic or romantic. Theatre-maker Rachel Mars is curating a selection to be read aloud in the performance which is part of the Hotbed “festival of sex” at Camden People’s theatre in London. These will be interspersed with anonymised modern messages: texts, tweets and dating app sexts.
Continue ReadingKamau Bell has spent a lifetime trying to figure out how he fits into the big picture of things. His new book, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, is (if you couldn’t guess […]
Continue ReadingIf trying to catch up on 800+ episodes of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast seems like too much of a hill to climb, or you just want to fast-forward to the best parts and look at them whenever you want, then you’re in luck. Maron announced he’s excerpting dialogues with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Kevin Hart, […]
Continue ReadingMarc Maron has written a book rounding up some of his most memorable WTF interviews, and it now has a release date. Maron announced today that the book, titled Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast, will hit bookstores on October 10th, and it’s currently available for pre-order at Amazon. Maron wrote […]
Continue ReadingJudd Apatow has a new book in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apatow is writing a sequel to his 2015 book Sick in the Head called Sicker in the Head. Like the first book, the sequel will be a collection of Apatow’s interviews with comedians and feature Norman Lear, Kevin Hart, and Whitney Cummings. […]
Continue ReadingAlex Firer has written for The Onion, The Onion News Network, Paste Magazine, Cafe.com and can be seen every fourth Wednesday at the UCB in LA on his Maude Team, The Audacity. He’s fine and his head hurts. Kenny Keil is a writer and artist who has worked for MAD Magazine, Vibe Magazine, and Mass Appeal. […]
Continue ReadingThe comedian tells us why Francis Crick, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking are the butt of his jokes in his new book and radio series
When I meet Robert Newman, he is wearing a homemade brain scanner on his head. He had it built as a prop for his most recent show about neuroscience. Newman is a writer and comedian who had a hugely successful career as part of a duo with David Baddiel in the 1990s and has since been doing his lecture-cum-standup style of high-brow comedy. His previous topics have included the history of oil, the war on terror and evolution.
Off stage, Newman is the only comedian to have been cited in the science journal Nature and he has written about neuroscience and robotics for Philosophy Now. He’s here to talk about his new book, Neuropolis, and its accompanying BBC Radio 4 programme, in which he guns for an unlikely bunch of targets – neuroscience writers – for having, he says, a reductionist view of the world.
It’s like there’s a competition among science writers – who can say the most horrible thing about humanity
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Continue ReadingStephen Colbert is turning one of his regular Late Show segments into a book. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Colbert has signed on to write a book based on the “Midnight Confessions” segment for Simon & Schuster, which will be available in print and audio form on September 5th. The book will include Colbert’s “favorite […]
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