Last year, Adult Swim aired a golf special starring comedic actors Jon Daly and Adam Scott playing roles as their golf-world namesakes: John Daly and Adam Scott. Daly has been particularly interested in catching the attention of his golf alter-ego, going so far as to create JonDalyIsJohnDaly.com and creating an entire photo series of himself […]
Continue ReadingIf you ask Tony Hinchcliffe how things are going he’ll likely sum it up this way: “It’s a wild time to be a comedian doing real standup and podcasting at the same time.” The album version of his One Shot special recently dropped, he’s currently just a few nights into his headlining run with the […]
Continue ReadingDavid Wain is a true believer in the idea that limitations are the mother of invention. That was certainly true of Wet Hot American Summer, Wain’s feature directorial debut, in which it rained nearly every day and featured a cast and crew who were also movie first-timers for the most part. Though Wet Hot got […]
Continue ReadingFor her screenwriting debut, Julie Rudd set out to write a comedy that connected with moms like herself. The result, Fun Mom Dinner, follows four women (Katie Aselton, Toni Collette, Bridget Everett, and Molly Shannon) as they cut loose and develop real friendships on a wild night out on the town. Over drinks, drugs, and […]
Continue ReadingFor her screenwriting debut, Julie Rudd set out to write a comedy that connected with moms like herself. The result, Fun Mom Dinner, follows four women (Katie Aselton, Toni Collette, Bridget Everett, and Molly Shannon) as they cut loose and develop real friendships on a wild night out on the town. Over drinks, drugs, and […]
Continue ReadingThe perpetually adolescent campers of Camp Firewood are experiencing a ten-year reunion this week in Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, but they’re not the only ones with ten-year anniversaries on their mind. Yesterday marked a decade since David Wain’s The Ten hit theaters, featuring a cast that doesn’t look all that different […]
Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, @midnight host Chris Hardwick announced that the show would be ending its run tonight after airing its 600th episode. Since its inception in 2013, @midnight has won folks over with its style of having of having comedians take each other on in rapid-fire games centered on whatever wacky stories were making the rounds […]
Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, @midnight host Chris Hardwick announced that the show would be ending its run tonight after airing its 600th episode. Since its inception in 2013, @midnight has won folks over with its style of having of having comedians take each other on in rapid-fire games centered on whatever wacky stories were making the rounds […]
Continue ReadingThe observation “Wow, everyone has a Netflix special these days!” has already become hack. Netflix has been inching its way toward becoming a full-blown standup monopoly, putting out 25 specials last year and promising to release a new one every week in 2017. With those numbers, odds are that you the reader will probably have […]
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 […]
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