If you didn’t get a chance to see Neal Brennan’s live solo show 3 Mics last year, thanks to Netflix there’s now a way to find out what you missed out on. In the special, the Chappelle’s Show co-creator performs onstage alongside three different mics — one for one-liners, one for traditional standup, and one for […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live’s 2017 debut was, well, very 2017: lacking a strong lead and generally underwhelming, but with a few shining moments. (Kind of like how so far, this year is already pretty grim, but at least Raekwon just announced a new album. Or am I stretching a comparison here?) Felicity Jones, heroine of the […]
Continue ReadingLong story short: I spent a lot of time this fall babysitting for two small boys on the Upper East Side, ages one-and-a-half and three, both named after Lord of the Rings characters by a father who had a lot of Jimmy Buffett books on his shelf and may go see the Jimmy Buffett musical […]
Continue ReadingI generally try not to timestamp these articles, because who knows? Someday somebody’s going to be searching for information about Woody Allen’s lost short film and the last thing they’re going to want is a bunch of references to Chewbacca Mom in there. However, since America’s interactions with Russia are under such scrutiny right now, […]
Continue ReadingDewayne Perkins a Chicago-based comedian and writer. He’s an alumni of the Second City, where he just finished writing and performing Black Side of the Moon at Woolly Mammoth in D.C. He also hosts a web series called “I Guess I’ll Watch It,” where he reviews movies his white friends always talk about but he’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 ReadingThe UCB 4 — Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, and Ian Roberts — have returned for a second season of the hosting The UCB Show, a comedy variety show featuring the best sketch, characters, and standup from UCB’s NY and LA theatres. Eight all-new episodes dropped today on Seeso, so to get you prepped […]
Continue ReadingThis month Criterion released His Girl Friday on Blu-ray and DVD — which for many film buffs is long overdue — and offers a chance to revisit this classic film. More than 70 years after it was made, the film, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, holds up in a way that a lot of […]
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