HBO’s animated comedy Animals just got another season. HBO announced today that it’s handed out a season 3 renewal to the show, which is co-created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano, was originally given a double-season series order back in 2015, and premiered its second season earlier this year. For more on the show, read […]
Continue ReadingAndy Samberg heads to HBO next month with his second mockumentary for the network. Following 2015’s tennis-themed 7 Days in Hell costarring Kit Harington, Samberg has written a new sports special with Matt Murray set in the world of professional cycling in the ‘80s called Tour de Pharmacy, and Maya Rudolph, Will Forte, Nathan Fielder, […]
Continue ReadingBack when I was a lad in the nineteen-hundred and eighties, standup showcase shows were on cable television 24 hours a day, and I watched every single one of them. They were all good to me and my insatiable appetite for standup, but the big ones were on HBO. I seldom had access to HBO, […]
Continue ReadingBack when I was a lad in the nineteen-hundred and eighties, standup showcase shows were on cable television 24 hours a day, and I watched every single one of them. They were all good to me and my insatiable appetite for standup, but the big ones were on HBO. I seldom had access to HBO, […]
Continue ReadingIn the opening minutes of his new HBO special, Chris Gethard regrets that he doesn’t have some inciting incident that he can blame for his lifelong depression. “I hate to say it,” he says, “but sometimes people just break.” Afterwards, he pauses for a moment, and you can almost hear people in the audience thinking […]
Continue ReadingI’d reviewed Chris Gethard’s one-man show, “Career Suicide,” more than a year ago while he was still performing it at his comedy home, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. Enjoyed it then, and perhaps even more now that Gethard had the time to workshop it across America, over at the Edinburgh Fringe, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver takes a closer look at the healthcare bill Congress passed last week despite the fact that none of them even read the bill and none of them even seem able to explain what’s in it. “I can explain that to you right now: […]
Continue ReadingWe are all familiar with the old adage that “we laugh to keep from crying.” But what’s wrong with a healthy dosage of both? You’ll experience plenty of laughter — as well as some cathartic tears — while watching Chris Gethard’s new HBO special Career Suicide, a hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show framed around his failed […]
Continue ReadingChris Gethard is about to make the biggest leap of his career and it’s with, “Career Suicide.” A one-man show… MORE
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Chris Gethard is about to make the biggest leap of his career and it’s with, “Career Suicide.” A one-man show… MORE
The Laugh Button Podcast #119: Chris Gethard talks about Career Suicide appeared first on The Laugh Button.
