HBO just revealed the season 6 premiere date for Veep. The network announced today that the show, which was renewed last year, will debut its sixth season on Sunday, April 16th at 10:30pm. Read our review of Veep’s fifth season here and our interview with showrunner David Mandel here.
Continue ReadingAhead of Last Week Tonight’s return to HBO this weekend, Rolling Stone sat down with John Oliver for a lengthy interview about comedy’s role in the Trump era, balancing his TV job with his newer job as a parent, how he chooses topics for long Last Week Tonight segments, and more. Here’s Oliver on the […]
Continue ReadingBetter late than never, Funny or Die inspired a City Slickers reunion and recruited a few folks from Westworld for a parody mashup. Because, of course, City Slickers itself felt like a fantasy camp narrative — but FoD takes it a step further. Instead of Mitch (Billy Crystal) and Phil (Daniel Stern) as customers of […]
Continue ReadingBetter late than never, Funny or Die inspired a City Slickers reunion and recruited a few folks from Westworld for a parody mashup. Because, of course, City Slickers itself felt like a fantasy camp narrative — but FoD takes it a step further. Instead of Mitch (Billy Crystal) and Phil (Daniel Stern) as customers of […]
Continue ReadingSince October 2016, Chris Gethard has been performing his one-man show, Career Suicide Off-Broadway to rave reviews. Today HBO announced… MORE
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Chris Gethard’s hit off-Broadway show produced by Judd Apatow, Career Suicide, is getting the HBO treatment. The network announced today that Gethard will tape a performance of Career Suicide in New York this month that will be turned into an HBO comedy special set to air sometime in May. The show originally debuted back in […]
Continue ReadingFar from it, Chris Gethard’s powerful one-man show, “Career Suicide,” will give him his first HBO special because of it. HBO announced the news today. You can hear Chris Gethard tell me about his life and career on Episode #105 of my podcast, Last Things First. And you can read my review of his one-man […]
Continue ReadingMike Royce was a stand-up comedian and audience warm-up guy for The Maury Povich Show and Spin City before he broke through as a writer for the Sklar Brothers and their MTV series, Apartment 2F. He later helped his friend Ray Romano on a book and eventually his hit CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. Since […]
Continue ReadingHBO has confirmed the March debut dates for the comedy special Jerrod Carmichael: 8 and the second season of Animals.… MORE
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Real Time with Bill Maher kicks off its 15th season this Friday, January 20th at 10pm on HBO. Allowing Maher… MORE
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