Veteran comedian Dane Cook announced his upcoming Tell It Like It Is tour, his first national tour since 2013. The run will go from February 21, 2019 to November 16, 2019 ending at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. While he has been running sets all across Los Angeles in recent months, this year Cook will be taking his new hour to most major U.S. cities before it ends up
Continue ReadingPicking out the best gifts for your loved ones can feel like a never-ending maze of lofty price tags and vague memories of shoes they said they liked years ago. Of course, in concept, the best gifts are deeply personal—a weird lamp that made you think of your sister or a bear-shaped lighter that just screams Uncle Dan. But finding the inspiration for these intimate gifts is much harder than
Continue ReadingA Good Burger sequel is in the cards according to Kenan Thompson. He has even talked it over with his former co-star, Kel Mitchell, and they are both interested in doing the movie—they’re just waiting for the studios to greenlight it. The Saturday Night Live star talked about the sequel to the 21-year-old comedy classic on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. The topic of Good Burger arose when
Continue ReadingA Good Burger sequel is in the cards according to Kenan Thompson. He has even talked it over with his former co-star, Kel Mitchell, and they are both interested in doing the movie—they’re just waiting for the studios to greenlight it. The Saturday Night Live star talked about the sequel to the 21-year-old comedy classic on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. The topic of Good Burger arose when
Continue ReadingAnother period might begin for Natasha Leggero at CBS. Leggero is writing Ratchet with comedian Morgan Murphy. The multi-camera comedy centers on Jessica Ratchet, played by Leggero, who must start a new life and make new friends after her rich fiancé dies suddenly, leaving her to fend for herself. Leggero is poised to wrap her Comedy Central series Another Period in 2019. Ratchet gives her a chance to continue leading
Continue ReadingWe all know Jason Momoa is very hot. This week the Aquaman star hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. It’s surprisingly more difficult when the host is a hot man. Not because hot men aren’t funny, but because the show often leans too heavily on the fact that they are stone cold hunks for jokes. Sometimes these jokes work, sometimes they don’t. It hinges on the host’s likeability.
Continue ReadingToday would have been Sam Kinison’s 65th birthday. The comedy legend died in a drunk driving accident in 1992 at the tragically young age of 38. On his way to a sold-out show, his car was struck by a teenaged drunk driver. Kinison was a beloved comic known for his larger-than-life stage presence and primal yell. He would scream into the microphone and run around the stage with unmatched intensity.
Continue ReadingOnce Kevin Hart was announced as next year’s Academy Awards host, the internet dug up old homophobic tweets leading to a mess of controversy. Last night, the Get Hard star announced that he would be stepping down as this year’s Oscar host. Now the Academy is back to square one. Picking a host for the 2019 Oscars has been a difficult task. The Hollywood Reporter published a viral take on
Continue ReadingGrammy nominations were announced on Friday morning, including the contenders for Best Comedy Album. And there are plenty of big names up for the honor. Dave Chappelle, who won the 2018 Grammy in this category, is nominated for his album Equanimity & The Bird Revelation. He is up against the 2017 winner, Patton Oswalt, who is nominated for his album Annihilation. Oswalt jokingly tweeted Friday morning that he and his
Continue ReadingKevin Hart will not host the Oscars in 2019. The Night School star withdrew from the job mere days after being selected for the prestigious—but possibly least wanted—gig in all of Hollywood. Hart made the announcement on social media late Thursday night. The blockbuster comedian fell under intense scrutiny from the LGBTQ community after old tweets of his surfaced using homophobic slurs as well as more recent interviews addressing the
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