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Modern Family writers sell Happy Accident pilot to ABC

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The team behind Modern Family is bringing a new dysfunctional family to ABC with their new pilot Happy Accident. Abraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack are both writer-producers for ABC’s smash hit Modern Family and have received a pilot order from the alphabet network. Happy Accident will revolve around two Pittsburgh families who are forced to live together after a family secret is revealed. While no one has been cast yet, the

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Seth Rogen pickle movie rounds out cast with familiar faces

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Seth Rogen is almost finished with his yet-to-be-named Pickle film and recently announced the addition of several cast members, including Molly Evensen, Broad City’s Eliot Glazer, Kalen Allen, Kevin O’Rourke, and Succession’s Sarah Snook. Simon Rich wrote the screenplay, based on his own New Yorker novella Sell Out. The film opens in 1918 when Herschel Greenbaum falls into a vat of pickles. He’s brined for 100 years, but the good

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That’s so Lena Dunham: Everything we learned from The Cut’s 7,000-word profile on the Camping creator

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Lena Dunham is trending. It’s the sentence that launches 1,000 news articles at least twice a year. This time, Dunham is back not for being accused of killing a pet or commenting on her ex’s Instagram. This time New York Magazine’s The Cut published an in-depth profile of the Girls creator. In the over 7,000-word article, called “‘Yeah, I’m Not for Everyone,’ Dunham comes to terms with herself. Allison P.

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13 comedians’ surprising first roles

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Even the biggest comedy stars have to start somewhere. Local commercials, made-for-TV movies (before “special television events” were a thing), and brief character arcs on shows can be important first steps in long careers. Especially local commercials. Thankfully for major celebrities, those credits don’t appear on IMDB. We had to do a little digging. From the silly to the surprising, Laughspin is rounding up a list of our favorite first

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Why those Hallmark Christmas movies are accidental comedic gold

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Some of the best comedy out there is created on accident, and few movie genres prove this theory more than those comforting yet corny Hallmark Christmas movies. You don’t even have to watch A Boyfriend For Christmas to know there’s a scene where Santa earnestly tells an adult man named Ryan (the titular boyfriend) to live in the moment and let love in. The movie itself centers around a woman

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Ellen DeGeneres leads Netflix’s December comedies

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Netflix dropped a teaser for what’s coming to the streaming giant this December. The teaser includes everything from drama to documentary, but we are here to break down what comedies are dropping next month and what you should be excited for! Must-See Netflix Originals Dumplin’ Just watch this trailer. It is dripping in delicious camp. Plus Jennifer Aniston as a Southern beauty queen is so good that we have December

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Life Sucks resurrects early 2000s nostalgia in first two episodes. Watch it here! (Exclusive)

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Be the first to watch Life Sucks, a new show from sketch group Dinner for One. The first 2 episodes of the hilarious new sitcom are available to stream exclusively on Laughspin.com. All six episodes will be released one per week every Wednesday on their YouTube page and featured on the Funny or Die community page, with the final two episodes releasing on December 19. Life Sucks follows a group

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Life Sucks resurrects early 2000s nostalgia in first two episodes. Watch it here! (Exclusive)

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Be the first to watch Life Sucks, a new show from sketch group Dinner for One. The first 2 episodes of the hilarious new sitcom are available to stream exclusively on Laughspin.com. All six episodes will be released one per week every Wednesday on their YouTube page and featured on the Funny or Die community page, with the final two episodes releasing on December 19. Life Sucks follows a group

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Southern California wildfires halt comedy productions

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Comedies Drunk History and Instant Family have both been impacted by the recent Southern California wildfires. The fires temporarily shut down production on the Comedy Central series. Five films have canceled red carpet events over the past month, including the Coen brothers’ Netflix anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Paramount also opted to cancel the red carpet premiere and the after-party for the Mark Wahlberg-Rose Byrne comedy Instant Family. The screening

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Adam Sandler movie marathon kicks off Comedy Central special programming

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December is one of those months where you’re always playing something pleasant in the background. Comedy Central hopes to get us over the hump to 2019 with a full month of special programming you can always leave on while you wrap presents, pack for that vacation, or hide away from the family with that basement tube TV that may or may not still work. The 31 Days of Holiday Survival

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