George Saunders’s new novel is headed to the big screen with some help from Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. According to Deadline, Mullally and Offerman have acquired movie rights to the new Civil War-set bestselling novel from Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo, which was released last month along with a 166-person voice cast audiobook. Saunders […]
Continue ReadingCurrent HBO star Issa Rae and soon-to-be HBO star Bill Hader are hitting the big screen together. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rae and Hader will star together in an upcoming film called Empress of Serenity. Written and directed by Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the film centers on Hader as […]
Continue ReadingJeff Garlin has written and directed a mystery movie headed to Netflix this May. Titled Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie, the film stars Garlin as LA homicide detective Gene Handsome, “who tries to make sense of his life as he solves crime. Handsome’s knack for solving mysteries is matched only by his inability to make […]
Continue Reading“We’re the last philosophers. Everybody now that talks is reading from a pre-approved script. Even our alleged smart people are corporately controlled. So there’s only one group of people that can kinda say what they want to say: Stand-ups.” So says Chris Rock, in the opening moments of the new documentary Dying Laughing, which premiered in […]
Continue ReadingThe Last Laugh opens with a quote onscreen from the noted non-comedian, German novelist Heinrich Mann, who wrote: “Whoever has cried enough, laughs.” Mann fled Nazi Germany while Hitler’s soldiers burned his books in public. The documentary then cuts to a Nazi-uniformed figure skater, then to present day. Yes, this is going to be about Jews […]
Continue ReadingAfter Henry Phillips released his semi-autobiographical movie, Punching the Clown, in 2010, Showtime expressed interest in developing a companion series. That series never came to fruition. But the awkwardness of that failure inspired Phillips and Gregori Viens to co-write and direct a sequel. Originally titled And Punching the Clown when it premiered a year ago […]
Continue ReadingBaron Vaughn, the comedian and actor you’ve seen on Grace and Frankie and soon will hear on the reboot of MST3K (and heard on Episode #81 of Last Things First), grew up without a father. In the new documentary, Fatherless, Vaughn decided to find out more about his father. And even perhaps find his father to […]
Continue ReadingYou probably know what your absolute favorite movie is – but do you have a single favorite line from it?… MORE
Aisha Tyler, Adam Pally, Brett Gelman, and Jon Daly talk about their favorite films in “The Lines We Love” web series appeared first on The Laugh Button.
As the ugliness of the Trump administration’s nationalism and hate has roared into office in the last six weeks, it’s drawn more than one comparison to the world’s worst dictatorships and their respective roads to power. And since then, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film, The Great Dictator. Given […]
Continue ReadingFinally!! Our first look at upcoming lady-led comedy, Rough Night, is here – and it’s just as amazing as we… MORE
Ilana Glazer, Jillian Bell, Kate McKinnon, Scarlett Johannson and Zoe Kravitz are having a “Rough Night” in this new trailer appeared first on The Laugh Button.
