It might be a little jarring that the first voice you hear in Mike Birbiglia’s new Netflix special, Thank God For Jokes, isn’t Mike Birbiglia. Instead, a video recording of Jimmy Kimmel starts playing, addressing a crowd of celebrities that we can’t see. After the clip, Birbiglia walks out and officially opens the special. He […]
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Kate Berlant and John Early are unique characters in stand-up comedy, and yet you almost always see them together, whether it’s in each other’s half-hour specials for Netflix’s The Characters, in their joint project for Vimeo, 555, or on the bill together on shows from New York City to Los Angeles and stops in between. […]
Continue ReadingIn the history of cinema, few celebrities have ever been mocked so brutally over the course of a movie as poor Michael Bolton in Office Space. We find out that one of the low-level employees the movie focuses on shares a name with him, and ever since he became famous in the late ’80s, his […]
Continue ReadingTHEY’RE COMING: two never-seen Dave Chappelle stand-up specials – previously recorded hours from the performer’s “personal comedy vault” – will… MORE
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin return to Netflix this month with a new season of Grace and Frankie, and the streaming network just released the first trailer for season 3, which shows Grace and Frankie facing some bumps in the road starting their new business making vibrators for older women. Check out the trailer above, […]
Continue ReadingBack in November, Netflix ordered three standup specials from Dave Chappelle, and today the streaming network revealed the premiere date for the first two. In a teaser released today, Netflix announced that the two specials — which are never-before-seen hourlong specials from Chappelle’s “personal comedy vault” — will be available on Tuesday, March 21st. The […]
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This is the second time already in 2017 that I’ve had the chance to take another look at a comedian I saw onstage the year before in their Off-Broadway run of a show. First came Neal Brennan’s 3 Mics. And now comes Mike Birbiglia’s Thank God For Jokes on Netflix. For his filming at BAM […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Netflix ordered a new show from Jenji Kohan based on the ’80s female wrestling show GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling), and today the streaming network dropped the first teaser as well as the premiere date. Alison Brie stars in the series as Ruth Wilder, “an out-of-work actress who finds one last attempt to […]
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