Andy Daly’s Review kicks off its third and final season on Comedy Central next week, and today the network debuted the first trailer. Here’s what Daly told Variety about season 3: Having survived the harrowing yet hysterical events of the end of Season Two — when Forrest and his evil producer Grant (James Urbaniak) fell […]
Continue ReadingAndy Daly’s Review kicks off its third and final season on Comedy Central next week, and today the network debuted the first trailer. Here’s what Daly told Variety about season 3: Having survived the harrowing yet hysterical events of the end of Season Two — when Forrest and his evil producer Grant (James Urbaniak) fell […]
Continue ReadingIt 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 […]
Continue ReadingSince Saturday Night Live’s last episode, a lot has happened – Oscar drama, Russia drama, Obama drama – so it was anyone’s guess how they’d address it all, in a season that seems to get more political each week. This episode was, thankfully, Trump-free, but that didn’t stop it from getting some major digs in, […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central just revealed the premiere date for the third and final season of Andy Daly’s Review. The network announced today that Daly’s Forrest MacNeil will return for his last batch of reviews on Thursday, March 16th at 10:00pm. Last year, Daly and Comedy Central reached a “joint decision” to end the show after the […]
Continue ReadingLast week, Melissa McCarthy unexpectedly sieged the SNL stage with a studied and savage take on Sean Spicer that seems to have reignited everyone’s passion for the show. McCarthy’s frenzied Spicer was, as expected, immediately critiqued by Don and his friends (Spicer called it “mean,” so I guess he doesn’t check his @replies too much). […]
Continue ReadingFinally, with an episode that’s “like, so gay, dude” and that doesn’t fucking care, and that features one of the most lovingly crafted and executed cameos in the show’s history, Saturday Night Live has found its best current self. Political parody is — shocker!! — super hard to pull off at all, let alone week […]
Continue ReadingA longtime improviser, groundbreaking sketch comedy writer, skilled standup, and award-winning actor, Aziz Ansari would have to try real hard not to shine on Saturday Night Live. And in his first hosting gig, he did not disappoint (despite getting stuck in a couple of sketches that might have tanked with a less adept leader). Since […]
Continue ReadingYou’ve probably never heard of Please Like Me, the Australian series created by and starring comedian Josh Thomas, but trust me: this is a show that deserves your attention. It’s not surprising that the series hasn’t been on many people’s radar; the first three seasons aired on Pivot, a relatively unknown network (which is now […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live’s 2017 debut was, well, very 2017: lacking a strong lead and generally underwhelming, but with a few shining moments. (Kind of like how so far, this year is already pretty grim, but at least Raekwon just announced a new album. Or am I stretching a comparison here?) Felicity Jones, heroine of the […]
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