Carol Burnett’s new Netflix show A Little Help with Carol Burnett is premiering all 12 half-hour episodes on May 4, the network announced on Monday. The show will be co-hosted by standup comic and actor Russell Peters. As seen in the announcement trailer, A Little Help will feature Burnett and her celebrity guests being joined […]
Continue ReadingCrazy Ex-Girlfriend showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna is set to take on another project with the announcement of Arranged, a pilot she has co-created with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend writer Sono Patel, getting picked up by Pop TV. Patel will serve as a writer and executive producer, while Brosh McKenna will be directing the pilot about “two best […]
Continue ReadingDonald Glover will host Saturday Night Live on May 5, the show announced on Saturday. Glover will also be the musical guest, under his alias Childish Gambino, making him the 12th person to perform double-duty on SNL, joining Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Drake, Blake […]
Continue ReadingKevin James: you know him, you love him, but you’ve never seen him like this. Never Don’t Give Up, premiering April 24. pic.twitter.com/1PYYlJqliG — Netflix Is A Joke (@NetflixIsAJoke) April 13, 2018 Kevin James’ first standup comedy special in 17 years is premiering on April 24, according to a tweet and trailer from Netflix released […]
Continue ReadingComedian Ali Wong’s first Netflix special Baby Cobra, which was filmed when she was seventh months pregnant with her first child, was released on Mother’s Day in 2016. Her second Netflix special, Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife, is coming out exactly two years later to the holiday, getting a release date of May 13, which is […]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday night’s episode of The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, Kobi Libii went to Washington, D.C. to confront Alex Jones, the InfoWars founder who was holding a press conference in the nation’s capital. Jones and his InfoWars colleagues are facing numerous lawsuits for defamation because of accusations that certain massacres were staged and/or had “crisis actors” […]
Continue ReadingCaitlin Kunkel is a comedy writer and satirist who lives in Brooklyn. She created and teaches the Online Satire program for The Second City and is a co-founder of the comedy and satire site for female writers, The Belladonna. Her first satirical book, New Erotica for Feminists, comes out in November. This week, Kunkel talked […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming fifth season of Broad City, set to begin airing in early 2019, will be the show’s final season according to Deadline. On the bright side, creators and stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson have also signed a development deal with Comedy Central, giving the network a first look on all content created and/or […]
Continue ReadingThe cast of SCTV is reuniting on May 13 in Toronto for An Afternoon with SCTV, a live special in front of a studio audience, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Netflix has ordered a documentary about the sketch comedy troupe that will center around the reunion special and be directed by Martin Scorsese, according to The […]
Continue ReadingZach Woods went on Conan on Wednesday to promote the fifth season of Silicon Valley. One trait of his character that is revealed in a past episode is that he screams in his sleep in German, an idea that Woods says may have come from his own life. He explains that in college a roommate told him that he […]
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