Adam Sandler Films Live Comedy Special for Netflix, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Next week @elreytheatre! pic.twitter.com/UolyPcrNWE — Adam Sandler (@AdamSandler) April 4, 2018 Adam Sandler filmed a comedy special in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, the first special of his own in over 20 years, which is set to debut on Netflix at some point in the future though no dates have been announced. The only thing we know […]

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Adam Sandler Films Live Comedy Special for Netflix, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Next week @elreytheatre! pic.twitter.com/UolyPcrNWE — Adam Sandler (@AdamSandler) April 4, 2018 Adam Sandler filmed a comedy special in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, the first special of his own in over 20 years, which is set to debut on Netflix at some point in the future though no dates have been announced. The only thing we know […]

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‘Phantom Bread’: So Dumb, So Fun

It seems too easy: a Phantom Thread parody about a baker called Phantom Bread. Know what? It is that easy. Written by and starring Anna Salinas and Heather Alarcón Higginbotham, and deftly mapped to the source trailer by Colin Pierce, this sketch is the thing we never knew we always knew we never needed…and, if you’re anything like me, […]

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‘Phantom Bread’: So Dumb, So Fun

It seems too easy: a Phantom Thread parody about a baker called Phantom Bread. Know what? It is that easy. Written by and starring Anna Salinas and Heather Alarcón Higginbotham, and deftly mapped to the source trailer by Colin Pierce, this sketch is the thing we never knew we always knew we never needed…and, if you’re anything like me, […]

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Mitzi Shore, Owner of The Comedy Store, Dies at 87

Mitzi Shore, c0-founder of The Comedy Store standup club in Hollywood, has died. Shore founded The Comedy Store in 1972 with her then-husband Sammy Shore, taking over full ownership in 1974 after their divorce, with such comedians as Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling, Jay Leno, Robin Williams and countless more having made appearance after appearance at Shore’s club. […]

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Timothy Olyphant Confronts Seth Meyers On Their Friendship

Timothy Olyphant could soon be filming a long-awaited Deadwood movie, and serious drama is where he’s most often found, but on Tuesday Olyphant was on Late Night stretching those comedy muscles even further while promoting a new season of Santa Clarita Diet. Olyphant couldn’t play serious for much of his interview, first asking Seth Meyers to […]

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T.J. Miller Charged with Calling In False Bomb Threat

Former Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller was arrested on Monday night and charged with calling in a false bomb threat, according to federal authorities. Miller was released on $100,000 bond on Tuesday after appearing before a U.S. District Judge and charged “with intentionally conveying to law enforcement false information about an explosive device on a […]

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Ron Funches Is Taping a Comedy Central Standup Special in June

Ron Funches is getting set to film a new special in June, as told to Splitsider, and there’s really only one “angle” to it that we know about so far: Funches will be donating all of his proceeds to charity. Funches’ first TV special, The Half Hour on Comedy Central, was ranked as the 11th-best […]

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Bruce Willis Is Getting the Comedy Central Roast Treatment

After years of roasting some celebrities who may have been seen as “easy targets” such as Charlie Sheen, David Hasselhoff, and Donald Trump, Comedy Central is continuing in its quest to aim their Comedy Central Roast at more mainstream figures. In their first roast since Rob Lowe in 2016, Comedy Central announced on Tuesday that […]

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Kevin Smith Standup Special Headed to Showtime

Kevin Smith nearly died of a heart attack in late February, just after finishing the first night of taping a new standup special, Kevin Smith: Silent But Deadly. Smith cancelled the second night of his show, went to the hospital, survived the heart attack, and on Monday it was announced that the special found a […]

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