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@Arianna_Durnell’s Target Audience Is “Absolutely No One” (But Follow Her Anyway!)

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Arianna Durnell (@arianna_durnell) is a New York-based comedian whose writing has been published on McSweeney’s, Reductress,Women In Comedy Festival Daily, and The Belladonna Comedy. Her sketch comedy has been featured on WhoHaha and Comedy Cake. She is currently performing and writing sketch comedy in the duo Bag of Rocks, which made Mogul’s list of comedians to look out for in 2018. This week, Durnell talked to […]

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Fox Cancels ‘The Mick,’ ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ and ‘The Last Man on Earth’

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It’s a comedy bloodbath over at Fox today, with cancellations going out to three comedies. First up is the cancellation of Will Forte’s The Last Man on Earth, which aired its season 4 finale just a few days ago. In addition, Fox has canceled The Mick and Brooklyn Nine-Nine after two and five seasons, respectively. […]

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Rachel Bloom on ‘WTF’

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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]

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Check Out the Trailer for Tig Notaro’s Netflix Standup Special ‘Happy to Be Here’

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Tig Notaro heads to Netflix later this month with her new standup special Happy to Be Here, and today the streaming network dropped the trailer. Taped at the Heights Theater in Houston, the special is also directed by Notaro and counts Ellen DeGeneres as an executive producer. Notaro tackles “the comedic sides of marriage, parenting and […]

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Samantha Bee’s Friendly Reminder to the Men Attempting a #MeToo Comeback: “You Have Not Yet Done Anything to Earn Our Forgiveness”

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During last night’s Full Frontal, Bee took some time to check in on the #MeToo movement now that multiple sexual assault allegations have surfaced against former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “Now, Schneiderman was a guest on my show so this is a little complicated for me to talk about, but, just kidding, it’s […]

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Michelle Wolf Joins Amber and Jenny for “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” on ‘Late Night’

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Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a brand new “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” covering everything from the Brooklyn Museum’s white curator of African art to lesbians in movies to black families homeschooling their kids. Later in the segment, Michelle Wolf joins […]

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‘Distance’: This Is Digital’s Next Step

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The web series is dead. Okay, okay, don’t freak out, let me clarify. As Facebook and YouTube algorithms steer us toward original content funded by…Facebook and YouTube, there’s less room in the ecosystem for indie creators to gain the kind of rags-to-riches virality that, in 2012 or 13, made the prospect of web series so […]

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NBC Renews ‘A.P. Bio’ and Adds Comedies from Mike Schur and Amy Poehler

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There’s a lot of comedy news happening at NBC this week. According to The Wrap, the network has given a season 2 renewal to freshman comedy A.P. Bio starring Glenn Howerton and handed out series orders to two new comedies – Abby’s from Mike Schur and I Feel Bad from Amy Poehler. Schur’s Abby’s has […]

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Joe Pera, Seth Meyers, and Gene the Cameraman Have a Chat on ‘Late Night’

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Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Joe Pera returns to chat with Seth Meyers about his new Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With You. “I know it’s not a good title, but Agents of SHIELD was already taken. Each episode kind of has its own title and subject matter. For instance, […]

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Andy Daly Crashes ’Conan’ as ‘80s Game Show Host Reed Newport

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It’s a tale as old as time: Man hosts ’80s game show, game show gets canceled, man wanders the Warner Brothers lot for decades after the cancellation, man crashes current late night shows, man will not be convinced his show no longer exists. That tale was told perfectly by Andy Daly during last night’s Conan, […]

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