What a night for Melissa Villaseñor! After a season and a half of 1-2 lines every episode, she was featured in five sketches this weekend and closed out the show with a banger Nickelback rendition. I think the episode needed her more reserved stage presence to counterbalance Sterling K. (Kathleen) Brown’s theatricality. Brown brought a […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central has a brand new web series that shows a working night for an NYC comedian, and the first three episodes debut right here. Titled Thank You, Goodnight, the part-scripted, part-standup showcase-style series follows Yamaneika Saunders, Joel Kim Booster, and Casey James Salengo, who bring up-and-coming standups Alzo Slade, Shalewa Sharpe, and Ryan Beck, respectively, along for […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central has a brand new web series that shows a working night for an NYC comedian, and the first three episodes debut right here. Titled Thank You, Goodnight, the part-scripted, part-standup showcase-style series follows Yamaneika Saunders, Joel Kim Booster, and Casey James Salengo, who bring up-and-coming standups Alzo Slade, Shalewa Sharpe, and Ryan Beck, respectively, along for […]
Continue ReadingIt was perhaps overambitious to call a TV show Love. Like a show co-creator Lesley Arfin’s prior gig, Girls, the title suggests a universality that the content can’t satisfy. Love, which concludes its run with its third season (now streaming on Netflix), concerns a man and a woman (Gus and Mickey) who meet and fall […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a big news week for Wyatt Cenac. First, HBO revealed the premiere date for his new series Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, and today the network dropped the first trailer. Ordered to series back in October 2017, the 10-episode docu-series is produced by John Oliver and will feature both remote field pieces and in-studio commentary, […]
Continue ReadingLorelei Ramirez is an artist, comedian, performer, filmmaker, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She hosts a monthly variety show called NOT DEAD YET at C’mon Everybody every third Sunday of the month, and an experimental sketch comedy show called SLOOP JUMBLY. You can see her in The Cry of Mann on Adult Swim and Viceland, and live in […]
Continue ReadingRemember in late January when Norm Macdonald revealed on Reddit that he was in negotiations with Netflix to host a talk show, then he took to Twitter after his announcement got picked up by news sites to say we “misunderstood” him? Well, there was no misunderstanding, because Netflix and Macdonald just confirmed that the streaming […]
Continue ReadingJB Smoove stopped by last night’s Conan, where he took some time to pitch some of his many great TV show ideas to O’Brien. Among those ideas is a self-explanatory reality show called Living Under a Baby Pool, a late night show where the guests interview Smoove called Let’s Not Make This About Me, and […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a brand new edition of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.” The two crack jokes at all the recent news stories that Meyers can’t touch, including lesbian softball coaches and Olympic athletes, Stacey Dash running for Congress, […]
Continue ReadingShowtime’s half-hour animated Trump series Our Cartoon President isn’t leaving TV anytime soon. The network announced today that it’s ordered seven additional episodes of the Stephen Colbert-produced show, which will air sometime this summer. The series premiered on Showtime last month and wraps up its original 10-episode run on Sunday, April 8th at 8:00pm. So far, reviews […]
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