Comedy Central’s Clusterfest returns to San Francisco this year, and today the lineup for the 3-day event was announced. Headliners for the festival include Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, Trevor Noah, and The Lonely Island, and the lineup includes a ton of comedians, podcasts, musicians, and other special events, including: Tiffany Haddish, Jim Jefferies, Third Eye […]
Continue ReadingWhen faced with the loss of her father, comedian Laurie Kilmartin was confronted with an additional challenge: how to make a topic as well-tread as death funny and original. “It’s like trying to do a joke about airplane food.” She started with her moving 2016 comedy special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad. But even […]
Continue ReadingTiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy are starring in a movie together. Variety reports that the two will star in a drama from New Line and DC called The Kitchen, which is based on Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle’s 2014 comic book series. The movie will follow “a group of Irish mobsters sent to prison. Their […]
Continue ReadingNetflix just revealed a big surprise it has in store for Valentine’s Day. The streaming network will debut a brand new standup special from Chris Rock tomorrow called Chris Rock: Tamborine. Directed by Bo Burnham, the special was taped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and marks Rock’s first standup special in […]
Continue ReadingThe Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. might get his own Comedy Central series. According to Deadline, the network is developing a half-hour comedy from Wood called Re-Established, in which he would star as “a parole officer willing to bend the rules to help the parolees on his watch, much to the chagrin of his partner […]
Continue ReadingHey Sandra, Just wanted to say I can’t wait for our blind date this Friday! I’ll see you 7 o’ clock sharp at Maguire’s Pub. Since you don’t know what I look like, I’ll be holding a red rose so you can identify me. Here are some other ways you can identify me. If the […]
Continue ReadingThe first satirical portrayal of Hitler on film was in 1940, when Moe Howard lampooned Hitler in the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy! Later that year, Charlie Chaplin played Adenoid Hynkel in his classic The Great Dictator. At the end of The Great Dictator, Chaplin’s Jewish barber-masquerading-as-Hynkel directly addresses the nation and the movie […]
Continue ReadingShowtime’s comedy pilot Ball Street is rounding out its cast. The network announced today that Casey Wilson, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, Kurt Braunohler, and Eugene Cordero have joined the cast of the half-hour pilot, which was ordered back in September. Produced and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and co-created by David Caspe and […]
Continue ReadingAfter working on Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Michelle Wolf is now getting a late night show of her own. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has added a weekly late night series hosted by Wolf described as “a break from the seriousness of late-night comedy.” Dan Powell […]
Continue ReadingLess than a month after his trip to Haiti, Conan O’Brien is already filming another remote special for his TBS show. O’Brien announced earlier today that he’s in Italy this week to tape the next Conan Without Borders special, and he’s brought a very special guest along for the ride: Jordan Schlansky. Ciao! I just […]
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