Around 2010, I worked at a coffee shop for a man who believed Andy Kaufman was still alive. It had been a generation since Kaufman’s apparent death, in 1984, from lung cancer. My old manager isn’t alone, either; Kaufman’s career onstage included comedy, songs, impersonations, wrestling, sitcom stardom, and elaborate pranks that still have audiences […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Wanda Sykes’s visit to last night’s Late Show, where she and Stephen Colbert chat about the Super Bowl and what she would do if she were on the Eagles and invited to the White House after winning the game: “Honestly, I would go. I would. I would go and I would […]
Continue ReadingA new documentary about Gilda Radner is on the way. According to Variety, the Tribeca Film Festival will open on April 18th with the premiere of a documentary about the original Saturday Night Live cast member called Love, Gilda. Here’s more info on the documentary, which has the backing of the Gilda Radner estate: The […]
Continue ReadingLast month, in its second round of layoffs in as many years, comedy hub Funny or Die reportedly eliminated its entire editorial team following a trend of comedy websites scaling back, shutting down, or restructuring their business model away from original online content. Hours after CEO Mike Farah delivered the news via an internal memo, […]
Continue ReadingLiz Meriwether is keeping super busy these days. According to The Wrap, Fox has ordered a pilot produced by the New Girl creator and Lake Bell called Bless this Mess. The single-cam show, which has been in development at Fox since last year, centers on “a newlywed couple that gives up their drab and unfulfilling […]
Continue ReadingLiz Meriwether is keeping super busy these days. According to The Wrap, Fox has ordered a pilot produced by the New Girl creator and Lake Bell called Bless this Mess. The single-cam show, which has been in development at Fox since last year, centers on “a newlywed couple that gives up their drab and unfulfilling […]
Continue ReadingYou know Jeff Hiller, or you recognize his face. His disapproving, glowering mug can be seen in every customer service position in every auteur sitcom of the past 15 years. Hiller has played a disapproving flight attendant on 30 Rock, a nude ghost in Ghost Town, and more waiters than you can shake a stick […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the Devin Nunes memo released by Republicans last week that Donald Trump claims exonerates him and Donald Trump Jr. says completely disproves the Russia investigation despite the memo doing neither and even confirming that the investigation began not with […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Chelsea Peretti’s visit to last night’s Conan, where she gets honest with O’Brien about the very specific way she’s benefitted from the #MeToo movement. “A weird thing that I’ve noticed is an uptick in people watching my one-hour special, and it feels like they’re searching for people who aren’t rapists to […]
Continue ReadingBack in 2016 it was announced that Maya Rudolph had signed on to star alongside Melissa McCarthy in Life of the Party, and today McCarthy debuted the trailer on Ellen DeGeneres’s show. Directed by Ben Falcone, the movie follows McCarthy as a woman who decides to return to college — the same college her daughter attends — […]
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