French comedian Gad Elmaleh is heading to Netflix to star in his own series. According to Deadline, the streaming network has ordered a half-hour comedy series based on Elmaleh’s life called Huge in France. The eight-episode series follows Elmaleh “at an emotional crossroads” as he leaves a successful comedy career in France “and moves to […]
Continue ReadingTaylor Kay Phillips is a writer and comedian living in New York City. She contributes pieces to Reductress and writes for Night Late at UCB. She recently discovered both everything bagels and sparkling water and is kind of dealing with that right now. This week, Taylor talked to me about her issues with women’s magazines […]
Continue ReadingTiffany Haddish makes her Saturday Night Live hosting debut tomorrow night with musical guest Taylor Swift, and NBC released a round of promos this week to get you excited. As Haddish herself pointed out, she will make the first black woman comedian to host the show in its 40+ year history that wasn’t previously a cast […]
Continue ReadingTwo of the networks associated with Louis C.K. have responded to the allegations published by The New York Times yesterday. According to Entertainment Weekly, HBO announced that C.K. will no longer participate in its upcoming Night of Too Many Stars special, and the network is also removing all of C.K.’s past projects from its On […]
Continue ReadingAfter years of rumors, the day of reckoning has arrived for Louis C.K. and his alleged sexual misconduct against women in comedy. Following the news that C.K. had abruptly canceled the premiere of his movie I Love You, Daddy as well as his appearance on tonight’s Late Show, The New York Times just published a […]
Continue ReadingTBS has set the season 3 premiere date for Jason Jones and Samantha Bee’s The Detour. Deadline reports that the show, which was renewed back in April, will return for its third season on Tuesday, January 23rd at 10:30pm. Here’s the logline for the new season from Deadline’s report: Season 3 finds the Parkers on […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming season of Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair’s web series-turned-HBO show High Maintenance finally has a premiere date. HBO announced today that the 10-episode second season of the show debuts Friday, January 19th at 11:00pm. The show was renewed back in September 2016 not long after making its HBO debut. Read our review of the […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingLouis C.K. has abruptly canceled the premiere of his new film I Love You, Daddy as well as a scheduled appearance on tonight’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. According to The Hollywood Reporter, tonight’s New York premiere of C.K.’s film has been canceled due to “unexpected circumstances,” with sources telling THR that the decision comes […]
Continue ReadingBrian Regan heads to Netflix later this month with the first of his two Netflix standup specials, and the streaming network just released the trailer. Titled Nunchucks and Flamethrowers, the special was taped at The Paramount Theatre in Denver and follows Regan as he “reflects on his relationship with underwear elastic, rants about city council […]
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