Woody Allen had a four-picture deal with Amazon Studios. But after releasing two movies through Amazon (Cafe Society, Wonder Wheel) and a TV series that got panned, combined with renewed allegations against Allen by his children, Allen has found himsel…
Continue ReadingErin Foley’s first big show business credit wasn’t performing comedy, but rather playing a Rolling Stone magazine fact checker in the Cameron Crowe movie about his teen years, Almost Famous. So let’s get to the facts. Foley has performed on Conan, Arse…
Continue ReadingChloé Hilliard was 6-foot-1 by the age of 12, so elementary school was rough, but pizza day made things easier, as she explained in her stand-up performance on Friday’s Tonight Show. Hilliard also joked about switching careers in adulthood and me…
Continue ReadingJanine Brito, a correspondent/writer on W. Kamau Bell’s former late-night talk show Totally Biased, totally returned to late-night TV on Thursday to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers. She jokes about trying to survive the Trump years, but it…
Continue ReadingThe Emmy-winning Funny or Die web series officially is going big-screen, via Netflix. Directed by Scott Aukerman, Between Two Ferns: The Movie will follow star Zach Galifianakis out of his makeshift talk-show studio and into the rest of the world. Why?…
Continue ReadingAmber Nash (“Pam Poovey”) and Lucky Yates (“Algernop Krieger”) will not only co-star in the upcoming 10th season of Archer on FXX, but also will talk about in three new chat shows airing after episodes this summer on Facebook Li…
Continue ReadingAndy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone grew up in the East Bay when the Oakland A’s ran the American League in the late 1980s. In a brand-new surprise Netflix special, The Lonely Island has dropped a half-hour collection of music videos a…
Continue ReadingThe first Netflix special for Wanda Sykes also is the first for any black woman in stand-up, which jeepers creepers, should not be considered normal for 2019. And yet. Here we are. Onscreen, Sykes has found a lengthy and lucrative career as the audienc…
Continue ReadingWhat weird, wacky stuff. Then, and now. In 1969 and 2019. The star that ties it all together still? Lily Tomlin! Laugh-In landed right in the middle of the zeitgeist, finding the seam between the broad strokes of The Carol Burnett Show and the scandalo…
Continue ReadingJosh Gondelman remains an optimist in New York City, which makes more sense when he tells you about his career before comedy as a pre-school teacher. Gondelman fills you in on his positive vibe in this performance on Tuesday night’s Late Late Sho…
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