There’s no escaping South Park. Or is there? The Comedy Central animated fixture, closing in on 22 years on the air, opens its first-ever escape room today in Chicago. Actually Oakbrook. South Park‘s South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room will a…
Continue ReadingTim Conway, simply one of the funniest individuals to perform on television, has died after a long illness. Conway was 85. Born in 1933 outside of Cleveland, Thomas Daniel “Tim” Conway began his career as a radio disc jockey at Bowling Gree…
Continue ReadingSarah Tollemache is married (to comedian Joe List, even), and though they don’t have children or pets yet, Tollemache jokes that having avocados at home does provide a similar experience to parenting. In this performance on The Late Late Show, To…
Continue ReadingRich Vos might not have expected to make it to 60 the way he was living his 20s, addicted to alcohol and crack cocaine. But Vos made it out, and celebrated 33 years clean and sober in 2019. Along the way, he became the first white comic to perform on …
Continue ReadingToday is the final deadline to submit your short-form and long-form series ideas to Just For Laughs for festival’s annual “Stand Up & Pitch” contests in Montreal. So let’s take a look at one of last year’s winners: Myr…
Continue ReadingToday is the final deadline to submit your short-form and long-form series ideas to Just For Laughs for festival’s annual “Stand Up & Pitch” contests in Montreal. So let’s take a look at one of last year’s winners: Myr…
Continue ReadingMegan Amram, writer for The Good Place (and before that, Parks and Recreation), almost pulled off an incredible feat last year, getting nominated for two Emmy Awards by writing and starring in a webseries which she only wrote and starred in for the pur…
Continue ReadingSometimes, we all could use the serenity that the late Bob Ross offered with his PBS painting show, The Joy of Painting. Ross died in 1995. But his spirit and his TV episodes live on, inspiring all of us to paint happy little clouds and trees. You may …
Continue ReadingVRV has made a name for itself as a streaming service built on anime, partnerships with niche networks such as Rooster Teeth and Shudder, and outcasts from the late, great Seeso. Now comes Live from WZRD, a webseries that manages to offer a little some…
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday to Kenan Thompson! Thompson, 41 today and the longest-tenured cast member ever on Saturday Night Live, will add a primetime sitcom to his resume. NBC has ordered The Kenan Show. He began his TV career as a teenager with Nickelodeon’…
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