South Park getting into the escape room business

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…

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R.I.P. Tim Conway (1933-2019)

Tim 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…

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Sarah Tollemache on The Late Late Show with James Corden

Sarah 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…

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Episode #259: Rich Vos

Rich 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 …

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Stand Up and Pitch spotlight: “Myrtle and Willoughby”

Today 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…

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Stand Up and Pitch spotlight: “Myrtle and Willoughby”

Today 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…

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Megan Amram’s “An Emmy For Megan” returns for a second season of award trolling

Megan 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…

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“The Bob Ross Challenge”

Sometimes, 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 …

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“Live from WZRD” on VRV

VRV 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…

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NBC putting Kenan Thompson in primetime with The Kenan Show

Happy 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&#8217…

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