Episode #314: Adam Conover

Adam Conover is a comedian and writer best known for the truTV series Adam Ruins Everything, which  he created and hosted from 2015-2019. Conover’s comedy career began while still a student at Bard College, where he was part of the sketch comedy group,…

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Borat Returns! Amazon Prime Video Snags Sacha Baron Cohen Film For 2020 Release

The rumors weren’t rumors. Sacha Baron Cohen really was filming scenes for a new Borat movie this year during the pandemic. Amazon Studios has acquired the finished feature film, with plans to premiere it in late October on Amazon Prime worldwide…

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Montreal’s Virtual JFL 2020 Festival Announces Additional Headliners, Panels

With just 10 days to go before the postponed Just For Laughs debuts its first virtual comedy confab, the folks at JFL have announced some additional headliner events, dialogues and panels. The virtual JFL (Oct. 9-10, 2020) plans to offer multiple oppor…

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Sam Jay Scores HBO Weekly Talk Show

Sam Jay is getting her own late-night talk show! HBO announced a series order for a weekly half-hour talker from Jay, a Saturday Night Live writer who just released her debut stand-up special on Netflix. The untitled series will debut in 2021 on HBO, a…

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Dave Chappelle’s Summer Comedy Camp Shut Down Early Due To Possible CoVID-19 Case

Dave Chappelle’s hometown comedy and music series, which resulted in at least one YouTube Netflix half-hour special (8:46) in June, and attracted all sorts of A-listers to Yellow Springs, Ohio, over the summer, was forced to shut down operations …

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Here Are Your New Faces of Comedy (Creators) for Just For Laughs 2020

Everything’s different about 2020, and that includes the annual New Faces of Comedy hullaballoo out of Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. This year, with the fest postponed from July to October and going online only, JFL isn’t prese…

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UCB4 Issues Update on How They’ll Try to Do Better By Students, Minority Performers

The Upright Citizens Brigade theaters in New York City and Los Angeles remain closed since the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down in March. But the UCB4 — co-founders Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh — issued an upda…

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Seth Meyers Gets Half-Hour Primetime Special for ‘A Closer Look’ at Election 2020

Late Night with Seth Meyers moves into primetime for a half-hour this October with a special called Closer Look Thursday. It’ll air Oct. 8 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, live from Studio 8G inside 30 Rock. Per NBC: “Closer Look Thursday will dissect t…

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Netflix releases All-Star Comedy Video to Help Comedy Gives Back: ‘Hey, Remember Comedy?’

Netflix got Neal Brennan to put together a 20-minute parade of comedy all-stars shouting out comedy (the video is titled, “Hey, Remember Comedy?”) to jumpstart a new BIPOC Stand Up Comedian Fund through Comedy Gives Back. The fund will assi…

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Episode #313: Mike Birbiglia

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down everything in March of 2020, thousands upon thousands of comedians suddenly experienced the existential dilemma that comedian Mike Birbiglia had depicted in his 2016 movie, Don’t Think Twice. Birbiglia himself didn’…

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