Nikki Glaser got out of her parents’ house and into the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV house to guest-host Tuesday night’s show. Glaser recalled filming an embarrassing episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (also hosted by Kimmel), and deciding t…
Continue ReadingComedian and singer Bridget Everett will star in an HBO series inspired by her upbringing in Kansas. HBO today announced it had ordered Somebody Somewhere to series, with Everett starring and executive producing. Jay Duplass directed the pilot last yea…
Continue ReadingAnd now it’s official. Montreal’s Just For Laughs won’t convene in person this summer, or this fall, or at all in 2020. Instead, JFL is going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Details to come, but an online edition of showcases, p…
Continue ReadingTo start the third week of Jimmy Kimmel’s summer vacation, guest host Joel McHale took the show out of the house and into the swimming pool. It’s the “Summer Bash Pool Party”? Guillermo is still working, tho.
Continue ReadingThe fifth season of W. Kamau Bell’s award-winning CNN series, United Shades, premiered Sunday night. I wrote a little bit about Bell and his program for my weekly installment in things to see and experience for the Friday Weekend Arts section of …
Continue ReadingHere we have the final eight comedians remaining in the first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition on TBS. Your votes determine who advances and wins. How many people are voting? Who’s winning by how much? We may never know. For now, all we know…
Continue ReadingThis bit by Esther Povitsky about men lusting after “barely legal” teens is out of control, and you shouldn’t have needed recent allegations this summer against multiple Los Angeles comedians to make you rethink that. And yet. Povitsk…
Continue ReadingYou know the comedy boom has reached its over-saturation point when, even in the middle of a global pandemic, Netflix forgets or otherwise neglects to put out a trailer in advance for one of its own original stand-up comedy specials. Or is that all par…
Continue ReadingYou know the comedy boom has reached its over-saturation point when, even in the middle of a global pandemic, Netflix forgets or otherwise neglects to put out a trailer in advance for one of its own original stand-up comedy specials. Or is that all par…
Continue ReadingJim Jefferies is at a career and life crossroads. Aren’t we all in 2020? For Jefferies, though, his personal and professional lives were colliding with his younger rebellious brand when he filmed his newest special, Intolerant, for Netflix. He ha…
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