The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine creator Mike Schur has two new shows in the works. According to Deadline, NBC is developing two shows executive produced by Schur. The first is an untitled half-hour musical comedy written by Good Place co-executive producers Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, set in New York City, and co-executive produced by Hamilton’s Jeffrey […]
Continue ReadingAt Home with Amy Sedaris, premiering Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, with back-to-back episodes on truTV, is a delightfully dizzy spin on crafting how-to, courtesy of the one and only Amy Sedaris. Each week will revolve around a traditional theme, such as entertaining businessmen, the craft of love making and cooking without pots and pans. […]
Continue ReadingLast night Comedy Central aired Nathan Fielder’s Nathan for You: A Celebration special, and in case you missed it, the network released the whole thing online for free today. From P.I. Brian Wolfe to Sue the Ghost Realtor to Summit Ice, the special is packed with some very fun updates about past Nathan for You […]
Continue ReadingIf you wondered whether Vice Principals could recapture the same lunacy that marked its first season on HBO, then allow me to remind you that Danny McBride and his usual crazy comedy team of Jody Hill and David Gordon Green filmed both seasons back-to-back two years ago. So they not only didn’t take into account […]
Continue ReadingHey, remember that Ren & Stimpy documentary I was telling you about a couple of months ago? Well, the folks putting together Happy Happy Joy Joy – The Ren & Stimpy Story done gone and cancelled their original Kickstarter campaign, despite raising more than $100,000. “Our end goal was overly ambitious,” executive producer Ron Cicero […]
Continue ReadingI met Jenny Zigrino at New Orleans’ Civic Theater the day before her Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents (her half hour premieres tonight at 12:30) taping. We were sitting on a couch in the green room having a casual chat when her phone rang. “Do you mind if I take this?” she asked. I said, “Go […]
Continue ReadingAmy Sedaris heads to truTV next month with her very own show At Home with Amy Sedaris, and today the network released a full trailer. Ordered to series earlier this year, the show is co-created by Sedaris and Paul Dinello and will be what looks like a delightful showcase of the Strangers with Candy star’s […]
Continue ReadingErnie Kovacs was a genius. There’s no way around that. Carson, Letterman, and Conan have all cited him as an influence, and there have been hundreds of tributes, articles, PBS clips shows, and even two, very well done DVD retrospectives of his work from Shout! Factory. Well, Shout! is about to add a third volume […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the premiere of Jordan Klepper’s new late night show next week, Comedy Central welcomed a group of reporters this morning to check out the Opposition set, ask Klepper some questions, and meet his team of “Citizen Journalists.” While The Opposition will take on a similar format to The Daily Show in terms of […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal Obamacare with the Graham-Cassidy bill from Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, which is even worse than their last one. And if that weren’t bad enough, many Republican senators can’t even answer basic questions from […]
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