Ron Funches is getting set to film a new special in June, as told to Splitsider, and there’s really only one “angle” to it that we know about so far: Funches will be donating all of his proceeds to charity. Funches’ first TV special, The Half Hour on Comedy Central, was ranked as the 11th-best […]
Continue ReadingAfter years of roasting some celebrities who may have been seen as “easy targets” such as Charlie Sheen, David Hasselhoff, and Donald Trump, Comedy Central is continuing in its quest to aim their Comedy Central Roast at more mainstream figures. In their first roast since Rob Lowe in 2016, Comedy Central announced on Tuesday that […]
Continue ReadingKevin Smith nearly died of a heart attack in late February, just after finishing the first night of taping a new standup special, Kevin Smith: Silent But Deadly. Smith cancelled the second night of his show, went to the hospital, survived the heart attack, and on Monday it was announced that the special found a […]
Continue ReadingComedian Hari Kondabolu has been voicing his disappointment in the harmful stereotypes he sees within The Simpsons’ character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for over a half-decade, and on Sunday night the writers of the show finally gave a response to those accusations in the episode “No Good Read Goes Unpunished.” Kondabolu was understandably not pleased by this scene between Marge […]
Continue ReadingCARDI B IS PREGNANT!!!! Also there was some live comedy. There episodes of SNL where the musical guest, for one reason or another, outshines the host. The best sketch of Larry David’s latest episode had more Miley Cyrus than him in it. But sometimes the musician is just more newsworthy. Usually in a bad way […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, the writers had little Lisa give advice to her mom about something or other, using it instead as an opportunity to defend themselves against charges of racism for having a white actor voice an Indian character with a heavily stereotyped accent. “It’s hard to say,” Lisa bemoans. “Something […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, the writers had little Lisa give advice to her mom about something or other, using it instead as an opportunity to defend themselves against charges of racism for having a white actor voice an Indian character with a heavily stereotyped accent. “It’s hard to say,” Lisa bemoans. “Something […]
Continue ReadingTiffany Haddish is produing a comedy series in development at HBO. According to Variety, Haddish is executive producing a series written by Xosha Roquemore (I’m Dying Up Here, The Mindy Project) and Danielle Henderson (Divorce, Difficult People) called Unsubscribed, which is described as “an examination of female blackness, beauty, and identity through a behind-the-scenes look […]
Continue ReadingBlack Panther star Chadwick Boseman makes his Saturday Night Live hosting debut tomorrow night with musical guest Cardi B, and the show released a round of promos this week to get you excited. In the above clip, Boseman is joined by Cardi Bi and cast member/Boseman’s new director Leslie Jones, and in the promo below, […]
Continue ReadingThe Netflix catalog of original programming keeps growing and growing, as the streaming giant has announced two more new comedy series in just the past two days. The first project, Paradise P.D., is an animated look at a poorly-run small-town police department, from the creators of Brickleberry, Waco O’Guin and Roger Black, and produced by […]
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