If at first you don’t recognize Jay R. Ferguson by name, you may still instantly recall him by his beard. For many it was during his days at Stan Rizzo on Mad Men — the free-spirited art director at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce who was often joined at the hip with Peggy Olson in late […]
Continue ReadingTo promote her new book about her late brother Harris Wittels — titled Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss — Stephanie Wittels Wachs stopped by last night’s Late Night and chatted with Seth Meyers about her brother’s life, career, talent, tweets, addiction, death, and why she decided […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mulaney and Nick Kroll were guests on last night’s Conan, and if the clip above is any indication, they definitely haven’t changed at all. Of course, there are just a few exceptions to that – Mulaney now has two kids named Bowie and Seeso (“Did I liquidate Seeso’s college fund to buy Charles Manson’s […]
Continue ReadingMore Corporate on the way. Comedy Central just announced that it’s handed out a season 2 renewal to Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, and Pat Bishop’s new comedy, which debuted its first season last month and currently airs Wednesday nights at 10:00pm. The season 1 finale is set to air on March 14th. “We’re absolutely thrilled […]
Continue ReadingThis clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight includes two great things: First up is an update on coal CEO Bob Murray’s defamation suit against the HBO show, which was recently dismissed by a judge after months of public and hilarious updates. Oliver said he’s been advised not to say much about the case for […]
Continue ReadingJohn Oliver has beat back a defamation lawsuit filed against him and his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, by Murray Energy Corporation coal magnate Robert Murray. The judge in the case in West Virginia’s second judicial circuit, Jeffrey Cramer, wrote: “I find the arguments set forth in the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State […]
Continue ReadingTurning a podcast into a TV special, let alone a four-part series, doesn’t make sense for most podcasts. But 2 Dope Queens isn’t any podcast. The hit WNYC podcast from Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams is part two-woman comedy duo, part improv, part chat show, part stand-up storytelling showcase. It already is a variety series, […]
Continue ReadingAfter being incarcerated for drug trafficking at 19 and spending six years behind bars, Ali Siddiq emerged from prison with a new skill set: standup comedy. “A lot of comics will come backstage before a show and say, ‘How’s the crowd?’ The reason I never ask that is because I came from a horrible crowd. […]
Continue ReadingTwo of HBO’s comedies are returning with new seasons. According to Variety, the network has handed out season renewals to Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair’s High Maintenance as well as Pete Holmes’s Crashing, which will see the comedies returning for third seasons. Both shows premiered their second seasons last month. High Maintenance currently airs Friday nights […]
Continue ReadingBill Hader heads to HBO next month with his very own show, Barry, and the network recently dropped a new trailer. Ordered to series back in 2016, the show stars Hader alongside Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Glenn Fleshler, Anthony Carrigan, and Henry Winkler. Hader plays “a low-rent hitman in the Midwest” who “begrudgingly travels to […]
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