Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes writer Amber Ruffin to respond to the news that, had it not been for 98% of black women voting for Doug Jones, the close election in Alabama earlier this week would have clearly tipped in favor to alleged child molester Roy Moore. “As a […]
Continue ReadingThe Television Academy announced some minor modifications to categories in its annual Emmy Awards, and one of the new changes for 2018 does impact the comedy world — especially James Corden, who with his production crew has been cleaning up in the variety categories the past couple of years. For 2018, the two Emmy categories […]
Continue ReadingFirst, the good news. The Screen Actors Guild wisely saw enough to appreciate the acting in The Big Sick that had eluded the Holllywood Foreign Press this awards season, as well as in the TV categories for Netflix’s GLOW. Plus more praise for the greatness of Get Out and Lady Bird on the film side. […]
Continue ReadingNext month, the Spike TV network will be rebranded as the Paramount Network starting January 18th, and one of the projects in development includes a Latino sketch comedy series. According to Deadline, the half-hour sketch series, titled Browntown, is in the works from Doug Greiff and Beatriz Acevedo. The series will take place “in a fictional, predominantly Latino […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Comedy Central ordered a new scripted series from Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, and Pat Bishop called Corporate, and today the network dropped the first full trailer. Weisman and Ingebretson star in the show as “two junior executives-in-training who are forced to do the dirty work of the higher-ups at one of the world’s […]
Continue ReadingEvery episode of The Office has found a new home at Comedy Central. The network announced today that it’s acquired the rights to all nine seasons of the NBC series, which it will put to use by airing an all-day Office marathon on Monday, January 15th. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Office will also […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a brand new round of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” covering everything from pro-gay marriage Barbie to a Virginia deputy who attended a party in blackface to lesbian horror films and more. “According to a new poll, […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live has made some changes to its writing staff. According to Variety, Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che have been named co-head writers at the show, joining Kent Sublette and Bryan Tucker. (Jost previously served as a head writer from seasons 38-40 but stepped down in 2015 presumably to focus on Update.) […]
Continue ReadingTBS just dropped the trailer for the upcoming season of Jason Jones and Samantha Bee’s series The Detour ahead of its premiere next month. Renewed earlier this year, the series follows the Parkers next season as they move to Alaska in an attempt to “settle down and start rebuilding their lives. But they’re not out […]
Continue ReadingIt’s no secret that Louis CK helped Tig Notaro break through into the mainstream by putting out her “Live” CD on his website, then by helping her sell her TV series One Mississippi to Amazon. But when Notaro learned about CK’s secret, about how he had abused other women in comedy, she wasn’t going to […]
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