Day: June 18, 2018

Desus and Mero officially launching weekly late-night Showtime series

Desus and Mero officially launching weekly late-night Showtime series

Posted by | Jun 18, 2018 | , |

And now it’s official! Hot off the press release… SHOWTIME has ordered a weekly half-hour late-night series starring Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, scheduled for premiere in 2019. The first ever weekly late-night talk show on SHOWTIME will feature popular TV and podcast personalities Desus and Mero, speaking highly off the cuff and chatting with guests at the intersection of pop culture, sports, music, politics and more. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President and CEO of Showtime Networks Inc. “We have waited a long time to enter the talk-show space, and we were only going...

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Episode #212: Clusterfest 2018 with Mark Normand, Roy Wood Jr., and Sasheer Zamata

Episode #212: Clusterfest 2018 with Mark Normand, Roy Wood Jr., and Sasheer Zamata

Posted by | Jun 18, 2018 | |

This is a special edition of Last Things First, recorded live during Clusterfest 2018 in San Francisco. Comedy Central was kind enough to ask me to host a series of Clusterfest panels for the media that they called fireside chats. In this session, I welcomed Sasheer Zamata, Roy Wood Jr., and Mark Normand. We joked about whether comedians should ever apologize, about getting advice from comedians at the top of the ladder as you’re climbing it, and preparing for the next big thing in your careers. All that and more in this episode of The Comic’s Comic Presents Last...

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Talking about Chris Hardwick

Talking about Chris Hardwick

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Sunday night was supposed to herald another big moment for Chris Hardwick’s TV career with the premiere of Talking with Chris Hardwick and his big-get guest, Donald Glover. But AMC pulled that episode, and the entire series, following allegations of sexual assault and abuse made by an ex-girlfriend of Hardwick’s online Friday. “We have had a positive working relationship with Chris Hardwick for many years,” the network said on Saturday. “We take the troubling allegations that surfaced yesterday very seriously. While we assess the situation, Talking with Chris Hardwick will not air on AMC, and Chris has decided to step aside...

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You haven’t seen nor heard the last from the late Mitch Hedberg

You haven’t seen nor heard the last from the late Mitch Hedberg

Posted by | Jun 18, 2018 | |

When several comedians convened in November 2016 to pay tribute to the late great Mitch Hedberg, his widow, Lynn Shawcroft, hinted there would be more to come from his estate — even more than the Comedy Central Records limited-edition box set they unveiled that night. Now Shawcroft is backing up that promise. In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Shawcroft revealed she had kept and/or found enough footage for both a concert film as well as a documentary narrated by Hedberg himself. Plus “boxes of microtapes of him practicing and perfecting his material — material that’s never been heard.”...

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Eurydice Dixon, 22-year-old Melbourne comedian, murdered on walk home from gig

Eurydice Dixon, 22-year-old Melbourne comedian, murdered on walk home from gig

Posted by | Jun 18, 2018 | |

Eurydice Dixon was just another young aspiring comedian walking home from a gig last week when she was tragically murdered. A 19-year-old man was arrested the following day with her rape and murder on a Melbourne soccer pitch last Tuesday night. Her last text to a friend, heartbreakingly ironic: “I’m almost home safe, how about you?” Another local comedian, Urvi Majumdar, shared on Facebook: “I knew you as the first young woman I met in comedy, also with a name people had trouble pronouncing. I was immediately in awe of your confidence on stage; your performances were always textured...

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