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Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.
Norm Macdonald Has A Show, and here are the first season’s guests on Netflix
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Norm Macdonald Has A Show, and here are the first season’s guests on Netflix

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 21, 20181

For Netflix’s next new talk show, they’re not messing around with weekly episode releases. No, no. For Norm Macdonald Has A Show, you’ll get all …

Emmy Blotnick on Conan
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Emmy Blotnick on Conan

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 21, 2018

Emmy Blotnick used all those hours watching comic book superhero movies figuring out how to make her boyfriend her ex-boyfriend. This might be the first …

Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish delivered the opening zingers for the 2018 MTV VMAs
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Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish delivered the opening zingers for the 2018 MTV VMAs

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 20, 2018

MTV is still with the Video Music Awards in 2018, and they brought out Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish to open up the proceedings Monday …

Funny or Die ditches proprietary video player for YouTube, no more “funny or die” voting
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Funny or Die ditches proprietary video player for YouTube, no more “funny or die” voting

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 20, 2018August 20, 2018

After 10 years, it’s time for Funny or Die to evolve. The website made some announcements today, and here is the official letter of such. …

Episode #221: Maeve Higgins
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Episode #221: Maeve Higgins

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 20, 2018

Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the age of 31, she decided to move to America. So …

Greg Barris for Twitter: “Don’t Believe Every Tweet”
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Greg Barris for Twitter: “Don’t Believe Every Tweet”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Twitter, like other social media platforms, has a huge legitimacy problem. Nobody is minding the store, so to speak, to separate the lies from the …

Netflix breaks it off with Joel McHale, Michelle Wolf weekly talk shows
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Netflix breaks it off with Joel McHale, Michelle Wolf weekly talk shows

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 17, 2018

Talk shows are going to have to try harder to break through the massive programming offerings of Netflix. Chelsea Handler couldn’t do it. And now …

Dusty Slay on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Dusty Slay on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 17, 2018

Dusty Slay made such an impression with his debut as a New Face in Montreal last month that he’s already gotten an invite to perform …

Hasan Minhaj bids farewell to The Daily Show
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Hasan Minhaj bids farewell to The Daily Show

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 16, 2018

Tonight, Hasan Minhaj makes his final appearance as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, filing his own take on Moviepass and subscription-based …

Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark of “My Favorite Murder” launch Exactly Right podcast network
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Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark of “My Favorite Murder” launch Exactly Right podcast network

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 15, 2018

In two-and-a-half years, My Favorite Murder has grown from oddity of the Feral Audio podcast network, to headlining touring theater act, to millions of monthly …

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