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Seeso rolls out next three streaming series: ‘Bajillion Dollar Propertie$,’ ‘Big Jay Oakerson’s What’s Your F@%king Deal?!’ and ‘New York’s Funniest’

February 2, 2016February 2, 2016

Seeso continues to roll out new original streaming comedy series in its second month as a standalone paid subscription platform, announcing a March 17, 2016, start date for Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Big Jay Oakerson’s What’s Your F@%king Deal?! and New York’s Funniest. The following week, Cameron Esposito’s debut stand-up special, Marriage …

Fahim Anwar on Conan

February 2, 2016

Dating is difficult. Especially when you realize how many men are faking it ’til they make it with a woman, as Fahim Anwar observed in his stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Conan. He joked that real dating isn’t like what you see in a romantic comedy — unless and except for …

Franchesca Ramsey joins The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore as correspondent/writer

February 1, 2016

Franchesca Ramsey will join The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore as a new writer and correspondent this week, making her first appearance on Tuesday night’s show. “We’re very excited to have Franchesca and her tremendous skill set join the show. We were just going to hire her skill set, but we …

Netflix hands out eight half-hour comedy specials in new series, “The Characters”

February 1, 2016

This is a week for surprise streaming TV deals, isn’t it?! Netflix just announced it already has eight half-hour comedy specials in the can for a new limited series called The Characters. They’re not stand-up specials, per se. Rather, Netflix just gave each of these funny people a half-hour to …

Brad Wenzel on Conan

January 28, 2016

“I wear a lot of flannel, ’cause I’m pretty butch for a lady.” Or because he’s the weak paper towel version of Brawny. Find out more about young Brad Wenzel from his first stand-up comedy performance on Conan. He was a finalist for the “Conan Just Sayin Contest” back in …

JB Smoove recollects his rejected SNL pitches for Seth Meyers

January 28, 2016

For as much as we think we know about the making of each Saturday Night Live episode, we still don’t get to see the magic of those early Monday pitch meetings, when the cast and writers meet with that week’s host and offer up ideas for sketches. I imagine JB …

Zach Galifianakis tells Conan the one question he wouldn’t ask President Barack Obama on “Between Two Ferns”

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016

“Yeah, that was a weird thing,” Zach Galifianakis told Conan O’Brien, almost two years after he had sat down with President Barack Obama for an installment of his Funny or Die series, Between Two Ferns. “I went to the White House before we shot it,” Galifianakis told O’Brien on Tuesday’s …

Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond organizing Lorne Michaels tribute at Lincoln Center to benefit American Songbook

January 27, 2016January 27, 20161

The husband-wife team of Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond are organizing an all-star tribute to Lorne Michaels at Lincoln Center on Feb. 11, 2016, to benefit the center’s American Songbook series. So far they’ve lined up Tituss Burgess, Jimmy Fallon, Cheyenne Jackson, Taran Killam, Jane Krakowski, Audra McDonald, Maya Rudolph, Martin …

Behind the scenes of the “Fuller House” Full House reunion for Netflix

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016

Here’s a nostalgically fun look with the cast and fans of ABC’s Full House, which is coming back two decades later to catch up with the Tanners and their extended family as Fuller House on Netflix. The sequel series premieres in full on Feb. 26, 2016. Roll the clip? You …

Woody Allen casts Elaine May, Miley Cyrus to star alongside him in six-episode Amazon series

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016

Woody Allen shared the Broadway stage with Elaine May — although not onstage together, technically — as writers in 2011 for “Relatively Speaking,” a collection of one-act plays. Allen did cast the legendary May back in 2000 for his movie, Small Time Crooks. And he’s turning back the clock once …