The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Henry Zebrowski is a force of nature onstage or onscreen, clothes on or, as the case sometimes is, in the buff. The shine on Zebrowski’s star power continues to brighten – from his earliest appearances in web videos for CollegeHumor and his own group, Murderfist, through the Adult Swim series, …
My first-night highlight at SXSW 2016, easily: Watching the first two episodes of Vice Principals, the new HBO series from Danny McBride and his collaborators Jody Hill and David Gordon Green, which premieres in July. They all attended Friday night’s world premiere screening in Austin, along with McBride’s co-star, Walton …
Natasha Rothwell has traded 30 Rock for the Sony lot, writing now for Issa Rae’s HBO series, Insecure. But Rothwell’s own characters in her half-hour special for The Characters on Netflix are quite secure, assured and ready to break down barriers. She had been writing and creating characters for years, …
Come for the porn. Stay for the stand-up comedy. Plenty of pornographic film studios have garnered your attention in recent years with X-rated parodies of hit sitcoms. But what if a stand-up comedian decided to take advantage of porn’s popularity by introducing actual sex as a component of his comedy? …
Lots of changes in Cameron Esposito‘s world this past year. She got married. She realized her wife can change the headlight in her car using only her bare hands. And she realized that she wants to have a baby. It’s 2016! So how much thought should they put into finding …
Many movies will debut at film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, but The Second Sound Barrier is not one of those films. It’s an all-star short spoof that’s somehow also branded content? That’s how they do it these days. Kind of like getting catfished. So when Robert Graham …
Kate Berlant’s 36-minute special for The Characters series on Netflix opens in a most remarkable way, as she barely appears onscreen in the first few minutes. Instead, one after another, real-life artists, actors and architects sing the praises of the performance artist “Denise St. Roy.” Casey Jane Ellison, Jemima Kirke, Tony …
FOX’s new entry into Saturday-night sketch comedy, the half-hour Party Over Here, debuts this weekend, and the first video teases let you know it’s a very theatrical effort. Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna and Alison Rich come from theater backgrounds at UCB and elsewhere, and their TV sketches often play out …
It becomes painfully clear to everyone around John Early in his 35-minute special for The Characters series on Netflix that the comedian and actor has control issues, whether he’s constantly interrupting the woman he’s coaxing into telling her George W. Bush story, shushing everyone at his wedding rehearsal dinner, or …
Louis CK gave his first TV interview Wednesday night since releasing Horace and Pete as a TV series exclusively on his website, and explained it to Jimmy Kimmel this way: “It’s fun to do it yourself. Because you watch people react to it, and there isn’t some company making a decision. …
