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Comedian and singer Bridget Everett will star in an HBO series inspired by her upbringing in Kansas. HBO today announced it had ordered Somebody Somewhere to series, with Everett starring and executive producing. Jay Duplass directed the pilot last year, and he and his brother Mark Duplass also will EP, …
And now it’s official. Montreal’s Just For Laughs won’t convene in person this summer, or this fall, or at all in 2020. Instead, JFL is going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Details to come, but an online edition of showcases, panels and more now will happen Oct. 9-10, 2020. …
To start the third week of Jimmy Kimmel’s summer vacation, guest host Joel McHale took the show out of the house and into the swimming pool. It’s the “Summer Bash Pool Party”? Guillermo is still working, tho.
The fifth season of W. Kamau Bell’s award-winning CNN series, United Shades, premiered Sunday night. I wrote a little bit about Bell and his program for my weekly installment in things to see and experience for the Friday Weekend Arts section of The New York Times. Bell and his crew …
Here we have the final eight comedians remaining in the first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition on TBS. Your votes determine who advances and wins. How many people are voting? Who’s winning by how much? We may never know. For now, all we know is who’s still in the competition this …
This bit by Esther Povitsky about men lusting after “barely legal” teens is out of control, and you shouldn’t have needed recent allegations this summer against multiple Los Angeles comedians to make you rethink that. And yet. Povitsky at least was trying to bring it to our attention when she …
You know the comedy boom has reached its over-saturation point when, even in the middle of a global pandemic, Netflix forgets or otherwise neglects to put out a trailer in advance for one of its own original stand-up comedy specials. Or is that all part of the branding for Urzlia …
Jim Jefferies is at a career and life crossroads. Aren’t we all in 2020? For Jefferies, though, his personal and professional lives were colliding with his younger rebellious brand when he filmed his newest special, Intolerant, for Netflix. He had just wrapped his weekly Comedy Central talk show, The Jim …
Hannibal Buress has attracted more than 1,177,515 views of his newest comedy special since releasing Miami Nights for free on YouTube two weeks ago. Buress filmed the special last August in Miami, shopped it around, and intended to give it a big-screen premiere in March at SXSW in Austin. But …
Sebastian Maniscalco hosted Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, and he had some thoughts to share about food shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how to behave yourself in a Zoom meeting. For everything else, just ask his 3-year-old daugher, Serafina!
