Kids In The Hall reuniting for eight new episodes for Amazon Prime
by You cannot currently watch the first five seasons of The Kids In The Hall for free with your Amazon Prime subscription (they’re all available for …
Tag: Amazon Prime
Amazon finally gets into the original stand-up comedy special business, starting with Jim Gaffigan
Amazon announced today it will launch Jim Gaffigan’s seventh stand-up special, Quality Time, as its first original stand-up comedy special for Prime Video, to premiere later in …
Amazon Prime taps Eugenio Derbez to host Mexican comedian competition, “LOL: Last One Laughing”
Mexican comedy star Eugenio Derbez will host a new Amazon Prime Video competition in which 10 Mexican comedians match wits and witty lines in pursuit …
First impressions of New Faces 2018 at Just For Laughs Montreal
New Faces is decidedly different this year in Montreal. Perhaps it’s due to the Amazon Prime Video camera crews following the aspiring stand-up comedians around …
Presenting the JFL Montreal New Faces Class of 2018, soon to be seen on Amazon Prime Video!
Some comedians and industry folk joked that Just For Laughs could no longer really do New Faces in Montreal now that the ICM agency had …
2018 Montreal New Faces contenders will get TV credits thanks to new Amazon Prime docuseries
If you were wondering how in the heck New Faces would matter in Montreal once ICM bought a stake in Just For Laughs, here’s a …
Amazon orders series reuniting Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph
Fred Armisen just wrapped production on the eighth and final season of IFC’s Portlandia (which will air in January), and the Saturday Night Live alum already …
Norm Macdonald Live returns with new weekly video episodes July 25, 2017
After hemming and hawing with me about starting up the ol’ video podcast/talk show again, Norm Macdonald is going ahead and releasing his comedy wolves …
Amazon picks up The Tick, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson all to series
Amazon has picked up all three of its primetime comedy pilots that went up for public review in August: The Tick, I Love Dick and …
TV / Web series
Amazon orders Tig Notaro’s “One Mississippi” and two other new comedies, renews “Red Oaks”
Christmas came early to the latest batch of pilot contenders for Amazon Studios, as the retail giant that’s now an award-winning competitor to the other …