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Woody Allen settles $68 million lawsuit with Amazon

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 11, 2019November 11, 2019

Amazon, the world’s largest retailer that manages to avoid paying any federal taxes, couldn’t avoid paying disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen to stop making movies. Amazon …

Episode #236: Rosebud Baker
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Episode #236: Rosebud Baker

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 3, 2018

Rosebud Baker has two famous names if you know where to look. Her family business isn’t exactly Citizen Kane, although if you were paying any …

Watch the trailer for Inside Jokes, the Amazon Prime series about Montreal’s New Faces
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Watch the trailer for Inside Jokes, the Amazon Prime series about Montreal’s New Faces

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 9, 2018

Inside Jokes will premiere on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, exclusively on Prime Video for Amazon customers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The six-episode …

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Barry the big comedy winners at 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Barry the big comedy winners at 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 17, 20181

The best comedy on TV in 2018 centers on a female stand-up comedian in the late 1950s. If only reality could imitate art now. But …

Episode #225: Mo Mandel
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Episode #225: Mo Mandel

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 17, 2018

Mo Mandel is a stand-up comedian who created and executive produces Comedy Knockout for truTV, where comics zing each other and try to win over …

Movies / News

Rain check: Amazon shelves Woody Allen’s last (?) movie?

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 29, 2018

Every year since 1982’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Woody Allen has directed and released a feature film. Until now. Not only is Allen not …

Summer reads for your ears, from Audible
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Summer reads for your ears, from Audible

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 22, 2018

Audible, Amazon’s audio arm, has ramped up its original comedy programming to go along with an already-robust array of audiobooks narrated by comedians this summer. …

Peabody Awards honor Hasan Minhaj, Issa Rae, John Oliver, SNL, Mrs. Maisel
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Peabody Awards honor Hasan Minhaj, Issa Rae, John Oliver, SNL, Mrs. Maisel

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyApril 19, 2018

Congrats to Hasan Minhaj, Issa Rae, John Oliver, and the staffs at SNL and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for you’re all now Peabody Award winners! …

Amazon renews The Tick, but cancels One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson
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Amazon renews The Tick, but cancels One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 21, 2018January 22, 20181

Amazon, in the wake of ousting its programming chief for sexual harassment and more, is moving forward without some of its better-loved female-fronted programming. Say …

Tig Notaro relieved to have Louis CK relieved of his executive producer duties on One Mississippi
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Tig Notaro relieved to have Louis CK relieved of his executive producer duties on One Mississippi

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 12, 2017December 12, 2017

It’s no secret that Louis CK helped Tig Notaro break through into the mainstream by putting out her “Live” CD on his website, then by …

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