The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As seen on HBO’s Girls, Ophira Eisenberg hosts The Moth‘s monthly Story Slam in New York City, as well as various Moth events around the United States. You also can hear her weekly on NPR as host of the trivia game show, Ask Me Another. Her memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping …
When Ellen DeGeneres invited comedian Quincy Jones onto her daytime talk show last week to talk about his dying wish to record a stand-up special, DeGeneres made an appeal to TV networks to pick it up for broader distribution. “But what I want also, if someone from HBO is watching …
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, …
The Writers Guild of America held simultaneous award ceremonies in New York City and Los Angeles on Saturday night, with Patton Oswalt hosting the Hollywood crowd, and Michael Ian Black presiding over the Gotham nods. If you want to know how L.A. and NYC are different in show business, just …
There’s a moment in the beginning of I’m Your Girlfriend, the new hour stand-up special from Whitney Cummings (and her first for HBO), in which she stops to examine the audience members in the front row for her taping. “I’m shooting my HBO special. No big deal. This has been …
Congrats to Pete Holmes, whose semi-autobiographical HBO comedy pilot, Crashing, just got picked up for a full series order! Holmes and Judd Apatow are executive producing on the series, with Apatow directing the pilot, which finds Holmes as a younger version of himself, fresh off a divorce and still new …
Today’s guest is David Cross, who has spent the past year rebooting two of his TV series – 1990s cult fave Mr. Show on HBO begat W/ Bob and David on Netflix, while his Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret returns this week on IFC for a second chance in …
You can look back on a calendar year from many different perspectives and points of entry. Your memories flash in front of you. And then a website comes and calculates how other people viewed your year for you. Or one slice of your view. Such is 2015bestnine.com, which takes an …
Two things to keep in mind whenever we discuss the Golden Globes. One: The Globes love to call first dibs on TV series and the performers in them, laying claim to star-making to the point of routinely snubbing those same series and performers in their second seasons (also see: the …
