The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It makes for a cute story that Amazon Studios chose to greenlight Alpha House and Betas as its first two streaming TV series. Cute, but ultimately irrelevant. That’s the perception of Amazon’s TV department, because really, when do you ever hear anyone talking up an Amazon series? Netflix has the …
In Bad Words, Jason Bateman’s big-screen directorial debut, Bateman plays a 40-year-old who crashes a local, regional and finally national spelling bee. His Guy Trilby exploits a loophole because he’s on a personal vendetta. We’re not told what or why he’s on his mission for the first two acts of …
Sure, everyone who loves comedy is talking today about the bold new miniseries farce, The Spoils of Babylon, which debuts tonight on IFC. But if you think that’s bold, then you should have, would have and could have seen something even crazier from the cable network. Like the 1980s soap …
FX’s new animated series, Chozen, was going to be on FXX but has received an upgrade/promotion/transfer to the mothership cable channel for its launch on Jan. 13, 2014. The series stars Bobby Moynihan as a gay white rapper reclaiming his life and career after a prison term. The rest of …
Look, nobody will argue that Too Close For Comfort was one of the greatest shows in TV history, let alone a very good sitcom in the early 1980s. But nobody is here to argue that, anyhow. And if Too Close For Comfort had not existed, would any of us have …
You knew and loved NBC’s adaptation of The Office. Would you have felt the same way, if: Seth Rogen had played Dwight instead of Rainn Wilson? Bob Odenkirk had played Michael instead of Steve Carell? Eric Stonestreet had played Kevin? Kathryn Hahn had played Pam? John Cho had played Jim? …
And the winner of the first new sitcom to join the ranks of the new FXX programming lineup is…Chozen. FXX, which debuts in September as a younger, hipper offshoot of FX, ordered the animated comedy to series on Thursday. Chozen comes from Grant Dekernion, who’ll write, executive produce and star as …
Comedians have many opportunities to showcase their big-screen talents throughout the calendar year at film festivals around the world. We pay special attention to Sundance because it comes first in the year, each January, and with it the first best chance for any small independent film to find a larger …
In case you missed it late last night, Adult Swim aired The Greatest Event in Television History. At least that’s what Adam Scott and his wife, Naomi, titled it. The 11-and-a-half-minute special showed Scott and Jon Hamm re-creating — shot for shot — the opening credits to the 1980s detective …
