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Apple TV+ struck gold in making the critically-beloved award-winning Ted Lasso with Jason Sudeikis. So why not turn to one of J-Sud’s former SNL cast mates and go even bigger? Enter Maya Rudolph. She’ll star in untitled half-hour comedy series as “Molly, a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended …
It’s always extra special when a comedian earns a nationwide TV ad campaign. Even more special when it’s the Super Bowl. And as Matt Braunger attests, that much extra special when comedians haven’t had regular live shows and touring to count on for income. Braunger fronts an all-star ad for …
Schitt’s Creek went out with a bang and a clean sweep of the comedy categories at the 2020 Emmy Awards, with wins for Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy in acting, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy for supporting acting, and for the younger Levy in writing, and directing, and topping it …
The difference between independent and mainstream can sometimes be easy to see, as this weekend proved once again, with Saturday afternoon’s Independent Spirit Awards on IFC followed by Sunday evening’s Academy Awards on ABC. At the indie awards, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host for a second consecutive …
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 has his next sitcom lined up — an Amazon Prime series reuniting him with SNL’s Maya Rudolph! Amazon announced the straight-to-series pickup over the weekend. …
FOX had a cultural hit in bringing a live version of the musical Grease to TV, and this Christmas, they hope to capture the same magic by casting Maya Rudolph in A Christmas Story, airing live on Dec. 17, 2017. Rudolph will star as 9-year-old Ralphie Parker’s mom. No word …
Netflix has been pumping out a new stand-up hour almost weekly, and they’re already set to keep up that pace to kick off 2017, announcing four upcoming specials for January, plus Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Valentine’s Day Special to come in the first Tuesday of February. Bolton has established some …
Just a month before Election Day 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse movie chain is giving Idiocracy a bigger 10-year anniversary screening party than the movie’s studio did when it first came out in 2006. As they put it: Ten years ago, satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which …
We’ve all seen pregnant woman perform comedy before, even if the memory isn’t on instant recall for you. Saturday Night Live reminded us this past Mother’s Day with a primetime run from Mother’s Day past — circa 2011, hosted by a then-pregnant Tina Fey and featuring also flush-with-baby SNL alum Maya …
Maya Rudolph joined Tina Fey onstage at SNL years ago for a Mother’s Day episode monologue to sing together, and last night, Fey returned the favor for the second episode of NBC’s Maya and Marty. Both former SNL stars copped to loving 1970s-era variety TV series — citing Sonny and …
