The Definitive Guide to Comedy
HBO Max announced Search Party will move from TBS to the new streaming platform (both owned by WarnerMedia) when it launches in spring 2020. From the press release: The dark comedy about a group of privileged, self-absorbed twenty-somethings covering up a murder starring Alia Shawkat, Meredith Hagner, Brandon Micheal Hall, John Early and John Reynolds aired on TBS for …
In its first year as the TV partner for the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), TBS will create the TBS Comedy HUB inside the new PUBLIC Hotel in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The TBS Comedy HUB will serve as NYCF HQ, where fans and festivalgoers alike can check out comedy …
Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. …
The Big Sick, written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, is based on the beginnings of their real-life romance a decade ago, but updated to today. Michael Showalter directs, with Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel producing, Zoe Kazan playing Emily, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano playing her parents, and …
Getting the gang back together proved so much fun last year, why not do it all again? That’s the spirit! Netflix announced today that Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later will come to its streaming screens much sooner than later — with an eight-episode order set to premiere in …
Many movies will debut at film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, but The Second Sound Barrier is not one of those films. It’s an all-star short spoof that’s somehow also branded content? That’s how they do it these days. Kind of like getting catfished. So when Robert Graham …
Seth Herzog is what Malcolm Gladwell would call a Connector. The Zog seemingly knows everyone in comedy and show business who lives and works in New York at any given moment, and on any given Tuesday, you might see one of his famous friends onstage or playing sidekick to Zog …
Alia Shawkat stars in Search Party, a new comedy TBS has just ordered up for 2016 about “a group of four self-absorbed 20-somethings who come together when a former college acquaintance mysteriously disappears.” Her quartet is rounded out by John Early, John Reynolds and Meredith Hagner. You also see Judy …
Amy Rice directed a documentary following Barack Obama from Illinois to the White House (2009’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama), which was nothing like summer camp. Especially nothing like a movie about summer camp. Nor the decks of footage Rice had stored away in her closet from …
Friend of the site Julie Seabaugh put together an oral history on Wet Hot American Summer for this week’s Variety, just in time for the launch of the prequel miniseries this Friday on Netflix. Would you believe they tried to make a Wet Hot TV series way back in 2003? …
