The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A few years ago, YouTube invested $200 million in boosting the profiles and content of 100 of its already higher-profile channels. This time around, YouTube is going to try to beat the other streaming giants by joining them. YouTube announced YouTube Red today, a new membership service providing ad-free videos, webseries and …
Anthony Jeselnik’s Comedy Central series only lasted six months, but he remains unapologetic as his means (and his sometimes mean-spirited jokes) always justify the end goal: Making you laugh. Whether it’s in discomfort or in agreement, it’s all good by him. His audience here eats up his persona so quickly …
And now, for thirty seconds with Bill Murray and some of his funny friends. Including: George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, Jenny Lewis, Rashida Jones, Miley Cyrus and the band Phoenix. It’s the official teaser trailer for A Very Murray Christmas, coming to Netflix …
Paul F. Tompkins is Crying and Driving in his latest one-hour comedy special, but those are happy tears. After all, Paul has several projects ongoing as we met up once more in 2015 — from reuniting with his Mr. Show cohorts on a new Netflix series, W/ Bob & David, …
Here’s your first look at W/ Bob & David, the new sketch comedy series reuniting Mr. Show‘s Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and their writers, co-stars and friends in this limited-edition lineup for Netflix! The four half-hour episodes and one-hour “making of” special hit Netflix on Nov. 13, 2015. On …
Real Rob — an eight-episode sitcom that Rob Schneider wrote, produced, starred in and financed himself essentially on spec — has found a home with Netflix. The series will premiere on the streaming service Dec. 1, 2015. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to have our …
So many stand-up specials dot the digital landscape, you could have spent your entire Labor Day weekend marathoning them and not completed the catalogue on any one channel, let alone completing a tour through what Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, HBO, Hulu, Netflix and Showtime have to offer. Besides, watch enough …
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 …
Netflix is adding to its original comedy movie portfolio, announcing on Tuesday it’ll be the first to release and distribute Christopher Guest’s next movie, Mascots. Premiering exclusively on Netflix in 2016, Mascots carries the following description: “Welcome to all the drama, intrigue, and occasional excitement of The 8th World Mascot …
The TCA summer press tour began on Tuesday in Pasadena — an annual parade of TV networks and stars, presenting themselves en masse to the TV Critics Association in hopes that their fall series will be welcomed and shared with rave reviews. Or, at the very least, enough buzz to …
