The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Whether this becomes a new annual ritual or not, Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal team from TBS put on a heckuva show Saturday night in Washington, D.C., with their first “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” special. Among the top highlights: A clip reel of comedians taking digs at …
Did you know that Retta currently is pitching networks on her own late-night TV talk show? Or that at least one network is interested in the possibilities of a late-night show fronted by Jen Kirkman? Or that Margaret Cho and Iliza Shlesinger would love to do it, too? So would lots …
Parks and Recreation wrapped its seventh and final season last night on NBC with a series of heartfelt flash-forwards showing how and where all of the lovable members of Pawnee, Indiana’s parks department ended up 10, 20 years from now. And then, we cut back to 2015. And the Parks …
Tonight is the 100th episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, which seems entirely plausible and yet also miraculous, considering the state of network television programming at NBC in the 2010s. Of course, throwing the word miracle around is a dubious prospect. As even Parks and Rec‘s co-creator, Michael Schur, noted …
You may recognize Retta as Donna from NBC’s Parks and Recreation. But you better Retta recognize her as a stand-up comedian, too — she performed last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And even Retta can recognize her own faults in succumbing to modern-day racism and road rage. It’s …
