PC Culture Comes To The Plantation
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Writer/director Alexis Wilkinson managed to juxtapose the diametrically opposed concepts of a politically correct focus group and a slave plantation into this sketch. Even with non-offensive language, slavery, as you can imagine, still looks terrible.
(via Variety)
Will Ferrell could just make a whole series of movies where he impersonates former U.S. Presidents, specifically focusing on their faults.
After being a noted impersonator of George W. Bush, Will Ferrell has been cast to play President Ronald Reagan in a movie focusing on after he left office and was struck with dementia.
Ferrell’s attention to detail and caricature of George W. Bush was incredibly studied and we can only begin to imagine what he’ll do to pull of a crazed Regan.
Gary Sanchez will be producing the movie called “Reagan”, which should leave room for Ferrell to go as big, in so many ways, as he wants with the role and the film.
Forget about all the town halls and sound bytes.
The debate between somewhat fictionalized versions of presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as played by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian are what you have been waiting to see.
The world will finally get to see what many of us already have enjoyed with the premiere of the Trump vs. Bernie: Debate for America special starting tonight at 9PM EST/6PM PST on Fusion.
Even in 2016, many issues regarding the health of women are still largely being decided by male politicians who are far from being experts on women’s bodies.
Per usual, they nail the absurdity of the matter on the head and keep driving it further and further.
As Absolutely Fabulous is doing a full length feature film, Edina and Patsy are getting into more trouble than they have ever gotten into before.
Their collateral damage from this international trailer includes multiple countries and Kate Moss just for starters.
The premiere date has yet to be announced, but, for now, just enjoy that Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley are returning to screens, cigarettes in hand, ready to end everything they say with ‘darling’.
So, everyone will be slightly closer to their real age this time around.
Next year, Netflix will release 8 episodes of Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later with David Wain and Michael Showalter back at the helm.
Here are the campers themselves to tell you this is really happening.
There are no details on how much or if all the cast is coming back and what might happen. However, we’d guess that they’ll probably be able to get most of the cast back considering that they were able to do it before.
Stand-up’s that will be doing anything but stand-up include:
Chris Charpentier
The Fringe Riders
Adam Cayton-Holland
Melinda Kashner
& more
Hosts Ryan Singer and Chris Garcia
Don’t miss out on Underbelly finding its nicest looking home in LA yet, The Virgil.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Michael Showalter just made an amazing infomercial for Adult Swim that follows a crazed “rehabilitationamlist” Giles Vanderhoot trying to make an infomercial for his “rehabilitationamilism” services.
You don’t need to stay up ‘til 3AM to see it because it’s now on YouTube.
The Best of Craigslist actually got included in Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack on TruTV.
For their latest reenactment of an insane real ad, they showed a dad who hatches an awful plan to relocate the family dog in order to not upset his daughters.
Let this be a cautionary tale as well as an enjoyable sketch on how to properly parent.
Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian’s Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have a sketch special coming next month, but they also have a “Trump vs Bernie: Debate for America” special coming tomorrow to Fusion at 9PM.
Here’s the promo to get you ready for the only presidential debate that you want to see (and won’t have to worry about its overreaching effects on the country in the years to come).
(via Deadline)
TBS seems to be doing well to have open arms for ex-Daily Show correspondents.
Potentially, Rob Riggle could be joining Jason Jones and Samantha Bee on TBS with his very own show that would take the sports angle in a weekly late night talk show.
Also, as another welcome change of pace, the show would take place in Las Vegas, which should provide a fun backdrop for plenty of remote segments.
There’s potential here as there is currently only one other show to really figure out the balance of late night, sports, and comedy: Garbage Time with Katie Nolan.
The highly anticipated return of something like Silicon Valley on HBO wouldn’t be complete without a high profile premiere event.
Because it’s Silicon Valley, they also can’t just throw any premiere event, which is why they pulled out a red carpet, a step and repeat, and rotating searchlights as well as have the cast and the creators gathered altogether to show a single scene from season 3 from the show.
Watch this silly event really happen here.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Poster by Dylan Chudzynski
Only a handful of the biggest comedians have ever played the legendary Carnegie Hall including Bob Hope, Louis C.K., Kathy Griffin, Jerry Seinfeld, Phyllis Diller, and Steve Martin. For many, it was a lifelong goal to play there and signified a rarefied status in comedy.
Little did all of these people know that they could just rent it out for a bunch of money.
Comedy trio Three Busy Debras (you might remember them from their otherworldly Brunch video) uncovered this secret and plans on trying to put on their own free comedy show at a recital space in the very same Carnegie Hall through a Kickstarter campaign.
So, Sandy Honig, Mitra Jouhari, and Alyssa Stonoha are looking to raise $7500 and already have $4929 of that raised. If you donate, you could get anything from personalized poetry to requested cover songs to a .zip file of papers they wrote in college.
They have until May 19th to raise the money that will cover the base level cost of putting on a show there.
Get in on their mischief and donate here.
The two latest episodes of Disengaged, a show that you should be watching over most other shows, have just dropped over at Super Deluxe.
Jen Tullock and Hannah Utt’s frustrated lesbian engaged couple, Sid and Jules, just cannot catch a break for their wedding. Whether it’s having dinner with seemingly dysfunctional parents or fighting over the wedding registry, the red flags keep growing in number.
Thankfully, the tension has made for an amazing web series.
You have plenty of time between now and then to get in the mood for perfectly crafted police procedural silliness.
Angie Tribeca, the show that lead off the new and improved TBS, is returning for its second season this summer on Monday, June 6th. Lucky for you that is also the same night that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is on too.
Trump vs. Bernie continues to be some of the best comedy to come from this circus of an election in 2016.
Adding Eddie Pepitone in as a debate coach for Anthony Atamanuik’s masterful impression of Donald Trump is further proof of such a claim.
Every once in awhile on late night, you get to see a guest that had once worked for the show that they are now being featured on.
It’s always kind of a beautiful moment that shows everything kind of worked out.
The latest instance of this phenomenon is Sam Morril getting to be the latest comedian to perform stand-up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after being an intern for Colbert several years back.
The show is at 9PM this Thursday and tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. You should really just go buy them now right here.
The rest of our listings for comedy event/shows and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
IFC’s is really branching out this year.
With anything ranging from Portlandia to Maron to Comedy Bang! Bang! to Documentary Now!, IFC is really trying to make its mark with programming that fall under their banner of ‘Always On Slightly Off.”
The slate of series that they’re developing really takes that moniker to new territory.
For 2016, IFC’s slate has:
-Todd Barth Can Help You-a new series from Bryan Cranston, along with Clay Graham and Steven Weber, follows an insurance adjuster who decides to, all of sudden, make a go at being a new age self-help guru.
-Canterbury Tales-Set around Hollywood’s first punk rock club in the 70s, this Allison Anders (Mi Vida Loca, Grace Of My Heart) and Terry Graham (drummer for seminal punk band The Bags, Gun Club, and author of Punk Like Me) series follows a brand new spankin’ band trying to make it.
–Detective Lady-BoJack Horseman’s Kelly Galuska has made a noir-ish comedy focused on a play-by-her-own rules detective.
-How to Rig an Election-Adapted from Allen Raymond’s book How to Rig An Election, Tom Ruprecht (Late Night with David Letterman, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore) is set to explore the dark side of political campaigning that people are becoming more and more aware of everyday.
–Grand Lake-From WGA award-winning Gretchen Enders (Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street), this dark comedy circles two friends who wish the worst for each other.
-Laughs in Translation-The Above Average web series hosted by Brooks Wheelan where he tries to discover what makes for comedy around the world might be getting an upgrade to linear TV.
-Living With Yourself-Emmy and Peabody award-winning Tim Greenberg (Daily Show) has made a layered, philosophical comedy that trails a frustrated copywriter desperate to become a better person who goes through a unique treatment to do so.
-This Land Is Ours-This series from Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan (Creators of Getting On and Puppy Love) shows squatters in Harlem squaring off with billionaires to keep the building they love.
-Jon Benjamin’s 100 Erotic Nights-Jon Benjamin delves into confessions of passion and betrayal all while still being Jon Benjamin.
–A late night talk show Hosted by Jim Norton-A newer version of Norton’s talk show that he briefly had on Vice.
If you’re in comedy, you’ve might have heard someone tell you that all comedy, no matter how abstract or silly, comes from observation.
Bob Odenkirk’s chat on The Off Camera Show with Sam Jones perfectly exemplifies that notion as he relates two real-life experiences and explains the absurd sketches that came from them.
It’s about time that W. Kamau Bell picked up where he left off with Totally Biased and continue to explore the various subcultures of discrimination that are around this great country of ours.
He’ll be doing just that with his brand new series on CNN, United Shades of America, premiering tonight at 10PM.
10PM and 10:30PM on HBO.
With a renewal for 2017 set, both critically acclaimed, perennial awards contenders Silicon Valley and Veep return to HBO for one of the best hours of comedy on television.
Don’t miss season 3 premiere of Silicon Valley at 10PM followed by the season 5 premiere of Veep at 10:30PM.
Oh yeah, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is right after all of that too, which makes it one of the best 90 minute blocks of comedy on TV.
The amazing Maria Bamford is running her new hour at The Clubhouse Monday through Friday this week at 4PM.
The Clubhouse is in Los Feliz at 1607 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA in a big strip mall next to Jons, which means there is plenty of free parking. Tickets are $5 at the door and we highly suggest that you don’t miss out on it even if you have to cut out of work early.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
(via Deadline)
Pretty good for a first try, right?
Demetri Martin’s writer/director debut, Dean, is not only getting to make a run on the film festival circuit, but it’s already picked up an award for Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and has just sold the U.S. distribution rights to CBS Films.
We can’t wait to see what Demetri has done with a whirlwind romance between himself and Gillian Jacobs while preventing Kevin Kline, who plays his father, selling a family home right after his mother died.