11PM on Comedy Central.
This will be Rachel Feinstein’s third Comedy Central special, not to mention her biggest to date.
The hour of Only Whores Wear Purple allows room for Feinstein to go beyond the voices and characters to skewer things like her own love life and her overly excited mother. It’s Feinstein most personal and, consequently, best special yet.
Again, catch it its premiere at 11PM on Comedy Central.
Tickets are $15-$49.50 and available here.
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Any reason is a good reason to see the joyful absurdity of Katia Kvinge.
If it’s Earth Day and she makes a diss track about mountains in order to get you to somehow care about the earth more, then so be it.
Here’s Katia’s Disrespecting Mountains.
(via Deadline)
This might be one of the more intriguing things on Showtime’s development slate in quite some time.
Ingrid Jungermann’s F to 7th web series was such a well-crafted dramedy with a unique perspective that questions gender identity and sexuality that it definitely falls in league with the likes of Transparent. It managed to do so as independent web series as opposed to being a full fledged television show.
That’s all changing now as Showtime is developing F to 7th to potentially be their next comedy series and we can’t wait to see what Jungermann might get to do with a slot on Showtime.
First off, Kristen Schaal playing Amelia Earhart should make your day on its own. However, Great Minds with Dan Harmon one-upped that by giving the farewell to Earhart that she probably would have wanted.
The 75th Peabody Awards definitely give a nod to diversity in comedy.
The Peabody Award Winners for the Entertainment and Children’s Programming were announced today and included Aziz Ansari’s Master of None, Jill Soloway’s landmark trans series Transparent, and a network comedy looking forward to the future in black-ish. All three series put an emphasis on giving different perspectives while spinning an award-worthy comedic tale.
There are more winners to be announced, but you can read the rest of today’s winners here.
Patton Oswalt’s latest hour stand-up special has arrived.
Odds are that you need something to lift your spirits right now. That may be the case for many people for a lot of the time, but the passing of an icon like Prince always looms heavy over the collective consciousness for awhile.
So, try give watching the great Patton Oswalt’s latest hour special “Talking for Clapping”, now streaming on Netflix, to feel better, even if it’s just for the hour that you spending watching it.
In doing the rounds to promote their upcoming film Keanu, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.
Of course, they chatted about how emotional the end of Key & Peele was and what it was like working on their new feature length film together. They also discussed what it was like going on a walking ghost tour with Wu Tang Clan member Method Man, which could have been a sketch all by itself.
While the act has been oft described as ‘doggy style’, there are psychological complexities that come with trying anal that one probably wouldn’t think of, especially from the female perspective, when calling it something rather crass.
Tight Spot from writer/star Carmen Angelica and director Matt Kazman beautifully explores those deep layers and the anxieties that those layers are riddled with when it comes to butt stuff.
Please watch, enjoy, and potentially be enlightened about your love life here.
Those are the comedy folks that are listed next to Pope Francis, Stephen Curry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Hillary Clinton.
Time Magazine just released its annual big-to-do list of the 100 Most Influential People this year and the likes of Jane The Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez, comedy multi-hyphenate Aziz Ansari, enduring comedy star of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and bonafide, self-made comedy force Melissa McCarthy all made the list.
John Oliver (”the John Oliver effect” is a real thing) and Samantha Bee (Full Frontal, like Last Week Tonight, picked up right where Jon Stewart left off and added more bite over bark) seem to be absent from the list, but don’t let that take away from how great Master of None, Spy, Veep, and Jane The Virgin are.
Read the entire 100 Most Influential People List here.
Two of the best and timeliest comedies will get to continue to be the best and most timely through next year.
Announced today, two of HBO’s current hit comedies, Veep and Silicon Valley, are getting to come back for 2017. Selina Meyer and Richard Hendricks are two of the most relevant characters on TV given this election year and the rapidly changing landscape of tech.
We can’t wait to see where either show blurs the line between fiction and reality this year and the next.
Just when they thought wedding planning couldn’t be any more trying, the couple at the center of Super Deluxe’s amazing Disengaged web series find that their thankfully separate bachelorette parties aren’t as separate as they had hoped.
Bonus content from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee includes the great Dave Hill unveiling a new call-to-action song for the 2016 election, “Who’s it Gonna Be? (Trump or Hillary)”.
As luck would have it, the first people to hear this song have, are, and will always “feel the bern”
10PM on Comedy Central.
The groundbreaking sketch series Inside Amy Schumer will undoubtedly continue to break more ground, highlight the issues of our time from Amy’s perspective, and provide gut-busting laughter while doing so.
Again, 10PM on Comedy Central tonight.
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Flyer done by Ben Mackey and graphics done by Todd Alcott.
We would go so far as to say that Maria Bamford is one of the rare comedians that exhibits the art form of comedy at its highest level. Her incredibly poignant, personal, hilarious, life affirming stand-up not only makes us double over laughing, but is something that makes us feel better about the world.
As you can imagine, her upcoming Netflix series Lady Dynamite has Maria’s life distilled and done so by the expert hands of Mitch Hurwitz and Pam Brady.
Naturally, it looks fantastic based on this trailer. Also, the appearances of Lennon Parham, Bridget Everett, Jason Mantzoukas, Sarah Silverman, Andy Daly, and more of your favorite comedy folks are a bonus.
Look for all the episodes of Lady Dynamite to start streaming on Friday, May 20th.
(via Deadline)
Don’t you just love Danny McBride going insane while working in a school?
While the legend of Kenny Powers has come to an end, Danny McBride and his take no BS attitude will be returning to HBO this summer. McBride and Jody Hill’s Vice Principals has Danny in a showdown of school administrators for the title of principal against another vice principal played by Walton Goggins.
Look for the vp mayhem to begin on Sunday, July 17th at 10:30PM on HBO.
In Comedy Knockout, which will likely be TruTV’s more rough and tumble, roast-y version of @midnight, three comedians will come up with best burns for both various challenges and each other. Host Damien Lemon manages the chaos that ensues.
The competitive comedy series premieres tomorrow night at 10PM on TruTV, but you can see it in action with Sean Patton, Chris DiStefano, and Arden Myrin in the hot seats in these previews.
You can actually watch the first episode of what might be the first stoner comedy mini-series right here.
Broad City’s Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Ilana Glazer have teamed up for a special 4/20 mini-series, Time Traveling Bong.
It’s premiering tonight at 10:30PM on Comedy Central and will air the next two episodes on Thursday and Friday also at 10:30PM.
By the way, Time Traveling Bong is exactly what it sounds like. Ilana and Paul toke up and time travel. So, you’re not going to want to miss that.
(via Deadline)
Lifetime, along with half of cable TV, continuing its foray int comedy.
Having dipped its toe into the comedic waters with Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever and the Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell faux-Lifetime style drama A Deadly Adoption, Lifetime is now bringing in more programming that’s atypical from what their brand has been for years.
First off, they’ll be the first network to air Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe on linear U.S. television (Catastrophe is currently only available in the States on Amazon). That will happen sometime early next year.
Secondly, Wilfred co-creator and star Jason Gann is developing a new dramedy currently called Breeders that explores the high school nature of becoming a suburban mom.
Both developments seem to, as far as we can tell right now, bode well for Lifetime.
Will it be a more absurd, funnier version of Lost? Perhaps a darker, but more comedic version of Lord of the Flies with more diverse adults? Maybe a comedy version of Alive set on a remote island?
TBS’ new comedy Wrecked, which pits survivors of a plane crash to live on said remote island may be any one of those things as you can see from this great, mayhem-filled teaser.
It might be something else altogether (perhaps even better than those educated guesses), but we’ll all have to wait until the series premiere on Tuesday, June 14th at 10PM on TBS to find out.
Like we said above, you might not be ready for this futuristic, otherworldly brunch from the Three Busy Debras.
Still, even if you’re at beginner level brunch, you should watch it anyway.
After all, it’s 4/20 and you wanna see something trippy, no?
If you’re not on board the Caitlin Gill train yet or, in this case, inside the gigantic barbed wire boxing glove costume, then you need to get on board/inside ASAP. Gill has been killing it on whatever stage she has been on since she moved down from San Francisco and Caitlin doing an hour, along with Bobcat Goldthwait, David Gborie, and Clare O’Kane opening, is a must-see.
Poster by Dave Kloc and Garett Ross
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Though the prevailing winds in comedy are towards grounded, organic, honest comedy, there are those still keeping the art of falling down alive and well in comedy.
One of those fine people is Nathan Barnatt and here’s a five minute montage to back that claim up.
