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OK, Early 2000s (Pre-9/11) Nostalgia Is Coming Soon with This Trailer for “PEN15″

January 18, 2019

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The turn of the millennium and, subsequently, the year before 9/11 happened, saw a world that was pretty ridiculous. Looking back, perhaps the excesses of the time (remember what TRL was like in 2000?) were a result of Y2K not happening and people thinking everything was pretty alright.

Well, that time was almost twenty years ago and, perhaps, ripe for a nostalgic single camera series about it. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle’s PEN15 looks to be a pretty strong candidate (even if you’re nostalgic for the year 2000) for this role as evidenced by this trailer.

Both Erskine and Konkle created the series and play teen versions of themselves, which all seems promising.

If you’re into it, look for all of episodes of PEN15 to start streaming on Hulu starting Feb. 8th.

Watch Trailer for Desiree Akhavan’s Upcoming Dating Comedy Series “The Bisexual”

September 27, 2018

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Groundbreaking LGBTQ writer/director/actress Desiree Akhavan (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Appropriate Behavior) will very soon be coming out with her latest work, a dating comedy series told earnestly from the bisexual perspective.

As to make that premise very clear, the series is titled The Bisexual and already shows promise in this trailer. It has the feel of You’re The Worst or Catastrophe, but from a new point of view that very likely will be refreshing.

Get a taste of it with this trailer. We’re going to guess that it’ll be premiering in the UK first, then a streaming service for us here Stateside as it was with Catastrophe. Specifically, it’ll be available in the UK via Channel 4 and in America on Hulu.

Hulu Orders Two Seasons of Extraterrestrial Family Animated Comedy “Solar Opposites” from Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan

August 28, 2018

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Hulu Orders Two Seasons of Extraterrestrial Family Animated Comedy “Solar Opposites” from Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan

When it comes to adult animation with a intergalactic/interdimensional setting, Justin Roiland might just have cornered the market.

This latest series order by Hulu from Roiland and Rick and Morty writer/EP Mike McMahan will follow an alien family taking refuge on Earth from “better planet”. That seems right in their wheelhouse and, as an added bonus, the sweet voice of the hilarious Mary Mack will be behind one of the characters.

Please note that you’ve got around two years before this comes out. Good thing there’s a bunch of Rick and Morty coming up to keep you satisfied in the meantime.

Hulu’s Latest Comedy Will Be “Shrill” Starring Aidy Bryant and Based on Lindy West Book

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Hulu’s Latest Comedy Will Be “Shrill” Starring Aidy Bryant and Based on Lindy West Book

Hulu gave a straight-to-series order for this adaptation of Lindy West’s memoir, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman and will join Future Man and Ramy as Hulu’s original comedy line-up.

If you take a look at Hulu’s original comedies, you’ve got to appreciate their dedication to high-concept single camera comedies often starring women, especially given how selective they’ve been compared to their competition.

By the way, Bryant will play the lead, Annie, based on Lindy and also stay on at SNL, which we’re sure answers the wishes of many.

Casual’s Fourth and Final Season Premieres Tomorrow

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For four seasons, Zander Lehmann’s Casual has been holding steadfast as a main face of Hulu’s original comedy line-up. Stars Michaela Watkins, Tommy Dewey, Tara Lynne Barr, and Nyasha Hatendi and their engrossing chemistry are a big part of this four season run.

Tomorrow, July 31st, they begin their swan song with the aforementioned premiere of their fourth and final season on Hulu.

You can get a taste of what’s come to with this trailer.

Hulu Orders Two Seasons Worth of an Animaniacs Reboot, Complete with Steven Spielberg Back as an EP

January 5, 2018

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Hulu Orders Two Seasons Worth of an Animaniacs Reboot, Complete with Steven Spielberg Back as an EP

For those that remember the Animaniacs’ “Apocalypse Now” parody, we’re curious to see how they’ll handle being the sort of cartoon they were in these times.

In 2017, there was an animated TV landscape ripe with plenty of adult animation (or even something that straddles several age demographics like Rick and Morty) that was much different than what it was in 1998 (the last time the Animaniacs series was on the air).

We’ll just have to wait to see in 2020 when Hulu is aiming to premiere this reboot.

Finally, Here’s a Trailer for Johnny Carson Dramedy “There’s… Johnny!”

November 6, 2017

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After the announced shuddering of Seeso, the fate of the Paul Reiser and David Gordon Green-produced series, There’s… Johnny really seemed to hang in the balance.

Fortunately, Hulu stepped in and will be streaming the show on their platform starting Thursday, November 16th.

There’s… Johnny focuses on the behind the scenes happenings at The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and even uses actual Tonight Show footage. If you’ve been on board for I’m Dying Up Here, this will be another look into comedy in the 70s that you might enjoy.

See for yourself with the first full trailer here.

“Too Funny to Fail: The Life and Death of the Dana Carvey Show” Now Streaming at Hulu

October 21, 2017

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Over a score and a year ago, a sketch show called The Dana Carvey Show premiered in primetime on broadcast network television. The show itself boasts some of the most revered comedic minds today including Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Louis CK, Robert Smigel, Jon Glaser, and many more.

Somehow, they didn’t even last a couple of months, much less a full season.

Too Funny to Fail: The Life and Death of the Dana Carvey Show tells the story of how that came to be. This documentary started streaming on Hulu today.

Get a taste of how this whole ordeal went down with this trailer.

Casual Renewed for 4th and Final Season on Hulu

October 20, 2017

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Casual, the dark relationship comedy on Hulu, will be going for more one more round in its fourth season.

In a TV landscape of great dark, romantic, and relationship comedy, Michaela Watkins, Tara Lynne Barr, and Tommy Dewey have put forth great performances that have seen the show through the years. Please do watch/rewatch Casual when you get a chance.

Sarah Silverman Deconstructs Late Night Form and Brings a Lot of Heart in “I Love You, America”

October 16, 2017

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The traditional form of late night is so well established these days, parodying it is getting to be an old move as well.

Still, there’s room for reinvention as Sarah Silverman has shown in premiere of her new series I Love You, America. Right in the series premiere opening, she prefaces how different the show might be (case in point full frontal nudity in the first few minutes of the show) and even offers up a satirical sidekick of a white man at a desk a la most late night talk shows.

Aside from Silverman’s brand of humor that she has rode to success, Silverman leans in to her more genuine persona (something she has been slowly doing over the last couple of years) by actually having heart-to-heart conversations with a Trump voter family over dinner and a former Westboro Baptist Church member in her very living room style studio.

As she had warned, they may not be getting dozens of laughs per minute, but they are engaging and fascinating (and maybe succeeding in territory attempted by a show like Brand X with Russell Brand).

It’s the first episode, so we’ll have to see how I Love You, America progresses, but it is refreshing to Sarah really embody the heart in the title of her show.

I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman and The Rundown with Robin Thede Premiere and Add Two More Women to Late Night Landscape

October 12, 2017

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On this Thursday, October 12th, two more women, Sarah Silverman and Robin Thede will indeed premiere their own topical late night shows.

On Hulu, I Love You, America will have Sarah Silverman take her own heartfelt, yet unapologetically silly take on the world.

BET will enter the foray of late night with The Rundown with Robin Thede, a combo of the head writer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and Chris Rock producing, with might be a traditional late night format, but focusing a little less on Trump.

Here’s Thede on MSNBC detailing what’s to come on The Rundown.

In any case, that means there are now four late night female hosts between Samantha Bee, Chelsea Handler, Sarah Silverman, and Robin Thede.

Ramy Youssef Muslim Comedy Gets Pilot Presentation Order at Hulu

October 4, 2017

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Ramy Youssef Muslim Comedy Gets Pilot Presentation Order at Hulu

Thanks to Jerrod Carmichael/Ari Katcher, a sitcom from the perspective of an Egyptian American Muslim comedian, Ramy Youssef, might find its way to a major streaming service.

For an idea of what that might be like, perhaps give a watch to Ramy’s recent set on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Kate Berlant and John Early Are Making a Comedy Pilot Presentation ‘This Is Heaven’ for Hulu

September 27, 2017

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Kate Berlant and John Early Are Making a Comedy Pilot Presentation ‘This Is Heaven’ for Hulu

Individually, John Early and Kate Berlant are forces to be reckoned with and together even more so.

Just see their Vimeo mini-series 555…

…and their Tonight Show set for proof.

So, a half hour sitcom pilot presentation This Is Heaven where they play best friends needs no further explanation in order for us to get excited. Hopefully, before too long, we’ll get to see this pilot go to series at Hulu.

Honest Trailers Enlist Michael Bolton & Friends To Give Emmy Nominees a Retro TV Theme

August 22, 2017

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Honest Trailers themselves are actually nominated for an Emmy and in celebration of that (as well as seizing an opportunity to show off why they are some of the best parodists on the Internet), they made satirical retro TV themes for Emmy nominated shows Stranger Things, This Is Us, and The Handmaid’s Tale.

They even got the one and only (and very game for comedy these days) Michael Bolton to join in on the fun in addition to bringing on the talents of Natasha Bedingfield, Brian McKnight, and Paula Cole to do said TV themes. For Bolton, he wanted to do a Bolton style song for Game of Thrones as a bonus to this “very special episode” of Honest Trailers.

Please enjoy it here.

Difficult People Season 3 Starts Streaming Today

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Don’t let their smiling faces in this poster fool you. Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner still very much live up to the name of the show and will be giving you as much anti-social, cynically driven delight as you can take with the season 3 premiere of Difficult People now streaming on Hulu.

New episodes will be streaming every Tuesday.

Sarah Silverman Wants to Connect with Un-Like-Minded People in Her Topical Hulu Show “I Love You, America”

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Sarah Silverman Wants to Connect with Un-Like-Minded People in Her Topical Hulu Show “I Love You, America”

Commenting on the upcoming show at the TCAs today, Silverman wants to make a point of trying to engage and connect with people that aren’t anywhere near her perspective, ideologies, and attitudes.

While other shows in late night do try that approach from time-to-time, it would seem that they will be a central tenet of “I Love You, America”.

Silverman might just pull off what Russell Brand’s Brand X ultimately could not if executed correctly.

Sarah Silverman’s Weekly Topical Show “I Love You, America” Premieres on October 12th on Hulu

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Sarah Silverman’s Weekly Topical Show “I Love You, America” Premieres on October 12th on Hulu

This is an important date for a few reasons.

One, Sarah Silverman will return to having her own TV show.
Two, talk shows/topical/late night get tipped more in the direction of diversity.
Three, this will be the second recurring topical/talk show (Chelsea on Netflix being the other one) on a major streaming service (unless you want to count Norm MacDonald Live on JASH in as well) with A-list talent attached to host.

These are all important points to keep in mind, but we’re curious to see if Sarah might twist the traditional format of all other talk/topical shows.

Difficult People Season 3′s Trailer Hints at Wildest, Albeit Still Cynical, Season Yet

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The crux of Difficult People relies on the mutual interest of Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner‘s characters standing from a distance to revel in their cynical judgment of others.

With that said, it looks like the third season of the show delightfully coerces them into possibly their most brightly colored misadventures yet.

See for yourself here, then look for episodes of season 3 of Difficult People to start streaming on Tuesday, August 8th.

You Can Now Stream Bob’s Burgers, Futurama and More on Hulu

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You Can Now Stream Bob’s Burgers, Futurama and More on Hulu

Today, Hulu is now home to stream your favorite animated series including Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Venture Bros., Rick and Morty, Robot Chicken, and Adventure Time just to name a few.

If you don’t already have access to Hulu, looks like you might have to make a move on changing that.

Hulu Is Developing an Animated Comedy from Adam Pally Based on @LosFelizDaycare on Twitter

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Hulu Is Developing an Animated Comedy from Adam Pally Based on @LosFelizDaycare on Twitter

Jason Shapiro’s @losfelizdaycare has built up an impressive following over the last four years by satirizing the most modern and progressive version of parenting around.

Now, it’s going to be a series, which makes this the third Twitter-related comedy deal that has been struck this past week (the other two being a Netflix special for Ellen DeGeneres and Netflix developing the buddy comedy between Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o from what was originally some wishful thinking on Twitter)

As an animated series on Hulu and with Adam Pally in the mix, we’re very intrigued as to how this project might shape up and how not for kids this show about taking care of kids might be.

Here’s the Season 3 Trailer for “Casual”

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The Meyers and a Cole clan return to further complicate things in all levels of relationships despite their desperate search to have life make sense.

It’s fun chaos as their expense and you can see for yourself in the season 3 trailer.

The new season starts streaming on Tuesday, May 23rd on Hulu.

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Wanna watch a few episodes of Difficult People on the big screen in a fancy movie theater and stick around for a Q&A with Julie Klausner, Billy Eichner, and Difficult People EP Scott King moderated by Deadline’s Anita Busch?

Well, if you’ve got Monday night on May 15th cleared up, specifically at 7:30PM, you can RSVP for that exact event at The Landmark in West LA here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Donald Glover’s Atlanta to Stream Exclusively on Hulu

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Donald Glover’s Atlanta to Stream Exclusively on Hulu

Ahead of the season 2 premiere in 2018, you’ll be able to stream the first, award winning season of Donald Glover’s Atlanta on Hulu.

All seasons of the show will stream at a time after they air as well making this a great get for Hulu. So, make sure you have access to Hulu somehow if you don’t already.

Soon, there will be big bidding wars for streaming rights and securing rights to shows like Atlanta are just the beginning.

“dumb: the story of big brother magazine” Is Coming to Hulu

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While Big Brother magazine was a trailblazing magazine for skateboarding, it was also a platform from which a whole subculture was launched. Jackass, CKY, and a sense of prankster viral videos way before YouTube was ever a thing all came with Big Brother.

‘dumb’ tells the story of this magazine and this trailer shows how crazy this story is.

Look for it to start streaming on Hulu starting June 3rd.

Hulu Orders Topical Weekly Show with Sarah Silverman from Funny Or Die

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Hulu Orders Topical Weekly Show with Sarah Silverman from Funny Or Die

We’re curious to see where this will go as Sarah Silverman is definitely politically active and will be going for a show that’s balanced inviting other perspectives, beliefs, etc. to have a conversation with her.

We’re guessing that’d go much differently than it does on Real Time with Bill Maher, especially because of the fact that it’s called “I Love You America”. Also, if you’ve ever seen Sarah do crowd work multiple times, you’d notice that her curiosity does indeed lead her down a path of trying to hear people out.

10 episodes have been ordered from Funny or Die and a premiere date has yet to be announced.