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TCB Debriefing 1/4/24: After Midnight, Hacks, Eric Andre, Lisa Frankenstein, Funny Woman, Roy Wood Jr., Emmys, Mean Girls, Don’t Tell Comedy

January 4, 2024

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1. Taylor Tomlinson officially announces the premiere date of @fter Midnight, following The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, beginning Mon. Jan. 16th with a touch of murder(?).

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2. Hacks. Spring. Be ready.

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3. Eric Andre’s latest special, ERIC ANDRÉ LIVE NEAR BROADWAY, is going where he’s most at home, Adult Swim, come Jan. 18th at midnight. With this being at Adult Swim and Eric seemingly having carte blanche there, we hope this will somewhat resemble his legendary b day parties.

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4. The latest trailer for Lisa Frankenstein further suggests that Diablo Cody has still got it. Please enjoy, then look for it in theaters near you starting Feb. 9th.

5. PBS is essentially doing their own British version of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel called Funny Woman starring Gemma Arterton that’s not actually based on a real person. Take your first look here.

6. While Comedy Central is still figuring out what the hell they want to do with The Daily Show, go out and see Roy Wood Jr. be so damn funny all across the country. Tickets available at roywoodjr.com/tour-roy-wood-jr.

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7. The Primetime Emmys reinstated Writing for a Variety Series as a category, making it so certain shows won’t have to compete against the TV institution that is SNL (Variety).

8. Maybe, just maybe, this musical version of Mean Girls will be worth it? Just see for yourself in this final trailer. At the very least, if you didn’t know the name Reneé Rapp, you will going forward from 2024.

9. We’ll leave you with this: Peep these numbers put up by Don’t Tell Comedy in 2023 alone. Damn.

TCB Debriefing 11/7 & 11/8/23: Leah Rudick, Mean Girls, Gary Gulman, Longest Yard, White Lotus, Vista Theatre

November 8, 2023

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1. The first time we saw Leah Rudick on stage, she was in character as someone going to a high school reunion after having married a boat. It was a sweet strangeness that was undeniably engrossing and absurdly joyful. That show was years and years ago in the back room of a Russian bar in WeHo, a far cry from the theaters that Leah plays nowadays as a stand-up, but Leah taps the same sort of beautiful weirdness for her new hour special, Spiraling. Going on flights of anxiety fueled imagination, Rudick starts from a relative point of relatable normalcy, but simmers her way to as ridiculous a conclusion to a bit as she can conjure (hence the name of the special). The journey in this hour, richly colored by her unconscious, is akin to tasting your new favorite sweet treats in that you might be unsure what’s happening at first, but get obsessed with the longer you savor it. Go taste it for yourself as Spiraling is streaming on select streaming platform near you.

2. Peep the very first trailer for Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie: Based on The Movie (though it’s maybe-maybe not going to be so meta?) where Reneé Rapp will have an even more breakout moment than she has already been having as a bisexual icon/pop star.

3. Praise anything and everything that another Gary Gulman special is on the way. Born on 3rd Base will debut on Max (intriguingly there instead of HBO) this December (Deadline). So, how do we feel about a “Max Special” being the goal in stand-up comedy?

4. The Longest Yard is being remade yet (Deadline). This will be the third time for the sports comedy classic to see the big screen (presumably) after the Burt Reynolds original in 1974, then an Adam Sandler remake in 2005. Pretty sure no audiences were asking for this, but, then again, IP remains the emperor of entertainment.

5. Mike White says the 3rd season of his hit series White Lotus will be “…longer, bigger, crazier” (Deadline). Considering everything that happened in the first two seasons, Vegas should star taking bets at to what is hell White has in store for this round of hapless, overprivileged tourists on this go-around in Thailand.

6. One of the last remaining old school movie palaces in LA, The Vista Theatre, is finally going to reopen soon, under the guiding hand of pioneering auteur Quentin Tarantino (Variety). While we’re pretty sure that Quentin will do justice to a LA landmark, there’s no word on whether the manager will be dressing up in costume on a movie’s debut (no matter what movie it was).

7. We’ll leave you with this: the strike took this long to end because studios, we guess, can’t own their inner shadow of wanting all the monies.

TCB Debriefing 9/22/23: Kyle Kinane, Bumper in Berlin, Mean Girls, Kidnapping of a President, Toxic Avenger

September 23, 2023

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1. The great Kyle Kinane has just lined up his fall and winter dates. Go buy tickets immediately at kylekinane.com and think of going to see his truly beautiful comedy as an early holiday present for yourself or someone else.

2. The latest casualty of the strike is Bumper in Berlin, which has now been canceled at Peacock (Deadline). That’s after it already got an order for a second season, which means that your show isn’t safe until all episodes of your show have been written, shot, edited, and most importantly, aired.

3. The movie version of the musical adaptation of the 2004 comedy classic Mean Girls has gotten an upgraded release as it’ll now play in theaters near you as opposed to just Paramount+ (THR). Will Lindsay Lohan be part of the inevitable 20 year retrospective of the movie that will be made just to promote Gen-Z’s(?) Mean Girls.

4. There is a Finnish dramedy in the works about the very real kidnapping of a former Finnish president aptly titled The Kidnapping of a President (Variety). If it’s a hit and there’s an interest in a U.S. adaptation, interested parties could just do a mini-series about the idiots that tried to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

6. Heads up to all the midnight movie buffs out there, a remake of Troma shlock classic, The Toxic Avenger has been remade with Peter Dinklage and Elijah Wood (Indiewire). If remaking Troma movies becomes a thing, now would be a pretty great time to take a stab at rebooting Surf Nazis Must Die.

7. We’ll you leave you with this: big theaters need to do better with bike storage/parking (i.e. don’t force folks to either risk their bike getting stolen on the street or having to pay $10 to lock it up safely in a parking garage, which is completely a thing we did when going to see Please Don’t Destroy).

Tina Fey’s ‘Mean Girls’ Musical to Start in Washington D.C. on October 31st

March 21, 2017

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Tina Fey’s ‘Mean Girls’ Musical to Start in Washington D.C. on October 31st

The Mean Girls musical is indeed happening as adapted by the original screenwriter, Tina Fey. The first run will happen at Washington D.C.’s National Theatre from October 31st through December 3rd.

It’s almost as if Tina Fey wants to make sure that she, on Halloween, can bother the White House, if she so wishes, in spirit.

Also, take note they haven’t found their lead who would play the role that Lindsay Lohan so famously played in the original film, but we’re guessing that Lohan isn’t in any sort of talks for the part.